I think the director forced him to get drunk, just once, to see how it was -- he was very drunk. He already knew how to act drunk. Excellent acting. I love Richard Grant, and this film!
I don't think so I think it's more his best drunken polite behaviour. They both try and be quiet and polite at first but the staff are downright off with them, don't give them a chance, so I'm with Withnail they are all a bunch of fucking stiffs who need livening up.
sometimes i wish i could wear fancy clothes, a chain pocket watch, and a monacle and act like people should take me seriously while inquiring about expensive stuff
To me the funniest bit is when he says "we'll be back, we're coming back in here. " It's the ineffectuality of the threat, the way he says it, and the admission that their presence is so unwanted.
Apparently this very shop is a pharmacy now. I wonder how many times a day they have to put up with people like me storming in and declaring loudly; "I want the finest Imodium available to humanity... and I want it here and I want it now!" They probably have a sign above the counter like in Waynes World 'No Withnail'
@@chrissyman77 So... did you behave when you went in? I don't think I could enter that Pharmacy without quoting at least one of the lines. The poor folks that work must know the script by know... I hope they are fans! 🤣😂 Happy Christmas mon ami. 🎄🇬🇧👍
I know my favourite line because you can tell he has genuinely cracked up laughing. I love scenes like this and The Usual Suspects lineup where it is clear the actors are having fun
wutangalex I listened to the commentary video of this film and paul mcgann said that richard started laughing in every take that they shot of this scene, so they had to keep it in the movie even though they wanted him to say it with a straight face :-DD
I love how Marwood makes an offhand suggestion and Withnail will obsessively fixate on a single part of it - "cake", "fuel and wood" etc. Under the surface he's a very young boy.
I love how McGann starts smiling as Grant's about to say 'And liven all you stiffs up a bit' because he knows that he's going to crack again. I'm glad that he did- as genuine a laugh it may be, it would add to Withnail's character that one of the few occasions where he actually laughs is at himself.
My mate at work regularly makes random quotes from this film. I eventually asked wtf he was on about, bought the film from Amazon and now I am also a Withnail and I addict!
@@MiG2880 what ABSOLUTE TWADDLE. I say loads of lines for every occasion, it drives my wife and kids mental. Every time I open the door to them I go "WELL HELLOOOO! Come in..." Pouring any drink (eg. squash for the kids) "Sherry? Sherry. Sherry."
Don't be ashamed, you are welcome, now you wont miss the many times the 'in crowd' quote the film. I discovered it 5 years after it was made, and it was perfectly timed with my being at art college. "Free to those who can afford it and very expensive to those who can't" (Probably the best, most damning, description of entitled aristocracy you could ever invent).
I urge you all to say ‘I’ll buy this place and have it knocked down’ the next time you receive poor service somewhere. The look of utter bewilderment on their faces is beautiful!
Haha, sharp. That actor was brilliant who said that line. He went from silence and a blank face to shouting the line with machine gun delivery. It's not easy, try it yourself and you'll see. 😄
I don't care how many fantastic actors have mastered being pissed on screen, Richard. E Grant is the absolute master because of this film. I refused to believe he was actually sober when I first saw it! 😂
I have watched it many times brilliant, it reminded me of a time when after graduating from university and hung around in the town striving but not really knowing where to go. no money and drinking anything we could lay our hands on.
Blenerhassett is a village about 30 miles NW of Shap and Wet Sleddale; if Robinson didn't get that woman's name from seeing it on a map while working on this film, I'll eat a Camberwell Carrot. Less likely is that Monty's barnstorming 'friend', Wrigglesworth, is named after Wigglesworth, about 40 miles south of Shap... but it's still a bit weird.
The great irony about that tea room is that it now does have a jukebox with rare hip hop beats, sterling board walls and hipster coffee served by a multi-millionaire who just wanted to down-scale. The old order changeth, yielding place to new.
Paul McGann said that this was the first take. They couldn't get a take where Richard didn't laugh, so they went with the first one because the old ladies' reactions were genuine. The director had told them they were making a very respectable, polite little film!
