- Why has it got to be built?
- What do you mean, why has it got to be built? It's a bypass. You gotta build bypasses.

8 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 1 sitcom.

You can hear this line at 00:03:09.686 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

[...]

- His name is Arthur Dent. He is a six-foot-tall ape descendant, and someone is trying to drive a bypass through his home.

(BULLDOZER RUMBLING)

- Come off it, Mr Dent. You can't win, you know. You can't lie in front of the bulldozers indefinitely.

- I'm game. We'll see who rusts first.

- You're gonna have to accept It, you know. This bypass has got to be built and it's gonna be built.

- Why has it got to be built?

- What do you mean, why has it got to be built? It's a bypass. You gotta build bypasses.

- You were quite entitled to make any suggestion or protest at the appropriate time.

- Appropriate time? First I heard about it was when a workman arrived at the door yesterday.

- I thought he'd come to clean the windows. He told me he'd come to demolish the house. Well, he didn't sell me straight away, of course. No. First, he wiped a couple of windows and charged me a fiver! Then he told me.

- But the plans have been available in the planning office, for the last nine months.

[...]

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