Madame Pandora
Deliciously Aware of Impending Sins
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Recently I found out that I had been left out of a great joke.
In the Mel Brooks movie “Young Frankenstein,” horses whinny every time one of the characters uses the name of Cloris Leachman’s character: Frau Blucher.
It always made me giggle just because of Marty Feldman’s face when it happens, but I never realized WHY it was funny.
Apparently, “blucher” means glue in German (or it sounds a great deal like the German word for glue). Thus, this is the reason for the reaction of the horses.
Now…I must have seen this movie 100 times. I thought I knew every scene…every laugh. Man…I just LOVE finding something new hiding in the shadows of a great film.
I have also noticed from time to time that I have had to explain jokes in certain movies to friends. In Shakespeare in Love, no one I was with understood who John Webster was (the Stephen King of the Bard’s era) although most of them falsely guessed it was the Dictionary guy. And, in Mallrats, no one else got that the security guard “La Fours” with his white skimmer hat was a reference to the guy who chased down Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Anyone else? What were the movie jokes/references you’ve had to explain, or the ones that had to be explained to you?
MP
In the Mel Brooks movie “Young Frankenstein,” horses whinny every time one of the characters uses the name of Cloris Leachman’s character: Frau Blucher.
It always made me giggle just because of Marty Feldman’s face when it happens, but I never realized WHY it was funny.
Apparently, “blucher” means glue in German (or it sounds a great deal like the German word for glue). Thus, this is the reason for the reaction of the horses.
Now…I must have seen this movie 100 times. I thought I knew every scene…every laugh. Man…I just LOVE finding something new hiding in the shadows of a great film.
I have also noticed from time to time that I have had to explain jokes in certain movies to friends. In Shakespeare in Love, no one I was with understood who John Webster was (the Stephen King of the Bard’s era) although most of them falsely guessed it was the Dictionary guy. And, in Mallrats, no one else got that the security guard “La Fours” with his white skimmer hat was a reference to the guy who chased down Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Anyone else? What were the movie jokes/references you’ve had to explain, or the ones that had to be explained to you?
MP
