- Oh. I wonder what'll happen if I press this button?
- Don't!
- Oh...
- What happened? A sign lit up, saying, 'Please do not press this button again.'

— Arthur Dent (Simon Jones)

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

You can hear this line at 00:24:55.166 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

[...]

- Sensational new breakthrough in improbability physics...

- As the ship's drive reaches infinite improbability, it passes simultaneously through every point in the universe, being the envy of other major governments.

- I mean, wow! This is really big-league stuff!

- Well, it's a whole lot better than that dingy Vogon crate.

- This is my idea of a spaceship. All gleaming metal, flashing lights... Everything.

- Oh. I wonder what'll happen if I press this button?

- What happened? A sign lit up, saying, 'Please do not press this button again.'

- They make a big thing of the ship's cybernetics. 'A new generation of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation computers and robots, with a new GPP.'

- GPP? What's that?

- It says... 'Genuine People Personalities.'

- Ugh. Sounds ghastly.

- It all is. Absolutely ghastly. Just don't even talk about it.

- Look at this door. All the doors in this spacecraft have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again, with the knowledge of a job well done.

[...]

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