Mary Shelley's Frankenhole is a stop-motion animated TV series by Dino Stamatopoulos

Dino Stamatopoulos

Dino Stamatopoulos is an American television comedy writer, actor and producer who has worked on Mr. Show, TV Funhouse, Mad TV, The Dana Carvey Show, Late Show with David Letterman and Late Night with Conan O'Brien...

, creator of Moral Orel

Moral Orel

Moral Orel is an American stop-motion animated television show, which originally aired on Adult Swim from December 13, 2005 to December 18, 2008...

. Nine of ten 15-minute episodes have aired on Cartoon Network

Cartoon Network (United States)

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's late night programming block, Adult Swim

Adult Swim

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. Frankenhole premiered on June 27, 2010.

Premise

Dr. Victor Frankenstein

Victor Frankenstein

Victor Frankenstein was born in Napoli, is a Swiss fictional character and the protagonist of the 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, written by Mary Shelley...

 has completely mastered immortality and has now also created an infinite number of Einstein-Rosen Bridges (wormholes) or "Frankenholes" between his small Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe

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an village (which is teeming with monster

Monster

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s and supernatural

Supernatural

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 forces) and every time period from the past and the future. This allows historical figures and celebrities seeking the doctor's services to find him. Although many classic horror monsters are present, the series' main focus is Dr. Frankenstein and his family. Creator Dino Stamatopoulos says "regular human beings are the monsters."

Besides Frankenstein himself, other characters from Frankenstein

Frankenstein

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel about a failed experiment that produced a monster, written by Mary Shelley, with inserts of poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty-one. The first...

appear.

Characters

• Dr. Victor Frankenstein
  Victor Frankenstein
  Victor Frankenstein was born in Napoli, is a Swiss fictional character and the protagonist of the 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, written by Mary Shelley...
  
  (Jeff B. Davis) - An immortal genius mad scientist
  Mad scientist
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  . He "doesn't like anyone," wears a lab coat and has red hair. He is bored with sexual activities and refuses to have sex with his wife, favoring extremely violent sexual activities (auto eroticism such as burning his crotch, shooting himself below the waist, etc.). He had a troubled relationship with his father since his dying wish was to not be brought back to life. He begins work at midnight for "creditability." Since he never gave the immortality serum to his sons, they continue to age while Victor and Elizabeth stay youthful.
• Professor Sanguinaire Polidori (Scott Adsit
  Scott Adsit
  Scott Adsit is an American actor, writer and improvisational comedian. He is currently co-starring as Pete Hornberger in the hit NBC comedy 30 Rock and worked in the Adult Swim stop-motion animation programs Moral Orel and Mary Shelley's Frankenhole.-1990s:After attending Columbia College Chicago,...
  
  ) - The openly gay immortal assistant and partner of Victor. He is tall, has white hair and wears a lab coat. He sometimes acts as a conscience for Frankenstein, but is often quiet (playing into his supporting cast role). Often a voice of reason, "Polly Dolly" (as Frankenstein calls him) has a soft spot for the sinister. He insists they revive Frankenstein's father so they can beat him up, drinks poison, and often has a disdainful tone in his voice. Polidori has been Frankenstein's assistant for quite some time; he was already immortal when Frankenstein and Elizabeth were first married (in fact, Polidori was the one who married them). When bringing patients into Frankenstein's lab, it is said that he gives Frankenstein creepy introductions. He is based on Doctor Septimus Pretorius
  Doctor Septimus Pretorius
  Septimus Pretorius is a fictional character who appears in the Universal film Bride of Frankenstein . He is played by British stage and film actor Ernest Thesiger. Some sources claim he was originally to have been played by Bela Lugosi or Claude Rains...
  
   from Bride of Frankenstein
  Bride of Frankenstein
  Bride of Frankenstein is a 1935 American horror film, the first sequel to Frankenstein...
  
