- Uh-uh, address the chair.
- There isn't a chair, there's only a rock.
- Well, call it a chair.
- Why not call it a rock?

— Ford Prefect (David Dixon)

1
2
3
4
5

[ 1 ]

committees ford prefect pun rocks

8 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 6 sitcom.

You can hear this line at 00:23:50.880 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

[...]

- What? Hello, what, who?

- Remember me? I've made a discovery I'd like to tell you about.

- Is it on the agenda?

- I'm sorry, but speaking as a fully-trained management consultant, I must insist on the importance of the committee structure.

- On a prehistoric planet?

- Uh-uh, address the chair.

- There isn't a chair, there's only a rock.

- Well, call it a chair.

- Why not call it a rock?

- Will you two shut up? I want to table a motion.

- Boulder a motion, you mean.

- Thank you, I made that point.

- Order, order.

- Look, if I could just say...

- Order, order.

- I would like to call to order the 573rd meeting of the Colonization Committee of the planet of Fintlewoodlewix.

- Ah, this is futile! 573 committee meetings, you haven't even discovered fire yet!

- If you would care to look at the agenda, you will see that we're having a report from the Hairdressers' Fire Development Subcommittee today.

[...]

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.

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.

Here's another one of those self-satisfied doors.

Wow! What's this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very, very fast. So big and flat and wide. It needs a big, wide-sounding word like... Round, ground... Ground. That's it! Ground! I wonder if it'll be friends with me.

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)

[Amazon link] #ad

Latest Movie Sound Bites

Knight Rider (1982)
1294 Sounds / Quotes

Garfield's Halloween Adventure (1985)
162 Sounds / Quotes

Toy Story 3
830 Sounds / Quotes

Jetsons: The Movie (1990)
533 Sounds / Quotes

Reservoir Dogs (1992)
723 Sounds / Quotes

Poll

MOVIE-SOUNDS.ORG - Download and listen to lines and quotes from movies which can be used as ringtones. A movie phrases and sayings search engine.

All the movie sound clips on this site are just short samples from the original sources, in mp3, wav or other popular audio formats. The copyrighted, unlicensed movie samples are shorter in comparison to the original movie. Samples do not exceed 10 seconds or less than 1% of the length of the original movie, which is shorter. All the sounds retain their original copyright as owned by their respective movie production companies (read the full disclaimer and disclosures)

Contact | Privacy policy