- Teasers?
- Yeah. Teasers are rich kids with nothing to do. They cruise around the galaxy looking for planets that no-one's made interstellar contact yet with, and buzz them.

— Ford Prefect (David Dixon)

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9 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 1 sitcom.

You can hear this line at 00:25:00.139 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

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- Telecom systems.

- Got stuck on the Earth longer than I meant. Went for a week, got stuck for 15 years.

- Tele-psychic helmets.

- How did you get here in the first place?

- Easy. Got a lift with a teaser.

- Yeah. Teasers are rich kids with nothing to do. They cruise around the galaxy looking for planets that no-one's made interstellar contact yet with, and buzz them.

- Yeah. They find some isolated spot, land right by some unsuspecting soul that no-one's ever gonna believe, and strut up and down in front of them making 'beep, beep' noises. Rather childish, really.

- Ah! A towel. Keep this and guard it with your life.

- Listen. It's a tough universe. There's all sorts of people and things trying to do you, kill you, rip you off, everything. If you're going to survive out there, you've really gotta know where your towel is.

- Fish. Over here, I think.

(SPACESHIP MACHINE BEEPING)

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It's the people you meet in this job who really get you down. The best conversation I had was over 34 million years ago. -Oh, dear! -And that was with a coffee machine.

Ten million years of planning and work gone, just like that. Well, that's bureaucracy for you.

The history of every major galactic civilization passes through three distinct and recognizable phases: survival, inquiry and sophistication.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Sound Clip

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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