Excuse the mess. Most unfortunate, a diode blew in one of the life-support computers. When we came to revive our cleaning staff, we discovered they'd been dead for 30000 years.

— Slartibartfast (Richard Evelyn Vernon)

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

You can hear this line at 00:02:10.960 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

[...]

- For Zaphod, Ford and Trillian, surprise is pushed to its very limits when this happens.

- And when Arthur Dent encountered Slartibartfast, the Magrathean coastline designer, who won an award for his work on Norway...

- And learns that the whole history of mankind was only being run for the benefit of a few white mice anyway...

- Surprise is no longer adequate and he is forced to resort to astonishment.

- Mind your head.

- Excuse the mess. Most unfortunate, a diode blew in one of the life-support computers. When we came to revive our cleaning staff, we discovered they'd been dead for 30000 years.

- Who's going to clear away the bodies? That's what no-one seems to have an answer for.

- Mice? Look, are we talking about the same things? Mice mean to me little white furry creatures with a cheese fixation and women standing screaming on tables in early '60$ sitcoms.

- Earthman, it is sometimes hard to follow your mode of speech.

- Remember, I have been asleep inside this planet of Magrathea, for, erm... 5 million years, and know little of these early '60s sitcoms of which you speak.

[...]

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