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The film is as famous for its obnoxious fanbase (besides an evergreen popularity among university students, often people who see it will quote it whole) and Robinson's mistreatment from Handmade Films as it is for its hilarious lines and one of the saddest endings in a comedy film. And you could also say it's one of the few films where the [[Slash Fic|slashers]] aren't just wishfully thinking, as the 'love' between the two leads has been picked up by many.

 

* [[Adorkable]]: Both of them have their moments. No really, Marwood gets his adorableness from Paul McGann being, well, Paul McGann and [[Richard E Grant]] breaking character to giggle in the cafe scene helped humanize Withnail.

* [[City Mouse]]

* [[City Slicker]]: Inverted. Withnail and Marwood keep insisiting "we're not from London!" to everyone they meet in the country because they're afraid of getting shafted.

* [[Cool Car]]: Monty's custom 1953 Rolls Royce.

* [[Country Matters]]: One of Withnail's most famous lines.

** By contrast Marwood has a much higher talent-to-ego ratio. While Withnail indulges in melodramatic bragging, Marwood quietly auditions for a small part in a play... and gets offered the lead.

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]] As McGann said, it's like a 'marriage going wrong'.

* [[Large Ham]]: [[Richard E Grant]] isn't one but his character, Withnail, certainly is. All the world is a stage for him, and while we never see him on an actual stage we get to see him overact in his everyday life:

{{quote| "I'm a ''trained actor'' REDUCED to the status of a bum!"}}

* [[Mistaken for Gay]]: Happens to Marwood constantly: "Perfumed ponce!", "So you're a [[Freudian Slip|thesbian]] too?", "You want workin' on, boy..."

* [[Mood Whiplash]]: A film that's almost unrelentingly hilarious detailing two self-destructive people in the death spiral of their friendship is bound to be full of moments like this.