Some of the greatest comedies were doubted during their development, and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein was no different. However, it turns out that one of the naysayers was actually Lou Costello, one of the stars of the film. An article in The Orlando Sentinel revealed that Costello had his doubts about the project, specifically the story. It stated, "Costello didn't want to make Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. He didn't think the script was particularly funny."

Apparently, the film's producer, Robert Arthur, was charged with convincing Costello to do the feature, but that didn't mean that there were bright skies throughout the entire film shoot. However, Abbott and Costello had their own personal method of livening things up. The article stated, "Arthur later said that Costello and Abbott kept their spirits up during the making of the film by throwing cream pies at crew members."

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Let's be clear: Pie-throwing is not a new art form, and it certainly wasn't new to Abbott and Costello. However, it also wasn't the first time their pie-throwing escapades had been written about. In a 1949 article, reporter Betty Tyson detailed her experience meeting Abbott and Costello in The Boston Globe. She observed, "I guess it harks back to their days in slapstick vaudeville — but pie throwing (gooey, squishy, hits) is their idea of something really funny. So, for their own amusement, the Abbott-and-Costello pair hire stooges to toss pies. The joke, and the pies, of course, are not on the comedy team footing the bill."

She continued, "The day I visited the set, the A. & C. stooges were wielding banana cream pies. They really messed each other up. I'm afraid Messrs. Abbott and Costello are not quite mature. You should have heard them squeal and howl when a stooge was splattered from head to foot with pie, but the sight only made me squirm uncomfortably."