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They wouldn't even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the ravenous bug-blatter beast of trial, without orders...

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

You can hear this line at 00:21:55.280 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

[...]

- Don't panic.

- Look. Fast-wind index. 'V.' Vogon Constructor Fleet. Enter that code, see what it says, and I'll keep watch.

- Vogon Constructor Fleets.

- Here is what to do if you want to get a lift from a Vogon... forget it.

- They're one of the most unpleasant races in the galaxy. Not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious, and callous.

- They wouldn't even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the ravenous bug-blatter beast of trial, without orders...

- Signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters.

- The best way to get a drink out of a Vogon is to stick your finger down his throat.

- And the best way to annoy him is to feed his grandmother to the ravenous Bugblatter beast of Traal.

- What an extraordinary book.

- How did we get on board, then?

- The Dentrassi let us on board.

[...]

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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.
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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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