It's the weird color scheme that freaks me. Every time you try to operate one of these weird black controls that's labelled in black on a black background, a small black light lights up black to let you know you've done it.

— Zaphod Beeblebrox (Mark Wing-Davey)

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10 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 5 sitcom.

You can hear this line at 00:31:06.832 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

[...]

- Ningis are not negotiable currency, because the galactibanks refuse to deal in fiddling small change.

- From this basic premise it is very simple to prove that the galactibanks are also the product of a deranged imagination.

- 4. Sex: None. Well, in fact there is an awful lot of this, largely because of the total lack of money, trade, banks, or anything else that might keep all the non-existent people of the universe occupied.

- However, it's not worth embarking on a long discussion of it now, because it really is terribly complicated.

- Basically, what you're trying to tell me is the ship is out of control.

- It's the weird color scheme that freaks me. Every time you try to operate one of these weird black controls that's labelled in black on a black background, a small black light lights up black to let you know you've done it.

- Hey, what is this? Some kind of a galactic hyperhearse?

- Maybe it was designed by somebody with eyes that respond to different wavelengths.

- Or didn't have much imagination.

- Perhaps he was feeling very depressed.

- It's beginning to make me feel space-sick.

- Time-sick. We're going backwards through time.

- Now I think I really am going to be ill.

- Go ahead. We could do with a little color about the place.

[...]

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