#excellent boiled potatoes

[nymphpens]

Mr. Collins and Charlotte's marriage:

[mr-collins-2005]

Sorry for disappearing guys, I've had some very intense lessons from my esteemed patroness Lady Catherine de Bourgh to keep up with

[bethanydelleman]

Potatoes and Mr. Collins

I probably won’t be the first person to complain about this, nor the last, but why oh why do people feel the need to post so many memes about potatoes and Mr. Collins?

I am aware that this happened:

and I even accept that it’s a fine interpretation of this narration:

“The dinner, too, in its turn, was highly admired” (Ch 13)

But here is the thing, even if Mr. Collins said this, in the novel, IT DOESN’T MEAN HE LIKES POTATOES!!!

Mr. Collins says what people want to hear. He flatters them (and not particularly well either). Lady Catherine likes it, it works for him. He even has Mrs. Bennet and Mrs. Philips all happy with his delicate compliments at one point. But that doesn’t mean that he believes anything he says.

He praised the whole dinner because that’s what he does. That’s how he makes people like him. If you had given him fried rice he would have said the exact same thing.

What bothers me about the potato memes is that they are missing the whole point. They show Mr. Collins drooling over/obsessively loving potatoes or reading the history of potatoes etc. Mr. Collins’s compliments say almost nothing about his actual preferences.

Rant over.

(and don't get me started on Mary and Fordyce...)

[fullpriceforlatepizza]

Most ardently.

[annbourbon]

i mean, have you see him as Mr Collins? pls don't do the excellent boiled potatoes speech lol i'm so done~ can y'all imagine the two of them being inside this man? lololol

btw i have an intense crush on his acting skills~ he's so handsome too. and in his prime was ♡-♡

i stiil have an intense crush on this scene lol but only when i don't remember him as Mr Collins and her as Elizabeth Bennet lol otherwise i can't :'D too much fun

pirates of the caribbean really introduced an eldritch octopus man who kills indiscriminately and torments the dead as their poster villain and then you watch the movies and it's like, "oh no, actually the worst villain in this series is a small white british man who functions as the herald of capitalism" and that was very very brave of them

[therealelizabethbennet]

[mr-collins-2005]

My Esteemed Patroness Lady Catherine de Bourgh deserves the recognition 🙄🤚

[nymphpens]

Elizabeth Bennett:

[mr-collins-2005]

I HAD EXCELLENT BOILED POTATOES TONIGHT!!!!!!!

[matrivers-quote-book]

Mr. Darcy is the real exemplary vegetable.

[avatardoggo]

mr. collins would not stand for such an injustice 😤

[girlbossdean]

every day I get more convinced that jane austen actually wrote about misha collins when she came up with mr. collins

[albondiguilla007]

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[braidedriver24]

rewatched Pride and Prejudice (2005) and i realised that mr. collins and florian wirtz have something in common.. their love for boiled potatoes

✨excellent boiled potatoes auf die 1✨

[bookhoarding]

Ring in the New Year with boiled potatoes.

[ID: Tweet with Mr Collins potatoes gif. Texts reads: If you start Pride and Prejudice 2005 at 11:33, Mr Collins will compliment the potatoes at midnight.]

[vibingandthrivingouthere]

It's always a sad day when people don't know what I'm referencing when u say "what excellent boiled potatoes" 😔