TomWeaver999 wrote:
The Frankenstein quiz came to a fun and surprising conclusion when a 15-year-old kid turned out to be the winner -- he got about twice as many correct answers as all the longtime dues-paying graybeards who competed (about 15 of them). And I wasn't taking it easy on the kid. Okay, at the beginning I might have tossed him an easy question or two thinking, "I don't want him to end up with NO points," but I very quickly discovered that he was no slouch. Toward the end I hit him with a series of four questions that I'd intended to ask four different people, but I wanted to see if he could "run" the category:

What brain does the Monster get in FRANKENSTEIN?
In GHOST OF FRANK?
In HOUSE OF FRANK?
Whose brain is he SUPPOSED to get in A&C MEET FRANK?

And the kid came right back with,
"Abnormal brain."
"Ygor's brain."
"Ullman's brain."
"Wilbur's brain."

"Ullman's brain"??!!!?? ULLMAN's ****ing brain???!?!?! How did he get that? NObody should have gotten that. On the longest and best day of my life, I sure wouldn't have gotten that. But THIS kid did.

I wanted to know what dimension this kid materialized out of, so at the very end when it should have been over, I said, "Tell us about yourself" and handed him the mike and stepped off the stage. And he told the audience that he was writing a book on all the old Universal horrors.

Jeez, every generation of monstuh pitcha nut researcher-writer seems to put the prior one to shame -- and here we go again, maybe!

Two-Generations-Back-Already Tom
And Strauss gets the brain of the wolf man "so that all your waking hours will be spent in untold agony while you wait for the full of the moon that will change you into a werewolf..." And that threat still makes no bloody sense.

Best,

DK