@@Kelly14UK you should definitely watch/listen to the film with commentary from Paul and Ralph Brown. You can find the audio on UA-cam, that was my source for that piece of trivia.
And still my favourite movie. I went to a comic convention once where Paul McGann was appearing. I took my copy of withnail and stood in the queue, but realised they were all Doctor Who fans (of which I also coincidentally love) and then chickened out and left the queue 'cos I thought he'd think me weird for asking him to sign a Withnail & I DVD. Instead I stood back and videoed him later in the day while he chatted to his agent on the phone. That Bar-stud must not have died!
If I could have one day back again I'd go back to when I was sixteen and mitching off school with my girl friend and mates where we all sat down and got so stoned watching this, the laughter went on for weeks and months after.
In the UK, Pubs used to shut between 14.30 and 19.00 and the whole High St suffered until they opened again. My friend went into a Clarks with a one eye poke in a McDonalds bag and asked for shoes of different sizes while slurping between sentences. Funny to us-I can imagine how annoying it must have been. I still laugh
I like the way "I" sets about eating as many free scones as he can, the moment he sits down. It's as if he knows they are likely to be thrown out. If I am ever thrown out of a tearoom or anywhere else by snobs, I intend to say "I'll be back, I'm coming back in here."
I always say 'alright here? I want cake' when I go in a chintzy English tea room. It's warm and reassuring when the waiter or waitress smirks because they get it.
RetroJay1974 The scene was filmed in Stony Stratford near MK, but the tea rooms are now a chemist though the pub is still there, I popped in recently for a pint and a quadruple whisky lol
duke silver it's my all time favourite.. it came to Dunedin as part of the film festival.. we were all university students and totally related to the movie, especially the dark dank cold flat
@@cliffwheeler7357 I was driving through the lake district a while back and passed a sign for a place called Blennerhasset. I would put my money on this being the inspiration for the name. Bruce Robinson was probably up here having words with proprietors for location scenes and maybe drove past the sign for the place. I would bet ten English pounds on that.
I could write an essay on this scene. A microcosm of the swans-legs commotion beneath the seeming civility of a society that has been top-down divided for a thousand years
How it often is with people like this. They demand the upmost respect and courtesy why they treat you with nothing but insults and judgement. High is the horse they ride
I KNOW! Prejudiced Swines who use the excuse that they are closing when it is obvious they are not. I've been a victim of that lame excuse, as I am sure many have.
Rubbish. Would you want a pair of drunk young hooligans lime that in your shop? And they're not being rude, they're being extremely polite. They're being unfriendly, which is different, and completely understandable.
apparently Richard was supposed to deliver the jukebox line straight-faced but couldn't do it without corpsing, so they decided to leave it in there.. and it's actually perfect. The police, Miss Blennerhasset!!
It’s the Cox & Robinson Pharmacy in Stony Stratford in Milton Keynes Buckinghamshire and the Pub they just exited is The Crown : still in business as of 2020 (COVID-19 saga notwithstanding)
They did 15 takes for this scene and Richard E Grant laughed in everyone of them (much to the director's annoyance) Finally, they had to leave it in 😂😂
The scene that terrifies every tearoom proprietor the world over. Love.
One of the greatest drunk acts performed by a non drinker.
And scarface when tonys in the restraunt
Oliver Koop he does drink
I think the director forced him to get drunk, just once, to see how it was -- he was very drunk. He already knew how to act drunk. Excellent acting. I love Richard Grant, and this film!
John Dunsworth in trailer park boys
No, the best drunk scene ever 🤣🤣
They did about 16 takes of this scene - Richard E Grant laughed through every one of them. Finally, they had to just leave it in 😂😂
alright shane calm down dear 😏
@@forgive7449 Problem alex ?
Alex is a perfumed ponce
I never knew that. However you can tell by the way he laughs that he has no control over it.
It's obvious if you watch Paul. One minute a mouthful of bread roll, then he enunciates a split second later with an empty mouth. Lol
“I’m utterly arseholed”. What a quote 😭😭😭👊🏻
I love that moment after an unexpected drink or five when you walk out into the rest of the world and discover that you are indeed, utterly arseholed.
