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

— The Hitchhiker’S Guide To The Galaxy Book (Peter Jones)

6 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 2 sitcom.

You can hear this line at 00:01:29.390 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

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- Far out, in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy, lies a small, unregarded yellow sun.

- Orbiting this, at a distance of roughly 92 million miles, is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet, whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

- This planet has, or had, a problem, which was this. Most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time.

- Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper.

- Which is odd because, on the whole, it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy, and so the problem remained,

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

(HORNS HONKING)

- Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees, in the first place.

- And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should have ever left the oceans.

- And then, one day, nearly 2000 years after one man had been nailed to a tree, for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change...

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