Arthur, this is fantastic! We're being picked up by a ship with a new Infinite Improbability Drive. I mean, this is... This is incredible, Arthur. Arthur?

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

You can hear this line at 00:17:12.334 in the Blu-ray version of the episode.

Quote context

[...]

- Welcome to the starship, Heart of Gold.

- Please do not be alarmed by anything you see or hear around you.

- You are about to feel some initial ill-effects, as you have been rescued from certain death, at an improbability level of 2 to the power of 260199 to 1 against, possibly much higher.

- We are now cruising at a level of 2 to the power of 25000 to 1 against and falling.

- And we will be restoring normality as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway. Thank you.

- Arthur, this is fantastic! We're being picked up by a ship with a new Infinite Improbability Drive. I mean, this is... This is incredible, Arthur. Arthur?

- What's happening?

- There's an infinite number of monkeys out here, who want to talk to us about the script for Hamlet they worked out.

- The Infinite Improbability Drive is a wonderful new method of crossing interstellar distances in a few seconds without all that tedious mucking about in hyperspace.

- The principle of generating small amounts of finite improbability, by hooking the logic circuits of a Bambleweeny 57 Submeson Brain into an atomic vector plotter suspended in a Brownian motion producer, say, a hot cup of tea, had long been understood.

[...]

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