- I'm trying to teach the cavemen to play Scrabble. It's uphill work. The only word they know is 'uh', and they don't know how to spell it.
- What's the point in that?
- We've got to make them evolve.

— Arthur Dent (Simon Jones)

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

You can hear this line at 00:29:14.760 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

[...]

- Y scores five, you see, and it's on a triple word score.

- I'm sorry. I explained the rules.

- No, no, please, please. Put down the jawbone.

- All right, we'll start again. Only please, try and concentrate this time.

- Hi, Arthur. What you doing?

- I'm trying to teach the cavemen to play Scrabble. It's uphill work. The only word they know is 'uh', and they don't know how to spell it.

- What's the point in that?

- We've got to make them evolve.

- Can you imagine what a world would be like descended from those cretins over there?

- Imagine? We don't have to. We've seen it.

- Oh, but honestly!

- We've seen it, there's no escape.

- But, did you tell them what we discovered?

- What? Norway.

- Slartibartfast's signature on the glacier.

- What's the point? What will it mean to them?

- Mean? It means that this is the Earth. My home. It's where I was born.

[...]

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