- How are we doing?
- Badly.

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

You can hear this line at 00:01:18.296 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

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- Oh, that's better. Have you managed to make sense of the controls?

- No. We just stopped fiddling with them.

- Okay, Hotblack, the black ship's ready to crash into the sun. Time to get there ourselves.

- 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?

- Where are we going?

- I don't know.

- 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. '

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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 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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