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

Episode #1.4 (1981)

Simon Jones: Arthur Dent

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• Arthur Dent : You know, this explains a lot. Because all my life, I've had this unaccountable feeling in my bones that something sinister was happening in the universe and that no one would tell me what it was.

  Slartibartfast : Oh, no. That's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the universe has that.

• Arthur : I seem to be having this tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle.

  Slartibartfast : I beg your pardon?

  Arthur : What? Oh, sorry. Fatuous thing to say, really.

  Slartibartfast : I thought so.

• Slartibartfast : Science has achieved some wonderful things, I know, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

  Arthur Dent : And are you?

  Slartibartfast : No. That's where it all falls down, of course.

  Arthur Dent : Pity, it sounded like rather a good lifestyle otherwise.

• Frankie Mouse : Still, the best laid plans of mice.

  Arthur Dent : And men.

  Frankie Mouse : What?

  Arthur Dent : And men. The best laid plans of mice and men.

  Frankie Mouse : What have men got to do with it?

• Slartibartfast : [talking about the mice]  In the field of management relations, they're absolutely shocking.

  Arthur : Oh, really?

  Slartibartfast : Yes, well, you see, every time they give me an order I just want to jump up on a table and scream!

  Arthur : Yes, I can see how that would be a problem.