'Counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor...' Huh. Death's too good for them.

Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz (Martin Benson)

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

You can hear this line at 00:11:48.299 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

[...]

- Except, oh... Wait a minute, what's this switch?

- What, where?

- No, I was only fooling, we're going to die after all.

- It's at times like this, stuck in a Vogon airlock, with a man from Betelgeuse, about to die of asphyxiation in deep space, that I wish I had listened to what my mother told me when I was young.

- What did she tell you?

- I don't know, I didn't listen!

- Terrific.

(AIR WHOOSHING)

- 'Counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor...' Huh. Death's too good for them.

(Spaceship)

- 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.

- I mean, you may think it's a long way down the street to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space. Listen... And so on.

- After a while, the style settles down a bit and it starts telling you things you actually need to know.

[...]