Yeah, yeah, you're good at that. I can tell, but if the rest of it is so lousy, why do you do it? The girls? The rubber? The gizmo?

15 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 2 sitcom.

You can hear this line at 00:08:49.232 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

[...]

- Oh, the hours are good.

- They'd have to be.

- Ford, what are you doing?

- So, the hours are good, are they?

- Yeah.

- Now that you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy. Except some of the shouting I quite like.

- Resistance is...

- Yeah, yeah, you're good at that. I can tell, but if the rest of it is so lousy, why do you do it? The girls? The rubber? The gizmo?

- Oh, I don't know really. I just sort of do it. You see, my aunt said that spaceship guard was a good career for a young Vogon, you know. The uniform, the low-slung stun-ray holster, the mindless tedium...

- This guy's half throttling me.

- Yeah, but try and understand his problem.

- Here he is, poor guy, his entire life is spent stomping around, pushing people off spaceships...

- And shouting.

- Yeah, and shouting.

- Yeah. And he doesn't even know why he's doing it.

- Oh, poignant, very poignant.

- Well, put it like that...

- Good lad.

- All right, what's the alternative?

[...]

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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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