Drink up. The world's about to end.

— Ford Prefect (David Dixon)

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4 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 1 sitcom.

You can hear this line at 00:12:26.630 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

[...]

- I'll try to explain.

- How long have we known each other, Arthur?

- Five years, maybe six. Most of it seemed to make some kind of sense at the time.

- All right. How would you react if I told you that I'm not from Guildford after all, but from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse?

- I don't know. Why? Do you think it's the sort of thing you're likely to say?

- Drink up. The world's about to end.

- This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

- On this particular Thursday, things were moving through the ionosphere many miles above the surface of the planet.

- Several huge, yellow, slab-like somethings, huge as office blocks, silent as birds.

- They hung in the air exactly the same way that bricks don't.

[...]

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