6 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 6 sitcom.
You can hear this line at 00:01:22.101 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.
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- The history of every major galactic civilization passes through three distinct and recognizable phases: survival, inquiry and sophistication.
- For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question 'How can we eat?' The second by the question, 'Why do we eat?' The third by the question, 'Where shall we have lunch?'
- Though it will usually take a large civilization many thousands of years to pass through the 'How?', 'Why?' and 'Where?' phases, small social groupings, under stressful conditions can pass through these phases with extreme rapidity, thus...
- How are we doing?
- Badly.
- Where are we going?
- I don't know.
- Why not?
- Shut up.
- Excitement and adventure and really wild things...
- Excitement and adventure and really wild things have been dogging Arthur Dent now for some days.
- He has, for instance, had his planet demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass...
- And has thereafter been confronted with the disconcerting knowledge that the Earth was, in any case, not what it appeared, but was in fact a gigantic supercomputer designed to calculate the ultimate question of 'life, the Universe and Everything. '
- The answer to which is now known to be 42.
- He and his companions have, furthermore, been blasted far forward in time to the 'Restaurant at the End of the Universe', from which they are currently returning in a ship which could not, in all honesty, be said to belong to them.
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