# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Yamirskoonir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/c0e974/32.png) [@Yamirskoonir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yamirskoonir)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/41 "2004-12-06T22:15:15Z")
“MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!” “Did you just make a yummy sound?” 1. Young Frankenstein 2. Blazing Saddles 3. History of the World: Part I ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/42 "2004-12-06T22:20:14Z")
1. Blazing Saddles 2. Young Fronkenshteen 3. Spaceballs I have never been able to “get” The Producers. It just isn’t funny. ---
**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, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/43 "2004-12-06T22:27:32Z")
And you like Spaceballs, which I loathe. Proof that arguments about taste are meaningless! 😃 Mel can appeal to all sorts…something for everyone. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/44 "2004-12-06T22:30:56Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > **Madeline Kahn** last was heard in “A Bug’s Life” (1999) as the voice of Gypsy Moth, but IMDB reports a strange movie called: > Magic 7 (2005) (TV) > [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113735/trivia](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113735/trivia) > > > [@](#): > > > > The project was started in 1990. > > > > …. > > > > John Candy and Madeline Kahn (Wastra in this movie) recorded their voice tracks for this project in the early 1990s. > > > > Originally scheduled to air on Earth Day, 22 April 1997, but was postponed indefinitely. I wonder if it even exists. The IMDb has been fooled into listing non-existent movies before. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/45 "2004-12-06T22:47:26Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > I wonder if it even exists. The IMDb has been fooled into listing non-existent movies before. I’m starting to have my doubts. One of the “photographs” links goes to a drawing of a dragon with the following caption: > [@](#): > > This dragon was designed for Roger Holzberg’s project “The Magic Seven.” James Earl Jones provided a voice track, including several minutes of belching. “No, Luke, I _am_ your (burp!) … 'scoose me…” ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/46 "2004-12-06T23:37:00Z")
“Yes! YES! **YES!!!** He vas my **_BOYFRIEND_!!!** ” Top three Brooks’ movies: 1. Blazing Saddles 2. Young Frankenstein 3. Space Balls ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/47 "2004-12-06T23:41:16Z")
Nobody mentions that Kenneth Mars also provides the voice for King Triton in _The Little Mermaid_ (two movies and an animated TV series). _The Producers Young Frankenstein Blazing Saddles_ ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/48 "2004-12-06T23:50:44Z")
[Gene Wilder’s first draft for Young Frankenstein](http://www.horrorlair.com/scripts/young.txt) ---
**Author:** ![TPWombat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TPWombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TPWombat)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/49 "2004-12-07T00:15:41Z")
“Give him an extra dollar.” ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/50 "2004-12-07T00:17:00Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > I wonder if it even exists. The IMDb has been fooled into listing non-existent movies before. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0282390/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0282390/) Everyone should know about the glory that is [J-Bolt](http://www.moviepoopshoot.com/delusions/7.html)! He’s the gift that keeps on giving. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Threadkiller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aca169/32.png) [@Threadkiller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Threadkiller)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/51 "2004-12-07T00:48:49Z")
My favorite sight gag from the flick was when they were playing the amplified violin, trying to lure Peter Bo…er, the monster, back. At one point Igor leans in a plays a bit with a French Horn. At first “why” runs through your head, followed quickly by “why am I talking this movie seriously?”. Cracks me up very time. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/52 "2004-12-07T01:53:54Z")
in my opinion, one of the funniest movies ever made. my favorite scene is gene hackman as the blind monk ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/53 "2004-12-07T02:33:47Z")
