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- Hey! Did you think of that, Earthman?
- Well, all I did...
- That's a pretty hoopy piece of thinking, you know that?

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

You can hear this line at 00:12:07.419 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

[...]

- Hey! What the photon happened?

- Well, I was saying, there's this switch here, you see.

- Where are we, Trillian?

- Well, exactly where we were, I think.

- What about the missiles?

- According to the screen, they've turned into a large bowl of petunias, and a very surprised looking whale.

- At an improbability level of 8767728 to 7 against.

- Hey! Did you think of that, Earthman?

- Well, all I did...

- That's a pretty hoopy piece of thinking, you know that?

- Well, it was nothing, really.

- Was it?

- Oh, well, forget it then.

- Okay, computer, take us in to land.

- Well, I mean, I say it was nothing, but obviously it was something.

- I was just trying to say it's not worth making too much of a fuss about, I mean, saving everybody's lives.

- Another thing that nobody made too much fuss about was the fact that, against all probability, a sperm whale had suddenly been called into existence some miles above the surface of an alien planet.

[...]

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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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