- What's a B Ark? Well, you see, what happened was that our planet was doomed. So everybody said, 'Let's pack the whole population into some giant spaceships and settle on another planet.' -You mean, a less doomed one?
- Precisely.

17 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 6 sitcom.

You can hear this line at 00:17:31.920 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

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- They're not dead. Good Lord, no. They're just frozen. Yes, they're going to be revived.

- You mean you've got a hold full of frozen hairdressers?

- Oh yes, millions of them! Hairdressers, tired TV producers, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, security guards, public relations executives, management consultants.

- We're going to colonize another planet.

- What?

- Exciting, isn't it?

- With that lot?

- Don't misunderstand me. We're just one of the ships of the Ark Fleet. We're the B Ark, you see?

- Excuse me, I wonder. Do you think you would be kind enough to run a little bit more hot water for me?

- Oh yeah, sure.

- Thanks.

- What's a B Ark? Well, you see, what happened was that our planet was doomed. So everybody said, 'Let's pack the whole population into some giant spaceships and settle on another planet.' -You mean, a less doomed one?

- Precisely.

- So it was decided to build three gigantic ships, three gigantic arks, in space.

- Of course, the idea was that into the first ship, the A Ship, would go all the brilliant leaders, the scientists, the great artists, you know, all the achievers.

- And then into the third ship, the C Ship, would go all the people who do the actual work, who make things and do things.

- And then into the B Ship, that's ours of course, would go everyone else, you know, the middlemen and, of course we were sent off first.

[...]

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