The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (UK)

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First Aired: Jan. 26, 1981 on BBC TWO

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Season 1 » Episode #04 - Episode 4

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (UK) - 01x04 Episode 4

Summary: Arthur learns about Deep Thought, a computer built millions of years ago to discover the "Ultimate Answer", after 7 and a half million years, it had the answer: 42. So to decipher this answer, the builders of the computer commissioned a new, even larger computer to find the "Ultimate Question"; the Earth. It is discovered that Trillian's mice (the smartest creatures on Earth) were searching for the Ultimate Question, and they believe they can find the answer by first extracting Arthur's brain...

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Deep Thought: You're really not going to like it.
Lunkwill: Tell us.
Deep Thought: The answer to the Great Question...
Lunkwill: Yes?
Deep Thought: ...of life, the universe, and everything...
Lunkwill: Yes?
Deep Thought: ...is...
Fook: Yes?
Deep Thought: ...is...
Lunkwill, Fook: *Yes*?
Deep Thought: Forty-two.

Deep Thought: It was a tough assignment.
Lunkwill, Fook: *Forty-two*?

Lunkwill: O great computer, the task we have designed you to perform is this: We want you to tell us the Answer.
Deep Thought: The answer? The answer to what?
Lunkwill: Life.
Fook: The universe.
Lunkwill: Everything.
Deep Thought: Tricky.

Shooty: We don't want to shoot you, Beeblebrox.
Zaphod Beeblebrox: Suits me fine.

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