**Eve**? I love the second half of that exchange where the boy says > [@](#): > > Jah ! Jah ! Track 29 !!! The movie has the beauty of comic timing within the scenes as they play, and in editing. How can we overlook Madeline Kahn striding in at the end, resplendant in her Bride of Frankenstein hairdo? Hilarious. Other fave moments: When Eyegore leans back out when nobody can hear him and whispers to the horses, " Bleucher !" " Mr. Hilltop, you dirty filthy son of a — " then, the knee to the groin and the bewildered look. " Oh, I love my pretty little flowers, Oh, I love my pretty little flowers. I love my flowers. " Gene Wilder picks up the violin and proclaims, " It’s still warm ! " 😃 " Ovaltine? No, ssssssssssssssankyu ! " Trivia bit perhaps not mentioned. > [@](#): > > From [Young Frankenstein](http://www.moria.co.nz/horror/youngfrank.htm) > Perhaps it works the best of all Brooks’s films because Brooks has a clear affection for the originals and has made a real technical effort at recapturing the look and style of the old Frankenstein films, reconstructing them in loving detail down to the Gothic sets and black-and-white lighting. Brooks even employed Kenneth Strickfaden who actually uses some of the original lab equipment that he created for the originals. Cartooniverse ---
**Author:** ![jgroub](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b77776/32.png) [@jgroub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jgroub)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/54 "2004-12-07T02:36:55Z")
I prefer Blazing Saddles to Young Frankestein, but it’s still a killer movie. My cousin’s family has this thing that they do. They have been doing it for 30 years. If anyone says “Frau Blucher”, they all whinny and neigh. You’d be surprised how often she comes up in conversation. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/55 "2004-12-07T03:56:41Z")
“An incredibly _large_ mute.” “Cigars!” I wonder how many women have at one time or another borrowed from Madeline Kahn’s making a sizzling sound when she touches her hip…? **Young Frankenstein Blazing Saddles The History of the World, Part I** (“It’s called plumbing! With it, you can _pipe_ the _shit_… _out_ of your house!”) ---
**Author:** ![kalex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dfb087/32.png) [@kalex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kalex)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/56 "2004-12-07T04:16:26Z")
This is a mother’s angel. I use that one all the time, usually when squishing my SO’s face. He’s a patient man. Funniest movie ever. Taffeta, darling! ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/57 "2004-12-07T04:29:48Z")
Definitely my favorite of Mel’s films (and Gene’s for that matter). Then Blazing Saddles and History of the World Part 1, along with The Silver Streak and Stir Crazy for Gene. ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/58 "2004-12-07T04:56:12Z")
This thread’s getting out of control. “We’ve… all of us… GOT to behave NORMALLY!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/59 "2004-12-07T08:26:23Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > I wonder if it even exists. The IMDb has been fooled into listing non-existent movies before. > [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > I’m starting to have my doubts. One of the “photographs” links goes to a drawing of a dragon with the following caption: > > > [@](#): > > > > This dragon was designed for Roger Holzberg’s project “The Magic Seven.” James Earl Jones provided a voice track, including several minutes of belching. > > “No, Luke, I _am_ your (burp!) … 'scoose me…” You guys made me wonder, so is up to Google: [http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Candy\_John.html](http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Candy_John.html) [quote] The Magic 7 (voice, recorded in the 1990’s) (2004) [http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/imdb/imdb\_frame.jsp?pagetype=title&page=/title/tt0113735/](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/imdb/imdb_frame.jsp?pagetype=title&page=/title/tt0113735/) > [@](#): > > IN PRODUCTION > Release date: 2005 > Status: Unknown > The status was last updated on 27 September 2002 > Since this project is categorized as being in production, the data is subject to change or could be removed completely. [http://www.bullz-eye.com/celebritybabes/jennifer\_love\_hewitt.htm](http://www.bullz-eye.com/celebritybabes/jennifer_love_hewitt.htm) > [@](#): > > will also lend the voice to the TV animated feature, “The Magic 7,” in production for 10 years and including the pre-recorded voices of deceased film stars like John Candy and Madeline Kahn. [http://casadiablos.com/stephres.htm](http://casadiablos.com/stephres.htm) > [@](#): > > The Magic 7 > > Character Animator > > After school special. Dr. Scratch segment shown at Siggraph '93 This last one convinced me that this movie does “exist” (when in doubt I learned to look for people who worked in the biz to see if they mentioned in their bios) but I have to grant it: by “exist” I am talking here in the very tenuous Hollywood term. Around 1994(!) work was essentially completed in writing and directing the live action and dialogue units for THE MAGIC 7, but then IIUC the original studio suffered a meltdown and the project is only in life support with another studio, who knows if this movie will ever be completed. As for Mel’s favorite movies: 1. Young Frankenstein 2. Blazing Saddles 3. History of the World: Part I (A pack of Troyans!!) ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/60 "2004-12-07T09:50:58Z")
The bit that had me in stitches: Dr. Frahnkenshteen is walking down the steps to the lab for the first time, and he passes a shelf of skulls in different stages of decomposition. 2 years dead…1 year dead…6 months dead… (Eyegor’s head) “I’m alive!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148.md?page=4)