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

Episode #1.2 (1981)

David Dixon: Ford Prefect

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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."

• 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.

• Ford Prefect : So, the hours are good, are they?

  Vogon guard : Yeah. Though now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy. Except some of the shouting I quite like: "Resistance is..."

  Ford Prefect : Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're good at that. I can tell

• Ford Prefect : Great idea of mine. Find a passing spaceship, get rescued by it.

• [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.

• [Ford Prefect has, quite improbably, turned into a penguin, and Arthur's leg has drifted off into the sunset] 

  Ford Prefect : Hey. Quack. Who are you? Where are you? What's going on? Quack. Is there any way of stopping it?

  Trillian : Please relax. You are perfectly safe.

  Ford Prefect : That is not the point. Quack. The point is I am now a perfectly safe penguin. Quack. And my colleague here is rapidly running out of limbs.

• 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!

• Trillian : [over the intercom]  Please relax. You are perfectly safe.

  Ford Prefect : That is not the point! The point is that I am now a perfectly safe penguin and my colleague is rapidly running out of limbs!

• Ford Prefect : Listen. It's a tough universe. There's all sorts of people and things trying to do you, kill you, rip you off, everything. If you're going to survive out there, you've really gotta know where your towel is.