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Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper.

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

You can hear this line at 00:01:11.663 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

[...]

- If we're lucky, it's a Vogon guard come to throw us into space.

- And if we're unlucky?

- The Vogon captain might want to read us some of his poetry first.

- Far out, in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy, lies a small, unregarded yellow sun.

- Orbiting this, at a distance of roughly 92 million miles, is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet, whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

- This planet has, or had, a problem, which was this. Most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time.

- Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper.

- Which is odd because, on the whole, it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy, and so the problem remained,

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

(HORNS HONKING)

- Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees, in the first place.

- And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should have ever left the oceans.

[...]

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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?
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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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