# I Drink Your Milkshake! "I Drink Your Milkshake!" is the climactic line Daniel Day-Lewis delivers as oil baron Daniel Plainview in the 2007 film There Will Be Blood, hurled at pastor Eli Sunday during the movie's brutal final scene. The bizarre metaphor about siphoning oil through a straw was so absurdly memorable that YouTubers began mashing it up with Kelis's "Milkshake" song within days of the film's wide release, spawning years of parody videos and image macros. ## Origin The line comes from the final scene of Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood, which opened for critics in late 2007 and rolled out wide on January 25, 2008[5]. In that scene, oil baron Daniel Plainview mocks pastor Eli Sunday's offer to sell him the Bandy Tract by explaining that the oil beneath it had already drained into his own wells through slant-drilling. Plainview then delivers the drawn-out declaration: "If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw, my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake. I. Drink. Your. Milkshake! I drink it up!"[3] - **Platform:** Film (There Will Be Blood) / YouTube (viral spread) - **Creator:** Paul Thomas Anderson / Daniel Day-Lewis - **Date:** 2008 ## Overview The joke plays on the whiplash between Plainview's menacing bowling-alley monologue and the childlike imagery of straws and milkshakes[5]. The exaggerated pause between each word in "I. Drink. Your. Milkshake!" gave remixers an audio hook that worked as both a taunt and a punchline. Fans quickly figured out that pairing the clip with unrelated pop music, especially Kelis's 2003 song "Milkshake," pushed the absurdity even further[1]. Beyond music mashups, the line got picked up as a general-purpose victory taunt online, sitting alongside "pwned" in mid-2000s slang[6]. Urban Dictionary entries from the era define it as what you say after totally destroying someone who did not see it coming[6]. Video parodies, image macros, and character swaps kept the joke alive well after the film left theaters[3]. ## How It Spread The remix wave started a week before the film's wide release. On January 18, 2008, YouTuber KevinKoonz uploaded "There Will Be Milkshakes," a montage of trailer clips cut to the Kelis song "Milkshake"[1]. On February 2, 2008, user ShawnRay9 posted a longer version centered on the actual milkshake scene, and other accounts followed with their own edits of the same audio-visual pairing[2]. Parody videos then took over. Comedian Brock Baker uploaded "I Drink Your Juicebox!" on May 30, 2009, a straight impersonation of the delivery that pulled over 40,000 views on YouTube[4]. On YTMND, dedicated pages like "There Will Be Picard" and "There Will Be Connery" swapped Plainview for Patrick Stewart and Sean Connery clips[3]. The catchphrase also turned up in Demotivational Posters and I Can Haz Cheezburger edits through the late 2000s, cementing it as a stock reference for any lopsided defeat[6]. ## How to Use The catchphrase is typically deployed as an exaggerated victory taunt after decisively beating someone, especially when the other person did not realize they had already lost[6]. Common convention involves mimicking Day-Lewis's delivery, with sharp pauses between each word. Video edits often pair the audio with the Kelis "Milkshake" chorus or swap Plainview and Eli for other movie or cartoon characters facing off[1]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is I Drink Your Milkshake!? "I Drink Your Milkshake!" is a movie quote from Paul Thomas Anderson's 2007 film There Will Be Blood, delivered by Daniel Day-Lewis's character Daniel Plainview during the movie's final confrontation[5]. Since early 2008 it has been used online as an exaggerated taunt for total victory[6]. ### Where did I Drink Your Milkshake! come from? The line originates from the closing bowling-alley scene of There Will Be Blood, which had its wide release on January 25, 2008[5]. It broke out as an online joke through YouTube mashups, starting with KevinKoonz's "There Will Be Milkshakes" upload on January 18, 2008[1]. ### What does I Drink Your Milkshake! mean? In the film, the line is a metaphor for draining oil from neighboring land through slant-drilling[3]. Online, it means you have taken something from someone who did not realize what was happening, working as a taunt for complete defeat[6]. ### How do you use I Drink Your Milkshake!? The phrase is typically used as an exaggerated brag after beating someone, delivered with the same word-by-word pauses as Day-Lewis's original reading[6]. Video edits often pair the audio with the Kelis song "Milkshake" or swap in different characters for the punchline[1]. ### Is I Drink Your Milkshake! still popular? Peak remix activity ran through 2008 and 2009 on YouTube and YTMND[3]. The quote is still recognized as a movie-meme classic and gets referenced in sports and gaming trash talk[6]. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX-9wXFQRgA]() 2. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVPETddS7jE]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-drink-your-milkshake]() 4. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFPwI3r4c-I]() 5. [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0469494/]() 6. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=I%20Drink%20Your%20Milkshake]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/i-drink-your-milkshake Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library