MythTickle by Justin Thompson for November 10, 2023

Mrs. Monster is rather garrulous, what?

The Monster is too polite to try to interject a mild word or two.

Got that, Doc Hamlet? (Before she starts up again….)

“To be willing to listen, or not to be willing to listen, that is the question. To be willing to listen is to SHUT UP”.

Nice hair.

Frank is a monster of few words.

Hamlet was counseling in the lab, late one night,

Frank and the Missus were having a fight.

From on the couch Hamlet heard her tale

But soft-spoken Frank chose not to wail

He did the mash, he did the monster mash

The monster mash, it was a graveyard smash

He did the mash, it caught on in a flash

He did the mash, he did the monster mash

From the counselor’s couch deep in Elsinore

(Wa-ooh) To the master bedroom where Frank still snores

(Wa-wa-ooh) Mrs. Frank is not happy and still complains

(Wa-ooh) She screams and wails and rattles her chains!

She did the mash, she did the monster mash

She monster mash, it was a graveyard smash

She did the mash, it caught on in a flash

She did the mash, she did the monster mash

Apologies to Bill Pickett

Well played Frank! Very funny and the art is beautiful.

In “Bride of Frankenstein,” the creature actually did talk, at times expressing himself rather eloquently. His final words (looking at Dr. Pretorius and the Bride) were “we belong dead.” He was supposed to speak in “Son of Frankenstein,” but the studio changed the script (I think this was one of the reasons Karloff declined to play the creature after that point, though he did appear as the mad scientist in “House of Frankenstein”). Bela Lugosi also voiced the creature in “Ghost of Frankenstein,” though Lon Chaney played the creature (the plot involved transplanting Ygor’s brain into the creature).

And, of course, Peter Boyle…

Lol! couldn’t get a word in edge wise even if he wanted to! Poor Frank!

Am I the only one who read the Bride with the voice of Fran Drescher (who viced the Bride in the Hotel Transylvania franchise)?

OH, and El Jefe, very nicely done! Definitely one for the Halloween classic’s! ;~)

And apparently he’s ALWAYS interrupting…

Could have done with a portrait of Mary Shelly as well as Shakespeare.

Well, this has kept me in stitches…….

Someplace around here, I think I still have a couple of Elsa Lanchester’s record albums.

Singing about all the things she learned from the Janitor’s Boy …

Faith, Hope and Charity. Faith viewed her sisters with asperity, Hope would spring at anything, but Charity began at Home.