EPISODE 13: Horror Comedy, Part 1 - "Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein" (1948)
Episode description
The Stabby Roadsters kick off "Horror Comedies" with the wellspring from which all horror comedies came: 1948's "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein", presented by JOE. Highlights:
- Sonia reveals that she's probably the only Millennial who knows who Claude Rains is (look him up)
- What happens after 23 hours of "edging"
- How many full moons are there in a given month in the Universal Monsterverse?
- The realization that this is perhaps, sadly, Bela Lugosi's greatest film performance
- Rob posits that this film influenced the creation of Scooby Doo
- Joe "Forrest Gump of Horror" breaks his previous record of "Did I tell you this story", but all about Universal backlot shenanigans
- The group comes to the conclusion that this film is one of the reasons why it took Finland 75 years to join NATO
- Also, don't miss a deep dive into the world of porn parodies!
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