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Addams Family vs Munsters
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Spectral Glider
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Munsters had the more rockin theme song....they had Fred Gwynn....and above all else, DRAGULA!
Munsters in a landslide.
Munsters in a landslide.
Error Macro
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Munsters all the way, for reasons already mentioned.
I remember when I was a kid I thought that the Addams family was lame because they weren't really monsters....just weirdos with macabre tastes.
As I grew older though, it seemed pretty clear that the Munsters producers were just trying too hard and the show was a pretty hollow gimmick. If that wasn't enough, Addams family gets the edge for producing 1 (maybe 2) awesome movie....whereas the Munsters just went on to lame-ass TV revivals and straight-to-video schlock.
Does anybody know exactly what the relationship between the two shows is? Who is ripping who off? IMDB says that they were both produced in 1964.....was one a reaction to the success of another? I know that Addams Family was a comic strip first, but its jump to television still could have been motivated by the success of a show with a similar premise...
As I grew older though, it seemed pretty clear that the Munsters producers were just trying too hard and the show was a pretty hollow gimmick. If that wasn't enough, Addams family gets the edge for producing 1 (maybe 2) awesome movie....whereas the Munsters just went on to lame-ass TV revivals and straight-to-video schlock.
Does anybody know exactly what the relationship between the two shows is? Who is ripping who off? IMDB says that they were both produced in 1964.....was one a reaction to the success of another? I know that Addams Family was a comic strip first, but its jump to television still could have been motivated by the success of a show with a similar premise...
Error Macro
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One of my favorite covers:
No Use For A Name - The Munsters Theme
Pay attention to the end, where it changes to a different theme that's easily recognizable. I love that!
No Use For A Name - The Munsters Theme
Pay attention to the end, where it changes to a different theme that's easily recognizable. I love that!
mrkapawutzis
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Morticia Adams is a fine one. And seeing Gomez get all hot and bothered whenever she's around, well that right there makes it better than the Munsters.
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
The Munsters were just a very tame and less scary version of The Addams Family. I go with Addams, they had an awesome cartoon in the 90s and I liked the first movie.
Eddie Munster creeps the hell out of me though, hell even the actor that plays him still freaks me out. I saw an interview with him about a month and he just isn't close to seemingly like a normal guy. I got a major "crazy guy" vibe off him. Eugh, I need a shower now.
Eddie Munster creeps the hell out of me though, hell even the actor that plays him still freaks me out. I saw an interview with him about a month and he just isn't close to seemingly like a normal guy. I got a major "crazy guy" vibe off him. Eugh, I need a shower now.
ConfusingJazz
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Ripclawe said:
They were both gimmicky shows. How many episodes can you do about freaky neighbors? I would imagine the novelty would wear off after a while.
ManDudeChild
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So which one was the rip off of the other?
ManDudeChild said:
The Munsters was done as a rip-off/response to the news that the other network had made plans to produce a television show based on Charles Addams's cartoons for The New Yorker. The Universal stable of monsters were used as a basis for the competing show, entitled "The Munsters"...
The Munsters is a ripoff, but a rather well done ripoff. I always thought The Addams Family was a bit more interesting... but that could just be because of my love of the Addams cartoons.
Now I need to go purchase some collections of Addams stuff.
Schmo Florez
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Anyone remember the short lived "The Munsters Today" in the late 80's?
Jill Sandwich
the turds of Optimus Prime
And that is why the Munsters win
dskillzhtown
keep your strippers out of my American football
Munsters all the way. It seemed like just traditional monsters living in modern times. But I never understood the Blonde family member that was completely normal living with them, I knew why back then but I have forgotten. Addams Family just seemed weird for no reason. Every episode, you had to have something out of the ordinary that was completely off the weirdness scale for no reason.
But both wives were pretty hot.
But both wives were pretty hot.
Here's an odd variant on The Munsters, the classic Japanese cartoon Kaibutsu-kun:
Created by the manga team Fujiko Fujio (whose most famous creation, Doraemon, is practically an institution), this is the saga of the Prince of the Monsters, and his wacky adventures with Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolfman. The original anime is from 1968 which would place the manga around the mid-60s. Kaibatsu-kun may well have been sparked by The Munsters, or it's just based directly on the original Universal monster movies; either way, it's a fun, silly cartoon.
I was able to track down a bit of the animation itself, from the Italian dub of the 1980 Kaibutsu-kun revival: Carletto, Principe dei Mostri. Here's the opening and closing sequences, complete with wacky Italian theme music. While not up to the glory of the original black-and-white openings and closings (my favorite features our heroes driving around in an old fashioned car, playing rock instruments, and then surfing), they're still a lot of fun.
FnordChan
Created by the manga team Fujiko Fujio (whose most famous creation, Doraemon, is practically an institution), this is the saga of the Prince of the Monsters, and his wacky adventures with Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolfman. The original anime is from 1968 which would place the manga around the mid-60s. Kaibatsu-kun may well have been sparked by The Munsters, or it's just based directly on the original Universal monster movies; either way, it's a fun, silly cartoon.
I was able to track down a bit of the animation itself, from the Italian dub of the 1980 Kaibutsu-kun revival: Carletto, Principe dei Mostri. Here's the opening and closing sequences, complete with wacky Italian theme music. While not up to the glory of the original black-and-white openings and closings (my favorite features our heroes driving around in an old fashioned car, playing rock instruments, and then surfing), they're still a lot of fun.
FnordChan
FortNinety
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border said:
My sentiments exactly. Also, I was rather turned off by the fact that the Herman turned out to be so green in the films. I know he's Frankenstein and all, but... maybe if it was a different shade, I dunno.
Anyway, once Car 54 came along, I just watched that instead of Munsters. Same people, but far funnier show.
Spectral Glider
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Lily Munster > Morticia
Spectral Glider
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Both shows debuted Sept. of 64 and both shows ended in 66.
SlickWilly223
Time ta STEP IT UP
I really like the Adams Family movies
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