Abbott & Costello Meet the Monsters | A Docu-Mini
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I've got many requests to cover the work of Bud Abbott & Lou Costello so, with October upon us, I decided to start by looking back at their collaborations with the Universal Monsters!
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The marvelous thing of A&C Meet Frankenstein is how everyone except the boys played it straight (at least until Vincent Price's cameo). In particular, Lon Chaney Jr. poured his heart into the pathos of Lyle Talbot delivering hokey lines with sincerity.
Lugosi was pretty intense too. He thought that was the beginning of a big comeback for his career.
You mean "Larry Talbot"..Mike.
@@kevins.butler3402 By gad, sir! You are correct. (Insert Sydney Greenstreet chuckle here)
Best lines: Chaney: When the sun goes down and the moon arises, I turn into a wolf”. Lou: “ Yeah, you and 20 million other guys...”
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"Mine had so much bridge work, every time I kissed her I had to pay toll."
I had to pause the video, I was laughing so hard.
Normally when people put in clips of the movies they are talking about in their videos, I don't have much of a reaction to them beyond gaining context. But god damn. Every time you put an Abbot and Costello clip in, I can't help but laugh. Why isn't comedy this good anymore?
A lack of education ...and censorship...
@@Vodhin I thought it was because people thought that Slapstick is dead. If it’s dead, then I’m Curly Fine.
Honestly though, I wanna see comedy where anyone could get hurt (and sometimes did), and the wit was intelligent either through the fast-talking character, or though the dim-but-outsmarting character. I wanna see the classics in the modern age.
Hats Off Entertainment In the 1980's Paramount considered doing a crossover with Cheech & Chong and Jason Voorhees on account of the fact both franchise's belonged to Paramount at the time, it's a shame that never happened it could have been the 1980's version of these films lol.
*SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!*
Chong would've killed Jason with one of his monster joints.....
@@leslauner5062 yeah, they get Jason stoned and he that's ripping up a mini mart in search of snacks!
I think elements of that ended up in part three
I sincerely wish that they'd kept Vincent Price as the Invisible Man for more than just the cameo at the end of the first movie. Could you imagine a full feature of Vincent and the boys trying to out-ham one another?
I really wish Vincent Price played the invisible man in the next film, his voice is perfect for it.
the fact that the monsters are played straight really lets the comedians shine. If the monsters were overtly funny it wouldn't have worked. Showed Abbott & Costello meet Frankenstein to my 10 year old granddaughter and she loved it, though she was a little scared in the scene where Costello sits on the monster's lap.
It's such a shame that nobody knows how to do this kind of work that still respects everything it comes from. that's the only way to make disparate things work together. you don't sacrifice to try to force them to fit. I guess 'scooby-doo and guess who' is the closest we get anymore, which is fine aside from the lack of humor
Look at Ghostbusters - a similar project, with comic actors playing against a horrorific background. It worked just fine. But then the remake screwed the pooch.
@@SandyofCthulhu Now I want Abbott and Costello Meet Cthulhu.
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The fact that Universal Studios had Bud Abbott and Lou Costello under contract and owned the rights to these now classic monsters/monster images they were able to pair up our favorite comedy team with our favorite monsters and of all the comedians A&C were the perfect ones to pair together with Universals finest monsters. A&C Meet Frankenstein is one of the best films of all time.
“Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein” does the whole “Monster Rally” thing better than either “House of Frankenstein” or “House of Dracula”!
I love these movies. Glad someone is talking about them.
I used to watch them as a kid with my dad or grandpa. Always loved them.
Same, I used to be glued to these films as a kid. I also used to adore Harold Loyd, my favorite was the one when he climbed the building and then nearly falls off the clock face, they showed a clip of it at the start of the show, I think it was called The Harold Loyd Show.. oops I got sidetracked, but yep Abbot and Costello were big favourites.
A fine mixture of comedy, and horror.
Couldn't agree more! 😊
'Who's on First' still kills anyone who stumbles onto it.
"You pay your players?"
