Mary Shelley's Frankenhole

[viperxmns]

MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENHOLE

SEASON 2 EPISODE 2

"Robert Louis Stevenson's BELUSHI!"

"Blanket Jackson unites enemies with the power of undead John Belushi."

[KjPuffin]

To be honest, I've been looking forward to this episode for a while. I'm really excited to see the introduction of Dr. Jekyll's character had his relationship with Frankenstien. 

[Majikthise]

The more mad scientists, the better. That's what I say.

[SwimMod_Luuv]

it's funny how well suited "monster" and "celebrity" are.  It's actually such a natural pairing when you think about it, but I just never really did.

I really love the Frankenhole version of Henry Jekyll.  And the Belushi stuff worked well with that story.  The Belushi stuff was funny.  The celebrity stuff works really well usually for me because it's so obvious and overstated that it's just hilarious.  And the show has a way of making as much fun of its own built-in obsessiveness as it does the monstrous incarnations of the celebrities and historical figures it uses. 

It's very much engrained into this sort of old school "monster" vibe on several levels.  Obsessiveness, that monster "misunderstood" vibe, self-loathing, dark, but also joyful, the show takes on this feel that it's kind of its own monster with its own quirks and obsessions that are just funny to watch.

This is my favorite show on tv right now.

[Majikthise]

Terrific episode. Incredibly funny. Loved the way Victor needled Jekyll until he changed into Hyde and then went on needling him. Loved all the Belushi stuff (this is a great example of how the show should use its celebrity guests) and the way the extended supporting cast is sticking around. I wonder if we're ever going to get the story on that werewolf with the brown fur. I just hope it hasn't replaced Lawrence, who was my favorite character from the first season.

[spineraptor]

I just watched this episoide and I have to figure out an answer to my question.
I felt that the framerate (capture rate) of the animations are alot less than Season 1 was.
Did they shoot the stop animation of this season with less frames to save time or something?
It's been driving me and my roommates mad trying to find a quote or another person on the internet who has noticed this.
Maybe the creators said something that I missed?
Any information on this would be lovely!

[SaintCervixCancer]

So I guess it was Jekyll's fault in the far-distant future that Jim Belushi ever came to be.

Except, through time travel, everyone in future Transylvania already knew about Jim Belushi, unaware that John's journey there was what caused the accident.

And I'm guessing that many of them knew John Belushi from watching his (by then) very ancient movies or just going back in time to see him act on SNL.

Am I in the ballpark here?

[DBZ4ever]

Now why wouldn't you want a potion that brings out your worst side?

[Majikthise]

I thought that was what meth was for.

[4-HBabe]

Let the par-tay be-gay!....n

[Majikthise]

New wolfman icon accepted. What do you guys think?

[4-HBabe]

Looks like Chewbacca. 

[Majikthise]

That's racist!

And I've uploaded a better quality version. May take a day or so for it to be accepted.

[4-HBabe]

What's wrong with Chewbacca?

[Majikthise]

Nothing at all, but if you think all brown, furry creatures look alike, that's on you, Babe.

[4-HBabe]

Ok. He looks like Chewbacca's smaller, distant, slightly inbred cousin.

[Majikthise]

You're saying these things just to hurt me, aren't you?

[4-HBabe]

I'm just trying not to be racist. 

[DBZ4ever]

So Dr. Jekyll invented meth?

[Majikthise]

It would appear so.

[Explosivo_420]

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spineraptor wrote:

I just watched this episoide and I have to figure out an answer to my question.
I felt that the framerate (capture rate) of the animations are alot less than Season 1 was.
Did they shoot the stop animation of this season with less frames to save time or something?
It's been driving me and my roommates mad trying to find a quote or another person on the internet who has noticed this.
Maybe the creators said something that I missed?
Any information on this would be lovely!

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I can't answer at all, but I have to say I agree this episode did look a bit weird.

[Explosivo_420]

Question for Dino: Did David Cross have alot of influence in the subject matter of this episode?

Because alot of the details for "The Belush" are eerily similar to David Cross' noted opinions on  him. What with the cigar smoking, blues singing, and eye brow raising..... I bet he did.

signed

Worse than your Second Wife.

[dinosta]

"Question for Dino: Did David Cross have alot of influence in the subject matter of this episode?

Because alot of the details for "The Belush" are eerily similar to David Cross' noted opinions on  him. What with the cigar smoking, blues singing, and eye brow raising..... I bet he did."

All David really did was do the voice. He really didn't have a part in the writing except for one or two adlibs. The eyebrows, blues singing and cigars is pretty universally known. We did have an inside guy who was a writer's assistant and ended up writing the first draft of the script who was also a writer's assistant and then wrote on According To Jim: Mike Murphy. He told us a lot of crazy stories. I really liked the idea of giving him a lone writing credit on the episode and then having Cross play Jim. A real one-two punch. So that's what I did.

As for Belushi and the look: a few of the early episodes may have spots where it looks like there's less animation because it was early in the process, and being a new studio, we had to work with a few animators we hadn't had a lot of experience with yet. A couple of them turned out to be "corner-cutters" and had to be let go. That happens in every stop-motion show I've worked on. I think the reason it's so prominant here is because a lot of this season looks so good. We had a lot of great animators who do masterful work. Wait until you see H.P. LOVECRAFT'S ####! this Sunday. You'll see what I mean.

[Majikthise]

Can't wait, Dino. I'll bet H.P. Lovecraft's #### is quite a sight considering his sexual hang-ups.

[The_Love_Machine]

This episode was fantastic. The Jekyll stuff was great, I hope he comes back.