# Released 30 years ago this December: Young Frankenstein! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 5, 2004, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148 "2004-12-05T02:33:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/21 "2004-12-06T00:49:01Z")
I can’t believe the DVD had cut scenes. There’s some odd stuff in there, too. Including a scene where everyone sweeps down the staircase, singing, which is very familiar but I can’t remember why. ---
**Author:** ![Winkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/41988e/32.png) [@Winkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winkie)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/22 "2004-12-06T02:52:23Z")
My college roommate and I have probably watched Young Frankenstein together at least 50 times. It is a reflex, _reflex_ I tell you, that when someone says any variation of “Could be worse” I answer “could be raining.” What hump? ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/23 "2004-12-06T03:31:28Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > _ **Inspector Kemp** _: Vee had better confeerm de fect dat Younk Frankenshteinn iss indeeed: VALLOWING EEN EES GANDFADDA’S VOOTSTAPS!!! > _ **Villagers** _: What?!? > _ **Inspector Kemp** _: Following in his grandfather’s vootsteps, vootsteps, vootsteps. [Makes quick step noises] > _ **Villagers** _: Ohhh. Footsteps!!! Don’t forget: “He vill VRUE ze day he was born UH FRONKENSHTEEEN!” My brothers and I are constantly riffing on the little exchange that includes: “Didn’t you just make a ‘yummy’ sound?” ---
**Author:** ![malkabat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@malkabat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkabat)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/24 "2004-12-06T04:22:15Z")
“No tongues!” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/25 "2004-12-06T05:18:58Z")
> [@](#): > > Grrr!! I forgot to mention one more bit of trivia/question from the movie: > > There is an “explanation” on why, on the few frames Igor appears in the “Putting on the Ritz” scene, he is not wearing a hump!: > > IIRC the missing scene did go like this: > > Everybody is preparing for the theater presentation when: > Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: (noticing the missing hump when Igor sits at the piano!) Uh… what happened to….(points at missing hump) Uhhhhh … to ? > Igor: Oh! Never when using a tux!!! (points at his tuxedo!) > > Can anyone confirm the missing scene dialog? I’ve brought this up on he Board before, because I had heard it. My wife claims to have seen it, and so do others I talked to. I as sorely disappointed to find it is _not_ amng the “Deleted Scenes” on the DVD . (And it’s a good thing those scenes _were_ deleted. They were awful! The outtakes with Marty Feldmen, though, are proceless!) Is it possible the scene never occurred? That it was an Urban Legend? I don’t think so – look at Marty Feldman when he and Teri Garr go rushing up to Wilder’s Dr. Frankenstein, after the Monster storms offstage – Feldman’s character, dressed in a tuxedo, _has no hump_! Interesting bit – remember when the med student asks about Dr. Frankenstein’s ancestor keeping a piece of vermicelli alive in a jar, and Wilder’s Dr. _Frahn_ kenstein smarmil asks “Would that be the worm? Or the Spaghetti?”. The Student answers “The worm, of course!” Well, guess what – Shelley meant the spaghetti. There _is_ no worm called vermicelli, and there _was_ a report of such apparent spontaneous animation of the pasta shortly before she wrote her book. The details are in **The Annotated Frankenstein** and, presumably, in **The Essential Frankenstein** as well), edited by Leonard Wolf. I wrote a piece on it a couple of years ago for Halloween on this Board. My favorite line – “What Knockers!” “Why Ssnk you, Doktorrr!” ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/26 "2004-12-06T08:44:57Z")
As mentioned before, anything that could inspire _Walk This Way_ is good in my book. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/27 "2004-12-06T10:10:27Z")
My mother told me about going to see this movie with a friend of hers, and the two of them fell apart laughing at the “Pardon me boy, is this the Transylvania station” bit. They looked around the theater, and they were the only ones laughing. And when I used to play darts with some friends of mine, the phrase “Nice grouping” was used on more than one occasion. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/28 "2004-12-06T12:03:22Z")
_Now listen to me very carefully. Don’t. Move. The Candle."_ ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/29 "2004-12-06T14:27:33Z")
