The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a wholly remarkable book. The introduction starts like this: Space, it says, is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is.

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

You can hear this line at 00:12:05.442 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

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- It's at times like this, stuck in a Vogon airlock, with a man from Betelgeuse, about to die of asphyxiation in deep space, that I wish I had listened to what my mother told me when I was young.

- What did she tell you?

- I don't know, I didn't listen!

(AIR WHOOSHING)

- 'Counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor...' Huh. Death's too good for them.

- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a wholly remarkable book. The introduction starts like this: Space, it says, is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is.

- I mean, you may think it's a long way down the street to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space. Listen... And so on.

- After a while, the style settles down a bit and it starts telling you things you actually need to know.

- Like the fact that the fabulously beautiful planet Bethselamin is now so worried about the cumulative erosion caused by over 10 billion visiting tourists a year...

- Any net imbalance between the amount you eat, and the amount you excrete whilst on the planet is surgically removed from your body weight when you leave.

- So, every time you go to the lavatory there, it is vitally important to get a receipt.

[...]

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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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