<P> I was in the middle of shooting the last few weeks of Blazing Saddles somewhere in the Antelope Valley, and Gene Wilder and I were having a cup of coffee and he said, I have this idea that there could be another Frankenstein . I said, "Not another! We've had the son of, the cousin of, the brother - in - law . We don't need another Frankenstein ." His idea was very simple: What if the grandson of Dr. Frankenstein wanted nothing to do with the family whatsoever . He was ashamed of those wackos . I said, "That's funny ." </P> <P> In a 2016 interview with Creative Screenwriting, Brooks elaborated on the writing process . He recalled, </P> <P> Little by little, every night, Gene and I met at his bungalow at the Bel Air Hotel . We ordered a pot of Earl Grey tea coupled with a container of cream and a small kettle of brown sugar cubes . To go with it we had a pack of British digestive biscuits . And step - by - step, ever so cautiously, we proceeded on a dark narrow twisting path to the eventual screenplay in which good sense and caution are thrown out the window and madness ensues . </P> <P> Unlike his previous and subsequent films, Brooks did not appear onscreen as himself in Young Frankenstein, though he recorded several voice parts and portrayed a German villager in one short scene . In 2012, Brooks explained why: </P>

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