To start a Withnail and I appreciation thread?

[Blondielongie]

Ok, so I know its an old film, but it's a favourite and I recently rewatched it. And I will brace myself for no replies.

But it's so good. Every line is a classic. And not many of my peers have seen it/share my sense of humour. So in case of any like minded ones...

FORK IT!!

Monty you terrible cunt ! That line had me howling for hours. I remember going to work the next day and discovering my colleague had also watched it and we howled about that line for months afterwards.

I mean to have you even if it must be burglary!

(I confess thus has always amused me but it's a terribly cuntish line)

We'll miss out Monday but come up smiling Tuesday morning

The entire sink's gone rotten!

He's a very low temperature spade

I'm going to have to watch this tomorrow night now, it's all coming back
The only thing that upset me about the whole thing was I watched it round a young fellas house while mitching off school so every time I got the giggles at home remembering bits for days I couldn't explain why and seemed even madder than usual to my DPs

"I've been called a ponce."
"What fffucker said that?"

Richard E. Grant is magnificent

Im making time.

I love this film. Most of my peer group watched it constantly as students and it never seemed to wear out. Nearly twenty years later we went to an open air screening of it at Crow Crag, where Withnail and Marwood went on their holiday by mistake.

It's like an old friend now, though seems to grow more melancholic with each viewing.

Thank to the OP for starting this thread. It is indeed a wonderful film and I am always grateful to George Harrison for co-founding Handmade Films who made it. A discussion in a pub about the film c twenty years ago led to the start of some friendships that I have to this day.

I have met Paul McGann and he is a pleasant and friendly person. Saw the late Richard Griffiths in the stage production of The History Boys in the early noughties. Completed the set as it were by going to a film premiere last year and walking past Richard E Grant. Saw a stage version at the Edinburgh Fringe about ten years ago which brought the memories back to me.

A bit too early for me to demand some booze though.

We're not from London!

Ah the Jeff wode quote turned up :) that's a classic.

'I'm Going to pull your head off....I'm going to pull your head off because I don't like your head.'

!!!!

When I first saw it, I hoped Penrith was in Wales, because it sounds Welsh.

saints did you say hello to Richard?

When I accidentally came across Crow Crag in the nineties I went and had a poke about inside. Going upstairs we thought we heard something and, having freaked ourselves out, my friend and I called up "we mean no harm..."

Nobody there of course.

Every roast I've made in the last twenty years I've made reference to "garlic, rosemary and salt"

Love this film. My favourite bit is with Michael Elphick,
"Come on old boy what's in your hump?"
And
"You want working on boy!" Me and boyfriend's catchphrase if we are out and someone is being loud and annoying near us.

Sighing with pleasure here.
Thank you for cheering me up.

OMG, I love this film! I was a bit worried about showing it my son in case he didn't get it, but he loves it too. Sometimes, if we are travelling, or otherwise both silent for some reason, one of us will go, 'Geoff Wode...' and then we are off! I didn't realise it was Jeff not Geoff until I saw this thread.

And we never say we are cold, we ask, 'have we got any embrocation?'

My favourite film of all time.

This takes me back, my sister seemed to spend most of the '90's running around Camden shouting "I demand to have some booze"

Blondie thank you for starting this thread! So cheering, one of my total favourite films ever!

Blondielongie never had the chance to say hello to Richard as he was doing press interviews on the red carpet (I was at the film premiere of Their Finest).

Two pound ten a tit, and a tenner for his arse!

"Stop saying that withnail of course he's the fucking farmer"

And there's definitely one about "unadulterated child's piss"

Thank you so much for starting this thread.

Imo the most perfect film ever made. Flawless acting, unbeatable dialogue. I've watched it hundreds of times and it never gets old.

The ending also makes me cry every.single.time. You just know that Marwood went on to have a good life and things ended badly for Withnail

We are drifting into the arena of the unwell.

I still yell "bear Right" at dh when he's driving (and it's appropriate), but be doesn't get it and has never seen it. It belongs to another life.