"Of course. Every Friday."
"Then who gets paid for playing first base?"
"Yes."
"..."
"Sometimes his wife comes down to pick up the check."
"Who's wife?"
"Yes."
It's a great routine made even better by the writers of Animaniacs. Instead of Who's on First, they are at Woodstock and The Who is on stage. Also, bans like Yes and The Band... it's basically the same routine, but with actual bands from that era.
@@truthedministry Doing who's on first with the names of the bands was not invented by the Animaniacs writers. It was a routine I heard as a kid on the Doctor Demento show that came from a comedy album that I think was by... Forgive me, I know a lot about the classic comedians but not as much about the Next Generation... George Carlin? Or Cheech and Chong Maybe?
@@rufust.firefly2474 The Credibility Gap! With Harry Shearer and David Lander. Funny, rapid-fire stuff!
@@DrDespicable thank you! Remember that variation on the who's on first routine, it was very clever. But I really can't say that it was more clever or original then those who wrote and elaborated on the original routine. Lou Costello actually made up some very funny variations on it when he was on the radio and he and bud, By Request, did the routine once every month on the radio. Was originally adapted for them by John Grant who was their head writer. But there were other, embryonic versions before then.
I'd be nice if we had modern comedy teams like Abbott & Costello, The Three Stooges, and Laurel and Hardy. Reoccurring comedy characters that we're familiar with and can be put in different situations.
How about yankee and even yankier with jim carrey and jeff daniels
not everyone's brand of comedy, but there is Tim & Eric
We had Key and Peele, but they only made one movie, before Jordan Peele moved to a behind-the-camera role.
The big problem is that most Comedians today are untalented and unfunny.
@@loanaoftheshellpeople5627 the problem today is that there is no format like Vaudeville 4 comedians to hone their craft and their characters to Perfection like the Marx Brothers, WC Fields, Abbott and Costello and the other classic movie comedians were able to do. Stand up comedy clubs are simply not the same.
"Freddy vs. Jason" from 2003 was a rare and good sample how this crossovers can work.
Not like in terms of fighting, but more in terms of how their characters work.
The problem for movie producers to do something like this again is finding comedians who can do what Costello did.
There really aren’t any. The various ways he played being frightened are so unique to him - the inability to whistle, the ‘uh oh’ baby face look, the slow reveals of the monster. Nobody can pull that all off.
And then add the way he could bellow, going from baby talk to huge volume roars instantly.
And then there’s his physical humor, which was the thing that created the 3 camera shoot.
Yeah, it was invented to deal with Costello.
Yeah, I love him. Been part of my life for my whole life. Just introduced a young niece to them a few months ago. She loved it.
He may have originated those reactions in a particular comedic style but others like Don Knotts, Jerry Lewis, Bob Hope and I think Danny Kay have done similarly, but you're right, there aren't many.
Thanks for this loving reminiscence of a truly glorious childhood legacy which even remains today half a century after my childhood has ended. A&c meet Frankenstein truly was an inspired notion, something that would only have happened in the fondest dreams of their fans, and yet somehow managed to be fully realized for all the world to see and believe that. As one friend, Preston jones, has shared with me, a prestigious reviewer commented about this film, "it's no citizen kane, but you'll watch it more often."
I've been waiting for you to do something on Abbott and Costello. Out of all the classic comedy teams, they're my favorite. The wordplay and banter get me every time.
nobody else seems to have observed this much less it's absolute brilliant complexity
I'm far from atheist and maybe it's paranoid interpretation..
you know, wanna get it right..
like... "So as thy day, so
shall thy strength be"
and the overzealous congregations smile thinking their strength will match whatever comes...
i cant help it...
but if i read it as it is
what i see is
whatever your day
your strength will
be THE SAME !!
Crappy day?
