- Now, to business!
- Oh, yeah, to business!
- To business!
- I beg your pardon?
- I'm sorry, I thought you were proposing a toast.

— Ford Prefect (David Dixon)

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

You can hear this line at 00:24:21.695 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

[...]

- Well, in fact, that won't be necessary. I don't think we'll be needing the new Earth any longer.

- What? I've got one thousand glaciers poised and ready to roll over Africa!

- Thank you, Slartibartfast. That will be all!

- Yes, sir. Thank you very much.

- Well... Goodbye, Earthman. Sorry about your planet. Hope the lifestyle comes together.

- Now, to business!

- Oh, yeah, to business!

- To business!

- I beg your pardon?

- I'm sorry, I thought you were proposing a toast.

- Now, Earth creature, we now have been running your planet for the last ten million years in order to find this wretched thing called the Ultimate Question.

- Just as we were about to see the fruit of millions of years of work, you go and let your planet get blown up!

- Still, the best laid plans of mice...

- And men.

- What?

- And men. The best laid plans of mice and men.

- And what have men got to do with it?

[...]

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