Drabble by Kevin Fagan for October 19, 2023

Alien beats the earlier ones.

That WAS a movie with of course Don Knotts. I guess it was pretty good. I’ll be OK if I never see it

Best I remember, the only scary scene is the last one in the boat.

Considering the production cycle of most comics, it’s probably just a coincidence that the TV show “Svengoolie” showed A&CMF just this past weekend.

Happy wife……?

I guess most have never watched the Exorcist. It made me laugh, however. I know when it is a movie, it just isn’t real, so I don’t really get scared.

I saw that Abbott And Costello movie many years ago, and laughed my head off at the ending.

the Ghost and Mr. Chicken is, like most if not all of Don Knotts’ movies, a funny movie! I’ve never seen the other one. I don’t really like scary movies (I’m far too easy to startle and don’t care to feel afraid, even “pretend” afraid) but I’d say the scariest movie I’ve seen is “Fire in the Sky” which was really unsettling!

Thankskilling

Or maybe Llamageddon

I wanna know why her pearls NEVER lay right

The ghost and Mr. Chicken? never heard of that one.

Classic Favorites of mine.

If you’re always right, then why did you marry Ralph?

Lost Skeleton of Cadavera!

I feel a Don Knotts movie marathon approaching in my future, they just don’t make funny the way he did.

Both movies mentioned in the strip are enjoyable to watch.

Abbott and Costellos’ movie was one of my childhood favorites!

Attack of the Killer Clowns…

Most Don Knotts movies were pretty good, but my favorite is “The Ghost and Mr. Chicken”, but my favorite Don Knotts scene is in “The Shakiest Gun in the West”, where he is taking his Final Exam to be a dentist… ㋛

https://youtu.Be/2YQJTZPsgFg

That movie was on Svengoolie this week. I liked the movie more seeing it now because I can appreciate Abbot and Costello’s wonderfully silly humor and great comedic timing. And Bela Legosi-how did he keep a straight face?

Do campaign commercials count as movies?

Ralph needs to define “scary” – nothing is “scarier” than the 10’oclock News, and nothing ever HAS been – and if you want a truly scary historical movie, “the Conqueror Worm” starring Vincent Price gets my vote. Hollywood can’t BEGIN to chill like history can!

And, though England never, to my knowledge, actually “torched” witches for practicing witchcraft, Vincent’s movie was, otherwise, historically accurate and gave me nightmares for days after viewing…

Abbot and Costello were favorites as a kid. I never cared for Don Knotts outside of The Andy Griffith Show. I think the reason is that after, they just made him a caricature of his nervous or false bravado persona. On Andy Griffith, there were serious scenes that offset the silly stuff that made the character believable.

It’s frightfully funny! d;o)

I guess they easily frightened, I’d be too busy laughing.

Drabble apparently grades on the number of monsters present. A&CMF has Dracula, the Frankenstein monster (although not played by Karloff), the Wolf Man, and a brief cameo by the Invisible Man.

However, you can do better with “House of Dracula”, which in addition to the Big Three, offers the Mad Scientist and the Hunchback (the last played by the thorougly UNmonstrous Jane Adams, who apart from her posture problems is one of the most gorgeous “monsters” in film history).

“…and they even used Bon Ami.”

I love The Ghost and Mr. chicken with Don Knotts.

I don’t think “Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein” is particularly scary, but it is rather funny (think of the candle and holder on top of Dracula’s coffin). That being said, it is my favorite and I believe that it is one of the best, if not the best, of Universal’s classic monster movies, along with “Dracula” (1931), “Frankenstein” (1931), and “Bride of Frankenstein” (1935). And don’t forget, this is the ONLY movie after the original “Dracula” in which Bela Lugosi actually plays Dracula!

By the way, I never particularly liked Don Knotts but I did like “The Incredible Mr. Limpet” (1964).

I love the Ghost and Mr. Chicken, I use to watch it as a kid with my dad!

Both of those movies are CLASSICS, especially A&C Meet Frankenstein.