And learns that the whole history of mankind was only being run for the benefit of a few white mice anyway...

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7 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 4 sitcom.

You can hear this line at 00:01:51.858 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

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- He was even more surprised when, a few minutes later, the Earth was unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass.

- But this was as nothing to their joint surprise

- However, all four of them are soon totally overwhelmed by surprise when they discover that the ancient world of Magrathea, a planet famed in legend, for its surprising trade in manufacturing other planets, is not as dead as it was supposed to be.

- For Zaphod, Ford and Trillian, surprise is pushed to its very limits when this happens.

- And when Arthur Dent encountered Slartibartfast, the Magrathean coastline designer, who won an award for his work on Norway...

- And learns that the whole history of mankind was only being run for the benefit of a few white mice anyway...

- Surprise is no longer adequate and he is forced to resort to astonishment.

- Mind your head.

- Excuse the mess. Most unfortunate, a diode blew in one of the life-support computers. When we came to revive our cleaning staff, we discovered they'd been dead for 30000 years.

- Who's going to clear away the bodies? That's what no-one seems to have an answer for.

- Mice? Look, are we talking about the same things? Mice mean to me little white furry creatures with a cheese fixation and women standing screaming on tables in early '60$ sitcoms.

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And lots of the people were mean and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.

Drink up. The world's about to end.

Ancient computers, ranged in the long caves, deep in the bowels of the planet, tick away the dark millennia, and the ages hang heavy on their dusty data banks.

What we demand is solid facts. -No, we don't. That is precisely what we don't demand. -We don't demand solid facts. What we demand is a total absence of solid facts.

By law, the quest for ultimate truth is the inalienable prerogative of your working thinkers. And if the machine actually goes and finds it, we're straight out of a job, aren't we?

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Sound Clip

The funniest lines and quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1981 TV Series, with sound clips.

Actors: Simon Jones (Arthur Dent), David Dixon (Ford Prefect), David Learner (Marvin the Paranoid Android), Peter Jones (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Book), Sandra Dickinson (Trillian Astra), Mark Wing-Davey (Zaphod Beeblebrox), David Tate (Eddie the Computer), Martin Benson (Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz), Richard Evelyn Vernon (Slartibartfast), Valentine Dyall (Deep Thought)

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