History Film / YoungFrankenstein

* RunningGag: [[SelfDemonstratingArticle BLÜCHER! *NEIGH!*]]

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Frederick screams "What have I done?" when the enraged Monster first breaks free.On the DVD commentary, Brooks says this was to keep the film in the structure of classic Yiddish theater, where act two always ends with either "What have I done?" or "She's pregnant!"

* ShamingTheMob: The Monster himself does it, with a speech mostly cribbed out of Shelley's original book.

--> '''Inspector Kemp''': Und... ve had better ''cunfeeeerm'' de fect that yung Fronkenshtein ish indeed... '''vallowing in his grandfadder's footshtops!''' [[TheUnintelligible ''(What??)'']]

--> '''Inspector Kemp''': Und... ve had better ''cunfeeeerm'' de fect that yung Fronkenshtein ish indeed... '''vallowing in his grandfadder's footshtops!'''

-->'''Townsman''': He's a Frankenstein! And they're all alike. It's in their blood. They can't 'elp it. All those scientists, they're all alike. They say they're working for us. What they really want is to rule the world!

-->'''Kemp''': A riot is an ugly thing. Und I think that it is just about time that we had one!

-->"Every night?!?"

* StealthSequel: Perhaps. A throwaway line amongst the villagers suggest they've dealt with Frankenstein's family "for years", implying events similar to the original Universal films may have occurred.

* CompositeCharacter: Igor's role in the story is based primarily on Fritz from ''Film/Frankenstein1931'', but a number of his most distinctive traits, including his name, his hunched back and his master only being a descendant of the ''original'' DrFrankenstein, are instead based on Ygor from ''Film/SonOfFrankenstein''.

* SoundtrackDissonance: The somber musical score is squarely at odds with the screwball tone of the film, yet somehow works perfectly well.
** Mel intentionally kept the fact that the film was a comedy secret from the composer, resulting in serious music to a seriously funny movie.

* TakeAThirdOption: When Frederick finally embraces his grandfather's legacy, he symbolically stops pronouncing his surname wrong - but instead of pronouncing it the way everyone else does, he pronounces it in the authentic German manner, perhaps symbolizing that he will embrace the legacy on his own terms.

* CreatorCameo: He never appears on screen (directly), but Brooks provides off-screen voices in three places. According to Brooks, this was one of Wilder's requests - that Brooks not appear onscreen in order to preserve the immersion of the film.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: "It's Frahnk-en-steen!"

* ADateWithRosiePalms:
** One interpretation of what Igor's "dear old dad" was referring to when Igor apparently spent too much time in the bathroom.
** Also a possible interpretation of what the couple(s) are arguing about during the train scenes - see BilingualBonus above.

* BookcasePassage[=/=]BookSafe: Subverted when Frederick tries to open a secret door by moving a likely-looking book. He then inadvertently learns it's actually triggered by a candle-holder. Keeping the door open proves a debacle until the candle is quickly replaced and removed to rotate the shelf halfway.

* GagBoobs: Subverted. Dr. Frankenstein is carrying Inga out of the wagon when they arrive at the castle, and says "What knockers!", to which Inga replies with a flattered "Thank you, doctor." He was talking about [[InnocentInnuendo the actual huge knockers on the doors which Igor has just used.]]

* ToTheBatNoun: "To the lumberyard!!"

-->''[Holds and regards his arm for a second, then dramatically points to the door with it]'' "[[ToTheBatnoun To the lumberyard]]!"

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And, since it keeps coming up, "Blücher" ([[RunningGag *NEIGH*]]) is ''[[CriticalResearchFailure not]]'' the [[http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/blucher.asp German word for "glue"]]; it's [[UrbanLegend just a common misconception]].

* AssholeVictim: The policeman who torments the Monster while he's chained up and helpless. It's almost a relief when the Monster throttles him a moment later.[[note]]He's played by Oscar Beregi, who played an ''even worse'' Asshole Victim in the ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}'' episode [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E74DeathsHeadRevisited "Death's-Head Revisited."]] Maybe he just Plays Great Assholes.[[/note]]

* ChewingTheScenery: Completely deliberate.