"Alright here?" The way Withnail says it is so full of disdain :)
I don't think so I think it's more his best drunken polite behaviour. They both try and be quiet and polite at first but the staff are downright off with them, don't give them a chance, so I'm with Withnail they are all a bunch of fucking stiffs who need livening up.
@@drey8 a bit
he tries so hard to sound sober and articulate. i always use this line when im in wetherspoons.
"And liven all you stiffs up a bit!" Hilarious!
"We are not drunks, we are multi-millionaires!"
"We're coming back in here!"lololol Please, anything but that.
sometimes i wish i could wear fancy clothes, a chain pocket watch, and a monacle and act like people should take me seriously while inquiring about expensive stuff
To me the funniest bit is when he says "we'll be back, we're coming back in here. " It's the ineffectuality of the threat, the way he says it, and the admission that their presence is so unwanted.
Spot on! :)
And as he points at everyone while going out the door! 🤣
I kno like they better watch out! Lol
Lmaooooo, we'll be back drunkenly pointing at everyone
Apparently this very shop is a pharmacy now. I wonder how many times a day they have to put up with people like me storming in and declaring loudly; "I want the finest Imodium available to humanity... and I want it here and I want it now!" They probably have a sign above the counter like in Waynes World 'No Withnail'
"i want the finest imodium........' ROFL superb
Alright here,we want cake!
I've been there, it's in Stony Stratford and the pub too.
@@chrissyman77 So... did you behave when you went in? I don't think I could enter that Pharmacy without quoting at least one of the lines. The poor folks that work must know the script by know... I hope they are fans! 🤣😂
Happy Christmas mon ami. 🎄🇬🇧👍
@@nigelcarren I demanded some asprins, if I don't get asprins soon I shall die!
I don't know why I laugh so hard when he sternly tells the waitress, "BALLS."
"We,ll install a fucking juke box", fucking priceless.
I know my favourite line because you can tell he has genuinely cracked up laughing. I love scenes like this and The Usual Suspects lineup where it is clear the actors are having fun
I actually had friends like these two during this time span.
wutangalex I listened to the commentary video of this film and paul mcgann said that richard started laughing in every take that they shot of this scene, so they had to keep it in the movie even though they wanted him to say it with a straight face :-DD
Love it.
I figured the laugh was not intended.
"Cake. What's it got to do with you?"
Withnail is the coolest, funniest character ever created! He's simultaneously a snob and a rebel!
@Anal Eyes Analyze Anal Lies a wimp he may be, but an expert on bulls he is not
He's a sno-bel
It took 'till I saw this comment that I realized he reminds me of John Lydon. A snob and a rebel all at once. Merry Christmas Scott & all :o)
And a tragic doomed byronic hero
He's also quite a bit of a cock, and sort of pathetic and needy deep down. Which elevates him even more in my eyes.
I love how Marwood makes an offhand suggestion and Withnail will obsessively fixate on a single part of it - "cake", "fuel and wood" etc. Under the surface he's a very young boy.
There is something childish and somewhat aspergic about him, yes. Makes him simultaneously more infuriating and more endearing.
@@pendafen7405 To be fair, he's drunk most of the time.
I love how McGann starts smiling as Grant's about to say 'And liven all you stiffs up a bit' because he knows that he's going to crack again. I'm glad that he did- as genuine a laugh it may be, it would add to Withnail's character that one of the few occasions where he actually laughs is at himself.
Yeah the laugh is believable as being in character. There is a slight desperation to it.
That laugh was perfectly timed
This is the only scene where you really see them having anything approaching a good time together
@@nickstone1587 100%. They are in the moment together as fools, it's joyful and the fact that the Roller picks them is up is hilarious
Good girl eh
My mate at work regularly makes random quotes from this film. I eventually asked wtf he was on about, bought the film from Amazon and now I am also a Withnail and I addict!
