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Reflex movements are those which are made independently of the will but are carried out along pathways which pass between the peripheral nervous system and the central nervous system.

13 seconds sound clip from the Young Frankenstein (1974) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:08:01 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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[...]

- Nice hopping.

- Would you raise your left knee, please?

- You have just witnessed a voluntary nerve impulse.

- It begins as a stimulus from the cerebral cortex passes through the brain stem and to the particular muscles involved.

- You may lower your knee.

- Reflex movements are those which are made independently of the will but are carried out along pathways which pass between the peripheral nervous system and the central nervous system.

- You filthy, rotten, yellow son of a bitch!

- We are not aware of these impulses.

- Neither do we intend them to carry out our contraction of muscles yet, as you can see, they work by themselves.

- But what if we block the nerve impulse by simply applying local pressure?

- Which can be done with any ordinary metal clamp just at the swelling on the posterior nerve roots for, oh, say, five or six seconds.

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Actors: Gene Wilder (Dr. Frederick Frankenstein), Marty Feldman (Igor), Teri Garr (Inga), Madeline Kahn (Elizabeth)

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