Well, I mean, I say it was nothing, but obviously it was something.

4 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 3 sitcom.

You can hear this line at 00:12:19.347 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

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- What about the missiles?

- According to the screen, they've turned into a large bowl of petunias, and a very surprised looking whale.

- At an improbability level of 8767728 to 7 against.

- Hey! Did you think of that, Earthman?

- Well, all I did...

- That's a pretty hoopy piece of thinking, you know that?

- Well, it was nothing, really.

- Was it?

- Oh, well, forget it then.

- Okay, computer, take us in to land.

- Well, I mean, I say it was nothing, but obviously it was something.

- I was just trying to say it's not worth making too much of a fuss about, I mean, saving everybody's lives.

- Another thing that nobody made too much fuss about was the fact that, against all probability, a sperm whale had suddenly been called into existence some miles above the surface of an alien planet.

- And since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it had to come to terms with suddenly not being a whale any more.

- Ahhh! What's happening? Uh, excuse me, who am I? Why am I here? What's my purpose in life?

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