Withnail and I - The Camberwell Carrot

[Swampy169]

complete genius!!!



[moosey62]

I rolled a Manchester Arms bigger than that carrot once.

Best juke box in in a Stockport pub, ANYONE?

[ignoranttwat]

"...it can utilise up to 12 skins..."

"It's impossible to make a Camberwell Carrot with any less."

What?

[IC1s]

@ignoranttwat "WHO can utilise up to 12 skins"

[slye1991]

I love when he holds the joint up straight and we see how fucking huge it is lmao

[m0torhead000]

reading all this about spades , i might roll my own camberwell carrot :)

[Hemulen40]

Ha ha ha..veggie lovers !

[captaingoatbeard7]

Such a beautiful joint. On personal experience it does tend to make you very high...

[meak911]

that hit was very intense man

[oldagetraveler]

i know how to make that with six skins - just attach the glue from the other six. it's easy if you know how.

[mrmister102]

RALPH BROWN IS AWESOME AS DANNY

[paisleybabee]

I just love this scene!

[wotchadave]

DO WANT A CAMBERWELL PLZ

[Lpoolboy]

This scene makes me so jealous. I've been dry for ages and I REALLY want a drag from that huge joint :(

Awesome movie.

[dmx666uk]

whats a spade?

[mattyjungle]

It's a racist term for a black man, comes from the standard deck of cards.

[cameraman618]

@dmx666uk

It comes from the term 'As black as the ace of spades' A derogatory term.

[blackmore4]

@cameraman618 I have no memory of "spade" as a "derogatory term"; It was pretty much used exclusively by the hippies / counter-culture, both black and white and had attached to it a very definite aura of cool; borne out by the liberal / bohemian characters here - the likes of 'Danny' had far more important things on his mind than the colour of someone's skin. The standard racist term was always the N word (always very uncool).

[cameraman618]

@blackmore4 Yes, I agree, the character of Danny probably does have more interesting things on his mind. However, the term 'spade' is derogatory. Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary 1976, baring in mind the film was set in 1969, says: Spade: 'NEGRO- usu. taken to be offensive'.

People use slang terms all the time without any knowledge of their origins or real meaning. eg. NAFF, is used as a 'dislike' term, it's real meaning is much more intresting. I expect the S word was used in the same way.

[blackmore4]

@cameraman618 From my memory, I think that Websters Dictionary's "derogatory" definition was the party using "slang terms all the time without any knowledge of their origins or real meaning"! Well, okay; the 'derogatory' aspect may well have been a part of its "origin" but in its actual real-life usage by liberal types, I'm positive that there was nothing "derogatory" about 'spade' at all. Quite the opposite.

[mlusby]

@blackmore4 cameraman is right dude - spade has been used a derogatory term for black people for ages - even as late as the 1980s - with the Police Academy films - spade is used as a racial slur.

[StanKindly]

@blackmore4 I kind of remember that being the case in the jargon of the "scene" at the time. But it wasn't used much or for very long and Bruce Robinson I think went a little over the top by including it - especially since the script is so brilliant anyway that it wasn't really needed.

[mwells219]

the thing that dug out your mother last night.

[quarry16]

Me and my mates smoked a Camberwell carrot while watching Withnail and I, we got 'very high'

[wotchadave]

@quarry16 How do you make one? What shape do the skins have to be?

Would be awesome if you know how :)

Also how much pot do you need?

[PollyR77]

follow withnail and i on twitter!

@_Withnail_And_I

[thehumanstain1]

the beatles - while my guitar gently weeps

[margotdarby]

@thehumanstain1 Ah yes, the bloody producer gets his own song in. Actually very timely.

[agalloch666]

whats the name of the song playing in the bathroom? cant pin point it.

[DavidMJordan]

Why has this scene become severely truncated? I mean, would you cut the Venus de Milo's legs off?

[theyearofourlordig88]

@DavidMJordan

no but i'd glue her arms back on. how the fuck am i supposed to get a boner off a bitch with no arms!?

[MendozaAxel]

"WHo is the HUGE SPADE in the bath!?"

hahaha!

[kazimann]

@MendozaAxel Presuming Ed. He's a genius!

[isetthingsonfire]

I love his voice at 2.48. Captain obvious strikes again.

[workshyy]

if i spiked you, you'd know you'd been spoken to...if i medecined you, you'd think a brain tumour was a birthday present

[workshyy]

Do you vealise this gaff's overvun with vodents? When i come in i seen one the size of a fucking dog

[countsmyth]

This hippie is the best caracter in the whole film!

[allyplumb]

"Dead down the drain!"

[PhilBag]

There is, you will agree, a certain je ne sais quoi about a firm young carrot.

[FantasmaBAnco]

Monty, you terrible cunt!

[skylandmountain]

Why did you poison their onions?

[ThinkLikeGeek]

I'm from Camberwell, and so this is the best scene in the film. I deem it so (disregard the final scene).

[kazimann]

"Who's the giant spade in the bath?"

[engineroomapocalypse]

Camberwell Carrot?

You should see a Mitcham Marrow!!!!

[thoomoo]

along with get carter the greatest british flim ever

[minutegongcoughs]

Presuming Ed. He is actually Eddie in real life. Has one hell of a presence too.

