Now choose, either die, in the vacuum of space, or, tell me how good you thought my poem was.

— Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz (Martin Benson)

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

You can hear this line at 00:06:01.244 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

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- Now the jurpling slayjid agrocrustles are slurping hagrilly up the axlegrurts and living glupules frart and stipulate likejowling meated liverslime...

- Groop, I implore thee my foonting turlingdromes, and hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles.

- Or else I shall rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon. See if I don't!

- So, earthlings...

- I'm not an earthling.

- Quiet. I present you with a simple choice. Think very carefully, for your very lives lie in your hands.

- Now choose, either die, in the vacuum of space, or, tell me how good you thought my poem was.

- Oh, yes. I thought that some of the metaphysical imagery was really particularly effective.

- Oh... And... Interesting rhythmic devices which seemed to counterpoint the... Um... Um...

- Counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor of the...

- The humanity...

- Oh, Vogonity, sorry, of the poet's compassionate soul.

- Which strives, through the medium of the verse structure, to sublimate this, transcend that, and come to terms with the fundamental dichotomies of the other...

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