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Today I learned the the title for Aerosmith’s song “Walk This Way” was taken from a Marty Feldman line in the movie Young Frankenstein.

by whatilearned August 18, 2022, 12:29 pm

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What does Dr. Frankenstein call the cemetery?

by cringeyjokesman March 2, 2022, 9:27 pm

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TIL Mary Shelley published her novel “Frankenstein, the Modern Prometheus” at 19 years old, its themes of birth and death reflecting the deaths of both her first infant child and sister within a short timeframe, followed by pregnancy with another child who she carried throughout the book’s writing.

by whatilearned November 26, 2021, 8:35 pm

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TIL There is a 1910 film version of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein that was produced by Thomas Edison

by whatilearned November 24, 2021, 5:36 am

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Whats a smart Frankenstein called?

by cringeyjokesman October 29, 2021, 11:28 am

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TIL that when the movie Frankenstein was first released in 1931, many of its scenes were considered too violent or controversial, leading many parts of the movie to be censored. In particular, the state Kansas required 32 scenes to be cut, which removed a literal half of the entire film.

by whatilearned October 28, 2021, 3:46 pm

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Read Frankenstein for the first time and WOW. Classics aren’t bad, at all.

by CopyPastaArchive September 20, 2021, 12:09 pm

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TIL that Mel Brooks thinks Young Frankenstein is his best film. However, he doesn’t think it’s his funniest. That crown goes to Blazing Saddles with The Producers being “hot on its heels.” All 3 films star Gene Wilder. Despite this successful pairing, Wilder never appeared in any other Brooks films

by whatilearned August 20, 2021, 4:36 am

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TIL year 1816 is known as the Year Without a Summer. Cold rainy summer weather forced poets Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and their young lovers inside on vacation in Geneva. They told scary stories and Mary Godwin, Shelley’s lover and future wife, had a nightmare about Frankenstein and his monster.

by whatilearned August 15, 2021, 5:26 pm

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TIL that Universal Studios had a number of crossover films in which comedic due Abbott & Costello encountered Universal Monsters, starting with ‘Abbott & Costello meet Frankenstein’. These were among the examples they would cite later to claim they invented a ‘cinematic universe’ before Marvel.

by whatilearned June 27, 2021, 5:21 pm

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TIL that scholars believe that famed author Mary Shelley, who wrote Frankenstein, lost her virginity to her future husband, poet Percy Shelley, while on top of her mother’s grave.

by whatilearned May 4, 2021, 6:06 am

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TIL Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, endured many tragedies. Her mother died after giving birth to her, she was in constant debt, her 1st, 2nd, and 3rd children all died, while her husband drowned on his sailing boat. She herself passed away at 53.

by whatilearned May 3, 2021, 5:41 pm

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