7 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 6 sitcom.
You can hear this line at 00:17:16.377 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.
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- Oh, yes, could I just ask you what your job is, actually? Because I couldn't help but noticing, you know, the bodies.
- Bodies?
- Yeah, all those dead telephone sanitizers and account executives. You know. In the hold.
- They're not dead. Good Lord, no. They're just frozen. Yes, they're going to be revived.
- You mean you've got a hold full of frozen hairdressers?
- Oh yes, millions of them! Hairdressers, tired TV producers, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, security guards, public relations executives, management consultants.
- We're going to colonize another planet.
- What?
- Exciting, isn't it?
- With that lot?
- Don't misunderstand me. We're just one of the ships of the Ark Fleet. We're the B Ark, you see?
- Excuse me, I wonder. Do you think you would be kind enough to run a little bit more hot water for me?
- Oh yeah, sure.
- Thanks.
- What's a B Ark? Well, you see, what happened was that our planet was doomed. So everybody said, 'Let's pack the whole population into some giant spaceships and settle on another planet.' -You mean, a less doomed one?
- Precisely.
- So it was decided to build three gigantic ships, three gigantic arks, in space.
- Of course, the idea was that into the first ship, the A Ship, would go all the brilliant leaders, the scientists, the great artists, you know, all the achievers.
- And then into the third ship, the C Ship, would go all the people who do the actual work, who make things and do things.
- And then into the B Ship, that's ours of course, would go everyone else, you know, the middlemen and, of course we were sent off first.
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