Ok,.. here's one way to start out the movie for real. I'm Dr. Frankenstein, son of the Dr. Frankenstein from the movie "Young Frankenstein".
I'm a Science Teacher in a High School and it's the last day of High School before summer vacation.
I'm a cool likeable teacher. On top of the chalk board it reads: Dr. Frankenstein which is pronounced Frankenshteen. But everybody prefers to call me Dr. Frankenstein instead of pronouncing it correctly and over the years I've just given up and decided to go along with it.
As I'm at the last day of school and my wife is at her work and our kids are at school my Dad (Gene Wilder from the movie Young Frankenstein) calls our home and gets the answering machine where my wife left the message for our phone calls.
She says,.. "Hi,.. us Frankensteins (pronouncing it incorrectly) are all out working right now, but you can leave us a message here on our answering machine after the tone.
My dad leaves a little message wishing to hear from me to go over arrangements for our first trip to meet our kids Grandfather.
Later when I get the message and give my dad a call it could start out something like,... "Hello Father",... and he might come out with somethin like,... "you know,... our name is actually pronounced Frankenshteen",.... pause,... "it has never been Frankenstein"...
And I say,... "yes,... I know father,... but everybody prefers to say Frankenstein,... so we've learned to live with it"... pause,... "here at our,.... Frankenstein Manor"....
Then we chat about when were going to be leaving and arriving and what ever else that might come to be important at this time.
The night before were leaving to go on our trip to Grand Pa's house,.. Me and the wife and kids are all sitting at the dinner table having our dinner.
One of the kids says,.. "I'm gonna dress up like Frankenstein to meet Grandpa". And the other kid gets excited and says "Me Too",... and then they both start going on and on about how they want to dress up like Frankenstein to meet their Grandfather,.... like,... Can we?,... can we?,.... can we please?,...
I think about it for a second or two,... and say,... "Oh,... I suppose it will be alright".
Then the kids get all excited and rush to go get their Frankenstein costumes out.
The next morning we set out in our car to drive to Grandpa's house,... Me,.. I kind of look like my dad with the same hair-do,... my wife,... and our 2 kids that are dressed up like little Frankensteins. Maybe the kids are like 7 and 8 years old.
When we get to Grandpa's house,.. the kids rush out of the car and run up to the entrance door while me and the wife are grabbing our luggage and things.
Me and the wife get up to the door and ring the bell,... and when my dad answers the door,... he swings the door open,... and the youngest little Frankenstein growls and rushes Grandpa and latches on to his leg growling at him. The other little Frankenstein is on his way too,... but he's got his arms stretched out in front of him as he's doing the slow moaning Frankenstein towards Grandpa....
As the wife and kids are getting our things into our bedrooms where were going to be staying and checking out the place and playing,... Grandpa decided to take me down to the Laboratory where I can see all the new things that he's been working on,... and so we talk shop being that were both Scientists....
As were getting ready to go through the door to the Laboratory,... Grandpa yells towards the Laboratory,...
"WE ARE ENTERING THE LABORATORY NOW"....
I don't think nothing of it really as we walk down the stairs to the Laboratory and my dad is kind of taking his time as if he's got someone in the laboratory that needs to go hide or something before we get down there.
When we get down there he's got a whole bunch of Frankensteins in cages.
Me and my dad walk up to the first caged Frankenstein,... I have reading like glass's hanging around my neck with a strap that keeps them lying on my chest where I have easy access to putting them on at anytime.
I put the glass's on as my dad starts telling me a little bit about this particular Frankenstein... In time there's a pause where were just looking in at the Frankenstein,... and I say,... "He looks Hungry".
My dad starts talking about how their on a special diet as he walks over to a table and grabs a full carrot. He brings it back over and toss's it down into the bottom of the cage. There's a pause as me and my dad are looking in at the Frankenstein and the Frankenstein is just looking straight ahead as he always has been.
I look up and see that there's a sign on the cage in the upper right corner that says Frank Fencing,... (exactly like one of those signs that fence makers put on their fencing). I look back down at the Frankenstein and say,.. "Hello Frank".... But the Frankenstein doesn't say a thing and just keeps looking straight ahead.
So we move on to see the next caged Frankenstein.... As were walking over to the next one and my dad starts telling me about this particular Frankenstein,... a carrot hits me on the back of the head and knocks my glass's off of my eyes...
I look around and see the carrot on the ground,... the carrot missing from the first Frankensteins cage,.. and the first Frankenstein still looking straight ahead as if he didn't do a thing.
I scratch my head and turn around to meet my dad at the second caged Frankenstein. My dad just kept walking and talking as the carrot hit me.
When I get to the second caged Frankenstein I put my glass's on and look up at the upper right corner of the cage and focus in on another sign on this cage that also says Frank Fencing.
It has me a little stumped as we pause and look in at the second Frankenstein who is also just looking out straight ahead.
Then we move on to the 3rd cage as my dad starts coming out with what's up with this 3rd particular Frankenstein. Were standing there looking in at another Frankenstein that is just looking out of the cage straight ahead and I'm listening to what my dad is saying.
This time when my dad finishes what he's saying I glance up and see another sign that says Frank Fencing,.. I look back down at the 3rd Frankenstein that is still looking straight ahead as my dad is saying nothing,.. then with my glass's on my eyes,.. I lunge at the cage, grabbing the cage and putting my face right into the cage and say Arrrrrrrrghhh loudly in the monsters face,.. and my dad and the Frankenstein are still standing there looking exactly the same as before I growled at the Frankenstein.
There's a pause as I'm looking in the cage with my glass's a little twisted after growling at the Frankenstein,.. and then my dad moves us over to the 4th caged Frankenstein.
