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 got to know where your towel is.

David Dixon (Ford Prefect)

File Updated: 2022-04-12

May

2013

We're going to die

From: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981)

So this is it, we're going to die. –I wish you'd stop saying that.

Simon Jones (Arthur Dent) | David Dixon (Ford Prefect)

#Death

May

2013

It's like being drunk

From: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981)

Episode: Episode #1.1

What are you doing? –Preparing for hyperspace. It's rather unpleasantly like being drunk. –What's so wrong about being drunk? –Ask a glass of water. –Ah.

Simon Jones (Arthur Dent) | David Dixon (Ford Prefect)

File Updated: 2022-04-12

Aug

2001

Nasal fire

From: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (vinyl)

When you've been in Marketing as long as I have, you'll know that before any new product can be developed it has to be properly researched. We've got to find out what people want from fire, how they relate to it, the image-- –Oh, stick it up your nose. –Which is precisely the sort of thing we need to know. Do people want fire that can be fitted nasally?

Beth Porter (Marketing Girl) | Geoffrey McGivern (Ford Prefect)

#Marketing

#Research

#Fire

May

2001

Useless bloody loonies

From: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (vinyl)

You're a load of useless bloody loonies!

Geoffrey McGivern (Ford Prefect)

#Insult

#Burn

#Mental Health

May

2001

Drink up

From: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (vinyl)

Drink up, the world's about to end.

Geoffrey McGivern (Ford Prefect)

#Alcohol

#Death

May

2001

A very stiff drink

From: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (vinyl)

I have got to tell you the most important thing you've ever heard. I've got to tell you now, and I've got to tell you in that pub there. –Why? –Because you're going to need a very stiff drink.