In a cloud of green sweet-smelling steam, and with one million sleek, horribly be-weaponed star-cruisers poised to unleash electric death at his single word of command, challenged the vile creature to take back what it had said about his mother.

— The Hitchhiker’S Guide To The Galaxy Book (Peter Jones)

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

You can hear this line at 00:20:49.212 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

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- It is, of course, well known that careless talk costs lives, but the full scale of the problem is not always appreciated.

- For instance, at the very moment that Arthur said, 'I seem to be having this tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle'...

- A freak wormhole opened up in the fabric of the space-time continuum, and carried his words far back in time, across infinite reaches of space to a distant galaxy, where strange, war-like beings were poised on the brink of frightful interstellar battle.

- The two opposing leaders were meeting for the last time.

- And a dreadful silence fell across the conference table as the commander of the Vl'hurgs, resplendent in his red-jewelled battle shorts, gazed levelly at the G'Gugvunt leader squatting opposite him.

- In a cloud of green sweet-smelling steam, and with one million sleek, horribly be-weaponed star-cruisers poised to unleash electric death at his single word of command, challenged the vile creature to take back what it had said about his mother.

- The creature stirred in its sickly, broiling vapor.

- At that very moment, the words, 'I seem to be having this tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle', drifted across the table.

- Unfortunately, in the Vl'hurg tongue, this was the most dreadful insult imaginable. And there was nothing for it but to fight terrible war.

(STARSHIPS SHOOTING IN ARCADE GAME)

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