* CreatingLifeIsBad: Completely averted. The problem is that Igor got "Abby Normal"'s brain for the monster, not that bringing him to life was inherently wrong, and the story perhaps inadvertently follows readings of Shelley's book that Frankenstein's error was in rejecting his creature, not in creating it.
* CreepyChangingPainting: A scowling portrait of Victor Frankenstein is highly visible in Fredrick's room. When Frederick finds his grandfather's instructions and decides to continue his work, a lightning-illuminated close-up shows the portrait looking very pleased.

** After Frederick "walks Igor's way", he stops and gives a look as it sinks in that he was just convinced to do so.

* EinsteinHair: Frederick has it, and it gets blown around to good effect during the thunderstorm in the reanimation scene.

* FakeArmDisarm: Played for laughs with Inspector Kemp, who loses his wooden arm when the monster accidentally pulls it off in the climax.

* FrankensteinsMonster: This one has his head attached with zippers instead of bolts. It's also a single corpse of a big man with a different brain installed instead of a full MixAndMatchMan constructed to size.

* FreudianSlip: Frederick introduces his fiancee Elizabeth to Inga as his "financier", then hastily corrects himself.

* GagBoobs: "Subverted. Dr. Frankenstein is carrying Inga out of the wagon when they arrive at the castle, and says "What knockers!", to which Inga replies with a flattered "Thank you, doctor." He was talking about [[InnocentInnuendo the actual huge knockers on the doors which Igor has just used.]]

* HeirClubForMen: DoubleSubversion. In a deleted scene from the film, we see the official reading of the Baron's will, which Frederick cannot attend. In the will, the Baron leaves everything to two cousins (one male, one female), a niece, a nephew, and a "bosom friend" and her daughter, in equal shares - '''unless''', in the unlikely event that his great-grandson Frederick (only 10 at the time of the will's creation) chooses to go into medicine,''' ''and'' ''' becomes a respected expert in his field of study. Needless to say, the attending members of the family are not pleased to discover that the reason Frederick is absent is his prior obligation to give a lecture called "Functional Areas of the Cerebrum with Relation to the Skull."

* OffscreenTeleportation: During final preparations to reanimate the monster, Igor is up on the roof.

** The misty woods are from Film/TheWolfMan1941. When first seen, there's even a werewolf howl.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Gene Wilder gets one. On the DVD commentary, Brooks says this was to keep the film in the structure of classic Yiddish theater, where act two always ends with either "What have I done?" or "She's pregnant!"
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Frederick screams "What have I done?" when the enraged Monster first breaks free.

Creator/MelBrooks and Creator/GeneWilder's AffectionateParody of the classic Franchise/UniversalHorror films of the [[TheThirties 1930s]]. Released in 1974, shot in [[DeliberatelyMonochrome black and white]] using [[PropRecycling laboratory props]] from the original ''Film/{{Frankenstein|1931}}'' and starring a cast of comedic actors all at the very height of their talents.

Wilder is Frederick Frankenstein ("[[PretentiousPronunciation That's Fronkensteen!]]"), grandson of the infamous mad scientist, who is determined to distance himself from the family legacy. When he inherits the family estate in Transylvania, he takes leave of his uptight fiancée Elizabeth (Creator/MadelineKahn) and goes to inspect the property. There he encounters a household staff that includes the hunchbacked servant Igor (Creator/MartyFeldman) who insists on having his name pronounced "Eye-gor" and has a hump that is always changing position from scene to scene, nubile assistant Inga (Creator/TeriGarr), and mirthless housekeeper Frau Blücher ([[HairTriggerSoundEffect *NEIGH*]]) (Creator/ClorisLeachman). Discovering his grandfather's laboratory and private journals, Frederick becomes similarly obsessed with the idea of re-animating the dead, and with Igor's assistance steals the corpse of a recently-hanged criminal; he then tasks Igor with stealing the preserved brain of "scientist and saint" Hans Delbrück, but an accident leads to the brain's destruction and forces Igor to substitute an abnormal brain without Frederick's knowledge. The creature (Creator/PeterBoyle) is animated and proves to be uncontrollably violent, and then Frau Blücher, (*NEIGH*) who was Victor Frankenstein's lover, sets him free...