Crappy feelings..
i see A&C's twisted comedic philosophies in everything now...
i cant keep a straight face sometimes.. my aunt an i were at a family funeral and i had bowed and buried in a bible to keep out of trouble. but just as i opened the bible... another bit of dual interpretation that came so fast i burst out laughing which froze the whole congregation..quickly thinking i turned it into a cry for whatever scripture the pastor just read...the congregation clapped and wept and i sank back with bowed head in the bible knowing i now could laugh any time i wanted
and started reading a mad magazine somebody gave me...
hey... i was only like 12 yrs old ok?
i like to think God has a sense of humor...
can't remember exact phrase..
it is God's pleasure to hide a thing
and (???) to seek it out
had to look it up...
“It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the honor of kings is to search out a matter.
I love these films. They’re always entertaining.
I'm laughing right now.
I love Abbott and Costello!! I grew up watching their movies and shorts with my Grandpa. Thanks for this upload!!
By most accounts, Lou hated the script for the Frankenstein crossover, and thought it would be a disaster. It's great to know that he was wrong.
Have you ever read the script? He had good reason to - it barely resembles the finished movie and none of their routines were yet incorporated into it. As originally written, it would have been a stinker.
@@deadpan80 yes, I was going to mention that I've heard this anecdote many times for four and everybody always forgets to mention that was Lou Costello was reacting to was a first draft of the script, before their head writer John Grant and a few rewrites turned it into a classic.
@@deadpan80 He evidently didn't believe in it even after it was done. But his mother saw it and told him it was the best thing he'd ever done. That convinced him.
I first watched Frankenstein meets The Wolfman about 10 years ago and was fully expecting it to be clunky and badly staged in the showdown. It blew me away when you see wolfman leaping at Frankenstien. Such ferocity and speed that totally took me by surprise. The movie poster is also one of my favourites of all time for not only the crossover aspect but the ferocity depicted on it. Its epic.
thanks for this - they are classics - the best blend of 'scary' and funny that made the genre accessible for kids.
great stuff
I miss the days that Abbott & Costello movies were on TV. (Usually on weekend mornings). I think “Hold That Ghost “. Is one of my favorites. I also miss the regular TV show. I think they were at their best during that run, with Mr. Fields and Mike the Cop. And let’s not forget the wonderful Hillary Brooke. Oh , and Stinky and all the assorted men and women that appeared in that show ..
They used to be on every Sunday on WPIX channel 11 from 11:30 - 1:00 (churchtime for many back then)
They ran at least from as early as my memory goes back to, mid to late 69's until at least early 80's
was the last time I recall watching them, In the Navy. So funny "Any galoot who wants a dispute gets it in the neck"
I loved watching the Abbott and Costello and the classic horror movies. This was of course the best of both worlds.
This is a great comedy that respects the Monsters and offers chills and fun Bud and Lou are at their best
Adore these films. I could watch them over and over and never get sick of them.
Abbott and Costello were addressed by their real names instead of their characters' (Pete Patterson and Freddie Franklin, respectively) as shown on the cast credits in "Abbott and Costello Meet The Mummy."
Their radio work was genius and that's how I was first introduced to them. My dad had reel-to-reel tape recordings of some various old radio show acts by many actors and comedians. One was the famous "Who's On First..." routine.
I’d love to see you do a mini doc on the Road To movies with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope someday
I have every Universal monster movie dvd.
A&C Meet Frankenstein is brilliant all 'round. It was always a special treat to catch that movie on TV during Halloween.
I hope you do an episode on the "Road to" series staring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope.
Or the movie Clue.
Y e s s s! Do the road movies!!
I’m ok with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost meet Frankenstein
"ABBOTTT!!" We should run towards the awesome and hilarious encounters our comedy duo had with the one and only group of timeless creatures. Keep it up and stay safe!
These were my introduction to Abbott and Costello and I've been a fan since middle school. In fact, I just finished watching Hold That Ghost before I watched your video
Awesome, Abbott & Costello is my favourite duo and movies! I used to borrow these on cassette from the library as a kid. And I had to do Who's on First for a middle school play, I still recite it in my head time to time.
