- Dead? No, we have but slept, for five million years. Nothing much seems to have changed.
- Slept?
- Yes, through the economic recession.

— Slartibartfast (Richard Evelyn Vernon)

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

You can hear this line at 00:23:20.617 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

[...]

- Ancient computers, ranged in the long caves, deep in the bowels of the planet, tick away the dark millennia, and the ages hang heavy on their dusty data banks.

- I think they take the occasional pot-shot to relieve the monotony.

- I'm a great fan of science, you know.

- Really?

- Oh, yes.

- You seem ill at ease. Ah!

- Yes, well... Actually, I don't think we expected anyone to be about. In fact, no disrespect, but I gathered you were all dead.

- Dead? No, we have but slept, for five million years. Nothing much seems to have changed.

- Slept?

- Yes, through the economic recession.

- Economic recession?

- Well, you see, five million years ago, the Galactic economy collapsed.

- Seeing that custom-built planets is something of a luxury commodity.

- You know we built planets, do you?

- Well, I sort of gathered that.

- Fascinating trade. Doing the coastlines was always my favourite. I used to have endless fun doing all the fiddly bits round the fjords.

- Well, anyway, the recession came and we thought, thought it would save a lot of bother if we just slept through it. So we programmed the computers to revive us when it was all over.

[...]

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