Title card: For Douglas.
[Slartibartfast is showing Arthur the progress on the New Earth. They pass a construction worker]
Slartibartfast: That's Frank.
Zaphod: Let's trip the Light Fantastic, baby, just you and me.
[Arthur and Ford have each been unexpectedly hit in the face by some unknown flyswatter-like thing]
Zaphod: [after finally also being hit in the face] Zarquon! What was that? Geez...
Marvin: [depressed] I'd make a suggestion, but you wouldn't listen.
[even more depressed]
Marvin: No one ever does.
Arthur: I have to say, without the beard you look at least 80 years younger.
Trillian: Well, maybe I'm de-evolving?
Arthur: Ha ha!
Trillian: Ha ha!
Arthur: Well, I should inform you that I don't date single-celled organisms.
Ghostly Image: We are pleased to see that your enthusiasm for our planet continues unabated, and would like you to know that the two thermonuclear missiles currently converging upon your vessel are merely a courtesy we extend to all prospective customers.
Slartibartfast: Earthman, you must realize that the planet you lived on was commissioned, paid for and run by mice.
Arthur: When you say mice, do you mean the little furry white creatures with whiskers, ears, cheese?
Slartibartfast: Yeah, but they're protrusions into our dimension of hyper-intelligent beings. I don't know this cheese
of which you speak, but they were there on Earth as mice experimenting on you.
Arthur: I see where you've become confused now. You see, *we* were experimenting on *them*.
Slartibartfast: Ah, no, well, yeah, no. That's what they wanted you to think, but you were actually elements in their computer program.
Arthur: Actually,
this explains a lot. All my life I've had this strange feeling there's something big and sinister going on in the world.
Slartibartfast: No, that's normal paranoia. Everyone in the universe gets that.