Well, anyway, the recession came and we thought, thought it would save a lot of bother if we just slept through it. So we programmed the computers to revive us when it was all over.
— Slartibartfast (Richard Evelyn Vernon)
10 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 3 sitcom.
You can hear this line at 00:23:55.501 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.
Quote context
[...]
- Dead? No, we have but slept, for five million years. Nothing much seems to have changed.
- Slept?
- Yes, through the economic recession.
- Well, you see, five million years ago, the Galactic economy collapsed.
- Seeing that custom-built planets is something of a luxury commodity.
- You know we built planets, do you?
- Well, I sort of gathered that.
- Isn't that rather unethical behaviour?
- Oh, is it? I'm afraid I'm a bit out of touch.
- Well, if you call it a robot. It's more like an electronic sulking machine.
- On second thought, leave it here.
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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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