Frau Blucher from Young Frankenstein

THat legend has grown up in response to this question.

In truth, it's just because they wanted a scary sound effect on her name, and chose horses.

If you have to ask it doesn't matter anymore.

It's pretty much what darquegk said and definitely not that Blucher means something interesting in German.
Hope this helps.

I find Mel Brooks jokes/premises are best if you don't think too much about them.

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Obviously - and especially knowing it's Mel Brooks - it's a play on Catherine The Great, the Russian empress who was rumored to have died in a crude and hilarious way. The rumor circulated(even during her lifetime) was that The Empress mated with animals and that she was killed when the harness which was lifting a horse above her, broke, sending half a ton of breeding stock down on top of her (didn't any of you guys go to Sunday school?)

Mel is trying to say that the very mention of her name scares the horses, but he's obviously going for his form of a subtle reference to this joke.

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The horses are (a) either whinnying in delight or (2) whinnying in abject terror because she is such a strident...

I can't believe we're talking about this.

I hate "Wicked."

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I can't believe that you don't get it. (The horses are scared she's going to "ride" them to death and... oh, forget it.)

And I still hate "Wicked."

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I think it was just a clever alternative to the "dramatic musical sting" - as heard on such YouTube classics as "Dramatic Prairie Dog".

THANK YOU JOEKV99!!!!!

You get it. It's so obvious, how could they not understand? It's such an old vaudeville routine.

On the other hand, not everyone, like you and I have know the love of a good stall....

Well, that's for a thread on a different board.

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It may have been used in vaudeville - and sorry, allmylife, I wasn't around for that , but the quote seems to have originated from an actress known mostly as Mrs Patrick Campbell. She had been approached by a younger actress who was appalled at the amorous behavior of two of the actors in the show. Mrs Campbell's response?

"It doesn't really matter what these affectionate people do as so long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses".

Of course it's also attributed to Victor Hugo, but he was referring to Congress - and I don't mean sexual.

"On the other hand, not everyone, like you and I have know the love of a good stall...."

Don't go making assumptions, my friend.

I'll pull your other leg too if it has bells on it. And hey, what happened to that new thread of yours? I was looking forward to that!

eta: speaking of Victors (or Whictors, in Frau Blucher's case - since "he was [her] boyfriend!"), maybe it was THEIR sex life that scared the horses. Obviously they, too, had a love that dared not speak its name.

Updated On: 2/18/10 at 02:50 PM

Patash, I attended the Sunday school run by the Sisters of the Undulating Contortion. They're a small and somewhat secretive sect who believe a combination of sound fiscal policy and flagellation should be ingrained in children at an early age. I owe my entire success to the firm but loving hand that Sister Camphoria placed on my shoulder all those years ago.

Now to Ghostlight2. I suppose you know the rich career of Mrs. Patrick Campbell, the original Eliza Dolittle in Shaw's Pygmalion and the most famous and successful actress of her time (who literally and sadly ended her life out here in Hollywood, doing extra and day player roles in silent films.)

I heard a great anecdote about Mrs PC. Apparently, she was given to secretly moving the onstage furniture an inch at a time during rehearsals so that eventually, there was noting between her and the audience except her massive ego. GB Shaw finally noticed what she was doing and called the cast onstage. Then he called out the stage manager and told the man "Mrs. Patrick Campbell has been moving the furniture again. I want it all screwed down to the floor. All save for the grand piano, which Mrs. Campbell is free to move as she likes during the performance."

And I am slowly working on the new thread on The Follies Girls. I am currently writing a new script and it is consuming most of my time, but the ladies of the Follies are coming.

And once again, can somebody tell me how you get multiple photos in one posting? I can only seem to get one at a time.

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Seriously? It's that simple?

Damn, all those pages after pages I used to put together my megathreads.

Oi.

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