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You're mad! You know that, don't you?

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

You can hear this line at 00:27:49.927 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

[...]

- If we could, for a moment, move on to the subject of fiscal policy.

- Fiscal policy? How can you have money if none of you actually produces anything? Doesn't grow on trees, you know.

- Ah, but since we decided a few weeks ago to adopt the leaf as legal tender, we have all, of course, become immensely rich. But we have run into a small inflation problem, owing to the high level of leaf availability.

- Which means that, I gather, the current going rate is something like three major deciduous forests buying one ship's peanut.

- So, in order to obviate this problem, and effectively revalue the leaf, we've decided on an extensive campaign of defoliation, and burn down all the forests. I think that's a sensible move, don't you?

- You're mad! You know that, don't you?

- Is it perhaps appropriate to enquire what you have been doing all this time? I mean, you and that other interloper have been missing for months.

- We've been traveling. We've been trying to find out something about this world.

- That does not sound very productive to me.

- No? Well, have I got news for you!

- It doesn't matter a pair of foetid dingo's kidneys what you do from now on. Burn down the forests, anything. It won't make a scrap of difference.

- You see, I've seen your future. Two million years you've got, and that's it. At the end of that time, your race will be dead and gone. And good riddance. Remember that. Two million years.

[...]

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Sound Clip

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) poster

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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