Vogon poetry is, of course, the third worse in the universe. The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria.

— The Hitchhiker’S Guide To The Galaxy Book (Peter Jones)

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

You can hear this line at 00:03:56.870 in the Blu-ray version of the episode.

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[...]

- His name is Ford Prefect, for reasons which are unlikely to become clear again at the moment,

- And they are currently hiding in the storeroom of 3 Vegan spaceship.

- What the hell is that?

- If we're lucky, it's a Vogon guard come to throw us into space.

- And if we are unlucky?

- The Vogon captain might want to read us some of his poetry first.

- Oh, freddled gruntbuggly thy micturations are to me as plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee that mordiously hath blurted out its earted jurtles into a rancid festering confectious organ squealer.

- Now the jurpling slayjid agrocrustles are slurping hagrilly up the..

- Vogon poetry is, of course, the third worse in the universe. The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria.

- During a recitation by their poet master, Grunthos the Flatulent, of his poem, Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning, four of his audience died of internal haemorrhaging.

- And the president of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council only survived by gnawing one of his own legs off.

- Grunthos is reported to have been disappointed by the poem's reception, and was about to embark on a reading of his 12-book epic entitled, Zen and the Art of Going to the Lavatory...

- When his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save lifekind, leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain.

[...]

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