Just as we were about to see the fruit of millions of years of work, you go and let your planet get blown up!

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

You can hear this line at 00:24:40.480 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

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- Thank you, Slartibartfast. That will be all!

- Yes, sir. Thank you very much.

- Well... Goodbye, Earthman. Sorry about your planet. Hope the lifestyle comes together.

- Now, to business!

- Oh, yeah, to business!

- I beg your pardon?

- I'm sorry, I thought you were proposing a toast.

- Now, Earth creature, we now have been running your planet for the last ten million years in order to find this wretched thing called the Ultimate Question.

- Just as we were about to see the fruit of millions of years of work, you go and let your planet get blown up!

- Still, the best laid plans of mice...

- And men. The best laid plans of mice and men.

- And what have men got to do with it?

- Listen, we've got to have that question!

- Well, I'm sorry, I can't help you. Shall we be off?

- Hey, get this, will you, Earthman. You are a last-generation product of that computer matrix, right? I mean, you were there right up to the point when your planet got the finger, yeah?

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Top rated lines from this movie

And lots of the people were mean and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.

Drink up. The world's about to end.

Ancient computers, ranged in the long caves, deep in the bowels of the planet, tick away the dark millennia, and the ages hang heavy on their dusty data banks.

What we demand is solid facts. -No, we don't. That is precisely what we don't demand. -We don't demand solid facts. What we demand is a total absence of solid facts.

By law, the quest for ultimate truth is the inalienable prerogative of your working thinkers. And if the machine actually goes and finds it, we're straight out of a job, aren't we?

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Sound Clip

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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