My dad's saying something about this next one but I'm not really hearing him as I can see that this 4th Frankenstein is a little different than the others... This one is Mini Me (dressed up as a Frankenstein)...
I immediately say as we get to the cage,... Oh,.. hey,.. cute little guy as I'm bending over and putting my hand over towards the cage... I bend down all the way and get my face up nice and close to the cage,... and then Mini Me Frankenstein quickly grabs the cage and says loudly,.. Arrrrrrrrrrrrrgh right in my face.
Then I pull away quickly,... and say to my dad "woah",... that's a mean little fella. Then I look back at the little guy and say,... You,...(I glance up and see another Frank Fencing sign on the cage then look back down),.. you Frank Fencing you ....
My dad says,... "He's our Mimic" then moves us on to the 5th caged Frankenstein... me and my dad are looking
in as there's a little bit of a pause and my dad then says,... "Hello Frank",.. which has me thinking like,... hmmmm as I look up at the Frank Fencing sign on his cage,...
and then the Frankenstein says,.. "You sons of bitches"...
And that's when my dad explains that,... "Actually,.. my son here is not a son of a bitch,.. he's an experiment and does not have a Mother just like you Frank"....
And then my dad can go into the story of how he made his own egg and picked out one of his best looking sperms to put in it,... then ran the egg through the Frankenstein making process.
And it created Life,... which was Me.
I never knew what my real story was,.. so this was all a bit of a learning experience for me and it caused me to have things to think about.
Here's a scene I thought of for as me and my dad leave the laboratory. Once were gone the camera goes back into the laboratory,... all of a sudden the Mini Me Frankenstein is out of his cage and comes out of nowhere and jumps up on the cage in front of The last Frankenstein's face and says ,... Arrrrrrrrrrrgh loudly.
Frank the last Frankenstein grabs the cage and says,... Arrrrrrrgh loudly right back at the Mini Me Frankenstein and the Mini Me Frankenstein falls to the ground.
Then Frank casually lets himself out of his cage and looks down at Mini Me Frankenstein who is lying on the ground playing dead,.. and says,.. come on Freddy,... let's go get something to eat.
And then all the Frankensteins are letting themselves out of their cages and their all talking and helping themselves to the food that is in the refrigerator that is there in the laboratory.
One of them might say,.. "hey,.. let's order Pizza",... and another one that is coming across as kind of the boss (probably should be Frankenstein 5,.. the one my dad called Frank) could say,... "no,.. we better not just yet,... lets let the company get settled in first"...
That night at dinner with Grandpa,... our little Frankenstein kids are really interested in seeing the Frankensteins. Going on and on about it,... and eventually Grandpa says,... "we can all go see the Frankensteins tomorrow".
The kids are all excited and we eventually all retire for the night to our rooms... That night I had a lot on my mind,... but I eventually got to sleep as I was tossing and turning through the night. At one point as I'm dreaming,... I look up and see Mini Me Frankenstein up on our bed down by my knees.
He's standing up,.. and puts his arms out and say's,.... Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh along with making a monster face at me.
I put my head back down and close my eyes thinking like,... Ok,... I'm going to go back to sleep now and forget about this.... I lye there like I'm going back to sleep and I'm thinking about how he sure growled at me nicely.
It was kind of like he was trying not to wake anybody up... I immediately looked back up,... and Mini me Frankenstein is on my bed looking down at me.
I say,... Oh,.. hey there little Franky,... we better get you back to the laboratory before you wake my wife.
I look over at my wife who appears to be sleeping like a log as I'm crawling out of the bed gently. As I'm walking out the door with little Franky I'm telling him my wife's name (which I haven't figured out yet),.. Like,.. quietly telling him,.. "that's my wife Ginger (I'll call her for now),... and if she wakes up and sees you,.. she'll put you in the room with our little Frankensteins thinking that your one of them"...
I bring little Franky over to our kids room to show him what he's in for and to check on them and I open the door quietly to see both our kids sleeping in their beds still dressed up in their Frankenstein costumes.
I close the door and say "You'll get to meet our little Frankensteins tomorrow" as I'm bringing him back to the Laboratory quietly so we don't wake anybody up.
As we quietly walk down the stairs to the Laboratory,... it's dark down there but light enough to see pretty well... Me and little Franky come down the stairs quietly to see that all the other Frankensteins are sitting at the table and drinking beers.
Their not saying anything,... their just all looking at me like a bunch of teenagers that just got caught doing something wrong...
I look down at little Franky and say "Ok buddy,... you better go back with the other Franky's for the night,... and we'll see ya tomorrow"....
Then I look up at all the other Frankensteins that are still looking at me like they just got caught doing something wrong and say,... "I won't tell on ya",... "I won't say anything"
It looked like it eased their minds as I walked back up the stairs so I could get back to bed.
In the morning our kids were ready to go see the Frankensteins first thing in the morning as if it was Christmas morning or something... Still all dressed in their Frankenstein costumes they came into me and my wife's room waking us up and excited about what their going to get to do today.
When Grandpa woke up and was ready we all went down to see the Frankensteins. As Grandpa opened the door to the laboratory he yelled down the stairs again,... "WE ARE ENTERING THE LABORATORY NOW". And we take our time getting down the stairs again while this time I know why he's being this way after seeing those Frankensteins all out last night.
When we get down the stairs,.. our kids run over to the Frankenstein cages,..... "ahhhh,... I like this one"... and "wooooooooow,... I like this one",... no,.... I like this one.
This time when I got close enough to the cages to see their Frank Fencing signs,... mysteriously like,.. in the night or something,.. someone put name tags on their cages.
