The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV Series)
Episode #1.6 (1981)
Simon Jones: Arthur Dent
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Quotes
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Arthur Dent : I'm trying to teach the cavemen to play Scrabble. It's uphill work. The only word they know is "unh", and they don't know how to spell it.
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[last lines]
Ford Prefect : I read of one planet in the seventh dimension got used as a ball in a game of intergalactic bar billiards. Got potted straight into a black hole, killed ten billion people.
Arthur Dent : Madness. Total madness.
Ford Prefect : Yeah. Only scored thirty points too.
Arthur Dent : Where'd you read that?
Ford Prefect : Oh, a book.
Arthur Dent : What book?
Ford Prefect : The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy.
Arthur Dent : Oh. That thing.
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Number One : But, sir, they're my prisoners. Can't I just interrogate them a little bit?
B-Ark captain : Oh, very well. Ask them what they want to drink.
Number One : Thank you, sir. All right, you scum, you *vermin*...
B-Ark captain : Steady on, Number One.
Number One : What do you want to drink?
Ford Prefect : Well, gin and tonic sounds very nice to me. Arthur?
Arthur Dent : Huh? Yes.
Number One : With ice or without?
Ford Prefect : [thinks] With, please.
Number One : *Lemon*?
Ford Prefect : Yeah. And do you have any of those little biscuits? You know, the cheesy ones?
Number One : I'm asking the questions.
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Arthur Dent : I always said there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe.
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Arthur : So this is it. We're going to die.
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Arthur Dent : What does teleport mean?
Zaphod Beeblebrox : *What* did you say? Where does it say that?
Arthur Dent : Well here, below the word that says "emergency" and above the word that says "system" and next to the sign that says "out of order".
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Arthur Dent : So this is it. We're going to die.
Ford Prefect : I wish you'd stop saying that.
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Zaphod Beeblebrox : Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
Ford Prefect : I think so.
Zaphod Beeblebrox : Tell me what you think I'm thinking.
Ford Prefect : I think you're thinking it's time we got off this ship.
Zaphod Beeblebrox : I think you're right.
Ford Prefect : I think you're right.
Arthur Dent : How?
Zaphod Beeblebrox's second head : Quiet. We're thinking.
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Arthur : [being menaced by an angry caveman] No, no, please, please. Put down the jawbone.
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Ford Prefect : Hey, look! A plaque!
Arthur Dent : What's it say?
Ford Prefect : Golgafrincham Ark Fleet Ship B Hold 7 Telephone Sanitiser Second Class, and a serial number.
Arthur Dent : Telephone sanitiser? A dead telephone sanitiser?
Ford Prefect : Best kind.
Arthur Dent : What's he doing here?
Ford Prefect : Not a lot.
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Marvin : [talking about the Ultimate Question to the Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything] It's printed in the Earthman's brainwave patterns, but I don't suppose you'd be interested in knowing that.
Arthur Dent : You mean you can see into my mind?
Marvin : Yes.
Arthur Dent : Well?
Marvin : It amazes me how you manage to live in anything that small.
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Arthur Dent : Poor bloody caveman. It's all been a waste of time for you, hasn't it? You've been out-evolved by a telephone sanitizer.