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Sensational new breakthrough in improbability physics...

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

You can hear this line at 00:24:27.349 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

[...]

- An edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica that fell through a time warp from 1000 years in the future, defines the Sirius Cybernetics Corp.'s Marketing Division as 'a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came.'

- I think this ship is brand new.

- Why, have you got some exotic device, for measuring the age of metal?

- No, I just found this sales brochure lying on the floor. It says, 'The universe can be yours for a mere five quilliad Altairian dollars.

- Cheap?

- A quilliad is a whole page full of noughts with a one at the beginning.

- Ah, listen! This is what I was after.

- Sensational new breakthrough in improbability physics...

- As the ship's drive reaches infinite improbability, it passes simultaneously through every point in the universe, being the envy of other major governments.

- I mean, wow! This is really big-league stuff!

- Well, it's a whole lot better than that dingy Vogon crate.

- This is my idea of a spaceship. All gleaming metal, flashing lights... Everything.

- Oh. I wonder what'll happen if I press this button?

- Don't!

- Oh...

- What happened? A sign lit up, saying, 'Please do not press this button again.'

[...]

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Sound Clip

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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