I'll never be cruel to a gin and tonic again!

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

You can hear this line at 00:28:15.460 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

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- What's so wrong about being drunk?

- Ask a glass of water.

- Now, lie down. On your back. Grip the towel between your ankles like this.

- Right. Now, wait.

- Excuse me, but what exactly am I doing with this fish in my ear?

- It's translating for you. Look in the book under Babel Fish.

- What's happening?

- We're going into hyperspace!

- I'll never be cruel to a gin and tonic again!

- The Babel fish is small, yellow, leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the universe.

- It feeds on brainwave energy, absorbing all unconscious frequencies and then excreting telepathically a matrix formed from the conscious frequencies and nerve signals picked up from the speech centers of the brain.

- The practical upshot of which is that if you stick one in your ear, you instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language.

- The speech you hear decodes the brainwave matrix.

- Now, it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could evolve purely by chance, that many thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.

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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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