# You Get Nothing! You Lose! Good Day, Sir! A biting dismissal delivered by Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka at the climax of the 1971 film Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, where he denies Charlie his promised chocolate reward. The line's gleeful cruelty made it a staple quotable for decades before mid-2000s YTMND and YouTube users turned it into a remix engine that produced some of the site's defining Wonka edits. ## Origin The line comes from the climactic office scene in Mel Stuart's Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (1971), where Grandpa Joe presses Wonka for the promised lifetime supply of chocolate and Wonka explodes, telling him he violated the contract by stealing Fizzy Lifting Drinks[3]. Gene Wilder's reading, calm, then screaming, then icily polite, is why the moment stuck. Online, the earliest archived YouTube upload of the clip was posted on June 4th, 2008 by user Fayroe[1]. The phrase had already been documented on Urban Dictionary on October 3rd, 2005 by user Glinda, who glossed it as a way of telling someone to shut up and leave[3]. - **Platform:** Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (film) / YTMND (viral spread) - **Creator:** Gene Wilder (as Willy Wonka, film performance) - **Date:** 1971 ## Overview The quote is Wonka's final verbal thrashing of Grandpa Joe in the 1971 adaptation of Roald Dahl's book, delivered after Charlie admits to swiping Fizzy Lifting Drinks[3]. Online, it works as a verbal reaction image, a nuclear-level kiss-off deployed when someone wants to end an argument with maximum theatrical disdain. The shortened form 'good day, sir' later picked up a second life as a recurring catchphrase for the character Fez on That '70s Show starting in May 2001[3]. The format that made it a proper meme was the YTMND page: a looping still of Gene Wilder's furious Wonka, usually paired with the audio clip and some incongruous caption or crossover gag[2]. Later YouTube users built mashups cutting the clip into other properties like Star Trek, SpongeBob, The Shining, and Sparta Remix edits[3]. The appeal is the mismatch between Wilder's precise Edwardian diction and the cartoonishly petty refusal underneath it. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is You Get Nothing! You Lose! Good Day, Sir!? It's a quote from the 1971 film Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, delivered by Gene Wilder's Wonka when he denies Grandpa Joe the promised chocolate reward[3]. ### Where did You Get Nothing! You Lose! Good Day, Sir! come from? The line appears in the climactic office scene of Mel Stuart's 1971 Willy Wonka adaptation after Charlie admits he and Grandpa Joe stole Fizzy Lifting Drinks[3]. ### What does You Get Nothing! You Lose! Good Day, Sir! mean? Online it's used as a theatrical, over-the-top way to end an argument or refuse a request, with Urban Dictionary defining the shortened 'good day' form as a hard brush-off[3]. ### How do you use You Get Nothing! You Lose! Good Day, Sir!? People typically drop the clip or the quoted line as a reaction to someone making an unreasonable demand, or remix the audio over unrelated footage in YTMND and YouTube mashups[2][1]. ### Is You Get Nothing! You Lose! Good Day, Sir! still popular? The YTMND remix boom is long over, but the clip still circulates as a classic reaction video and the 'good day, sir' shorthand is still quoted thanks to the film and That '70s Show[3]. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5QGkOGZubQ]() 2. [https://wonka.ytmnd.com/]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/you-get-nothing-you-lose-good-day-sir]() 4. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHWtXT2gidE]() 5. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3cOQ2dgCsg]() 6. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRMQggJZyEo]() 7. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8SqU9DW4gY]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/you-get-nothing-you-lose-good-day-sir Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library