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Excuse me, what is your name, by the way?

4 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 3 sitcom.

You can hear this line at 00:25:56.803 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

[...]

- What is your name, human?

- Dent, Arthur Dent. Late, as in the late Dent, Arthur Dent.

- It's a sort of threat, you see. I've never been terribly good at them myself, but I'm told they can be terribly effective.

- What an extraordinary person.

- I beg your pardon?

- Nothing.

- Where are we going?

- We are going deep into the bowels of the planet, where even now, our race is being revived from its five-million-year-old slumber.

- Magrathea awakes.

- Excuse me, what is your name, by the way?

- My name? My name is Slartibartfast.

- I beg your pardon?

- Slartibartfast!

- Slartibartfast?

- I said it wasn't important.

- It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem.

- For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much: The wheel, New York, wars and on. Whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time.

- But, conversely, the dolphins believed that they were more intelligent than man, for precisely the same reasons.

[...]

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 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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