And since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it had to come to terms with suddenly not being a whale any more.

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14 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 3 sitcom.

You can hear this line at 00:12:40.911 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

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- Well, it was nothing, really.

- Oh, well, forget it then.

- Okay, computer, take us in to land.

- Well, I mean, I say it was nothing, but obviously it was something.

- I was just trying to say it's not worth making too much of a fuss about, I mean, saving everybody's lives.

- Another thing that nobody made too much fuss about was the fact that, against all probability, a sperm whale had suddenly been called into existence some miles above the surface of an alien planet.

- And since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it had to come to terms with suddenly not being a whale any more.

- Ahhh! What's happening? Uh, excuse me, who am I? Why am I here? What's my purpose in life?

- What do I mean by 'Who am I?' Now, calm down, get a grip now.

- Oh, this is an interesting sensation. What is it? It's a sort of yawning, tingling sensation in my... In my... Well, I suppose I'd better start find names for things. So let's call it my 'stomach'. So, a yawning, tingling sensation in my stomach. Good!

- And that whistling, roaring sound can be 'wind'. Perhaps, I can find a better name for it later when I find out what it's for, because there certainly seems to be a hell lot of it!

- Hey! What's this thing? This... Let's call it a 'tail'. Yeah, a tail. Hey, I can really thrash it about really good, can't I? Wow! Wow! Hey! Doesn't seem to achieve much, but I'll probably work out what it's for later on.

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Top rated lines from this movie

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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