Todd’s Movie Blog

Audiences have always latched on to certain lines from films and incorporated them into the everyday lexicon.  “We’re gonna need a bigger boat,” May the Force be with you,” and “I’ll be back,” are a few that spring to mind immediately.  When I was in college the big catchphrase was “You screwed the pooch.”  But I really don’t get the popularity of “I drink your milkshake!”  I’ve been hearing that pop up all over the place, especially among sports announcers.  Why?  It is about the dumbest thing I have ever heard.  “I drink your milkshake!” is supposed to be a major insult?  I understand in the movie that it was just one in a multitude of verbal abuses the main character inflicted on his son, and looked at in that context I’m more perplexed than ever how this got picked up as phrase to utter when someone gets the best of someone else in a sports competition.