Concert goers judge that the best sound balance is heard from large concrete bunkers 37 miles from the stage, while the musicians play their instruments by remote control from a insulated spaceship in orbit round the planet, or a different planet.

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

You can hear this line at 00:11:28.840 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

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- Now, wait a minute...

- No minutes, no waiting.

- Mr Desiato speaks to no-one.

- Perhaps you'd better let him speak for himself.

- He speaks to no-one.

- Oh. Why? What's the matter with him?

- The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy notes that Disaster Area, a plutonium rock band from the Gagralacka Mind Zones are generally held to be not only the loudest rock band in the galaxy, but in fact the loudest noise of any kind at all.

- Concert goers judge that the best sound balance is heard from large concrete bunkers 37 miles from the stage, while the musicians play their instruments by remote control from a insulated spaceship in orbit round the planet, or a different planet.

- Well, hi there, Ford. Did you talk to your big noise friend?

- Uh, Hot... Uh... Hotblack? Yeah, I, er... I sort of spoke to him, yeah.

- Well, what did he say?

- Well, not a lot. He's spending a year dead for tax reasons.

- Oh, yeah? Neat!

- Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

- Ladies and gentlemen, the universe as we know it has been in existence for 170000 million billion years, and will be ending in a little over 10 minutes time.

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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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