# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/61 "2004-12-08T04:16:49Z")
I like that Victor finds his grandfather’s book, and the title is “How I Did It”. Also the gag where Frankenstein is telling Igor to come down from the roof because of the danger of electrocution, and Igor _instantaneously_ appears behind him. ---
**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 8, 2004, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/62 "2004-12-08T22:52:35Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > 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. It’s supposed to be an After School Special?! ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/63 "2004-12-08T23:26:28Z")
“Does that mean that you – ptoo – love me?” The look on Igor’s face after _he_ says “Blucher” makes me laugh every single time. “Oh, schitt!..To ze lumberyard!” “There wolf…there castle” “I suggest you put on a tie.” ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/64 "2004-12-09T00:17:24Z")
> [@The Scrivener](#): > > “Cigars!” Not just my favorite line from _Young Frankenstein_, but one of my favorite lines in any movie ever. And I see my other favorite’s already been mentioned, too: “A violin! And it’s still warm!” Oh well, how about this story, then: I was driving some friends back to San Francisco from LA, and we’d left too late as usual. We were all exhausted, so we just drove the last three hours of the trip without stopping, and the last couple of hours without saying a word to each other. We finally get to my friend Rain’s house and I stop the car and we get out to get her luggage. We’re both clomping around, heads down and stiff-legged, around to the back of the car. She stops, puts out her arms, and suddenly shrieks, “Puttin’ on the RIIITZ!” ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/65 "2004-12-09T01:22:33Z")
“Young Frankenstein” and “Blazing Saddles”, while both very funny, don’t compete for the title of Brooks’s best, which is clearly “The Producers”. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Altognarl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Altognarl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Altognarl)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2014, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/66 "2014-05-05T20:17:55Z")
I can affirm (though I can’t prove, of course) that in the original release, Marty Feldman’s Igor did say the line about the tuxedo, as others have indicated on this thread. I first saw the movie in Edmonton, Canada, and many years later, watching it again on VHS, I remember telling my then-new wife, “Wait for it … wait for it!” … and “it” (the line) never happened, much to my dismay. The phrase as I’ve always remembered it was simply, “Oh, never with a tux!” (after Victor points and says, “What happened to the, uhhh … ?”), but my memory is not to be trusted 100% on that score. That this many of us saw the scene, though, is proof enough for me that it was actually there, and I’m sorry it didn’t make it into the deleted scenes on the DVD too. I recall finding it absolutely hilarious at the time, but I’ve always thought it was removed because it was perceived as insensitive to people with spinal deformities, much as the racist scenes in the original Disney Fantasia were excised later for their unquestionable offensiveness. I’m sorry, though: this line in Young Frankenstein was genuinely funny, if mildly shocking, and should have been retained. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2014, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/67 "2014-05-05T23:31:44Z")
I’m feeling even older considering this is a 10-year-old zombie and it’s now been 40 years since the movie was released! I think I’ll leave it open for the mirth factor alone. ---
**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:** [May 5, 2014, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/68 "2014-05-05T23:42:38Z")
Fuuuuuuuuck. 40 years? I’m fucking **old**. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2014, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/69 "2014-05-05T23:54:16Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Fuuuuuuuuck. 40 years? > > I’m fucking **old**. BRAAAPPPPP! More beans, **Mr silenus**? ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/70 "2014-05-06T00:12:31Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > 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? Yes, I remember that dialog, but I probably read it in the book. Often, to promote a movie that they’re pretty confident will do well, they’ll release a novelization of the film. The writer will work from a script. Scenes and dialog cut from the film won’t necessarily be edited from the novelization. For example, Sheriff Bart telling Lily Von Schtupp “I hate to disappoint you, ma’am, but you’re sucking my arm.” was cut from the movie, but it’s there in the book of the movie I had. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/71 "2014-05-06T00:20:26Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > I’m feeling even older considering this is a 10-year-old zombie and it’s now been 40 years since the movie was released! > > I think I’ll leave it open for the mirth factor alone. It’s not a zombie. It was merely reanimated, like Freddie’s creation. If you want to make it go away, just pour some steaming hot soup in it’s lap. I’ve always thought Gene Hackman _ **REALLY** _ enjoyed playing the Old Blind Man. On the first release, he wasn’t credited. ---
**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:** [May 6, 2014, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/72 "2014-05-06T00:22:51Z")
[Alive! It’s alive! IT’S ALIVE!!!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VkrUG3OrPc) ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/73 "2014-05-06T00:41:44Z")
We are not children here! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/74 "2014-05-06T02:56:55Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > It’s not a zombie. It was merely reanimated, like Freddie’s creation. If you want to make it go away, just pour some steaming hot soup in it’s lap. > > I’ve always thought Gene Hackman _ **REALLY** _ enjoyed playing the Old Blind Man. On the first release, he wasn’t credited. I was gonna make espresso! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/75 "2014-05-06T08:43:08Z")
Put…ze candle…back!!! ---
**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:** [May 6, 2014, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/76 "2014-05-06T10:09:08Z")
" oh the irony. Me a blind man and you a deaf mute." ( thumps his chest ) " An incredibly big mute. Why, you must have been the tallest one in your class!" I I don’t know why but this dialogue has always completely wrecked me. Love this film, and let us remember how beautiful the black and white photography is. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/77 "2014-05-06T17:50:01Z")
> [@E-Sabbath](#): > > 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. I remember the whole cast coming down the grand stairway. It’s not a cut scene but some kind of goofing around by the cast and crew in a sort of proto-video scrapbook. It’s in the extra features on my copy of the DVD. BLUCHER! ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/78 "2014-05-06T18:17:47Z")
My favorite are the expressions on Peter Boyle’s face as he’s trying to get served food by Gene Hackman. Frustration, confusion, amusement, he does everything hilariously! ---
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/79 "2014-05-06T19:28:07Z")
> [@Altognarl](#): > > I can affirm (though I can’t prove, of course) that in the original release, Marty Feldman’s Igor did say the line about the tuxedo, as others have indicated on this thread. I first saw the movie in Edmonton, Canada, and many years later, watching it again on VHS, I remember telling my then-new wife, “Wait for it … wait for it!” … and “it” (the line) never happened, much to my dismay. You’re confused. Marty Feldman (as Igor) said the “never in a tux” line in the alternate ending to the movie _Big_. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148/80 "2014-05-06T19:37:44Z")
I liked the monsters fearful reaction to the Doctor chewing the scenery in their first encounter. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/released-30-years-ago-this-december-young-frankenstein/278148.md?page=5)