[DavidMJordan]

The Camberwell carrot is a home-made Chillum. They were/are pretty cheap to buy so inventing one made of Rizlas was a waste of time and money. Of course, they're like that in Camberwell. Shows the way that the youth of today 1969) have gone down the drain.

[Muskadash]

This is the reason bald-headed men are uptight.

[proudy666]

i first saw this film in '89 and it has been part of my life ever since. I think I must have seen it well over 3000 times, possibly more! There was time around '90-'91 where I watched it every day for 8 months! Sad, I know but, by god, its a fantastically amazing film that I love with a passion!

[nz2k2]

Saw this film for the first time at the weekend - classic! Love this scene.

"I invented it in Camberwell, and it looks like a carrot".

[dking987]

ralph brown plays the same character as he did in waynes world 2, when he played del preston. very funny!

[krayzeepenis]

one word. superb. another few words maybe.....this is simply a classic. watching clips brings me back to the time in my life that i first saw and fell in love with this utterly fantabulous film,around 10yrs ago...of course hes the fucking farmer!my god...

[wungman]

Excuse my lack of originality... but this is just one of the best movies ever!

[Rob6456]

agreed. one hundred times agreed. now i demand to have some booze!

[ekeby]

Ralph Brown (who plays Danny) is an amazing character actor. He's in, among other things, The Crying Game, Alien, and Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, etc. He's a chameleon--completely different in each. Watch The Crying Game without looking at the cast/role list and try to pick him out!

[431972]

A fuckin clasic!!!!

[lampshadeprincess]

i live in camberwell!!! this is our only claim to fame!!!! lol!!!

[barry946]

...what about the camberwell beauty butterfly?

[lampshadeprincess]

oh yeah i forgot about that!

sorry

we people in camberwell now have two claims to fame! woo!

[blackbook90]

Jarvis Cocker wrote a song about a party in Camberwell call Ladbroke Grove.

[JRHYMES007]

Actualy you would find thats its called 51 Lyndhurst grove, not Ladbroke. About a house party he went to there. The house still stands by the way.

[anonUK]

@blackbook90

Ladbroke Grove is north of Paddington in West London. Camberwell is east of Lambeth in South London. They are only 6-7 miles apart, but any Londoner would tell you they are in other ways light years apart.

[robocock0]

LOL

[JalandharShere]

i demand the right to have some booze

[frenchy5150]

hi all...great movie...danny the dealer,what a wanker ah ah ah...excuse my english bye

[OzTerri]

WHY did u drug their onions???

[wrnqzx]

This will tend to make you very high.

[paddyleblanc]

precisely the reason Im smoking it

[UeberTueber]

would it be in bad taste to plagiarize a toast?

[captainroger]

depends entirely on the quality of the wine

[UeberTueber]

to a delightful weekend in the country. or in this case, urban sprawl! oh i must.. these aren't accidents! they're throwing themselves into the road, gladly, to escape all this hideousness!  haha why does that make me so happy? odd thing about this movie is it is so very bleak, yet utterly funny.

[captainroger]

Maybe you can relate to it?

I know I can

[UeberTueber]

indeed. in fact i've lived bits of this. it was shocking to see it for the first time, i nearly died laughing.

[Gemc07]

"who is the huge spade in the Bath?" Not very pc...but better for it. Presumin Ed cracks me up.

[HalfCutC]

Constant stringent political correctness beyond reason is fucking up our society.

[ScoutWaterhouse]

"We've come on holiday by mistake!!!!"

[badboyjayben]

Here Hare Here

[withnailandiforum]

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[Sauzee07]

ok... whats his number? i dunno ive never met him. neither have i...what the fuck are you talking about?

[martinharder]

"A coward you are Withnail! An expert on bulls you are not!"

[geraldfawcett]

"my little sister got a doll last christmas that pisses itself. horrible really but they like that the little girls. we're going to make one what shits itself as well"

[gremlinfeatures]

Are you the farmer?

Stop saying that Withnail! Of course he's the fucking farmer!

[TheMirrorBallSuit]

Who is the huge spade in the bath?!

[AngryTrollFilms]

A coward you are Withnail, an expert on bulls you are not!!!

[OasisDefinitelyMaybe]

Best film ever.

[frogswallop]

Unless yu plan on vomiting for two days stright, NEVER attempt the Withnail & I Drinking Game. I have. Wasn't Pretty.

[lemoncurry19]

We want the finest wines available to humanity, we want them here and we want them now!

[Foxie253]

here hare, here

[gingeralesucker]

i am in love

[DrCrabfingers]

He's in top field, y'can't miss 'im 'is leg's bound up wi' polythine.

[RuaAcorn]

Ill show you how to roll a Carrot!

when you back in NZ...

[sprags87]

stop saying that withnail,of course hes the fucking farmer....

[mkuman]

film je genijaln

[odoc100]

this will tend to get you very high. powerful film

[andrew1983123]

bEST FILM EVER

[tilerman]

Totally.

[shakain]

'i was going to cook onions' lmao

[MontysMarket]

If I was forced at gun point to choose my top three lines out of Withnail that would def be in there. Gets me everytime. His face! LOL!!