Comments on: 38 Facts on Frankenstein (Including the Aerosmith song it inspired and the reason the Munsters never got sued)

By: janson

janson — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:03:42 +0000

How about the short-lived 90’s cartoon tv show “Rick Moranis in Gravedale High” where the character Rick Moranis (voiced by himself) quit acting and went to teach at a monster school where monsters such as Frankentyke (no taller than 3 feet) would cause him daily problems.

By: Stacy

Stacy — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:11:45 +0000

See link for more info on the gag “walk this way”. I thought that I first saw it on Monty Python but it seems to be a bit older than that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk_this_way_(film_line)

By: Galvo

Galvo — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:39:12 +0000

(This doesn’t contradict Steve Tyler’s story. The “walk this way” gag wasn’t pioneered on “Young Frankenstein” (arguably a remake of “Son of Frankenstein”).

I saw that gag in the 1960s, I think in a Bugs Bunny or Daffy Duck cartoon.(Which would be from an earlier decade).

By: Sara in AL

Sara in AL — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:22:31 +0000

@PartiallyDeflected- Yes, it was.

By: Lillith

Lillith — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:36:12 +0000

Great read! Frankenstein (the modern prometheus) is a million times better than Dracula on paper, but both are very interesting on all films, even the idiotic ones.

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:12:07 +0000

My great-grandmother, the daughter of German immigrants, was born with the name Albertine Augusta Frankenstein. A few of my cousins do not like people to know about this family connection; most of us think it’s really cool. “Of course I’m a little weird. I’m part Frankenstein!”

By: jkate

jkate — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:50:30 +0000

What about “In Literature”?

By: Brady

Brady — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:08:35 +0000

Good God. Did I really just waste 20 minutes reading all that? What the hell is wrong with me? I need a good kick in the frankenberries.

By: DixonSteele1on1

DixonSteele1on1 — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:11:10 +0000

Let’s not forget – Phil Hartman’s Frankenstein monster on SNL; or the Frankenstein guy on Conan O’brien’s show too!!

By: MattG

MattG — Sun, 24 May 2009 16:26:00 +0000

One more omission… Mad Monster Part (1967) – One of those great 60’s animagic productions.

“Baron von Frankenstein (voice of Boris Karloff) decides to retire, leaving the monster business to his nerdy nephew, Felix Flankin (Allen Swift). Frankenstein plans to announce his decision at a convention of monsters that includes his creature and the creature’s more intelligent mate (Phyllis Diller), Frankenstein’s seductive fembot laboratory assistant Francesca (Gale Garnett) (resembling a caricature of Ginger Grant from Gilligan’s Island), Dracula, the Werewolf, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Invisible Man, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, The Mummy, It (a knock-off of King Kong), and many more. However when Felix proves to be an incompetent (and unsuitably kind-hearted) human, the monsters plot to eliminate him and gain control of Frankenstein’s latest discovery: the secret of total destruction!”

Mad Magazine creator Harvey Kurtzman penned the script.

Oh, yeah… it was also a musical. Yop, there are 12 musical numbers.

It is also rumored that Warner Bros. is currently working on a remake of the film, possibly in CGI.

Click my name for the trailer.