Gene Wilder

And I thought, if you didn't argue for it, then it was wrong.

And if you did, it was right.

So you convinced me.

I mean, you as Dr. Frankenstein are presenting in a theater your creation, you know, the Frankenstein monster played by Peter Boyle.

And you're both in top hat and tails.

You introduce him.

Then you sing a duet of putting on the Ritz and, you know, do a little soft shoe.

And it's really such a wonderful scene.

So how did you come up with a way to, with an excuse to do it, with the plot point to get in the production number?

Because we had to convince the scientific members of Transylvania that with the procedure I was using on the creature, he could be taught to be a civilized human being.

what I called a man about town.

And it was for their sake that I was doing it.

And I just thought of the funniest way of doing it, that's all.

But instead of a monster who's going to kill their children, it was someone who could sing and dance.

Well, I think we have no choice here but to listen to you and Peter Boyle doing Puttin' on the Ritz from the soundtrack of Young Frankenstein.

Thank you.

Ladies and gentlemen, up until now you've seen the creature perform the simple mechanics of motor activity, but for what you are about to see next, we must enter, quietly, into the realm of genius.

Ladies and gentlemen, mesdames et messieurs, Damen und Herren, from what was once an inarticulate mass of lifeless tissues,

May I now present a cultured, sophisticated man about town.

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