Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Well, dear, are you ready? Inga: Yes, Doctor. Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Elevate me. Inga: Now? Right here? Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Yes, yes, raise the platform. Inga: Oh. Ze platform. Oh, zat, yah, yah… yes.
Loved this movie! Went with a friend to see this movie when it first came out. I am a huge fan of Mel Brooks’ movies when you need a laugh they are perfect!
Funnily enough my sister sent me a list of “30 Funniest Movies”she’d found the other day with the comment. “Young Frankenstein ought to be in this list. “. She watched it the other week too for the umpteenth time.
Madelaine Kahn was a classmate of Garry’s — as well as Susan Sullivan. They used to do “scenes” together in drama class. I don’t think any of them actually graduated.
Garry went to school with a bunch of people who became genuinely really famous. Hofstra in those early years had a fantastic drama department. It was an easy college to get into and it was not expensive. Garry went using some credits he got for being (briefly) in the Marine Corps (they threw him out when they realized he was too deaf to hear the cry “Over the hill, boys!”). But even if you had just a part-time job, you could manage a few courses. When Garry started, it was $17/credit and there were no dorms. It was a commuter school. My first husband had a “thing” with Susan Sullivan. Garry just did scenes in class.
Have you seen the original with Jack Benny? In THIS case, this was an homage to the original — a word-for-word copy of the original, except in color. The Jack Benny version shows up on cable now and then. If you find it, watch it. Not that Mel’s isn’t good, but Benny was … well … Jack Benny!
And every week. He gets together with Carl Reiner and they eat TV dinners off of TV trays watching old TV movies. They prefer ones where someone say “Defend the perimeter!!”
How cool is that.
Aerosmith got the idea for the title of their hit song “Walk this way” because they were recording the song but had not lyrics. They took a break and went to see “Young Frankenstein” and got the idea from Igor’s comment. True story.
There was a period when the movie was on every night on one or another cable channel. We own the movie, but we could never resist one more viewing. I think we memorized the whole thing. We watched it again last week. Ah Mel!
It’s been a couple of years since I’ve seen it. Our DVD is at the “camp” on the Cape, so I can’t pull it out tonight. The thing is, it isn’t just “Mel” – I think this movie works so well because Gene Wilder wrote the basic script and then had Mel come in and edit it and direct it. It does have the over the top Mel Brooks thing going, but there is a dry undercurrent that I think comes from Gene.
Gene wouldn’t let Mel act in it. He said Mel was too “over the top” and would ruin it. He was probably right. As Mel Brooks movies go, this was — along with “High Anxiety” — very much on target. I have trouble remembering the real movies from which they were taken. I just remember the Brooks’ versions. And of course, Gene Hackman’s funniest 15 minutes in “Blazing Saddled,” and “Young Frankenstein.”
Wait! COME BACK! I was going to make ESSPESSO!
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YES!! HE WAS ….. MY BOYFRIEND!!!
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Dr. Frankenstone: Igor? Help with the bags!
Igor: Okay then, you take the blonde and I’ll take the one in the turban….
BWAHAHAHA! (okay stopping now)
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😀
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Inga: “Want a roll in the hay?” Begins rolling back and forth in the haystack in the wagon…. I love this film… ❤ Thanks for the trot down Memory Lane!
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“Roll, roll, roll in the hay” — bring up the music!
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Loved this movie! Went with a friend to see this movie when it first came out. I am a huge fan of Mel Brooks’ movies when you need a laugh they are perfect!
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They are our fallback position when we REALLY need a laugh 😀
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Mel Brooks is a Genius! 🙂
” Wait master – It might be dangerous! You go first!”
love.
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This is one of those movies. I think mine is “Walk THIS way.” Well, Garry’s might be “Hey, boy, is this the Transylvania choo-choo?”
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Funnily enough my sister sent me a list of “30 Funniest Movies”she’d found the other day with the comment. “Young Frankenstein ought to be in this list. “. She watched it the other week too for the umpteenth time.
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I think Mel Brooks’s movies get FUNNIER with time. Or maybe my taste has changed, because I find them funnier.
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Oh Sweet Mystery of Life!
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At last! I’ve found YOUUUUU ….
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❤ Dahlink
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Madelaine Kahn was a classmate of Garry’s — as well as Susan Sullivan. They used to do “scenes” together in drama class. I don’t think any of them actually graduated.
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Why graduate when you can sing, “Springtime for Hitler”?
