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.
11 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 1 sitcom.
You can hear this line at 00:03:27.413 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.
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- 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.
- 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.
- But the plans have been available in the planning office, for the last nine months.
- Oh, yes. Well, of course. As soon as I heard, I went round to see them.
- But the plans were on display.
- On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar! That's the display department. With a torch!
- The lights had probably gone. So had the stairs!
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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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