Carol fuckin Baskin
What the fuck are you talking about 😁
@@chrissyman77 wtf are you *on* about
@@oddiemonsta What nonsense are you blabbering about
@@MiG2880 what ABSOLUTE TWADDLE. I say loads of lines for every occasion, it drives my wife and kids mental. Every time I open the door to them I go "WELL HELLOOOO! Come in..." Pouring any drink (eg. squash for the kids) "Sherry? Sherry. Sherry."
"We want the finest wines available to humanity. We want them here, and we want them now!"
Superb stuff.
I say that every time i go into a mcdonalds .
We're coming back, we're coming back in here....
So many great little details in this scene, for example when withnail says balls and I nods in approval
McGann's laugh outside in the street is a classic
I’m ashamed to say I only discovered this little gem recently, such a funny film and fine performance by Mr McGann & Mr Grant
The poacher scene with the old military bartender is absolute gold. “Thought I was going down for a minute….”
@@jamesblatchford3738 No man’s put me down yet 😂😂
I knew you were a military man…you couldn’t never disguise it. Where did you serve, the _____. (?)
Ireland.
Ooh! A crack at the Mic?!
Don't be ashamed, you are welcome, now you wont miss the many times the 'in crowd' quote the film. I discovered it 5 years after it was made, and it was perfectly timed with my being at art college.
"Free to those who can afford it and very expensive to those who can't" (Probably the best, most damning, description of entitled aristocracy you could ever invent).
I urge you all to say ‘I’ll buy this place and have it knocked down’ the next time you receive poor service somewhere. The look of utter bewilderment on their faces is beautiful!
But difficult in a hospital 😉
That one time when the eighth doctor was slumming about with the scream of the shulka doctor.
"We want to get in there; eat some cake", sounds like my wife.
To soak up the booze?
The 26 people who disliked this need to get in the back of the van
They should be burgled
Haha, sharp. That actor was brilliant who said that line. He went from silence and a blank face to shouting the line with machine gun delivery. It's not easy, try it yourself and you'll see. 😄
legendary comment
I as Estonian feel more common with Brits then with Americans. I love this film!
Hey, we can be insufferably obnoxious too. 😄
To be a fair a jukebox would liven all those stiffs up a bit.
One of many truly genius set piece scenes...Uncle Monty in the Roller nails it at the end! 😂☺️👍
We want them here, and we want them NOW! And Richards auhoratitive tap on the table is the crowning glory of this great great scene!
This is my favourite scene from the film. It always makes me giggle no matter how many times I watch it.
'Im warning you if you do your fired! Were multi millionaires we shall buy this place and fire you immediately." 😂
"We're closing in a minute." "We're leaving in a minute." Brilliant,!
I don't care how many fantastic actors have mastered being pissed on screen, Richard. E Grant is the absolute master because of this film.
I refused to believe he was actually sober when I first saw it! 😂
I have watched it many times brilliant, it reminded me of a time when after graduating from university and hung around in the town striving but not really knowing where to go. no money and drinking anything we could lay our hands on.
Ironically enough, Withnail is probably wearing the most expensive outfit in that tearoom.
Just because the best tailoring you’ve ever seen is above your fucking appendix!
Moondog incredible burn
Joshua Morrison it’s a line from the film
Old suit??
That old suit was cut by holts of Saville row!
I want the finest cult film known to humanity. I want it here. I want it now.
This one's my favourite cult classic "Twin town" Welsh classic...
ua-cam.com/video/aUMBJ86QsgY/v-deo.html
@@lovelybitofbugle219 Nope
@@sodd1000 well its better than this shite
@@lovelybitofbugle219 I think you are on your own here. Maybe you need to get your coat?
@@sodd1000 Taxi!
Amazing film. Absolutely amazing.
Aye
One of my favourite films of all time. Love Richard 😉💋💋
❤️😎
As drunks go originally he was quite courteous.
Priceless film!.Every time I see it I find something new and terribly funny! Great film, actors!
