It won't be a great social occasion, I'm afraid.

3 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 4 sitcom.

You can hear this line at 00:19:45.025 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

[...]

- What does it matter?

- Science has achieved some wonderful things, I know, but I'd far rather be happy than right, any day.

- And are you?

- No. That's where it all falls down, of course.

- Pity. Sounded like a rather good lifestyle, otherwise.

- Attention, please. Would Slartibartfast and the visiting Earth creature, please report at once to the reception area.

- Now? To meet mice? You want me to meet mice now?

- It won't be a great social occasion, I'm afraid.

- Repeat, at once!

- I seem to be having this tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle.

- I beg your pardon?

- What? I'm sorry. Fatuous thing to say, really.

- I thought so.

- It is, of course, well known that careless talk costs lives, but the full scale of the problem is not always appreciated.

- For instance, at the very moment that Arthur said, 'I seem to be having this tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle'...

[...]

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Sound Clip

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) poster

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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