The human race is currently standing around a bath over there making documentaries about themselves.
4 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 6 sitcom.
You can hear this line at 00:29:59.200 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.
Quote context
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- Mean? It means that this is the Earth. My home. It's where I was born.
- Was?
- You tell them that, see what they say. They'll chase you up a tree and set fire to it.
- Listen, Arthur, face it. Those zeebs over there are your ancestors, not the cavemen.
- Put the Scrabble board away, it's not going to save the human race, 'cause this isn't it.
- The human race is currently standing around a bath over there making documentaries about themselves.
- But surely we can do something?
- No, nothing, it's all been done. We've seen it.
- And all because the Golgafrinchans arrived here on their B Ark.
- Hmm. Poor bloody caveman. It's all been a bit of a waste of time for you, hasn't it?
- Out-evolved by a telephone sanitiser.
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