IIIIIiiiiiiiiiiii… aint got no-bod-eeeee… Ya-cha-cha-cha-da-dada-da-dah…
What a filthy job.
Could be worse.
How?
Could be raining.
<crash><downpour>
"Why…you…mother humping BASTARD!
I think.
[After sex with The Monster]
Elizabeth: Oh! Where you going? …Oh, you men are all alike! Seven or eight quick ones and then you’re out with the boys to boast and brag! YOU BETTER KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT! Oh… I think I love him!
Come here, my little Zipper Neck!
“There’s a couple of nasty-looking switches over there, but I’m not going to be the first to try them.”
“Throw the third switch!”
“NO! Not the third switch!”
“Throw it! Throw it, I tell you!”
“Abby Normal.”
“My Grandfather used to work for your grandfather.”
“How nice.”
“Of course, the rates have gone up…”
“Come back! I was gonna make espresso!”
Can you tell I watched this movie several times over the summer?
Time to check if this scene was in another draft of the script: it explains why the hump is missing when Igor attends an unconscious Dr Frankenstein, right after the monster hits him during the theater rampage:
The Dr approaches Igor at the piano, in the theater before the show, and notices Igor’s hump is missing!
Dr Frankenstein - What happ… (Points nervously to Igor’s back)
Igor - Never with tails!! (Points happily at his tuxedo)
“I said, there’s a danger of ELECTROCUTION!”
“What are you shouting for? I’m right here.”
You are not evil! You are GOOD!
Oh, and if you look real close in the scenes in the lab, I think you can see a 1920’s style death ray.
I may be wrong.
Pardon me, boy! Is this the Transylvania station?
Ja! Track twenty-nine. Hey, can I give you a shine?
Sed-a-GIVE?!?!?!
We have a new hamper, darling, for poo poo undies.
No dialog, but…
The monster (Peter Boyle was wonderful, BTW) is in bed, reading the Wall Street Journal. Elizabeth (Madeline Kahn, also great) comes in, dressed a la Elsa Lanchester in Bride of Frankenstein, all hot to trot.
The monster rolls his eyes, clearly thinking “Oh, Lord, a-GAIN?”
Cracks me up every time…
HEY, HANDSOME!!
DON’T YOU PEOPLE KNOW A JOKE WHEN YOU HEAR ONE!???
HAH AHA HA HA HA HAH!
Frau Blucher:Vuld the doctor care for a brandy before retiring?
Dr. Friedrich von Frankenstein: No. Thank you.
Frau Blucher:Some varm milk…perhaps?
Dr. Friedrich von Frankenstein: No, thank you very much.
Frau Blucher:Ovaltine?
Dr. Friedrich von Frankenstein: Nothing! Thank you. I’m a little tired.
Frau Blucher: Then I will say…goodnight.
Dr. Friedrich von Frankenstein: Goodnight!
Dr. Friedrich von Frankenstein: That music…
Frau Blucher: Yes! It’s in your blood - it’s in the blood of ALL Frankensteins! It reaches the soul when words are useless. Your grandfather used to play it to the creature HE vas making!
Dr. Friedrich von Frankenstein: Then it was you all the time!
Frau Blucher: Yes!
Dr. Friedrich von Frankenstein: You played that music in the middle of the night…
Frau Blucher: Yes!
Dr. Friedrich von Frankenstein: …to get us to the laboratory!
Frau Blucher: Yes!
Dr. Friedrich von Frankenstein: That was YOUR cigar smoldering in the ashtray!
Frau Blucher: Yes!
Dr. Friedrich von Frankenstein: And it was you… who left my grandfather’s book out for me to find!
Frau Blucher: Yes!
Dr. Friedrich von Frankenstein: So that I would…
Frau Blucher: Yes!
Dr. Friedrich von Frankenstein: Then you and Victor were…
Frau Blucher: YES! YES! Say it! He vas my… BOYFRIEND
Inspector Kemp: A riot is an ungly thing … undt, I tink, that it is chust about time ve had vun!
My favorite scene (if you can have just one) is where the cop/inspector comes to visit Friedrich for the first time, and they idly play darts while verbally sparring.
While Friedrich’s back is turned, the cop (who has “parked” the darts in his artificial arm), runs up to the dartboard, jams all the darts in the bullseye, runs back to the shooting position and proceeds to make the sounds of rapidly-thrown darts with his voice and by thwacking his arm.
Friedrich swirls only fast enough to see all the darts in the bullseye.
During Friedrich’s turn, each time he is about to throw, the cop distracts him, causing Friedrich to misfire. The darts are going everywhere, including out of the window. The cop then leaves and we see where all the darts have landed. The car is riddled with them, the tires are flat and there’s one in the driver’s hat.
Priceless.
[sub]I read somewhere that a lot of the props used in the lab were the same ones used in the original movie.[/sub]
<screaching>“Puttin’ On The Ritz…!!!”<screaching>
“Taffeta…sweetheart.”
“No, no, the dress! It’s taffeta…wrinkles so easily…”
More great quotes per square inch than any movie I know.