6 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 5 sitcom.
You can hear this line at 00:01:49.118 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.
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- The jatravartids, who live in perpetual fear of the time they call the Coming of the Great White Handkerchief...
- Small blue creatures with more than 50 arms each, who are therefore unique in being the only race in history to have invented the aerosol deodorant before the wheel.
- However, the Great Green Arkleseizure theory was not widely accepted outside Viltvodle VI,
- And so one day, a race of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings built themselves a gigantic supercomputer called Deep Thought to calculate once and for all the answer to the ultimate question of Life, the Universe and Everything.
- For 7.5 million years, Deep Thought computed and eventually announced that the answer was in fact 42.
- And so another, even bigger, computer had to be built to find out what the actual question was.
- And this computer, which was called the Earth, was so large that it was frequently mistaken for a planet, particularly by the strange, ape-like beings who roamed its surface, totally unaware that they were simply part of a gigantic computer program.
- And this is very odd, because without that fairly simple and obvious piece of knowledge, nothing that ever happened on Earth could possibly make the slightest bit of sense.
- However, at the critical moment of read-out, the Earth was unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass...
- And the only native Earth people to survive the demolition are now being shot at behind a computer bank on the lost planet of Magrathea...
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