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The Prankenstein Effect

When you come up with something that you think is cool and funny and you think you're the first person to think of it, but it turns out many people have thought of it long before you.
Person 1: Bro! I have a crazy idea! Imagine Frankenstein but he's a prankster, and his name is PRANKENSTEIN. Why has no one ever though of this before?

Person 2: That joke has been used several times already by many other people.

Person 1: Fuck. I'll call this phenomenon "The Prankenstein Effect"

Dr Funkenstein 

Main character of the funkateers' album "Clones of Dr Funkenstein", a fusion of Star Wars and funky bass lines from Parliament, half of George Clinton's funk empire.
We'd love to Funk you Funkenstein, your Funk is the BEST-ie. we'd love to jam with you Dr Funkenstein, cos you are the don of the hood.
Dr Funkenstein by Damn Yankees April 26, 2006

Dr. Dunkenstein 

And Dr. Dunkenstein throws one down with authority!
Dr. Dunkenstein by Kermit Sly December 31, 2008

porkenstein 

Someone who is clever, yet obese.
"That dude is cool but he's a bit of a porkenstein'
porkenstein by Benni & Jecky February 16, 2007

Dr. Funkenstein

Dr. Amos Funkenstein (1937-1995). Jewish historical scholar, author of such works as Perceptions of Jewish History from Antiquity to the Present (Tel Aviv, 1991). Probably nowhere near as cool as his name implies.
"I follow the late scholar of Jewish thought, Dr. Funkenstein, in defining historical consciousness as a useful and neglected middle term in this debate"

- Susan A. Crane, 'Writing the Individual Back into Collective Memory', The American Historical Review, 102, 5 (Dec 1997), p.1373.
Dr. Funkenstein by historygeek September 6, 2008

Dr. Funkenstein

i aint GOTTA definitsion, but the guy above or below me, Star Child, is a pimp kuzz ane one down wit the funk is Groovin it HARDCORE.
Yee-up MAN, das some shee-it.
Dr. Funkenstein by DFOES November 23, 2003