Their name tags read,... from caged Frankenstein 1 to caged Frankenstein 5,.... Benny,... Johnny,... Loser,... Freddy,.. Frank...
And their all standing in the middle of their cages looking straight ahead again. But I know that their not the quiet caged creatures that they are appearing to be.
Freddy now has glass's hanging around his neck and lying on his chest just like mine are. So I decide to put my glass's on my eyes as I gaze over at Freddy who just keeps standing there looking straight ahead.
At one point when all us grown ups weren't looking towards the Frankenstein cages,... one of the Frankensteins makes a funny face at my youngest boy.
My youngest boy starts crying,... and then Freddy the Mimic Frankenstein with his glass's on his eyes now just like mine are starts imitating his crying and crying too.
Grandpa immediately looks at Frankenstein Frank who is looking straight ahead but trying to tell him that it wasn't him by nudging the top of his head towards the other cages.
Freddy's crying then causes my youngest boy to stop crying and giggle or come out of crying with laughter at Freddy.
Then Grandpa says,... "OK,... let's introduce you boys to the Frankensteins now.... He walks to the first cage and looks in at Benny and says "Boy's,... this is Benny",... then looks over at Frank to see if Frank will let him know if it was Benny.
Frank stomps his foot down to the ground 2 times.
Grandpa thinks,... ah ha.... as he's looking over at Frank that's looking straight ahead then moves on to the second cage and says "Boys,... this is Johnny" and as he says it he's turning and looking at Frank.
Frank stomps his right foot to the ground 3 times.
Grandpa thinks,... ah,... as he's looking over at Frank then moves to cage 3 and says "Boys,... this is,..... he pauses,... then says Loser",... all the Frankensteins but Loser start to snicker along with trying to keep a straight face at the same time.
Grandpa looks over at Frank that's trying to keep from snickering and Frank stomps his right foot to the ground 3 times.
Grandpa is now a little stumped and isn't understanding Franks language,... but slowly turns and looks at Loser and says,... "Loser can't read or write",.... then turns to the boys and asks,... "Can you boys read and write?"
The Boys both answer with "yes Grandpa",... then Grandpa looks back at Loser that can't help but show a new look on his face after what he just heard.
Then Grandpa moves to cage 4 and says,.. "Boys,... this is Freddy" and turns and looks over at Frank.
Frank stomps his right foot to the ground 2 times.
Grandpa don't understand,... then moves to Franks cage,... "Boys,... this ones name is Frank"....
Frank stomps both his feet to the ground in a running style for a second or two then stops and looks straight ahead.
Grandpa gets flustered because he don't understand Franks language,... and says,.. "Ok Frank,... let's go through this one more time without the boys"...
He walks over to the first cage and says "Benny" and looks at Frank who stomps his right foot 2 times. Then Grandpa moves to cage 2 and says "Johnny" and looks at Frank who stomps his foot 3 times. Then Grandpa moves to cage 3 and says "Loser" and looks at Frank who stomps his foot 2 times. Grandpa says "Ha" and moves back to cage 1 and says "Benny" and looks at Frank and Frank stomps his foot to the ground 3 times. Then Grandpa moves to cage 2 again and says "Johnny" and looks at Frank who stomps his foot to the ground 4 times,... then Frank moves to Loser and Frank starts running as Grandpa moves from cage to cage faster and faster as he's looking back at Frank who is now getting worn out from the running he's doing and has to stop.
Frank bends over panting and as he's panting he say's "I don't know who did it father,... I just know that it was someone over there as he nudges the top of his head over towards the other caged Frankensteins".
Grandpa pauses as he's staring at Frank,... then looks up and says,... "Ok,... I think that's enough excitement for now,... it's time for breakfast".
So we all walk back to go up stairs and have breakfast,.. and as we're on our way Grandpa puts a large pad lock on the refrigerator that is in the laboratory and say's "OUR BREAKFAST" as he looks back over towards the caged Frankensteins who are all standing there with looks on their faces like a bunch of teenagers that just disappointed their father.
As Me and my wife and kids and Grandpa finally sit down for Breakfast the camera takes a look back into the Laboratory where the Frankensteins are all out of their cages and gathered around the table. A couple of them are sitting at the table and their talking about what happened.
One of them says,... "I'm hungry",.. and a couple of the others come back with "Me too",.. and "Me too"...
Benny say's,... "You guys up for some of Mamma's Cafe cookin?",... everybody say's "Yeah"...
So Benny get's on the phone and you hear a woman say,.. "Mamma's Cafe",.... Benny say's,... "Yeah,.. were gonna make an order and have it delivered". The woman say's ,.. "Ok,.. go ahead with your order",... Benny say's,... "We'll have 2 big breakfasts and 5 extra large coffees,... pause,... Benny holds the phone and looks over at Johnny and say's "what a ya gonna have?",.... Johnny say's "I think I'll go with a couple of those Mamma's Breakfast sandwiches",... then Frank say's,... "Yeah,.. I think I'm gonna go with a couple breakfast sandwiches this time too",.. Loser say's "Me too"....
Then Benny looks at Freddy who has his glass's on his eyes and say's "what a ya gonna have Freddy?",..
Freddy say's "2 big breakfasts"...
So Benny gets back to making his phone order and says,.. "Ok,.. and were gonna add 6 of those Mamma's breakfast sandwiches and 2 more big breakfasts.
And then the camera moves back to where us and Grandpa are having our breakfast.
After some time of talk and eating our breakfast,.. Grandpa get's suspicious,... because he knows the Frankensteins very well... So Grandpa excuses himself from the table to go check on some things.
