Addams Family vs The Munsters

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My money is on the batmobile, though, at the tv hot rod drags.

jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 00:25 (nineteen years ago) link

I barely remember what the Addams Family TV show was like. No one shows it or the Munsters anymore, it's all stupid cartoons and Jerry Springer in the afternoon.

miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 00:27 (nineteen years ago) link

MUSTERS all the way!!! Yyvone Decarlo (who was LILY MUSTER BTW!) was way better than Mz Aaron Spelling. Plus Cousin Marilyn was a FOX and Fred Gwyne and Grampa Al were and still are hilarious as all fuck. Gomez/Fester couldnt compare. Fred Gwyne > John Astin

Sir Chaki McBeer III (chaki), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 00:59 (nineteen years ago) link

three years pass...

revive

I never realised (at least when I watched as a child) that there were class differences between the Addams and the Munsters. Wikipedia compares the two shows (scroll down): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Addams_Family_%28TV_series%29

Daniel Giraffe, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 14:09 (fifteen years ago) link

As Jim said in the original question, Incredible. TV found room for both of these weird sitcoms about happy, but perversely oriented families in the mid sixties

Daniel Giraffe, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 14:11 (fifteen years ago) link

c/d: addams family groove

latebloomer, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 14:33 (fifteen years ago) link

gomez and morticia = all-time favourite on-screen couple.

ledge, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 16:34 (fifteen years ago) link

the funniest scenes on either were between Gwynne and Lewis on The Munsters, but Addamses were generally more sophisticated even tho it was sitcommed up from the Chas A vision.

Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 16:47 (fifteen years ago) link

I think an R-rated remake of the Addams Family on HBO, :30 episodes, Morticia's plunging necklines and Lurch decapitating salesmen, would be good.

Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 17:20 (fifteen years ago) link

i like the movie addams family values a lot

latebloomer, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 17:34 (fifteen years ago) link

"I think an R-rated remake of the Addams Family on HBO"

This must happen. Now.

Soukesian, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 19:09 (fifteen years ago) link

yeah, Paul Rudnick wrote funnier stuff than the TV writers (could).

Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 19:15 (fifteen years ago) link

seven years pass...

The New Addams Family vs The Munsters Today

soref, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 17:40 (eight years ago) link

http://36.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ma3q98FEkM1rzh3ero1_500.jpg

soref, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 17:46 (eight years ago) link

the guy they had playing Gomez just looks ALL WRONG

http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/21300000/Gomez-the-new-addams-family-21345276-512-384.png

soref, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 17:51 (eight years ago) link

OG Addams TV shows are amazing. Gomez standing on his head while smoking a cigar, 'Tish plunking away atonally on an exotic stringed instrument, etc. The episode where Lurch accidentally becomes a teen rock idol by grunting over chamber music. All of it, so so good.

The movies are great in spite of the lazy plots and have the best casting ever, almost better than the TV show.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 17:54 (eight years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwpTcimbPLM

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 17:54 (eight years ago) link

this just looks like John Astin meeting a Gomez cosplayer at a convention or something

http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/6100000/The-New-Addams-Family-the-new-addams-family-6126544-450-306.jpg

soref, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 17:55 (eight years ago) link

two years pass...

pitch yer scripts here

...the 2017 twist is... the Munsters will be living in Brooklyn.

According to Deadine's Nellie Andreeva, the single-camera remake (not the first attempt to bring it back to life) is now in development, and "follows members of an offbeat family who are determined to stay true to themselves but struggle to fit in in hipster Brooklyn."

http://gothamist.com/2017/08/11/nbcs_munsters_reboot_will_take_plac.php

ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 11 August 2017 16:13 (six years ago) link

Bryan Fuller attempted this like, what, a year ago? Maybe failed Munsters reboots no one asked for will become an annual tradition.

Say, I Heard You Had a Quarrel With Your Best Girl (Old Lunch), Friday, 11 August 2017 16:16 (six years ago) link

"What if regular Brooklyn residents are the REAL monsters?" is a pretty straight-over-the-plate pitch though.

Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Friday, 11 August 2017 16:22 (six years ago) link

two years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYQE9dh6f78

Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Monday, 30 September 2019 06:38 (four years ago) link

one year passes...

ok

xzanfar, Monday, 7 December 2020 15:43 (three years ago) link

seven months pass...

So, uh, I guess all it took for a Munsters reboot to get off the ground was for Rob Zombie to take the helm?

Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Friday, 16 July 2021 15:52 (two years ago) link

From the first moment I saw the show, I hated Eddie Munster. I also hated the bland, 'nice girl' daughter who was the 'normie' thrown in so the writers could play around with a bigger variety of plots; she was so bland and awful she basically disappeared on the screen like a black hole from which no charisma could escape, so the writers wisely tossed her overboard in most of the episodes.

it is to laugh, like so, ha! (Aimless), Saturday, 17 July 2021 18:03 (two years ago) link

eleven months pass...

There's no way this is getting a theatrical release, right? This is like a straight-to-YouTube-with-450-views production https://t.co/TbtUwXhdTb

— Evan Rytlewski (@Evanryt) July 13, 2022

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 15:33 (one year ago) link

That's stunningly bad.

but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 13 July 2022 15:40 (one year ago) link

Holy SHIT that looks awful.

Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 13 July 2022 15:42 (one year ago) link

Rob Zombie movies are all about the same 3 things.
1) Rob wants you to know he's recreating some of his favorite movies.
2) Rob want to play some classic rock songs he likes for your.
3) Rob want to show you his wife is keeping it tight.

— Andhewolf (@Anditsdonenow) July 13, 2022

but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 13 July 2022 17:52 (one year ago) link

not sure why they gave zombie a $0 budget for this film

alas i will end up watching it

flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 13 July 2022 18:04 (one year ago) link

can't believe Rob Zombie's comedy chops are lacking

bury my heart in wounded kieth (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 13 July 2022 18:06 (one year ago) link

goodbye orange and teal. welcome green and purple!

andrew m., Wednesday, 13 July 2022 18:16 (one year ago) link

i'm a sicko, but i don't hate the way it looks. the ... jokes? ... are atrocious. if those are the highlights we're in real trouble.

andrew m., Wednesday, 13 July 2022 18:19 (one year ago) link

Addams Family had some cool shit but The Munsters was way funnier

brimstead, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 18:24 (one year ago) link

taking sides: rob zombies "the munsters" vs danzig's "verotika"

nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 13 July 2022 18:33 (one year ago) link

This looks terrible. It looks like Zombie has followed Kevin Smith down the "I'm just going to have fun making whatever the fuck I want with buds, I don't care who watches it", which, I guess I can respect on some level.

a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 13 July 2022 18:47 (one year ago) link

did they have an intern who had never seen a movie trailer before cut that trailer

mh, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 20:10 (one year ago) link

that said, i'm 100% on board with letting Rob Zombie make a Munsters film. sure, why not?

mh, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 20:14 (one year ago) link

my theory is that the trailer is like that because Rob Zombie has never seen a single episode of the of original series of The Munsters but has watched every episode of The Munsters Today multiple times

soref, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 20:34 (one year ago) link

Zombie is apparently an enormous Munsters fan? Although you'd be forgiven for thinking he felt a while different way about the Munsters based on that trailer.

how quickly we forget Herman Munster racing in his hot rod, the dragula

mh, Thursday, 14 July 2022 14:07 (one year ago) link

two months pass...

the munsters (2022) pic.twitter.com/HiaX0oB2Ao

— i been geekin like crank: high voltage (@50firstkates) September 18, 2022

ok looks dope imo

flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 19 September 2022 23:25 (one year ago) link


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