Kenneth Mars

There are a lot of great bits in this film.

We got Kenneth Mars, who played Inspector Kemp.

Mm-hmm.

He was just one of those...

Cindy Williams had broken out in her supporting role in American Graffiti, and also continued her acting career after this.

Sergeant Turnbuckle is, thankfully for us, the return of Kenneth Mars to this podcast, who we last heard as King Max in The Biscuits, but is best known for his roles in Mel Brooks films The Producers and Young Frankenstein, and also to animation fans as Disney's King Triton for The Little Mermaid.

Also to his credit, uh, I didn't know it was Kenneth Mars playing that part until I looked it up, because it actually doesn't sound like his usual voice he does and stuff.

Too true.

No, it doesn't.

It literally was like I didn't know it was him until, like Penny said, I looked it up, and I was just like, "Wait, that's Kenneth Mars?" It's one of those things that when they do it you're just like, "Huh." I love it when the voice actors don't sound like themselves.

But someone who did sound like himself, playing Sergeant Squealy-

Oh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, Mr. Carter, Mr. Carter, Mr. Carter.

are the actors' names

again? Kenneth Mars and I get it.

Kenneth Mars is Otto and he's so funny and so soft.

Yeah, rest

in peace.

This one is a loving parody of the universal classic Frankenstein movies, with Wilder playing the grandson of the mad scientist, drawn back into the family business when he's left the castle and all of its secrets.

With Wilder leading the greatest cast Brooks has ever assembled, Madeline Kahn, Terry Garr, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Cloris Leachman, Kenneth Mars, Gene Hackman, come on, and an affectionate take on the subject matter, Young Frankenstein bookended Brooks and Wilder's year with a totally different type of spoof, and it's one that works just fine if you've never seen the originals.

But if you have seen them, it's ten times funnier.

This is someone else's movie.

That's right.

They're right to be, you know, they see, but even before he does, that he's headed for trouble.

And I mean, we haven't even talked about Kenneth Mars.

I mean, you know, how great is that? Like what a brilliant sort of, you know, Strangelove-esque performance he gives and how great that, I mean, you talk about ensemble, like each, everybody in the film, down to, I think his name is Liam Dunn, the old man who jumps up on the operating table and give him an extra dollar, you know, that guy.

Those are some crusty, dusty cartoons.

And then we've got Quick Claw, who is played by Kenneth Mars, the voice of King Triton in The Little Mermaid.

So he was also...

He played Triton in...

I wanted to watch it before we talked about Young Frankenstein because I just kind of wanted to get another... kind of parody under my belt and I just had been meaning to watch it for a long time so highly recommend that in addition I did mention this last week we will bring it up a little bit here and there but not to the point where we're actually covering it but Young Frankenstein pulls a lot from Son of Frankenstein the universal picture and I highly recommend people check that out too it's actually a lot better than you might think I had

stayed away for it for like 30 years and then I watched it one night when I couldn't fall asleep and I was like oh my god this is the this is the Burgermeister from Young Frankenstein this makes sense now Kenneth Mars' entire character if you've never seen Son of Frankenstein the Kenneth Mars character in Young Frankenstein is pulled directly from there with very little change under the

character right Even the joke of Kenneth Mars putting the darts in his arm, his fake arm, happens in Son of Frankenstein unironically.

He just goes, oh, fuck it.

I've got an arm and I've got a wooden arm.

The composer was John Morris, if I did say that.

But everybody's doing really excellent work here and, you know, really bringing authenticity to it being, you know, essentially a universal monster film.

As far as cast, we've got Gian Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle, Glorious Leachman, Terry Garr, Kenneth Mars, Richard Hayden, I don't know, Liam Dunn? Danny Goldman? Let's see.