  .
• Elizabeth Frankenstein (Britta Phillips
  Britta Phillips
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  ) - Victor's immortal wife. She tries to act motherly but is sexually starved and is having an affair with Count Dracula, although she does this to try and make Victor jealous. She is often at odds with her husband and lover, often expressing displeasure over the little time Victor devotes to the family due to working from midnight forward. Victor gave Elizabeth the immortallity serum when she married someone else, and never asked to be immortal. This is the reason for their faulted relationship.
• Count Dracula
  Count Dracula
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  (Chris Shearer) - Victor's rival who is having an affair with Elizabeth, with hopes of turning her into a vampire. He often argues with Victor, usually belittling Elizabeth in the process. He is known to be politically correct during his arguments with Frankenstein. Dracula usually exits a scene turning into a bat.
• Frankenstein's "Creation"
  Frankenstein's monster
  Frankenstein's monster is a fictional character that first appeared in Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. The creature is often erroneously referred to as "Frankenstein", but in the novel the creature has no name...
  
  (Scott Adsit) - Victor's cynical creation and servant, who prefers to be called Creation instead of Monster. He is an alcoholic according to Victor, expressing his life and future are death, and has a big fear of fire. He at one point mentions that Frankenstein was fearful of his creation, but now has come to be annoyed by the monster. His left leg is Jewish
  Jews
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  , and can speak when detached. He's also very much infatuated with "The Bride", who was made for him. However, she has a true disdain for him, going so far as to have her hair replaced with fire to keep him away.
• Igor (Tigger Stamatopoulos) - Victor's hunch-backed assistant with a girlish, childish voice who usually briefly supplies tools during Victor's projects.
• Heinrich (Mark Rivers) and Gustav (Scott Adsit) - The elderly, mortal sons of Victor and Elizabeth. Victor and Elizabeth don't care much about them but despite this, Elizabeth tries to be motherly. When Heinrich has been shown in his youth, he was full of joy. In his youth, it was the only time even Victor and Polidori found him adorable. But most likely over the years, both quickly grew bored of the children. The Grim Reaper doesn't take their lives because he wants to punish Victor and Elizabeth by letting them live (the two may have gained immortality because of Death's bitter qualities). They are named after Heinrich Gustav Magnus, a scientist. Heinrich and Gustav equally hate their father.
• Stewart Lawrence (Jay Johnston
  Jay Johnston
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  ) - A suicidal man with the curse of the Werewolf
  Werewolf
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   as the result of a time paradox of ironically biting himself while in his transformed state. He can only be killed at the hands of someone who loves him. He's an annoyance to almost everyone as he's constantly complaining about his curse.
• Mother Teresa (Dino Stamatopoulos
  Dino Stamatopoulos
  Dino Stamatopoulos is an American television comedy writer, actor and producer who has worked on Mr. Show, TV Funhouse, Mad TV, The Dana Carvey Show, Late Show with David Letterman and Late Night with Conan O'Brien...
  
  ) - The Frankensteins' servant, mentioned and briefly seen in "Death" and again in "Heal Hitler". First seen waiting in line in "LBJFK", but featured in the unaired "Mother To Be-sa" episode.
• Nosferatu - A silent vampire who is often seen hanging out at the local tavern. He speaks in silent film title cards. He is a parody of Count Orlok
  Count Orlok
  Count Orlok is a fictional character portrayed by Max Schreck in the silent movie Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens...
  
   from 1922's Nosferatu.
• Death
  Death (personification)
  The concept of death as a sentient entity has existed in many societies since the beginning of history. In English, Death is often given the name Grim Reaper and, from the 15th century onwards, came to be shown as a skeletal figure carrying a large scythe and clothed in a black cloak with a hood...
  
  (Dino Stamatopoulos) - The physical manifestation of Death, he goes out of his way to try and bother the immortal Dr. Frankenstein. Death takes joy out of his powers and duty, but is seen as a goof ball by anyone not subject to his power. He really just wants Dr. Frankenstein's respect.

Season 1: 2010

Season 1 started June 27, 2010 and ended August 22, 2010. The second episode, "Mother To Be-Sa" was pulled and never aired. Episodes aired out of order.

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Season 2: 2012

In 2011 Mary Shelley's Frankenhole was renewed for a second season, which will premiere on January 22, 2012, and will contain ten episodes.

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External links

• Mary Shelley's Frankenhole at Adultswim.com