Britainology 90: Withnail & I

I'd pay £28 for the Narnia pill

I have never watched this simply because every annoying guy in my generation quotes bits of it. I think it's just because it has drugs in it.

Speedway is also a great song by black midi

if you're taking film episode requests: The Cook The Thief His Wife And Her Lover. Great film that also examines british class weirdness

Talking about the first Danny scene at the start of the movie got me thinking about the mid 00s Johnny Vegas vehicle Ideal, which has, coincidentally, just popped up on streaming. So many relatable moments from buying drugs from randoms at turn of the century

The weekend-length pill referenced by Riley sounds like bromo-dragonfly. A very good example of the "can but shouldn't" category of psychadelics.

In canada in 1980 the standard retail rate for a decent hit of blotter acid was 5$, or five hits for 20$. And decent weed (which was nothing like as good as nowadays) was 40$ an ounce.

I'm just here to be the IndyCar defender in the comments

Taking the IRA pill

Bruce Robinson was a young actor in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet, and was sexually assaulted by Zeffirelli, he's supposedly who Uncle Monty is based on. I think he's said before that's closer to Marwood than Withnail.

Milo's pronounciation of the Irish name Micheál ("Mee-haul") made a balaclava and armalite spawn into existence in my living room

Please, Mr. Deepthroat was my father.

Derek and Clive would make a good britainology

Blowing past some of the best line reads in cinema with nary a mention, shaking my head over here. "Monty you terrible cunt", "we want the finest wines available to humanity", "even if it must be burglary", this film is *endlessly* quotable

*Walter White in the SUV voice* NATE! NATE! LARRY BIRD IS NOT FROM SPEEDWAY! HE’S THE HICK FROM FRENCH LICK! A FULL 100 MILES FROM SPEEDWAY!

1 vote for the Threads episode

If you allow me to do some Polandology, but motorcycle speedway is like, a Top 5 sport in Poland, after like soccer, volleyball, and ski jumping, more or less. Like the speedway league there is basically the Premier League of speedway leagues. It’s prominent enough where from time to time a speedway guy will win Poland’s sportsperson of year, like one time this guy pipped prime era Robert Lewandowski, much to my bemusement. I don’t get it, nor does my family.

I also can't get out of my head that Uncle Monty and Richard Griffiths' character in History Boys are the same person at different stages in life.

I live in perpetual fear that Milo and Nate will come on one day and tell me something formative in my life is shit or bigoted. I am the age where some of my cohort have made this film their entire identity. The latter hasn't happened for me, great though this film is. And thankfully, so far, as of this episode, nor has the former.

the BBC used 16mm almost exclusively I think, which would be why it all looks so similar

quite charming that milo was surprised that jocks yelling 'fag' at randos from vehicles is a venerable american pastime

think I have the car nate was half remembering. honda clarity. i have one, bought it on a salvage title off a tajik guy dealing cars out of a flooring store

Would love to see you guys cover the films of Alan Clarke and Mike Leigh in the future ❤️

how can you watch the whole movie for work and still pronounce it "with nail" 🤔

My vote is for Doric giant.

The car with the wheel covers Nate is trying to remember is the Honda insight

Nate, I think you'd enjoy Long Way Round as a bit of a palate cleanser from Top Gear. Where Top Gear were just cunts on tour, Ewan McGregor is just incredibly happy to get to do this sort of thing.

The giant sounds like Alan Moore

you have to watch The F…ing Fulfords a documentary series about a poor aristocrat family

Crucially, Speedway almost exclusively occurs on greyhound tracks

I can't remember the song you're talking about, but the "stopped clock" clip is sampled on an orbital and I believe a Sasha and Digweed record

Fun factoid: that politician's name is the Irish version of 'Michael', Micheál (pronounced mee-haul). This led to him being called 'Me-hole Fartin' on Irish social media.

It's me, I'm the fan! Thanks for doing it and really glad you enjoyed it, did not expect you to do it so soon Go sparkplugs

Can we get the Lads Holiday one that was promised wayyyyy back in one of the first few episodes at some point pls? Particular focus on the other Lineker in Ibiza is most welcomed

How to Get Ahead in Advertising would have been ideal

The life of a flamboyant wreckhead. How the film reached from the past to target me personally, I've yet to discover. More drugs are evidently in need of testing.

This movie sums up living with my best friend in Australia before moving over to Britain