2 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 3 sitcom.
You can hear this line at 00:26:15.873 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.
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- What an extraordinary person.
- I beg your pardon?
- Nothing.
- Where are we going?
- We are going deep into the bowels of the planet, where even now, our race is being revived from its five-million-year-old slumber.
- Magrathea awakes.
- Excuse me, what is your name, by the way?
- My name? My name is Slartibartfast.
- I beg your pardon?
- Slartibartfast!
- Slartibartfast?
- I said it wasn't important.
- It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem.
- For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much: The wheel, New York, wars and on. Whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time.
- But, conversely, the dolphins believed that they were more intelligent than man, for precisely the same reasons.
- Curiously enough, the dolphins had long known of the impending demolition of Earth, and had made many attempts to alert mankind to the danger, but their communications were misinterpreted as amusing attempts to punch footballs or whistle for titbits.
- So they eventually gave up and left the Earth by their own means, shortly before the Vogans arrived.
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