Ben and Rob crack open the lab and fire up the lightning rods for their trip into Frankenstein, the long-gestating passion project from Guillermo del Toro, and things get stitched together fast. Before they even get near the operating table, the pair dig back to the source, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, unpacking the Creature’s original, deeply human motivation and how often adaptations miss the tragic point entirely.

From there, Rob unveils a chaotic brand-new segment (almost definitely probably returning… maybe) in a heroic attempt to keep the episode on the rails, before the conversation lurches through cinema history: from the shadow of Boris Karloff’s silver-screen monster in Frankenstein, to how that imagery still crackles through del Toro’s gothic sensibilities. The boys also can’t help noticing eerie déjà vu, debating why parts of t ...