The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV Series)

Episode #1.2 (1981)

Simon Jones: Arthur Dent

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• Arthur Dent : I wonder what'll happen if I press this button.

  Ford Prefect : Don't.

  Arthur Dent : [presses it]  Oh.

  Ford Prefect : What happened?

  Arthur Dent : A sign lit up saying "Please do not press this button again."

• Vogon Captain : Now choose! Either die in the vacuum of space or... tell me how good you thought my poem was.

  Arthur Dent : I liked it!

• Arthur Dent : Ford, you're turning into a penguin! Stop it!

• Ford Prefect : Arthur? What's happening?

  Arthur Dent : Ford, there's an infinite number of monkeys who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out.

• [Arthur and Ford are caught in an improbability field] 

  Arthur Dent : You know, if this is Southend, there's something very odd about it.

  Ford Prefect : What, you mean the way the sea stays steady as a rock and the buildings keep washing up and down? Yes, I thought that was odd.

• Marvin : And then of course I've got this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side.

  Arthur Dent : Really.

  Marvin : Oh, yes. I mean, I've asked for them to be replaced, but no-one ever listens.

• Arthur Dent : Ford, there's an infinite number of monkeys out here who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out.

• Ford Prefect : [stuck inside the Vogon airlock]  Wait a minute... what's this switch?

  Arthur Dent : [dashes where Ford is pointing]  What? Where?

  Ford Prefect : No. I was only fooling. We're going to die after all.

  Arthur Dent : You know, it's at times like this, when I'm stuck in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, about to die of asphyxiation in deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young.

  Ford Prefect : Why? What did she tell you?

  Arthur Dent : I don't know! I didn't listen!