The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Eddie the Computer: Guys, I am just pleased as punch to inform you that there are two thermo-nuclear missiles headed this way... if you don't mind, I'm gonna go ahead and take evasive action
Arthur Dent: COMPUTER DO SOMETHING!
Eddie the Computer: Sure thing fella! Switching over to manual control... good luck!
[Ship's engines

immediately stop and ship falls]

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Barman: Did you say the world is coming to an end? Shouldn't we all lie on the floor or put paper bags over our heads?
Ford: If you like.
Barman: Will it help?
Ford: Not at all.
[Ford runs out of the pub]
Barman: Last orders, please!

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Book: Vogons. They are one of the most unpleasant races in the galaxy. Not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious, and callous. They wouldn't even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the ravenous Bug-Blatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, lost, found, queried, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and

finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighter. On no account should you allow a Vogon to read poetry to you.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Ford: We must talk.
Arthur Dent: Not now, Ford. They're gonna demolish my home.
Ford: Whoah! Whoah! Whoah! You know already?
[Arthur doesn't understand. Ford looks at the workers around him]
Ford: Oh, *they*! When you say "they" you mean *they*!

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Trillian: I have the president and I will kill him, I swear I will.
Jeltz: Could that actually kill him?
Questular Rontok: I don't think so. It's an aerosol can.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Trillian: See this? This detects what you're craving and makes it for you. And this? This toasts bread while you're slicing it. We're on a space ship Arthur. In space.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Ford: [as they are about to be shot into space, he dabs Arthur's face with a towel] You're sweating.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Book: [about the Point of View Gun] The Point of View gun conveniently does precisely what its name suggests. That is if you point it at someone and pull the trigger, they instantly see things from your point of view. It was designed by Deep Thought, but commissioned by a consortium of intergalactic angry housewives, who after countless arguments with their husbands were sick

to the teeth of ending those arguments with the phrase "You just don't get it, do you?"

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Zaphod: We just hit that button and whoo! Magrathea. I think, I mean we've hit it twice and we're still not there.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Zaphod: Oh Deep Thought! We have travelled long... and far. Have you calculated the ultimate question?
Deep Thought: [yawns] No. I've been watching the TV.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Zaphod: Hey. Sorry to hear about your planet. What was it called again?
Arthur: Earth.
Zaphod: Yeah, Earth. I liked Earth. I got these boots on Earth. Anyway, don't tell the girl, OK? Cause if you do, I'll pull your spleen out through your throat.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Arthur Dent: Here I was thinking I was the only one who considered your boyfriend a narcissistic moron, when apparently the whole galaxy does.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Zaphod: In the name of people, and freedom, and democracy, and stuff like that, I hereby kidnap myself, and I'm taking this ship with me. Whoo!

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Book: The Infinite Improbability Drive is a wonderful new method of crossing interstellar distances in a few seconds, without all that tedious mucking about in hyperspace. As the Improbability Drive reaches infinite improbability, it passes through every conceivable point in every conceivable universe almost simultaneously. So you're never sure where you'll end up or even what

species you'll be when you get there. It's therefore important to dress accordingly. The Drive was invented following research into finite improbability often used to break the ice at parties by making all the molecules in the hostess's undergarments leap one foot to the left in accordance with the theory of indeterminacy. Many physicists said they wouldn't stand for that sort of thing, partly

because it debased science, but mostly because they didn't get invited to those sort of parties.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

News Reader: Humma Kavula is best known for his slanderous "Don't vote for stupid" campaign and claimed that most people thought they were voting for the worst dressed sentient being in the universe contest.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Arthur Dent: It's a big-biggy Ford, a big-biggy! I mean what if it rips us all into tiny little atomic particle things?
Zaphod: This is the right one! I have a hunch!
Ford: [smiling] His hunches are good! Arthur! I say we go!
Arthur Dent: Go with a hunch of a man who's brain is fueled by lemons?

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Trillian: [after Arthur drinks a cocktail sludge] I should have said it resembles tea.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Zaphod: Why'd you pick up hitchhikers?
Trillian: I didn't. The ship did.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Zaphod: Some parts of my character weren't what you'd call presidential.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Ford: That's awkward.