Fiscal policy? How can you have money if none of you actually produces anything? Doesn't grow on trees, you know.

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8 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 6 sitcom.

You can hear this line at 00:27:03.119 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

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- Yes. And, and one of our surviving film producers rescued a camera from the wreckage.

- He wants to make a documentary about you, Captain.

- That's awfully nice.

- Yeah, he's got a really strong angle on It. You know, the burden of responsibility. The loneliness of command.

- Oh, I wouldn't overstress that angle.

- After all, one's never alone with a rubber duck. Whee!

- If we could, for a moment, move on to the subject of fiscal policy.

- Fiscal policy? How can you have money if none of you actually produces anything? Doesn't grow on trees, you know.

- Ah, but since we decided a few weeks ago to adopt the leaf as legal tender, we have all, of course, become immensely rich. But we have run into a small inflation problem, owing to the high level of leaf availability.

- Which means that, I gather, the current going rate is something like three major deciduous forests buying one ship's peanut.

- So, in order to obviate this problem, and effectively revalue the leaf, we've decided on an extensive campaign of defoliation, and burn down all the forests. I think that's a sensible move, don't you?

- You're mad! You know that, don't you?

- Is it perhaps appropriate to enquire what you have been doing all this time? I mean, you and that other interloper have been missing for months.

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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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