- What's so wrong about being drunk?
- Ask a glass of water.
— Arthur Dent (Simon Jones), Ford Prefect (David Dixon)
3 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 1 sitcom.
You can hear this line at 00:27:33.126 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.
Quote context
[...]
- On arrival, we will stay in dock for 72 hours.
- All planet leave is cancelled.
- I've just had an unhappy love affair, so I don't see why anybody else should have a good time.
- Poetry?
- Preparing for hyperspace. It's rather unpleasantly like being drunk.
- What's so wrong about being drunk?
- Now, lie down. On your back. Grip the towel between your ankles like this.
- What?
- Excuse me, but what exactly am I doing with this fish in my ear?
- It's translating for you. Look in the book under Babel Fish.
- We're going into hyperspace!
[...]