Grandpa sneaks down the stairs of the Laboratory and can see all the Frankensteins sitting at the table having a feast from Mamma's Cafe.
The Frankensteins don't see Grandpa,... so Grandpa watches them as their having their breakfast,... and they look so,.... well,.... like they're not in trouble or something.
Grandpa say's loudly,... "You guys are Pathetic" and stares at the group of them.
All the Frankensteins freeze,.. as some of them are just about to take another bite....
Some seconds go by and the Frankensteins slowly turn their heads over towards Grandpa that is still staring down at them.
after a pause,... Grandpa says "PATHETIC" and turns and walks back up the stairs and out of the Laboratory.
The Frankensteins slowly turn back around and go back to finishing their breakfasts looking like a bunch of teenagers that are in trouble again.
The camera comes back into the dining room where me and the wife and kids are just getting up deciding to retire to our rooms for a little while. Me and Ginger go to our room and the kids go to their one room and we leave the doors open.
Me and Ginger lye down on the bed and talk about I don't know what yet. And the kids are lying in their room talking about kid stuff and Frankensteins along with still being dressed up like little Frankensteins.
After a while we start hearing things going on outside of our rooms. Our rooms are upstairs rooms with a stair banister balcony area where we can stand and look down into other parts of the house.
Eventually I decide I better get up and see what's going on down there... I walk out my door and I can see that my kids are sitting at the banister and looking through the pickets of the banister at what is going on down below.
I walk over to the banister and look down,... and all the Frankensteins are down there playing shoot each other games with those spring guns that shoot that ammo that looks like a toilet plunger. The type of ammo that will stick to glass and mirrors and smooth surfaces.
I say to myself,... "these Frankensteins are like a bunch of kids" loud enough that my family can hear me.
A gun shot fires up at us,.. about a foot away from hitting me and hits the wall behind me.... And then Freddy Frankenstein runs up the stairs toward us as gun shots are being fired at him.... He runs over to us and slides like he's taking cover from the gun fire.
He slides right next to my kids and sets a couple spring guns next to them with some toilet plunger ammo,... and says,... "Your gonna need these"...
Then he cautiously gets up and moves over by me where the shots can't hit him if any body fires. I look down at him as he's putting on his glass's that are hanging around his neck and lying on his chest. He put's them on then looks up at me,..... there's a pause,... and then he stretches out his hand to give me a spring gun too....
I take the gun and Freddy runs away quickly and dives to take cover over by the stairs.
I look down at my kids who are looking a bit excited,... then I look at my gun that is loaded with only one toilet plunger ammo and I think out loud,... I'm going to have to find me some more ammo somewhere.
I bend down by my kids and say,... "Ok boys,... let's follow Freddy"... We crawl over by Freddy who seemed to be waiting for us. Then Freddy say's down the stairs,... "You guys are Pathetic",... mimicking Grandpa to where it sounded almost exactly like him.
Then Freddy say's to us,.. "the coast is clear" and motions to us to go down the stairs.
So I take the lead crawling down the stairs quietly and my kids and Freddy are following me... We all get down the stairs and were still all crawling on our hands and knees... It all seems pretty quiet down here now after Freddy mimicked Grandpa.
I decide that I better let Freddy take the lead here since were new to this game,.. so I drop back and shrug my shoulders at Freddy.
Freddy crawls us over to a door,... He looks back at us and say's "shhhhhhhh" quietly with his finger to his lips.... He get's himself a little stool that's near the door so that he can reach the door handle and gets up on it opens the door very quietly and just enough to where it's not really open to where we can see through it yet.
He gets down off the stool and pushes it back where it was then moves over to the door and peeks through the crack of the door....
He then looks back at us and say's "wait here",... then quietly goes through the door and closes it just enough to where we can't see in there,.. but it's still open,... not latched closed....
Me and my kids wait there quietly on our hands and knees for a minute or so and all of a sudden we hear someone running...
And then Freddy comes running through the door right past us with Loser Frankenstein following him,.. but Loser Frankenstein is doing that Frankenstein moaning walk with his arms stretched out and he's coming right for us.
I look down and around me and every bodies gone but me,.... so I get up and make a run for it where I find myself in a dark room and seemingly all alone"....
I get down on my hands and knees and crawl over to a door way where I can see out into the main room and cautiously look out into the main room...
All of a sudden Loser Frankenstein comes into view doing his moaning Frankenstein walk with his arms stretched out,.... he's about 30 feet away from me,... and then I can see Freddy and both my kids shooting their plunger guns at him.
They're hitting him pretty good with that plunger ammo,... and Loser Frankenstein is acting like he's hurt.
Loser is down on the ground on his knees with his hands holding his belly,... and then he looks up and lets out one last moan and falls face forward to the ground.
Freddy rushes over to Loser and frisks him and takes all his guns and ammo then brings them back over to my kids.
It looks like the coast is clear to me,... so I go and join them,... crawling over to them on my hands and knees.
Freddy looks at me and the kids and say's,... "that's one,.... now there's 3 more".... I look at Freddy and say,.. "your the leader Freddy",..... "we'll follow you".... Freddy looks down at the guns and ammo that he found on Loser and say's,... "you better take what ever ammo you need,... and don't leave any guns laying around because they'll pick em up and use them on us"....
Then Freddy takes the lead as were all 4 crawling quietly along a wall towards another door. This time when we get to the door I decide to help Freddy by opening the door for him. I open the door enough to where all 4 of us can peek through the opening and we do so.
Freddy say's,... "I'll go" and me and the kids let him...
This time we leave the door cracked open enough to where we can peek in and see what's going on. And it wasn't long until we saw Freddy come running towards us. Me and the kids backed away from the door and took cover as Freddy came sliding face first through the door. There was plunger ammo being shot at him.
