I Drink Your Milkshake

Categories: Internet Zeitgeist | Movies
    • Critic Jürgen Fauth launched [http: //idrinkyourmilkshake.com/ idrinkyourmilkshake.com]
    • Anderson is "puzzled" by the phrase's popularity
    • Copied directly from testimony taken during the Teapot Dome scandal
    • Day-Lewis earned an Oscar for his performance
    • There Will Be Blood is loosely based on the Upton Sinclair novel Oil!
  • Daniel Plainview, played by Daniel Day-Lewis, yells the line I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!" in a pivotal scene from director Paul Thomas Anderson's 2007 film There Will Be Blood. The quote has become an Internet catchphrase, as well as the subject of a Saturday Night Live skit, various YouTube mashups and parodies, and 63 different T-shirt designs on Cafepress.
  • Quotes

    1. "'Blood' stirs the milkshake: movie catchphrase has historic roots, Web cred."USA Today headline
    2. "Volcanically dramatic, mind-bendingly cool line (about to) enter the pop-culture catchphrase lexicon, nestling alongside such former lazy-writer tropes as 'I see dead people,' 'Say hello to my little friend.'"New York Magazine’s "Vulture" blog

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