The finest scene available to humanity
Blenerhassett is a village about 30 miles NW of Shap and Wet Sleddale; if Robinson didn't get that woman's name from seeing it on a map while working on this film, I'll eat a Camberwell Carrot. Less likely is that Monty's barnstorming 'friend', Wrigglesworth, is named after Wigglesworth, about 40 miles south of Shap... but it's still a bit weird.
The great irony about that tea room is that it now does have a jukebox with rare hip hop beats, sterling board walls and hipster coffee served by a multi-millionaire who just wanted to down-scale. The old order changeth, yielding place to new.
This is the most commotion that's ever happened in England.
As a lad his uncle would weep in Butcher shops too.
Paul McGann said that this was the first take. They couldn't get a take where Richard didn't laugh, so they went with the first one because the old ladies' reactions were genuine. The director had told them they were making a very respectable, polite little film!
Cheers.
@@Kelly14UK you should definitely watch/listen to the film with commentary from Paul and Ralph Brown. You can find the audio on UA-cam, that was my source for that piece of trivia.
fabulous. Knew about the fact that he couldnt deliver the line without corpsing, didnt know about the ladies.
Still the funniest movie ever made.
How about Carry on Abroad?
+FrothingFanboy Okay, 2nd funniest.
Dude this is way more funny then a carry on film
And still my favourite movie. I went to a comic convention once where Paul McGann was appearing. I took my copy of withnail and stood in the queue, but realised they were all Doctor Who fans (of which I also coincidentally love) and then chickened out and left the queue 'cos I thought he'd think me weird for asking him to sign a Withnail & I DVD. Instead I stood back and videoed him later in the day while he chatted to his agent on the phone. That Bar-stud must not have died!
@@jeffwode3526 Absolutely, this is sharp witted not dim witted.
Jesus, it's the funniest scene in film history....
Withnail laughing was brilliant, eventhough it wasnt meant to be in, it looked more natural.
If I could have one day back again I'd go back to when I was sixteen and mitching off school with my girl friend and mates where we all sat down and got so stoned watching this, the laughter went on for weeks and months after.
Pippin and Meriadoc crash J.R.R. Tolkien's tea room and confront him with the threat of a buyout! LOL
In the UK, Pubs used to shut between 14.30 and 19.00 and the whole High St suffered until they opened again. My friend went into a Clarks with a one eye poke in a McDonalds bag and asked for shoes of different sizes while slurping between sentences. Funny to us-I can imagine how annoying it must have been. I still laugh
I like the way "I" sets about eating as many free scones as he can, the moment he sits down. It's as if he knows they are likely to be thrown out.
If I am ever thrown out of a tearoom or anywhere else by snobs, I intend to say "I'll be back, I'm coming back in here."
Indeed, handy information for that day you know must be coming at some point.
terminator
I always say 'alright here? I want cake' when I go in a chintzy English tea room. It's warm and reassuring when the waiter or waitress smirks because they get it.
Have they ever told you they're closing?
Beauty….why haven’t I thought of that?!?
"Oh, bollocks to the wellingtons" 😂
I love this film to death! brilliant lol... the devil in me wants to re-enact this scene at some random tea room but I wont, way too well behaved.
RetroJay1974 The scene was filmed in Stony Stratford near MK, but the tea rooms are now a chemist though the pub is still there, I popped in recently for a pint and a quadruple whisky lol
It would be fun to so brazenly obnoxious with some aristocratic flair!
Yes! I'm too nice as well!
@Ringadingding
Yes you are. You sound utterly lovely.
We'll buy this place and have it knocked down. :) :)
His grim warning "we're coming back in here!" is so incredibly funny
"Didn't you hear? She said she'd closed." In Withnail's defence, that's shockingly rude.
In Jane Austen's time, perhaps.
+anonUK In any time. Bang with Withnail on this one.
Arrogant brashness meets stuffy rudeness in a head-on collision. What a scene!
I demand to have cake!! Legend..the whole films unique and I've spent hours of belly laughs at it....holy grails next! Lol
I don't think I've laughed more at a film in my life..its brilliant
"cake. what's it got to do with you?" haha.
