The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Quotes with Sound Clips

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a wholly remarkable book. The introduction starts like this: Space, it says, is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is.

These creatures you call mice are not as they appear. They are merely the protrusion into our dimension of vast hyper intelligent, pan-dimensional beings. This business with the cheese and squeaking is just a front. They've been experimenting on you.

We are not going to be great. We are not going to be amazing. We are going to be amazingly amazing!

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.

And lots of the people were mean and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.

A green salad? -Is there any reason why I shouldn't have a green salad? -I know many vegetables that are very clear on that point, sir.

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.

Ah, this is futile! 573 committee meetings, you haven't even discovered fire yet!