- Now, lie down. On your back. Grip the towel between your ankles like this.
- What?
- Just do it!
8 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 1 sitcom.
You can hear this line at 00:27:35.400 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.
Quote context
[...]
- All planet leave is cancelled.
- I've just had an unhappy love affair, so I don't see why anybody else should have a good time.
- Poetry?
- Preparing for hyperspace. It's rather unpleasantly like being drunk.
- What's so wrong about being drunk?
- Now, lie down. On your back. Grip the towel between your ankles like this.
- What?
- Excuse me, but what exactly am I doing with this fish in my ear?
- It's translating for you. Look in the book under Babel Fish.
- We're going into hyperspace!
- I'll never be cruel to a gin and tonic again!
- The Babel fish is small, yellow, leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the universe.
[...]
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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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