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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.
- 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!
Quotes
- "'Blood' stirs the milkshake: movie catchphrase has historic roots, Web cred."—USA Today headline
- "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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I Drink Your Milkshake Blogs, Discussions and Information
- Fan Site: IDrinkYourMilkshake.com
- CafePress.com: I Drink Your Milkshake T-Shirts and Gifts
- Google Blogs: I Drink Your Milkshake Search
- Rotten Tomatoes: Forums - I. Drink. Your. MILKSHAKE! I DRINK IT UP!
- The Huffington Post: I Drink Your Milkshake, Friendo (February 28, 2008)
- New York Press: I See Dead Catchphrases (February 27, 2008)
- News.com.au: 'I Drink Your Milkshake' Lapped Up by Film Fans (February 26, 2008)
- "IT may have missed out on the top prize at the Oscars, but There Will Be Blood has achieved another celebrated feat by spawning the catchphrase of the year."
- Slash Film: I Drink Your Milkshake on SNL (February 24, 2008)
- Filmdrunk.com: Etymology of 'I Drink Your Milkshake' (February 20, 2008)
- SFWeekly.com: The Big, Big 'I Drink Your Milkshake!' Post (February 18, 2008)
- Slash Film: Paramount Vantage Sends Free Milkshakes to Press (February 8, 2008)
- USA Today: "'Blood' fans drink up milkshake catchphrase" (February 3, 2008)
- "If you have a milkshake, and I have a milkshake, then you have Hollywood's hottest catchphrase."
- MTV News: You Better Protect Your Milkshake (January 16, 2008)
- TheAtlantic.com: Matthew Yglesias: The Next Craze (January 16, 2008)
- Guardian: Film Blog: "I Drink Your Milkshake" may become one of those lines... (January 14, 2008)
- Nerve.com: PTA's Milkshake: Damn Right, It's Better Than Yours (January 14, 2008)
- Hollywood Elsewhere: I drink your milkshake (January 9, 2008)
- New York Magazine: I Drink Your Milkshake: A Guide to Proper Usage (January 8, 2008)
I Drink Your Milkshake on Amazon
