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Now that you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy. Except some of the shouting I quite like.

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

You can hear this line at 00:08:40.028 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

[...]

- Do you enjoy this sort of thing?

- Huh? What do you mean?

- I mean, does it give you a full, satisfying life?

- Full, satisfying life?

- Yeah. Stomping around, shouting, pushing people off spaceships.

- Oh, the hours are good.

- They'd have to be.

- Ford, what are you doing?

- So, the hours are good, are they?

- Yeah.

- Now that you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy. Except some of the shouting I quite like.

- Resistance is...

- Yeah, yeah, you're good at that. I can tell, but if the rest of it is so lousy, why do you do it? The girls? The rubber? The gizmo?

- Oh, I don't know really. I just sort of do it. You see, my aunt said that spaceship guard was a good career for a young Vogon, you know. The uniform, the low-slung stun-ray holster, the mindless tedium...

- This guy's half throttling me.

- Yeah, but try and understand his problem.

- Here he is, poor guy, his entire life is spent stomping around, pushing people off spaceships...

- And shouting.

- Yeah, and shouting.

- Yeah. And he doesn't even know why he's doing it.

[...]

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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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