Freddy ran over by my kids and grabbed them and took them over behind a plant.... All of a sudden Frankenstein Frank came through the door with a plunger gun in each hand. He shoots both of his guns over at the plant where Freddy and my kids are taking cover.
Then Freddy steps out where Frank can see him and shoots Frank in the chest followed by my kids shots that hit him in the body too.
Frank moans and says,... "sons of bitches" then falls to his knees and then falls face first to the ground.
I moved to the right side of the door and Frank had his back to me,... my kids and Freddy are over by a plant in front of Frank and over by the stairway that leads to our rooms. As Freddy quietly moves over to Frank and takes all of Franks guns and ammo I see my wife Ginger crawling over by the kids and joining them.
She's been watching and decided to crawl down and join the game. Freddy moves back over by my kids and Ginger and they all divvy up the ammo and guns.
I decide to stay where I am for the moment and watch the bunch of them to see what happens next. Freddy takes the lead and all 4 of them come crawling around and over by me,.... Freddy quietly say's "Follow Me",... as he crawls past me...
So I smile at my wife and get in line behind her crawling with the rest of them.... Freddy crawls us all over to another door then stands up beside it.... He's listening at the door,... so I crawl over to see if he would like to open it.
I grab the door knob and look at Freddy,... and he say's,... "Ok",.. and moves a little to the side so I can slightly open the door.... I turn the knob very slowly,... but the knob has a squeaking noise to it and I can't help but make some noise while I'm opening this door.
I get the knob turned then start to pull the door open,... and all of a sudden Benny Frankenstein comes walking through the door with both his hand holding his forehead,... and he's walking funny and acting like he's hurt...
Every one of us scramble over to the sides of the room as Benny looks like he might of got shot by Johnny Frankenstein or something,... and maybe he's going to die on us before we even take a shot at him.
All of a sudden Benny let's go of his head and say's "Ha Ha,... I fooled ya's",... then he reaches down and grabs a gun in each hand and whips them around and takes a shot at any of us that he can see,... Freddy say's "Now",.. and steps out and shoot's Benny in the body and then we all take a shot at him.
It looked like most our plunger bullets hit him. Benny then moans and falls to his knees,.... and all of a sudden Johnny Frankenstein comes running through the door and into our room screaming.
He comes sliding in and slides over by Benny who is still in the process of keeling over... Johnny starts taking shots at all of us. He's using his guns and Benny's guns. As were all scrambling to get our guns re-loaded.
Once we all get our guns re-loaded we all start taking shots at Johnny Frankenstein and after we get him real good He falls to his knees where him and Benny are standing there on their knees holding their bodies.
And then they both fall face first to the ground at the same time.
Freddy moves over to Benny and Johnny and put's his foot on one of them and say's "We win" as he's looking around at all of us,... and then Benny and Johnny growl and grab Freddy and wrestle him to the ground.
Then they all 3 get up and dust them selves off.
Frank and Loser come walking up and Frank say's "let's do some racin"... Then Loser say's as he's directing the question to Me and Ginger and the kids,... "You guys wanna do some slot car racin?....
So we all get up and decide to do some slot car racing...
The Frankensteins take us to a large room that is set up for slot car racing only. They've got a killer track that's set up on tables. And it's a custom track that you can race 10 cars on at the same time. It's a large race track that fills most the whole room which looks to be about 30 feet by 30 feet. But it's set up to where all the track is reachable,... like for when your cars wipe out and you have to set them back up on the track.
They've got the table around the track all decorated with little trees and rocks and houses and people.
They also have what looks to be around 100 slot cars. And they all look like older cars from the 1950's and earlier.
When we start racin with some cars on the track I notice that these slot cars are a little different than the super fast one's that my kids have. These cars have like hard rubber tires,.. and it causes them to do burn out's when you take off from a starting position.
The wheels spin as the car slowly starts picking up speed and when the tires start grabbing they get going at a pace that's maybe half the speed of what the super fast slot cars do. But it's actually really fun to race this way because it's a lot easier to follow all the cars with your eyes when their moving at this slower speed.
As the hours seem to go by as were all playing with the coolest slot car track I've ever seen,.... Grandpa enters the room. And since this is like a movie script here with Gene Wilder considered to be playing the part as Grandpa,.. I think I'll let Grandpa decide whether he'd like to join in and do some racing with all of us. At this point in the story along with my vague memory of how he was in the movie Young Frankenstein,... I'm not sure if he's the type that would play slot cars or not.
It doe's sound fun to have him playing too though....
No matter what he decides to do with the racing,... in time Grandpa decides to take Me and Ginger out for a walk around the interior of the house. He takes us and shows us all of the Frankensteins bedrooms,... and then tells us about how the rule of the house is,... "when anybody new comes to the house,... all the Frankensteins have to go and get in their cages".
Then as we're all walking and talking we stop at a set of double doors.... Grandpa opens the double doors to reveal the game room. It's a very large room with what looks like to be about every kind of game you can imagine a game room would have.
This one even has a half court full size basketball hoop.
I say to Grandpa,... "man,.. these guys have about everything here",... Grandpa say's,.. "Yes,... well,.. they've gotta have something to do around here,.... Frankensteins don't get to get out much"
There's a pause,... and then I say,... "you mean Frankenshteens"...
Grandpa say's "Yes"....
There's a pause,.. and then Grandpa turns to me and say's,... "Yes,... we are all Frankenshteens,... and those are your Brothers"....
And then Grandpa turns and walks away,.... as he's walking down the hall he say's,.. "We'll be having dinner at 8:00"....
