Young Frankenstein

Episode 12: Young Frankenstein (1974)

Theme: Mel Brooks Month
Hosts: Oz & Curtis

This week, Oz and Curtis don their lab coats, practice their dramatic lightning-summoning poses, and dive into Young Frankenstein — the Mel Brooks masterpiece that proves black-and-white movies can still deliver premium dad-jokes, wandering humps, and more horse whinnies than a Kentucky Derby telethon.

Join your two favorite abnormal brains as they dig into:

• Why Gene Wilder’s Frederick insists it’s pronounced Fronkensteen… right up until he suddenly decides he’s totally cool with being a Frankenstein when it benefits him emotionally and sexually.

• How Marty Feldman’s Igor steals every scene with a shifting hump, world-class whip skills, and fourth-wall breaks so frequent he might as well be filming a vlog.

• The undeniable fact that Inga’s job description is 30% lab assistant, 70% innuendo delivery system.

• How Madeleine Kahn shows up for 12 minutes and still manages to be the funniest person in Transylvania.

• Why the monster goes from grunting brute to tuxedo-wearing tap dancer in roughly the time it takes to yell “PUTTIN’ ON THE RITZ!”

• And of course, the enduring mystery of Frau Blücher: girlfriend? ex? immortal witch? Horse whisperer? All of the above.

From shifting bookcases to flaming thumbs, from soup catastrophes to the most dignified temper tantrum in cinema history, Oz and Curtis celebrate Brooks’ perfect blend of homage, parody, and absolute nonsense.

Final Verdict:

Oz — 17 horse whinnies
Curtis — 83 bowls of scalding soup
Both — Proud graduates of the Hans Delbrück School of Brain Safety.