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2* Go watch ''Film/SonOfFrankenstein'', 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 Creator/GeneWilder, who plays the grandson of Victor Frankenstein. Coincidence, or perfect casting?
3* 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.
4* 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.
5* 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."

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