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Garry went to school with a bunch of people who became genuinely really famous. Hofstra in those early years had a fantastic drama department. It was an easy college to get into and it was not expensive. Garry went using some credits he got for being (briefly) in the Marine Corps (they threw him out when they realized he was too deaf to hear the cry “Over the hill, boys!”). But even if you had just a part-time job, you could manage a few courses. When Garry started, it was $17/credit and there were no dorms. It was a commuter school. My first husband had a “thing” with Susan Sullivan. Garry just did scenes in class.
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The artwork is fantastic! Did you make it yourself?
http://www.poetrypost.co.uk
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No, it’s the original movie poster. Or one of them, anyway.
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LMAO love Mel Brooks. Has his stamp all over it doesnt it?
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it’s the only full collection of anyone’s movies I ever bought. All the Brooks movies except Spaceballs.
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I so love him! To Be or Not to Be has got to be an all time favourite! hehe
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Have you seen the original with Jack Benny? In THIS case, this was an homage to the original — a word-for-word copy of the original, except in color. The Jack Benny version shows up on cable now and then. If you find it, watch it. Not that Mel’s isn’t good, but Benny was … well … Jack Benny!
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I know, right! Jack Benny was Jack Benny and delightful in every way!
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Menancing Crook: “Your money or your life”………(long pause) Jack: “I’m thinking! I’m thinking!!”
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lol I so remember that! omg
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Shot for shot remake. Both great. Watched it a few weeks ago.
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chuckling away, just thinking about it.
Leslie
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That’s what’s so great about Brooks’ movies. We laugh before the joke. We know it’s coming.
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😉
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Such a great film. So many cracking one liners. Were wolf. There wolf…
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Walk THIS way.
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Love it! Good old Marty Feldman.
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The only one of the cast who is still alive is Mel Brooks. Weird. He was the oldest one, too.
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Am amazed he’s still going, but good on him.
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Getting near 100!
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And every week. He gets together with Carl Reiner and they eat TV dinners off of TV trays watching old TV movies. They prefer ones where someone say “Defend the perimeter!!”
How cool is that.
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It is great that these two old guys are still friends after what, 70 years?
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“Pardon, me, Boy. Is This the Transylvania Station………..?
(Love the transatlantic train ride)
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Yes sir. Track 29. Want a shine?
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Oh dear, am ashamed to say I have never watched it, but may do now. I like funny horror films, if they are really funny.
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This one is REALLY funny. It’s still funny after 30 years and watching it often. One of my all time favorites.
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Igor to Dr. Frankenstein, “Walk this way.”
Greatest movie of all time. I never tire of watching it.
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It’s all the horror movies of our childhood wrapped up as one 🙂
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From the amazing mind of Mel Brooks.
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Who remarkably, is still around and still being funny.
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Aerosmith got the idea for the title of their hit song “Walk this way” because they were recording the song but had not lyrics. They took a break and went to see “Young Frankenstein” and got the idea from Igor’s comment. True story.
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Now I’ll have to listen to the song again!
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That’s a hoot! Thanks for sharing.
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By the way, there’s an Asian restaurant near where I live named “Wok This Way.” Every time I pass it, the Aerosmith song pops into my head.
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Ah, Grasshoppah, it is all CONNECTED. The all in all, Grasshoppah!
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One of my very favorite movies. And yes, if I turn down a named drink, my wife will offer me several more, always ending with Olvatine….
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There was a period when the movie was on every night on one or another cable channel. We own the movie, but we could never resist one more viewing. I think we memorized the whole thing. We watched it again last week. Ah Mel!
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It’s been a couple of years since I’ve seen it. Our DVD is at the “camp” on the Cape, so I can’t pull it out tonight. The thing is, it isn’t just “Mel” – I think this movie works so well because Gene Wilder wrote the basic script and then had Mel come in and edit it and direct it. It does have the over the top Mel Brooks thing going, but there is a dry undercurrent that I think comes from Gene.
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Gene wouldn’t let Mel act in it. He said Mel was too “over the top” and would ruin it. He was probably right. As Mel Brooks movies go, this was — along with “High Anxiety” — very much on target. I have trouble remembering the real movies from which they were taken. I just remember the Brooks’ versions. And of course, Gene Hackman’s funniest 15 minutes in “Blazing Saddled,” and “Young Frankenstein.”
“Wait! I was going to make espresso!”
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“Me a poor blind man and you, and you a mute. An incredibly big mute….”
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Everybody has some favorite lines. But I think the whole movie is one big favorite line 🙂
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I agree 🙂
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“Put. The candle. Back!”
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Yah!
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Dr. Froderick Fronkenstein (admiring castle’s front door): “Oh, what lovely knockers!!”
Inga (Blushing) “Oh, oh, why THANK YOU, Doctor!!”
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I think we can recite the entire movie if we get started.
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