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To: Ciaphas Cain

I saw it when I was around 12. Not sure exactly but it was sometime in the GWB years. Needed a lot of help from the folks, with the cultural references. In all I didn’t find it a classic of American comedy.
Yet I enjoyed Mad Mad World and the various Leslie Nielsen comedies (again with boomer interpreters on hand).
Since then I’ve seen Mel Brooks’ other achievements. I guess I just don’t get Mel Brooks. Didn’t care for YF at all. :(


49 posted on 02/07/2024 7:58:24 AM PST by Buttons12 ( )
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To: Buttons12

There’s one reference I still don’t get.

When Harvey Korman says, “Ah yes, the Doctor Gillespie Killings.”

No clue.


50 posted on 02/07/2024 8:00:45 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Buttons12
Didn’t care for YF at all.

I consider Young Frankenstein to be Mel Brooks' cinematic masterpiece and one of the funniest films ever made.

What movies do you think are funny?

79 posted on 02/07/2024 12:55:08 PM PST by Max in Utah (A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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