History Fridge / YoungFrankenstein

* Go watch ''Son of Frankenstein'', the movie that ''Film/YoungFrankenstein'' draws most of its material from. In that movie, the titular son of Frankenstein has a son of his own; a young boy who bears more than a passing resemblance to Gene Wilder, who plays the grandson of Victor Frankenstein. Coincidence, or perfect casting?

* FridgeBrilliance: Go watch ''Son of Frankenstein'', the movie that ''Film/YoungFrankenstein'' draws most of its material from. In that movie, the titular son of Frankenstein has a son of his own; a young boy who bears more than a passing resemblance to Gene Wilder, who plays the grandson of Victor Frankenstein. Coincidence, or perfect casting?

* A small prop detail closes a plot hole from the original ''Frankenstein'' film. In the original, the brain jars have their labels on the covers and Fritz grabs the whole abnormal brain jar after breaking the normal one, leaving it questionable how the brain could make it into the Monster with Fritz delivering Frankenstein a labeled jar with good reasons not to use its contents--either Fritz would notice the problem or Henry definitely would when the word "Abnormal" is staring either of them in the face at the laboratory. In ''Young Frankenstein'', this is solved-- the labels are on the ''bases'' of cloches and the jars are separate pieces inside the cloches, so Igor takes the unlabeled abnormal brain's jar out of the cloche to Frederick, making the uncaught nature of the error much more believable. Furthermore, since Igor seems aware of his mistake during the interrogation, he was able to pass it off thus far by not giving Frederick a label.

* Another GeniusBonus: in the original book, Literature/{{Frankenstein}}, Frankenstein is [[AndSomeOtherStuff intentionally vague]] on how he created the monster because he doesn't want anyone else to learn how to do it. Hence the fact that Frederick finds the notes on how to do it in a separate book, titled "How I Did It."

* Another GeniusBonus: In every ''other'' version of the story, Frankenstein is repulsed by his creation and rejects it, causing said creation to act out and cause mayhem, becoming a poster child for CreatingLifeIsBad along with a {{Deconstruction}} of what creating a new life entailed. But in the AffectionateParody, that trope gets turned on its ear. Frankenstein comes to a HeelRealization and realizes that this "monster" is his child, and a child he has to care for. Because he does what ''no'' other version was willing to do and take responsibility, which [[{{Reconstruction}} Reconstructs]] the whole idea, the film has a ''happy'' ending where both Frankenstein and his creation come out benefiting one another.

** If you were to read a script of the Monster's last scene with Elizabeth, all of his dialogue could be very accurately transcribed as "Grunt", and he ''still'' manages to come across as intelligent and sophisticated.

* Another GeniusBonus: In every ''other'' version of the story, Frankenstein is repulsed by his creation and rejects it, causing said creation to act out and cause mayhem, becoming a poster child for CreatingLifeIsBad along with a {{Deconstruction}} of what creating a new life entailed. But in the AffectionateParody, that trope gets turned on its ear. Frankenstein comes to a HeelRealization and realizes that this "monster" is his child, and a child he has to care for. Because he does what ''no'' other version was willing to do and take responsibility, which [[{{Reconstruction}} Reconstructs]] the whole idea and gives the film a ''happy'' ending where both Frankenstein and his creation come out benefiting one another.

** If you were to read a script of the Monster's last scene with Elizabeth, all of his dialogue could be very accurately transcribed as "Grunt", and he ''still'' manages to come across as intelligent and sophisticated.

* FridgeBrilliance: Go watch ''Son of Frankenstein'', the movie that ''Film/YoungFrankenstein'' draws most of its material from. In that movie, the titular son of Frankenstein has a son of his own; a young boy who bears more than a passing resemblance to Gene Wilder, who plays the grandson of Victor Frankenstein. Coincidence, or perfect casting?

* FridgeBrilliance: Go watch ''Son of Frankenstein'', the movie that ''YoungFrankenstein'' draws most of its material from. In that movie, the titular son of Frankenstein has a son of his own; a young boy who bears more than a passing resemblance to Gene Wilder, who plays the grandson of Victor Frankenstein. Coincidence, or perfect casting?