- 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.
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
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- 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.
- 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.
- We've seen it, there's no escape.
- But, did you tell them what we discovered?
- 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.
- Was?
[...]
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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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