Released 30 years ago this December: Young Frankenstein!

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.

It’s supposed to be an After School Special?!

“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.”

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!”

“Young Frankenstein” and “Blazing Saddles”, while both very funny, don’t compete for the title of Brooks’s best, which is clearly “The Producers”. :slight_smile:

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.

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.

Fuuuuuuuuck. 40 years?

I’m fucking old.

BRAAAPPPPP!
More beans, Mr silenus?

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.

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.

Alive! It’s alive! IT’S ALIVE!!!

We are not children here!

I was gonna make espresso!

Put…ze candle…back!!!

" 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.

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!

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!

You’re confused. Marty Feldman (as Igor) said the “never in a tux” line in the alternate ending to the movie Big.

I liked the monsters fearful reaction to the Doctor chewing the scenery in their first encounter.