When Frederick begins speaking in front of the audience of scientists, he says:
"My fellow scien-"
(someone in audience): SSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
Frederick (pause) : "...tists"
I never really understood what that part meant, other than being just a random little funny moment?
The audience was hissing at him because they hated the Frankenstein's for what happened before.
He's taking the knife out of the Cheese!
Do you think he wants some cheese?
Yep. Same as booing. Boo! Hiss! I think hissing is more of a European phenomenon. Obviously hissing here makes a nice, quick audio gag. Sets the tone for the reception Frankenstein's probably going to get. It's a tough house.
shareI would suggest that the comedy line is 'tists' following the straight line the 'hiss'.
so what is funny about that? the scientists boo him and he calls them scient-tits, albeait for subtlety pronounces it correctly with the pause as the only clue. I actually havent seen it but guess the 'tists' is short abrubt and as it were spat out....
"I actually havent seen it"
Are you kidding me?
You are the most pretentious person I've seen in a while.
To add just a bit to your appropriate answer. The hiss sound implies the person receiving that sound is a snake. Snakes hiss. Calling someone a snake was an insult.
Watta ya lookn here for?
I wonder if it is also a recycled gag from Blazing Saddles where Dom Deluise's character asks the fags if they've got the dance now and they all go, "YESSSSS!" It is like the S gets stretched out or something.
shareWell it wouldn't have been recycled since it was the same year.
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That doesn't matter-it being the same year.
shareBlazing Saddles was released before Young Frankenstein. I remember because I saw them both when they were first released.
"Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison?"
Young Frankenstein is my favorite Mel Brooks movie, but, one of my favorite parts from Blazing Saddles...
Dancers- "YESSSSS!"
Dom Deluise- "Sounds like steam escaping!" :)
For some reason, I always hear it in my mind with a lisp..."Thounds like theam ethcaping!"
:D
I took it as them expressing displeasure at his including himself in their elite group as he was seen as a quack and not a "fellow scientist."
shareUm yes it does. To recycle something means you borrowed an old joke like, say, in Robin Hood Men IN Tights (bad movie) the mole was moving around like Igor's hump was. But how can you recycle a joke when both movies were from the same time?
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To recycle something means you borrowed an old joke
Yeah like I said. And that is age. If you "reuse" something that means the first time it was used was older than when it was reused, hence the "re". And if both movies were from 1974 Brooks wasn't reusing anything.
Again, J McClane, get off my nuts.
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You are a complete moron. Recycling is processing used materials (waste) into new products to prevent waste of potentially useful materials. It has NOTHING to do with being an old joke or age. They used a joke in one film then turned around in another film they were making and did the same joke. That IS recycling a joke. The films do not have to be years apart or even months.
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doesn't sound to me like you have any for J McLane to get off.
Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought an idiot - than to open it and remove all doubt!
@doowopfan Robin Hood Men IN Tights (bad movie)
Robin Hood Men In Tights was an awesome movie.
What I don't understand is that the characters are supposed to be German, but the REAL Transylvania is what is now called Romania...totally different country.
shareBeginning in the 12th century when the country was in need of highly skilled citizens, settlers from Germany immigrated to the area in and around Transylvania. They were known as Transylvanian Saxons.
shareTo hiss at someone in a theater is to communicate dissaproval from the audience to the communicator/actor/performer on stage. Older crowds would recognize and the humor of the the scene was much more relavent 38 years ago.
sharemy fellow scien ssss tists ... my fellow scien TITS notice no s so obviously they were reminding him of a previous time when he forgot the s and said tits instead of tists .. arent i a geniu ssssss
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I've always assumed that the hissing was the audience's way of letting Frederick know that they didn't like him (because of what his ancestors had done) and wanted him to get off the stage. Also, I took the "scientits' "theory" as a joke (though it WOULD be pretty funny if Freddy really HAD almost called his colleagues "scientits"!). :)
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Which I guess makes as much sense.
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