Me and Ginger turn and look at each other then walk in and check out their game room. We might play a little in here as husband and wife that are alone,.... and I'm not thinking any funny stuff here,... I'm thinking cute,.. with lot's of smiles towards each other.
And eventually we decide to go to our room,... where I'm still not thinking about any funny stuff here,... I'm just thinking like it's going to be dinner soon,... so we're going to check on the kids on the way back to our rooms and maybe kick back and talk a little bit before dinner.
When dinner time gets close Me and Ginger go and get the kids who are still playing slot cars in the slot car room with all my brother Frankensteins.
The kids aren't ready for dinner yet,... but they eventually come to get ready for dinner.
Our kids would like to stay in their Frankenstein outfits,... so we let them,... of course,.. Ginger might think that they need to get cleaned up a little bit before dinner though even if they are going to stay in their Frankenstein outfits,... so the boy's have to deal with their Mother on that one.
When dinner time comes we all go to the big dining room that has a long rectangular table with enough room for all of us,... including my brother Frankensteins who are showing up to the room 1 and 2 at a time until they're all there.
Grandpa shows up and dinner begins. We all talk and eat,... and eventually Ginger has a question for Grandpa,... Ginger asks,... "why aren't there any girl Frankensteins?"...
Grandpa says,... "we tried once,... and it didn't work out",... then the camera shows memories of back when Grandpa made a woman Frankenstein. The one with the white streaks in her hair. The memory shows her doing her blood curdling scream,... and then the camera moves back to the dinner table.
Then Ginger asks,... "do you guys ever get to go out?",.... Like,.. out in the outside world away from here.....
Grandpa says,... "we went camping once",.... and then the camera moves to showing a memory of their camping trip... It shows them in a big ole Winnebago motor home pulling into a campground that looks desolate.
Their all unpacking their stuff and setting up camp and even though they decided to go camping during the off season,... some other Campers just happened to pull in beside them...
The memory shows a woman and 2 young kids walking around her Winnebago and when she looks up and sees the Frankensteins she lets out a blood curdling scream just like the woman Frankenstein did.... As she's screaming the Frankensteins are all running to get back into their Winnebago and then the Frankensteins drive away and the camera moves back to the dinner table.
Then Grandpa says,... "oh,.. I took Frank to the Grocery store once,... remember that Frank?",... Frank says "yep",... and then the camera shows the memory of that moment... Grandpa and Frank are in the Grocery store just doin some grocery shopping. Their standing in the fresh vegetables section of the grocery store.
A woman comes around the corner with her shopping cart and is right in front of Grandpa and Frank and as soon as she looks up and sees them she lets out a blood curdling scream... Which caused the woman behind Grandpa and Frank to look up and scream too.
The women had Grandpa and Frank a little boxed in to where running away was a bit of a job. And then of course the screams caused every woman that saw Grandpa and Frank on their way out of the grocery store to scream also.
Then the camera moves back to the dinner table where were having dinner and Grandpa says,... "we tried jogging once",...
Then the camera moves to showing the memory of the Frankensteins out jogging.... Grandpa, Benny, Johnny, Loser, Freddy and Frank are all out jogging the streets. Every woman they pass by lets out a blood curdling scream as soon as she sees them.
It shows them running past a couple benches on the side of the road where about 8 woman are sitting,.... and every woman let's out a blood curdling scream as the Frankensteins run by them....
After we've seen enough woman screaming to get the picture,... the camera moves back to where were all having dinner....
The door bell rings. Benny, Johnny, Loser, Freddy and Frank stop everything their doing and freeze with their eyes wide.... Grandpa says,.. "I'll get it"...
When Grandpa leaves the room,.. The five Frankensteins rush to the front door along with Grandpa acting like a bunch of curious kids... Grandpa gives them a look,... then turns and opens the peep hole on the entrance door. He sees a woman with a snotty like look on her face standing out there. Grandpa turns slightly towards the five Frankensteins and says,... "Bitch"....
All five Frankensteins make a run for the Laboratory,... and then Grandpa closes the peep hole and opens the door. When he gets the door open and is standing there facing the woman,... the woman points her finger out and says,... "I know you have Frankensteins in there"... with a snotty like attitude.
There's a pause as Grandpa and the woman are looking at each other,... and then Grandpa says,... "Frankenshteens"....
There's a pause again as the woman and Grandpa are looking into each others eyes,... and then the woman says,... "what's a Frankenshteen?"....
There's another little pause,.. and then Grandpa says,... "Read the sign" then closes the door on the woman and goes back inside the house.
The camera then shows the woman's view which as Grandpa closed the door she couldn't help but see the sign he was talking about because when the door closed the sign was right in front of her eyes...
The sign on their entrance door reads,... "The Frankensteins"
The woman leaves as if she has been put in here place and with her feathers a little ruffled so to speak....
Grandpa comes back and tells his Grand kids that,.. "Yes,... they can go back and play slot cars some more" as they're asking,... and then decides to retire for the evening.
Me and Ginger decide to go back to our bedroom and probably retire for the evening too. When we get to our bedroom,... Ginger fills me in on what she would like to do...
Ginger is a person that gives Make Overs. That's what her job is. She gives Make Overs to people to make them look different,.. or look better.
And she would like to give all five Frankensteins Make Overs if they will allow it.... Because she thinks that she can make it possible for them to go out in the outside world.
I'm cool with her idea,... and Ginger decides to work on her idea with her laptop computer for a while,... so I decide to go and check on the kids...
When I get to the slot car room,... Benny, Johnny and Freddy are all in there playing slot cars with my kids.
