Abbott and Costello

In an old Abbott and Costello movie, there s a discussion about the ages of a husband and wife. When they marry, the husband is four times as old as his bride. Eightyears later he s three times as old as she is. And 24 years after that he s only... 

Son of Frankenstein (1938), The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943), House of Frankenstein (1944), Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), I was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957), The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958), Frankenstein s Daughter (1958), Frankenstein 1970 (1958), El Testamento del Frankenstein (1964), The Evil of Frankenstein (1964), Jesse James Meets Frankenstein s Daughter (1965), Frankenstein Conquers the World (1965), Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (1965), Frankenstein Created Woman (1967), Frankenstein Must be Destroyed (1969), Gothic (1986), Frankenstein, the Real Story (1993). 

Karl Marx applied the dialectic to more conventionally historical subjects than the representation of mascnhnity. However, Marx was no film critic his lifespan precluded that possibihty. Even so, he perhaps foreshadows Abbott and Costello s classic shtick, Who s on First in his bouncy, probably inadvertently comical exposition of the dialectical process. Marx starts with Hegel s Critique of Pure Reason ... 

The classic comedy routine by Abbott and Costello, Who s on First comes to mind. 

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