Which Character?

The scene toward the end of the movie, when they are walking thru the woods, when the Inspecter, played by Kenneth Mars, raises his hand (causing a lot of noise) and goes "shhhh"...very subtle, but cracks me up every time

"Dr. Frankenstein!"
"It's Frankensteen."
"You're putting me on!"
"No"
"Do you also say Froderick?"
"No, it's Frederick Frankesteen...you must be Egor."
"No, it's pronounced Igor."
"They told me Egor."
"Well they were wrong then, weren't they?"

I love that scene!

I also like the scene in the lab.

"Igor!"
"Froderick!"

:D

-Amanda

"She will remember your heart when men are fairy tales in storybooks written by rabbits"

Eye-Gore for me too, but Inspector Kemp and the blind hermit aren't far behind.

silovik812 wrote: Feldman and Kahn are wonderful, but the part that really puts me in stitches every time, and with hardly any dialogue at all, yet, is the first few scenes with Frau Bluecher, from her first entrance at the castle door to the "brandy, warm milk, or Ovaltine" bit in the library. Cloris Leachman's facial expressions and reactions just crack me up, and in the latter scene, the interplay between Leachman and Wilder is one of the most professional things I've ever seen on screen.

Gene Hackman's bit as the clueless blind hermit is hilarious no matter how many times I see it; that scene is almost a small play in itself.

And the Sweet Mystery of Life scene (set up long ago in the movie with the discussion of the size of the Monster's organs) is wonderful, nobody but Madeline Kahn could pull that off. "Oh, you men are all alike! Seven or eight quick ones, and you're off with the boys to boast and brag! You better keep your mouth shut! (to herself) Oh, I think I love him!" Kahn at her finest.

As to jokes that aren't so funny anymore, there are a few for me, too: "What knockers!", "There wolf!", Eye-gore's hump and the Inshpecktor's arm, "Quiet dignity and grace", the game of Charades, and maybe a few others. These were hilarious to me the first, oh, twenty times I saw this movie, but now they're wearing a little thin.


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I agree with all your likes and dislikes to a frightening degree, with the only exception being The Hump, which still works for me every time because of Feldman's subtle and sly performance.

But the virtue of these 'less favorite' bits is surely that we can safely leave the room to take care of personal needs when they appear. (Kenneth Mars has become quite a stranger to me...)

For me it's Igor.

"What are you doing in the bathroom day and night? Why don't get out and give someone else a chance?"

Marty Feldman as another poster said steals every scene that he is in.

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