One of the things that Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about human beings, was their habit of continually stating and restating the very, very obvious, as in, 'It's a nice day. ' Or, 'You're very tall.'
17 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 6 sitcom.
You can hear this line at 00:06:55.000 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.
Quote context
[...]
- Tell me what you think I'm thinking.
- I think you're thinking it's time we got off this ship.
- How?
- So, this is it? We're going to die?
- I wish you'd stop saying that.
- Or, 'So this is it, we 're going to die. '
- At first, Ford had formed a theory to account for this rather strange behaviour.
- 'If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. '
- After a while, he abandoned this theory in favour of a new one.
- 'If they don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.'
[...]
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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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