Daily Dialogue — October 30, 2011

“Putting on the ritz!”

— The Monster (Peter Boyle), Young Frankenstein (1974), screen story and screenplay by Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks, based on the novel “Frankenstein” by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is monsters, suggested by Teddy Pasternak. Young Frankenstein suggested by Pliny the Elder.

Trivia: Cloris Leachman, on NPR’s Fresh Air on June 3rd 2009, claimed that Mel Brooks told her the Blücher (as in Frau Blücher) means glue in German, hence to reason for the horse whinnies. However, this is not true: Blücher bears no resemblance to the German for glue. It is a very common name, so that shouting “Frau Blücher!” is equivalent to shouting “Ms. Jones!” The horses’ terror of her name is meant to be an inexplicable absurdity.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Why is this line so damn funny?

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