A caper’s always better with two people. Batman and Robin, , Thelma and Louise—why do you think Shaggy and Scooby always stuck together when the gang split up? This rings especially true for comedy, where duos from Laurel and Hardy to Key and Peele have secured their spots in comedy history. Now, a major comedy pair is reviving a classic horror-comedy made by their , right down to reusing the title structure.
SNL star Kenan Thompson hosts the sports-focused Amazon Prime Video talk show Good Sports, usually alongside Kevin Hart, but his former All That and Kenan and Kel collaborator Kel Mitchell recently filled in as co-host. During that episode, Thompson announced a new project uniting the Good Burger co-stars: a reboot film called Kenan and Kel Meet Frankenstein.
If the title sounds familiar, it’s because it’s an update of the 1948 movie Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein—a horror-comedy hit that capitalized on a recent merger to introduce the popular comedic duo to a fan-favorite monster. The title isn’t the only overlap with its midcentury predecessor; the plot is described as following “two delivery drivers whose routine drop-off takes a terrifying turn when they arrive at a creepy, out-of-place castle and accidentally awaken Frankenstein’s monster—turning an ordinary night into a fight for survival.”
That’s nearly identical to the Abbott and Costello film, where the pair play baggage clerks coerced into delivering crates to a wax museum, only to come face-to-face with Frankenstein’s monster, Bela Lugosi’s Dracula, and the Wolf Man.
Hollywood has been in a Frankenstein era lately—2023 brought Poor Things, 2024 had Lisa Frankenstein, 2025 saw Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, 2026 will deliver The Bride, and Sebastian Stan is set to play a dual role in an upcoming . But while the more dramatic takes may return the story to its Universal Monster roots, this update proves that any popular character will eventually get poked fun at.