If such a machine is a virtual impossibility, then it must logically be a finite improbability.

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8 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 2 sitcom.

You can hear this line at 00:19:03.986 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

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- And such generators were often used to break the ice at parties, by making all the molecules in the hostess' undergarments simultaneously leap one foot to the left, in accordance with the theory of indeterminacy.

- Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for that sort of thing, partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn't get invited to those sort of parties.

- Another thing they couldn't stand was the perpetual failure they encountered in trying to construct a machine which could generate the infinite improbability field needed to flip a spaceship between the furthest stars...

- And in the end, they grumpily announced that such a machine was virtually impossible.

- Then, one evening, a student who had been left to sweep up the lab after a particularly unsuccessful party, found himself reasoning this way.

- If such a machine is a virtual impossibility, then it must logically be a finite improbability.

- So all I have to do, in order to make one is to work out exactly how improbable it is, feed that figure into the finite improbability generator, give it a fresh cup of really hot tea, and turn it on.

- The moment he did this, he was rather startled to discover that he had managed to create the long sought-after infinite improbability generator out of thin air.

- It startled him even more when, just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness, he got lynched by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists, who realised that the one thing they really couldn't stand was a smart-arse.

- Five to one against, and falling. Four to one against, and falling. Three to one... Two... One...

- Probability factor of one to one. We have normality. I repeat, we have normality.

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The funniest lines and quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1981 TV Series, with sound clips.

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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