When we were hungry, we used to pose as health inspectors, and go around confiscating meals and drinks, and get food poisoning?

— Ford Prefect (David Dixon)

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6 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 5 sitcom.

You can hear this line at 00:09:27.075 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

[...]

- Hey, waiter. Bring me volume three of the wine list.

- Hey, Hotblack! How're you doing? It's great to see you, big boy. How's the noise?

- You are looking great! Really, very, very fat and unwell. Amazing!

- Remember the old days? Wow! We used to hang out! The Bistro Illegal, remember?

- The Evildrome Boozarama, Slim's Throat Emporium... Great days, eh?

- When we were hungry, we used to pose as health inspectors, and go around confiscating meals and drinks, and get food poisoning?

- You used to be up all night trying to write songs and we all hated them. And you said you didn't care. We said we did, because we hated them so much.

- And you said you didn't want to be a star, because you despised the star system, but we said we didn't think you had the option.

- And what do you do now? You buy star systems! Here is a guy who buys star systems!

- What's that number you do, that really huge one? How does it go? Dah, dah, dah something.

- The stage act ends with a ship crashing right into the sun. Oh, and you actually do it! I mean, ship, sun, bang!

[...]

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Sound Clip

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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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