Kevin Smith said a few years back that the Weinstein Company had proposed rebooting this exact type of thing, with Jay and Silent Bob meeting the Universal monsters (Weinstein had access to the monsters via their studio distribution deal with Universal) . I can’t remember the exact reason why but Smith turned it down (I think it was either a problem with Universal owning J&SB if it went forward, or them playing the characters in a full movie written and directed by someone other than Smith).
That would have been hilarious
H m m m m... Okay... Sure... pardon me while I get nauseous remembering the result of people trying to reboot The Little Rascals, The Three Stooges and Laurel and Hardy... Oops!
( Andover mouth, he runs off camera. We hear a bathroom door crash open and slam shut and the distant sounds of a grown man beating his guts out)
Fade to Black
@@rufust.firefly2474 Hail, Hail Freedonia
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? If chewing gum is chewed , the chewer is pursued and in the hoosegow hidden!
@@rufust.firefly2474 I could dance with you 'til the cows come home. On second thought, I'd rather dance with the cows 'til you came home.
I would love to see Seinfeld meet the Justice League. Jerry is Superman fan.
No one and, I mean no one, could do controlled total comedy fright like Lou Costello. My favorite is the "candle" scene in A. & C. Meet Frankenstein.
They did the same 'bit' even better in HOLD THAT GHOST.
Way back in the 1980's my first job was working in a movie theatre and the best way I could describe the manager would be as a cross between Bud Abbott and Groucho Marx. The assistant manager was something between Phil Silvers and Jack Benny, and the projectionist could have been Lou Costello. I swear most of our patrons only came to see the shenanigans in the lobby.
I love those Guys.....When i feel a bit sad or had a bad day. I break open a bottle of good red wine and sit back and enjoy watching an A&C movie and enjoy. 👍😊👍❤. we will never see their like again. TIMELESS COMEDY
Meet Frankenstein is my favorite! One of their best.
Universal studios Monster movie franchise and their Abbott and Costello movies were the best that the studio had to offer and combining the two was destined to be the sure fire hit that is was and still is to many who appreciate good movies.
So, now hear me out: Live Action Scooby Doo crossover movies, like the old "Meet X" stuff they used to do.
Especially if we get a new Scooby Doo meets Batman and Robin movie with any of the recent Batman movie settings. And nobody ever comments on the talking Great Dane.
This! Glad I’m not the only one who immediately thought of the Scooby cross overs.
Those unlikely team ups was how I first learned about what the Harlem Globetrotters were. Not sure if I will ever take the time to see if the more recent Scooby/WWE collaborations work
@@Asummersdaydreamer14 Don't bother, they're awful...but Scooby Doo meets Kiss is pretty amazing
@@jonahmandell509 I know next to nothing about Kiss, but this makes sense to me somehow; they look like chill people. Also, thanks for the tip about the WWE ones.
If you have not seen it, my favorite Scooby cross over has to be when they meet Johnny Bravo. I never watched Johnny Bravo b/c his silly jerk energy wasn’t my thing, but it somehow worked with the gang being annoyed by him and him being as big of a scaredy-cat as Scoob & Shag. I think. And it helped that it was at the end of a well liked Scooby VHS.
There is a Supernatural and Scooby-Doo cross over. Might not be what you are thinking of, but i highly enjoyed it.
My favorite episode had to be the crossover they did with the Addams Family.
I’ve been hoping you’d get to Abbott and Costello, there my favorite classic comedy team, and I look forward to hear you talk about them more in the future
Can't believe I'm just now realizing, "The Honeymooners" were to "The Flinstones"
what these classic flicks were to "Scooby Do"!
He even sounds like Scooby when he's "scared".
Gonna watch these now, thx!
Fascinating look at the Universal/Abbott and Costello film franchises!
For myself, I liked to imagine what could have been possible if Columbia Pictures could have had one crossover where the Three Stooges had met Batman, which the Columbia had the film rights in the 1940s. Namely, it would have been cute for the Stooges to help the Dynamic Duo in their bumbling ways, and then worked off their debt/or be hidden in the Batcave before they testified in court, with a comic epilogue of them being made useful being a pit crew for the Batmobile.