Funniest movie ever made. And I’m a HUGE Marx Brothers fan, so that’s saying something!! When I get up in the morning, my youngest kitty follows me into the bathroom and does this rolling/stretching thing while I say, "Roll in zee hay, Roll in zee hay! My whole family likes to strike a monster pose and say “Puttin’ on the Ritz!!!” in our best Peter Boyle voices. And my ex-boss has a sound thingy on his IM at work. When I log on, he gets a message that says, “You take the blonde. I’ll take the one in the turban!” ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/30 "2004-12-06T14:57:59Z")
“His brain is _rotten_, I tell you, _rotten_!” “Grrrrrr!” “Ixnay on the ottenray!” ---
**Author:** ![Airblairxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Airblairxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airblairxxx)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/31 "2004-12-06T19:49:42Z")
Already mentioned, but: Seda- **Give?** ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/32 "2004-12-06T20:07:05Z")
> [@](#): > > Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Igor, would you give me a hand with the bags? > Igor: [doing a Groucho Marx] Certainly, you take the blonde and I’ll take the one in the turban. Made even better by the fact that in the cut they could use you can see everyone trying not to laugh. I have seen outtakes from that scene. It took a very long time to film. > [@](#): > > Wait. Where are you going? I was going to make Espresso. My favorite scene. I laugh even after hundreds of viewings. Gene Hackman should have done more comedy. > [@](#): > > A riot is an ungly thing… undt, I tink, that it is chust about time ve had vun. > [@](#): > > And what about Kenneth Mars, Police Inspector Hans Wilhelm Friederich Kemp?.. “The Land Before Time X”: The Great Longneck Migration (2003) as the voice of Grandpa. He had a pretty big part in the series _Malcolm in the Middle_. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/33 "2004-12-06T20:18:21Z")
How about: “Let me out of here, you bastards! Can’t you take a joke?” or however it goes. And “…accept it with quiet dignity and grace.” And of course “I thought you wanted to.” in a slightly hurt voice. ---
**Author:** ![Mal\_Adroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@Mal\_Adroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mal_Adroit)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/34 "2004-12-06T20:24:08Z")
“Hey there, handsome!” (Jeepers cats, was the only line left that wasn’t quoted!) For some reason, one of my favorite parts is at the very beginning, when Gene Wilder is lecturing to his medical students. He gets very worked up when the one kid asks him about the work of his ancestor, and to add emphasis to a point he brings down the scalpel he’s holding and drives it right into his thigh. Doesn’t make a sound then, just looks down briefly, takes his hand from the scalpel to make sure- yes, it’s standing there by itself. 😛 Wilder does this sight gag so calmly, it just makes me howl every time I see it. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/35 "2004-12-06T20:31:13Z")
For return posters and people posting something new to the thread - Please include your 3 Favorite Brooks films. (Example: #1=Blazing Saddles, #2=High Anxiety #3-Young Frankenstein) Inquiring minds wanna know. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/36 "2004-12-06T20:36:52Z")
#1 - The Producers #2 - Young Frankenstein #3 - Blazing Saddles “I just want to give you a little peace!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/37 "2004-12-06T21:12:42Z")
“Hello! Vould yoo like un rrrroll in der hay? It’s fun! Roll, roll, roll in der hay!” ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/38 "2004-12-06T21:29:39Z")
> [@Moody Bastard](#): > > He gets very worked up when the one kid asks him about the work of his ancestor, and to add emphasis to a point he brings down the scalpel he’s holding and drives it right into his thigh. Doesn’t make a sound then, just looks down briefly, takes his hand from the scalpel to make sure- yes, it’s standing there by itself. 😛 Wilder does this sight gag so calmly, it just makes me howl every time I see it. **MY GRANDFATHER’S WORK WAS DOODOO!** ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/39 "2004-12-06T21:33:17Z")
1. Young Frankenstein 2. Blazing Saddles 3. The Producers 4. The 12 Chairs 5. High Anxiety Frankly, the top 3 are gold, the next two are notably good movies, the rest I don’t care for. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/40 "2004-12-06T21:58:09Z")
1. Young Frankenstein 2. The Producers Not sure after that, probably Blazing Saddles. He’s at his best when he’s working with someone else. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148.md?page=3)