The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Episode 4

Season 1, Episode 4, Aired 1/26/81

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Arthur learns about the Great Project. This is the second most powerful computer in existence, called Deep Thought, and it was created to answer the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. The computer comes back online much later to give its final answer, which is the number 42. The scientists are understandably less than thrilled with this answer and are even more hacked off when Deep Thought cannot tell them what the Ultimate Question was. So a new computer, called the planet Earth, has to be constructed for the same purpose. The current owners of the Great Project, Trillian's pet mice, want to cut Arthur's head open to find the Question inside. Then the crew members are all trapped behind a bank of exploding computers, and all seems to be lost.moreless

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- Rumor had it that Douglas Adams had asked a complex question to his writing partner of the mid-70s, Monty Python's Graham Chapman, and Chapman simply said "42." Adams went to his grave denying this. Edit
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- Arthur Dent: Ford, there's an infinite number of monkeys out here who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out. Edit
- Shooty: Either you all give yourselves up and let us beat you up a little - though not too much, because we are firmly opposed to needless violence - or we blow up this entire planet - and one or two others that we noticed on the way over. Edit
- 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? Edit
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