With Halloween around the corner, it’s the time of the year again when you may get the urge to rewatch Young Frankenstein, realize it’s on some streaming service you’ve never heard of, and decide to read a bunch of stuff about it online instead. If you do read enough on the subject, you’ll get the impression that some of its funniest moments were made up on the spot. Was there really that much improvisation going on? After all, that old tale about Frau Blücher’s last name being the German word for glue—hence explaining why horses whinny every time they hear it—ended up being nothing more than an urban legend. Armed with a few drafts of the script, we decided to comb through them to get to the bottom of these legends once and for all. Here’s what we found…

4. “What hump?”

When Dr. Frederi

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