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.

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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.

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- Yes, well... Actually, I don't think we expected anyone to be about. In fact, no disrespect, but I gathered you were all dead.

- Dead? No, we have but slept, for five million years. Nothing much seems to have changed.

- Yes, through the economic recession.

- 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.

- Fascinating trade. Doing the coastlines was always my favourite. I used to have endless fun doing all the fiddly bits round the fjords.

- 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.

- They were index-linked to the Galactic stock market prices, you see. So that we'd all be revived when everybody else had rebuilt the economy enough to be able to afford our rather expensive services.

- Isn't that rather unethical behaviour?

- Oh, is it? I'm afraid I'm a bit out of touch.

- Is that your robot?

- No, I'm mine.

- Well, if you call it a robot. It's more like an electronic sulking machine.

- Bring it, bring it.

- On second thought, leave it here.

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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.

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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