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And the time at which it is going to do it is 4.2 seconds from now.

6 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 5 sitcom.

You can hear this line at 00:02:54.892 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

[...]

- And this is very odd, because without that fairly simple and obvious piece of knowledge, nothing that ever happened on Earth could possibly make the slightest bit of sense.

- However, at the critical moment of read-out, the Earth was unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass...

- And the only native Earth people to survive the demolition are now being shot at behind a computer bank on the lost planet of Magrathea...

- Along with their strange companions from Betelgeuse, who are currently singing a Betelgeuse death anthem on the very sensible ground that they are about to die.

- This is what the computer bank is about to do. (Explosion)

- And the time at which it is going to do it is 4.2 seconds from now.

- Good evening, madam, gentlemen. Do you have a reservation?

- Reservation?

- Yes, sir.

- Do you need a reservation for the afterlife?

- The afterlife?

- Is this the afterlife?

- Yeah. I mean, yeah. Well, I think so. There's no way we could've survived that blast in there.

- No.

- None at all.

- I certainly didn't survive. I was a total goner. Wham-bam! And that was it!

- Yeah, we didn't stand a chance. We must have been blown to bits. There was arms and legs everywhere!

[...]

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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.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) poster

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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