Such a great movie
duke silver it's my all time favourite.. it came to Dunedin as part of the film festival.. we were all university students and totally related to the movie, especially the dark dank cold flat
This is maybe the only scene where both of them are having a lot of fun.
All right here??
Balls!
This is the only way to order something in a tea room.
Over thirty years of Penrith tearoom staff being hastled and abused, thanks to this film.
"We're leaving in a minute"
I'd give Mrs Blenehassett one....pwhooarrr....
We're closing in a minute, we're leaving in a minute 🤣
One of my favorite scenes in any film.
"SCRUBBERS!.... They fucking love it!"
OOPS! ... wrong scene...
The Penrith tearooms!!!!
Completely brilliant!
The way "I" says "Miss Blenehasset" (I have no idea if that is spelt right) really makes me laugh :)
Good Effort. The correct spelling is Blennerhassett.
@@cliffwheeler7357 I was driving through the lake district a while back and passed a sign for a place called Blennerhasset. I would put my money on this being the inspiration for the name. Bruce Robinson was probably up here having words with proprietors for location scenes and maybe drove past the sign for the place. I would bet ten English pounds on that.
@@sodd1000 I'm a Blennerhassett. There are quite a few of us about.
@@CatherineONeilll Call the police Mrs Blennerhassett!
Miss blennyhasset is gorgeous
Absolute masterpiece.
I could write an essay on this scene. A microcosm of the swans-legs commotion beneath the seeming civility of a society that has been top-down divided for a thousand years
I never get tired of this
god damn those are some comfy lookin pugs
To be fair, the "respectable" folks are being appallingly rude to them.
How it often is with people like this. They demand the upmost respect and courtesy why they treat you with nothing but insults and judgement. High is the horse they ride
I KNOW! Prejudiced Swines who use the excuse that they are closing when it is obvious they are not. I've been a victim of that lame excuse, as I am sure many have.
No way to treat a couple of multi millionaires
@@stevenyates6250 I gather you also are a drunken unwashed vagabond
Rubbish. Would you want a pair of drunk young hooligans lime that in your shop? And they're not being rude, they're being extremely polite. They're being unfriendly, which is different, and completely understandable.
How have I not seen this film yet
grtyuj 👀 you must
We're coming back in hyeahh
apparently Richard was supposed to deliver the jukebox line straight-faced but couldn't do it without corpsing, so they decided to leave it in there.. and it's actually perfect. The police, Miss Blennerhasset!!
I watched an interview with him.
The dog behind him was making a very funny breathing noise, and he couldn't stop himself laughing 😂😂
A timeless classic. Fecking hilarious.
For me, 'the camberwell carrot ' gets me every time.
love this scene
"Alright heeeere?"
Beautifully classic hilariously sad and poignant movie and scene now wheres my camberwell carrot 🧚♀️🧿
It’s the Cox & Robinson Pharmacy in Stony Stratford in Milton Keynes Buckinghamshire and the Pub they just exited is The Crown : still in business as of 2020 (COVID-19 saga notwithstanding)
Me and my dad know this scene off by heart, we’re always quoting it
Funny how it's the very posh old people, who run a tea shop in Penrith. Small businesses in Britain are somewhat run of the mill, and working class.
"You won't keep us anywhere we will buy this place and have it knocked down"
One of the best movie I ever seen
They did 15 takes for this scene and Richard E Grant laughed in everyone of them (much to the director's annoyance) Finally, they had to leave it in 😂😂
Good- I think that the laugh works. With Withnail being drunk too, it's like he was laughing at his own joke.
The laughing was beautifully timed.
"We'll put a fucking juke box in here."
How could anybody not laugh?
Too fucking funny! "We'll install a fucking jukebox!"
That’s got to be the best pirate I’ve ever seen.
I want to go visit that place and have tea 😊
To late. It used to be a cafe. Now it is a pharmacy in Stony Stratford's market square.
@@cliffwheeler7357 OK thank you cliff
"Monty you terrible c...!"
Genius.
My favourite British movie. Wondrous!! Now, pass me some fucking cake!!
Best line ever!