I'm figuring in this story that Frank is the oldest of the Frankensteins,... Then Loser,... then Benny,... then Johnny,.. and Freddy as the youngest.
So,.. in the slot car room I play slot cars for a little while with my kids and Benny and Johnny and Freddy and then I decide to call it a night for myself. I tell my kids,... "Your Mother would probably like you two to go to bed sometime tonight",.... and they say "Ok",... and or "Ok Daddy"...
I go back to my bedroom and I decide that I'm ready to go to sleep for the night,... and then Ginger soon calls it a night also.
In the morning we find all my brother Frankensteins in their large game room playing some basketball. I'm not sure if Mini Me Freddy can play basketball at his height or not,... so I've been thinking that what they might do is,.. when Freddy gets the ball,.. one of the guys that's closest to him on his team will pick him up above their head so that he can shoot from a much more comfortable height. Maybe even dunk the ball if his carrier is tall enough to allow it...
In this story I'm figuring that my Frankenstein brothers all prefer to wear normal Frankenstein outfits. Like,.. even though they can wear anything else,.. they all prefer to wear that old black suit look like they've always wore in all the Frankenstein movies that I have seen....
They prefer that look,.. even when they're playing basketball... Maybe just take their jackets off if and when it gets hot.
So here's the scene,.. me and Ginger are standing at side court watching Benny, Johnny, Loser, Freddy and Frank play basketball. About our kids,.. I'm thinking that either we looked in on them as they were sleeping and decided to let them sleep in,... or they are checking out all the toys in this game room.
Eventually the basketball gets thrown over to me,.. but Ginger takes it before I can get to it... Me and Ginger start shooting baskets along with my Frankenstein brothers,.. just casually taking shots,.. and then Ginger asks them all,... "Do you guys ever wear any clothing other than black suits?"...
They all kind of act like they're being hit with an odd question as some of them look down at their clothing and shrug their shoulders and say,.. "No"... then the rest of them follow in with "no" and "nope" also....
Then I decide to help her and say,... "Ginger thinks she can make it possible for you guys to go out in the world without women screaming at you"...
All my Frankenstein brothers laugh except for Frank...
Ginger brings over her laptop computer,... she worked on taking pictures of them and putting different clothes and hair-do's on them last night to give them some examples...
So she starts showing them all pictures of themselves in different clothing and hair-do's and telling them about what her job is and what she does for work....
All my brother Frankensteins get some laughs looking at themselves in those ways,... and eventually they decide to give it a try... As if maybe it will be fun,... and it's something new and different to do.
So a little later that day Ginger got started with doing her Make Overs down in the Laboratory.
She took Frankenstein Frank first. And when he came out of the Make Over room,... he was like a new Man...
Benny, Johnny, Freddy and Loser were all impressed and looking forward to getting their Make Overs too.
Ginger's biggest obstacle is how to hide their Neck Bolts... Where she has decided to go with those wrap around neck warmer type things that people sometimes wear in cold weather...
Benny, Johnny, Freddy and Loser all go into the Make Over room at separate times and come out also looking like new Men.
All my Frankenstein brothers are feeling a little excited like,.. and they all decide to go and show Grandpa...
When they get to a room and find Grandpa,... he is impressed also,... and eventually he ask's,.. "well,.. what are you guys going to do now?"...
My Frankenstein brothers are a little confused,.. because they don't know what they're going to do now...
Some of them say,.. "we don't know",... and one of them says,.. "let's go see what were going to do now",... then they all rush back to the Laboratory like a bunch of excited teenagers.
Back at the Laboratory all the Frankenstein brothers come hurrying back in all wanting to know what were going to do now...
Ginger is somewhat busy with cleaning up,.. but say's,.. "I think we should try something easy first",... "maybe just all go out to dinner"...
All my brother Frankensteins hear her say "go out to dinner",.. then they rush back to tell Grandpa...
They all hurry back into the room where Grandpa is and excitedly say,.. "were going to go out to dinner"....
Grandpa says,... "really"....
All my Frankenstein brothers are telling him,.. "Yep"...
Grandpa asks,... "where?"
All my Frankenstein brothers are a little confused again,... and realize that they need to go back to the Laboratory and find out "where were going",... so they all hurry back to the Laboratory...
When they get back to the Laboratory all asking "where are we going out to dinner to?",... Me and Ginger tell them "we don't know yet"... and "we don't live around here,.. so we don't know of any good restaurants around here"... Then I say,.. "Maybe Father will know of a good Restaurant that we can all go to"...
So,... all my Frankenstein brothers decide that they got enough information with what we told them to go back to Grandpa to give him the scoop...
They all hurry back to Grandpa and say,... "we don't know yet",... and "we don't live around here",... and "we don't know of any good restaurants around here",... and "Maybe Father will know"....
There's a pause,... and then Benny corrects the information with,... "no,... it was,... maybe father will know of a good restaurant we can all go to"...
Grandpa says,... "I see".... then after a pause,... Grandpa says,.... "Yes,... I know of one"...
All my Frankenstein brothers get happy about that... Me and Ginger find our way into the room where they all are,.. and arrangements get made for us all to go out to dinner that night.
When were all about ready to go,... Grandpa hands a set of car keys to Frank and says,.. "you wanna go get the car Frank?"... Franks a little surprised but is very interested in driving the car,... so he's on his way in a flash...
Frankensteins can't get drivers licenses because they can't go into a DMV to take the tests without people having a problem with them. But some of them have been taught to drive.
The Frankenstein Mobile isn't really big enough for all 10 of us,.. so me and Ginger and the kids follow them over to the restaurant in our car. Grandpa let's Frank drive tonight which makes Frank very happy.... And everybody piles in and were all off to the Restaurant.
