3 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 1 sitcom.
You can hear this line at 00:03:01.300 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.
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- To tell the story of the book, it is best to tell the story of some of those whose lives it affected. A human from the planet Earth was one of them.
- Though as our story opens, he no more knows his destiny than a tea leaf knows the history of the East India Company.
- His name is Arthur Dent. He is a six-foot-tall ape descendant, and someone is trying to drive a bypass through his home.
(BULLDOZER RUMBLING)
- Come off it, Mr Dent. You can't win, you know. You can't lie in front of the bulldozers indefinitely.
- I'm game. We'll see who rusts first.
- You're gonna have to accept It, you know. This bypass has got to be built and it's gonna be built.
- Why has it got to be built?
- What do you mean, why has it got to be built? It's a bypass. You gotta build bypasses.
- You were quite entitled to make any suggestion or protest at the appropriate time.
- Appropriate time? First I heard about it was when a workman arrived at the door yesterday.
- I thought he'd come to clean the windows. He told me he'd come to demolish the house. Well, he didn't sell me straight away, of course. No. First, he wiped a couple of windows and charged me a fiver! Then he told me.
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