{"id":87329,"date":"2026-09-23T09:27:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T13:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/?page_id=87329"},"modified":"2026-10-04T08:57:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T12:57:22","slug":"lisa-frankenstein-trivia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/trivia\/lisa-frankenstein-trivia\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisa Frankenstein > Trivia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<ul>\n<li>The feature directorial debut of Zelda Williams, the daughter of Robin Williams.<\/li>\n<li>In one scene, Lisa refers to her &#8220;aunt Shelley&#8221;. An obvious nod to\u00a0Mary Shelley, the author of the novel &#8220;Frankenstein&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>When her stepmother, Janet, returns home, Lisa exclaims, &#8220;Dammit! Janet!&#8221;, a song title from The Rocky Horror Show stage musical, which is also based on Frankenstein.<\/li>\n<li>There are two police officers in the film, Officer John and Officer Waters,\u00a0 an obvious nod to the king of camp, director John Waters<\/li>\n<li>According to Diablo Cody, the movie is set in the same universe as her earlier picture, Jennifer&#8217;s Body (2009). Both movies&#8217; soundtracks feature covers of the song &#8220;I Can See Clearly Now.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>As an easter egg, there is a\u00a0Robin Williams\u00a0album on the floor when the main characters first interact: Throbbing Python of Love.<\/li>\n<li>Lisa&#8217;s name comes from\u00a0Weird Science (1985), which also contains references to Frankenstein and features protagonists who bring a love interest to life.<\/li>\n<li>The revivified corpse is called &#8220;The Creature,&#8221; the name the being had in Mary Shelley&#8217;s original Frankenstein novel. Popular culture has given him the name &#8220;Frankenstein&#8217;s monster,&#8221; or &#8220;Frankenstein&#8221; for short, which was not used in the book.<\/li>\n<li>In the first scene after the beginning credits, a headstone is shown while zooming in on Lisa that reads &#8220;Frances Owens&#8221;, which is the same name as a character from the film <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/practical-magic-1998-review\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"follow noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Practical Magic(opens in new tab)<\/a><\/em> (1998).<\/li>\n<li>Director Zelda Williams is\u00a0the voice on Janet&#8217;s self-help tape.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The feature directorial debut of Zelda Williams, the daughter of Robin Williams. In one scene, Lisa refers to her &#8220;aunt Shelley&#8221;. An obvious nod to\u00a0Mary Shelley, the author of the novel &#8220;Frankenstein&#8221;. When her stepmother, Janet, returns home, Lisa exclaims, &#8220;Dammit! Janet!&#8221;, a song title from The Rocky Horror Show stage musical, which is also&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55025,"parent":88072,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10893],"tags":[10786],"class_list":["post-87329","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trivia","tag-lisa-frankenstein-trivia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87329"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88959,"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87329\/revisions\/88959"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}