The deadly missile attack shortly to be launched by an ancient automatic defense system will merely result in the breakage of 3 coffee cups, a mouse cage, the bruising of someone's upper arm...

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16 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 3 sitcom.

You can hear this line at 00:05:46.166 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

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- I think It's just any old dead planet.

- The suspense is killing me.

- Stress and nervous tension are now serious social problems in all parts of the Galaxy.

- And it is in order that this situation should not be in any way exacerbated that the following facts will now be revealed in advance.

- The planet in question is in fact Magrathea.

- The deadly missile attack shortly to be launched by an ancient automatic defense system will merely result in the breakage of 3 coffee cups, a mouse cage, the bruising of someone's upper arm...

- And the untimely creation and sudden demise of a bowl of petunias, and an innocent sperm whale.

- In order that some sense of mystery should still be preserved, no revelation will yet be made concerning whose upper arm has been bruised.

- This fact may safely be made the subject of suspense, since it is of no significance whatsoever.

- Arthur's next question is very complex and difficult, and Zaphod's answer is wrong in every important respect.

- Of course it's safe. Magrathea's been dead for over five million years.

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Top rated lines from this movie

And lots of the people were mean and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.

Drink up. The world's about to end.

Ancient computers, ranged in the long caves, deep in the bowels of the planet, tick away the dark millennia, and the ages hang heavy on their dusty data banks.

What we demand is solid facts. -No, we don't. That is precisely what we don't demand. -We don't demand solid facts. What we demand is a total absence of solid facts.

By law, the quest for ultimate truth is the inalienable prerogative of your working thinkers. And if the machine actually goes and finds it, we're straight out of a job, aren't we?

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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