Oh, that could have been great! Shame DC Comics is now part of Warner Bros.
to anyone that likes special effects, abbot and costello meet the invisible man its a must watch. Doing does scenes in the 40´s demanded a level of creativity that its mesmerazing
They'd had a lot of practice by this point, with like 4 or 5 previous movies.
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This kind of thing laid groundwork for modern comedies to do Halloween Specials. Roseanne, The Simpsons, Boy Meets World, Community...and they always end up being my favorite episodes.
Man I have to thank you for your content. Brings up happy memories with my dad watching all these classics. I'm thankful he was sorta stuck in the past in a way.
Thanks for watching!
@@HatsOffEntertainment of course man!! Good luck on future projects!!
Love all, the Abbott And Costello meets whatever, monster's series. Especially, 'Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein'!!!! Now, I like the other, non-spooky one's, but not all of them. In Abbott/Costello/Frankenstein one, in the scene where Belá, bites the neck of the woman (@06:03), he casts his reflection, in the mirror🧐!!!!
FINALLY! I've been waiting for you to cover these amazing films! I grew up watching these as a child and always had a fantastic time!
If you can, cover The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters. It was an attempt to ride all the “Abbot and Costello meet” movies
Except their movies wern't very good. How many guys in gorilla suits can you watch?
an you
@@brucefritzges8759 ok well that’s your opinion.
I think you better concentrate on the good stuff before dealing with the cheap imitations! And don't forget that almost every comic and comedy team during this time did at least one comedy horror film except Mae West, the Marx Brothers and WC Fields. Even Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd did comedy scare movies.
@@rufust.firefly2474 are you talking to me? Because I watch all the other teams too.
@@ZoeKitten84 not specifically but I'm glad you do. I really don't try to rate different comedians of the classic era against each other because they're all really so different in their approach and so individual at heart. why do people pit Laurel and Hardy and Abbott and Costello against each other and say one is better than the other as to comedy teams? They're essentially different. L&H work situation comedy and the gags on falling and fouling up the plot and situation versus their characters. Abbott and Costello do routines, they really have not a lot to do with the plot of their films for the most part. Of course there are some exceptions to both.
You should do a crossover with in praise of shadows talking about a horror comedy movie. That would be awesome
In the current era of remakes to get nostalgia money, I doubt movies would chance a strange combination like this anytime soon.
This film firmly established the framework for successful horror comedy. Keep the humor snappy, play the horror straight.
Thank you for this! I love these movies
You want your exhibit back?! Here it comes NOW! LOVE IT!!!!
Patton Oswalt should play Costello if he ever gets the chance. He might look a bit too old now, but other than that Costello reminds me of him and his posture etc. a lot here. :D
There was a TV biography in the late 70s called "Bud & Lou" with Harvy Korman and Buddy Hacket...
Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein is the best probably because they had that awesome invisible man ending with no intention for another movie. They just had creative time
My favorite movies. Thank you for this video! 🥰
Was that Vincent Price's voice as the first Invisible Man?
Yes it was
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein was the most popular movie of 1948.
Every great horror comedy takes from this film's model, mixing straight horror with out of their depth goofballs. Tremors, Shaun If The Dead, Army of Darkness, I attribute all of them to Abbot and Costello meeting the Universal Monsters.
One of my favorite parody series as a child.
I grew up watching these with my grandma. love them
Love this video! Thanks for posting
Also if nothing else I love how this film has Dracula and the Wolfman fight each other...and the Wolfman proceeds to thoroughly whoop Dracula's pale ass. WEREWOLVES RULE!
So what? My dad could totally beat up BOTH of their dads in a fight.
I can't tell you how proud and happy my heart is right now. Thank you.
Thank you! I grew up watching these films, and just had a blast! You’re right. The industry needs to go back and see that taking a chance and doing something original is worth the gamble!
