Just saw this movie earlier today....Mel Brooks plays an elderly vampire, who attends his grandson's birthday party, and this happens:
By itself, the joke isn't really that funny...just a throwaway insult.
BUT when you consider Mel Brooks' involvement with the project that eventually became the Tower of Terror, this one line takes on a bit more meaning.
See, before the Twilight Zone was chosen as the theme, the Tower of Terror was originally conceived with the working title "Hotel Mel" (and, later, "Mel Brooks' Hollywood Horror Hotel").
The ride's storyline was that Mel Brooks was directing a new horror comedy at the old, abandoned hotel at the end of Sunset Boulevard, and you were to be his guests on the hot set. Unfortunately, your "Magic Disney Golf Cart" takes a detour through the hotel, only to discover that it's inhabited by actual monsters.
Mel Brooks worked with Disney Imagineering to come up with ideas for gags....one set of which took place in the men's room.
But truly the grossest (and funniest) gag in this sequence would have been revealed as our golf cart suddenly swiveled to face the bathroom stalls. Though the doors to the toilets are closed, we can look down and clearly see two sets of easily identifiable feet. The Frankenstein Monster is supposedly seated in one stall. While -- right next door -- the Mummy is perched on the other commode.
Now here's where the gross joke comes in. It's clear (based on the noises coming out of Frankenstein's stall) that the Monster has somehow run out of toilet paper. So Frankie reaches down toward the floor of the Mummy's stall. Toward what he obviously thinks is the loose end of another roll of toilet paper.
Only that's NOT the loose end of another roll of toilet paper. It's actually one of the wrapping from the Mummy's foot, which has somehow come partially undone. So -- as Frankenstein's Monster makes a reach for the wrapping -- the Mummy jerks his leg away suddenly ... and makes all sort of indignant noises as he does.
There you have it.....25-26 years after it was initially dreamed up, Mel Brooks' joke finally landed.
By itself, the joke isn't really that funny...just a throwaway insult.
BUT when you consider Mel Brooks' involvement with the project that eventually became the Tower of Terror, this one line takes on a bit more meaning.
See, before the Twilight Zone was chosen as the theme, the Tower of Terror was originally conceived with the working title "Hotel Mel" (and, later, "Mel Brooks' Hollywood Horror Hotel").
The ride's storyline was that Mel Brooks was directing a new horror comedy at the old, abandoned hotel at the end of Sunset Boulevard, and you were to be his guests on the hot set. Unfortunately, your "Magic Disney Golf Cart" takes a detour through the hotel, only to discover that it's inhabited by actual monsters.
Mel Brooks worked with Disney Imagineering to come up with ideas for gags....one set of which took place in the men's room.
But truly the grossest (and funniest) gag in this sequence would have been revealed as our golf cart suddenly swiveled to face the bathroom stalls. Though the doors to the toilets are closed, we can look down and clearly see two sets of easily identifiable feet. The Frankenstein Monster is supposedly seated in one stall. While -- right next door -- the Mummy is perched on the other commode.
Now here's where the gross joke comes in. It's clear (based on the noises coming out of Frankenstein's stall) that the Monster has somehow run out of toilet paper. So Frankie reaches down toward the floor of the Mummy's stall. Toward what he obviously thinks is the loose end of another roll of toilet paper.
Only that's NOT the loose end of another roll of toilet paper. It's actually one of the wrapping from the Mummy's foot, which has somehow come partially undone. So -- as Frankenstein's Monster makes a reach for the wrapping -- the Mummy jerks his leg away suddenly ... and makes all sort of indignant noises as he does.
There you have it.....25-26 years after it was initially dreamed up, Mel Brooks' joke finally landed.
