If anyone ever reads this story again… and gets this far….. he or she will learn the kicker: the name of the movie that gave rise to the two strange names for the bickering professors. 'The Man with Two Brains' is a 1983 American science fiction black comedy film directed by Carl Reiner and starring Steve Martin and Kathleen Turner. Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr, a widowed brain surgeon, is renowned for inventing a method of 'cranial screw-top' brain surgery. On a trip to a medical conference in Vienna, a city living in fear of the serial 'Elevator Killer', Hfuhruhurr meets mad scientist Dr. Alfred Necessiter, who has created a technique enabling him to store living brains in liquid-filled jars using the Elevator Killer's victims.