Gotta admit though, it kinda seemed like Universal was going a route pretty familiar to modern audiences, just starting to crank stuff out.. One can easily imagine an alternate timeline where we started getting Abbott and Costello Go Somewhere Cheap
I grow up on zorro from around1950 so I can sympathize with old school cinema
I love abbot and Costello thank you for taking my suggestion I hope you do more about them
Great video dude! Love abbott and Costello
I LOVE THESE FILMS!!! Im so thankful that Svenghoulie still shows all of these movies. His show was where I first saw them. He has introduced so many people to movies like this.
Wonderful. Thank you.
Meet Frankenstein was my favorite as a kid, but the pick & burger scenes in The Mummy are my 2 favorite scenes of the pair
These Movies are Awesome and It inspired Ghostbusters years later.
More like it inspired the concept of Scooby-Doo. Heck, there was “A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts” where Mystery Inc faced off the Universal Monsters, who turned out to be just one guy.
Hello Joe, I have to admit that I only found your channel a few days ago, but it is now my favourite channel and I have been watching quite a few of your docs.
There is such a warm admiration in your manner that feels sometimes like you are saying exactly what I have always thought of these Artists and moments in Vintage Cinema/Hollywood.
Thank-you for sharing such well written and fascinating work! I Can't get enough! Keep up the fantastic work, Friend! 😊
Thanks for watching!
@@HatsOffEntertainment YW! 😊🧐 🤓
6:03 now i just know something is wrong here!
i _see_ what you mean ;)
I have always been partial to the Bob Hope and Bing Crosby pairing in the Road To movies they did.
Really used to enjoy these, my sister and I used to rent it from the video store every other time we visited my Grandmother.
Use to watch these every Halloween as a kid in the 70's.
I love the universal monster movies i love them more than anything other movie
This is the first movie I can remember ever seeing! I was 4-5 years old, and caught it on a weekend afternoon creature feature. Sold me for life on classic comedies and classic horror films!
Can’t wait for a deep dive on my favorite comic duo!
“Throw Key and Peele into the It Universe”, I mean, considering Jordan Peele mostly directs horror nowadays, that’s actually not too far fetched!
Ah, a bit of Lovecraft Lite eh? I’d see Key and Peele in the King-verse if it worked out.
Key and Peele in Get Out. Ain’t that a million dollar idea.
My favorite Abbott and Costello movie of all time! Thank you for covering this fantastic movie
If you want to see A and C and how versatile they were
If you want to see how versatile A & C are, watch them in "The Time of Their Lives"!!
I think you hit the nail on the head about doing modern mashups! Though maybe not exactly the same, but at least we have the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy. Thanks for talking about these great comedy masters! As a gen Xer, I believe my generation was the last to have been exposed to such greats as they were on TV growing up.
I've seen Abbott and Costello meet the Mummy and quite enjoyed it, I haven't seen the other Abbott and Costello monster movies though.
@Mark Allen okay
Hold that ghost is perfection.
Bud was initially against doing these monster movies. He thought of them as sort of pornagraphic and didn't see the appeal. So glad he relented! I have loved Abbott and Costello since I was a little kid. They were the few shows I would watch in black & white as a kid.......now I have so many favorite movies that happen to be black & white. I've grown to appreciate the charm of classic Hollywood films. Great video!
I have always wished for an animated Abbot and Costello movie in vein of the opening !
Liking the choices of subjects for Halloween videos.
I always thought in the 80s that cheech and chong meets jason would have been a huge crossover
You have no idea how awesome it was to see this. These movies were such a major part of my childhood. I remember watching Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein on WPIX Channel 11 in NY. Please do Abbott & Costello in Jack and the Beanstalk, that is one of my favorite A&C movies of all time.
I don’t think any movie has made me laugh harder than the first time I saw Hold That Ghost.
Love these guys.
Thank my dad for introducing me to all these oldies
I think they should do the Jump Street MIB crossover that was such a great dumb idea
I've never seen an Abbott & Costello movie from start to finish, but I'm realizing from these clips how much Courage the Cowardly Dog's freak outs are based on Costello's.