Once were at the restaurant we get us a nice table that seats every one of us. It's a very nice evening,... and were all in happy like moods while talking and enjoying being out in such a way. My Brother Frankensteins have never been out to a restaurant before.
As were all about finished with our dinners,... the waitress comes over to our table to check on us and she looks over at Loser who has his neck wrap unwrapped around his neck to where it's showing his neck bolts...
Ginger notices what the waitress is seeing and as the waitress's mouth opens up to scream,... Ginger stands up and says "NO" loudly to the waitress which stops the waitress from screaming... Then Ginger wraps the neck warmer back around Loser's neck and tells the waitress,.. "this is my sons Uncle,... and he's Ok"....
The waitress closes her mouth and goes along with it,... but when she goes back to the others that she works with she tells them all what she saw.... So now all her co-workers are suspicious of the people sitting at the table for 10...
Other than the one instance with Loser,.. dinner goes pretty well... Every body is feeling pretty good...
And when it comes time to leave the restaurant,.... every body gets up to leave,... but when Johnny gets up, his neck wrap gets caught on the chair and it pulls it completely off of his neck revealing his neck bolts.
Johnny don't even notice until the waitress starts screaming at him. And then of course her screams cause every body else in the restaurant to turn and look,... and any of the other women that happen to notice Johnny scream too.
Ginger grabs Johnny's neck wrap and wraps it back around his neck and we walk out of the restaurant in a glum like way.
When we get back home,... Ginger tells Grandpa,... "it's these neck bolts",... "if you could just get rid of these neck bolts everything would be Ok".... And that raises the question of "is there a way that we can get rid of our neck bolts? from my Frankenstein brothers....
Grandpa say's,... "there may be one way,... but it's going to require an experiment,... and then he say's,.. and it must be done tonight,... so let's all meet back up in the Laboratory at 10:00pm...
We all agree and all decide to go to our rooms for a while....
When around 10:00pm comes around Me and Ginger and our kids go down to the Laboratory to see that Grandpa and all my Frankenstein brothers are already down there. Grandpa is dressed up like a scientist and is acting like he's working. And all my Frankenstein brothers are getting coached on what their job is going to be.
Grandpa then fills me and Ginger and the kids in on what our jobs are going to be (pulling levers and things like that) and then Grandpa prepares the table.
The job is,... "we need to find out something about the type of metal that he used for my Frankenstein brothers neck bolts by taking a sample of the same type of metal and running it through the same type of Frankenstein making process that Grandpa used to create a Frankenstein".
So when the time gets to be just right,... and were all ready to go,... we all pull our levers and push our buttons and Grandpa starts ranting about making Frankensteins or something,... and then the table and Grandpa move up into the ceiling were the roof is opening up.
Grandpa gets up to the top and the table stops,... and he's going on and on about we don't know what,... all of a sudden lightning comes through the roof and it stops everything.
We can't hear Grandpa anymore and everything gets quiet.... After a little time passes we eventually think we need to pull the table back down and find out if Grandpa and everything is Ok....
So we pull the lever to get the table to come back down,... and when the table gets down to our level,... Grandpa is gone,.... but there is a really cute little puppy dog and a note....
I take the note and read it out loud,... it reads,... "sorry guys,... it's not possible to remove your neck bolts,.. they are a part of your central nervous system"....
Everybody is a little disappointed,... but my brothers have never had a puppy before,... so there is a new excitement in the room that helps to change the mood...
The next day Me and Ginger and the kids say our good bye's,... "good bye for now anyway",... and we head for our home,.... back to our little Frankenstein Manor....
When we get back home the camera moves to my first day back to teaching my class in Science class....
This year I've got a new life size plastic dummy of a Frankenstein standing up next to a plastic dummy of a human male,... and they both have removable anatomy so you can open their chests and heads up and look inside them and pull their parts out.
All the kids get into class and class starts and some of the kids have their hands raised so I call on them,... "they wanna know,... what's up with the Frankenstein"...
I say,... "well I'm glad you asked"... "well I'm sure you've probably heard about the rumors about Dr. Frankenstein,.... Me".... Because I've certainly been hearing them throughout all the years that I've been teaching here"...
There's a pause,... and then I say,... "it's true",.... "I am a Frankenstein",... "and I have brothers that are Frankensteins too"....
"I'm not exactly a Frankenstein of this type" as I point to the dummy Frankenstein,...
then I say,... "but my brothers are"....
Some of the kids in class are snickering and laughing and I notice and say,... "no,... it's true",... "let me show you a picture here" and I break out a picture of my brothers to pass around the class.
some of the kids still laugh anyway,... and a lot of them look to be in disbelief,...
So I say,... "Ok,... well,... whether you can believe it or not just know that if you ever run into a person that has these neck bolts in their neck" as I'm pointing to the neck bolts on the dummy Frankenstein,....
then I say,... "there's nothing to be afraid of".... and "here,... let me show you" as I'm starting to pull out the anatomy of a Frankenstein and compare it to the Human dummies anatomy.....
When I get finished showing them that a human and a Frankensteins anatomy are pretty much exactly the same except for their neck bolts and nervous system,.....
My brother Loser walks into the classroom.....
He comes in with a couple books in his hand, neck bolts showing, but dressed up like a student in some kind of trendy wear, puts a note on my desk , then walks over to one of the empty chair-tables and takes a seat as if he is going to be a student here at our school....
Most the kids in class have their mouths wide open in shock of what they're seeing,.... but no one screams,....
And that's where the movie ends...... As I'm attempting to get rid of some peoples fear of Frankensteins.
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