Identify this old film sampling in this song

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I really like this song by Hudson and Troop called Against the Grain, but it's driving me crazy. Here it is on Spotify.

It seems to sample what sounds a whole lot to me like a Sci-fi Disney show from the 70s - you know, like The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes kind of thing.

But try as I might, I cannot identify what film it might be.

Here are the quotes/samples, which are interspersed among the verses, but to really get a feel for why I think it's Disney-com, listen to the track. You can almost picture which 70s actors they are.

Woman: What was all this mumbo jumbo business?
Computer: Two and two are four.
Scientist: I really think that computer in there ... It's just got to be drunk!
Dean: Today seems a ... clutter of confusion.
Scientist: Makes you want to cover(?) your face—
Dean: —and bury our head like an ostrich.
Major: There's no doubt about it! And that punch(?) of his proves it!
Computer: Four and four are eight.
Major: But he's talking about the greatest brain ever made by man!

Help save my sanity!
 
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"Start listening with a free Spotify account."
I do not want a Spotify account. I do not want a free Spotify account.
Someone wanting to hear the "Against the Grain" song should find a different site or source, unless he has a Spotify account or feels like creating a "free" account.
 
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The first link in the OP is to the song on Youtube:
 
Some of the quotes are found by Google in the transcript of this old film on YouTube:
Cosmos: War of the Planets (1977)
The quotes I found include the following:
- there's no doubt about it and that punch of his proves it
- I really think that computer in there ... It's just got to be drunk!
- But he's talking about the greatest brain ever made by man!
However, other quotes do not appear within that transcript and may be from other films.
 
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That's incredible! You found it!!
 
Of the quotes which I didn't find in that film, I recall that two obviously appear in the chorus of the song "Inchworm" from "Hans Christian Andersen", which may be relevant:

Two and two are four
Four and four are eight
Eight and eight are sixteen
Sixteen and sixteen are thirty-two
 
Jonathan Scott said:
Of the quotes which I didn't find in that film, I recall that two obviously appear in the chorus of the song "Inchworm" from "Hans Christian Andersen", which may be relevant:

Two and two are four
Four and four are eight
Eight and eight are sixteen
Sixteen and sixteen are thirty-two
Yes, that connection is pretty apparent, although it's spoken in the song.