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― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 15 August 2004 01:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 15 August 2004 01:24 (nineteen years ago) link
Addams Family had Yvonne DeCarlo in that shroud, Lurch, Hand, the indelible chracter of Wednesday Cousin It, Gomez (with a brilliant performance by John Astin) Cousin It (ok Pugsley always sucked) and that theme song.
Thanks to Charles Addams' brilliant cartoons a whole new family was born that, while drawing on archetypal horror images, slanted them anew. Loving, ooky and kooky.
The Munsters offered up a slight take off on Universal Films Horror characters that never brought much to those and functioned as much more than a one note gag.
(I may be biased by having fallen in love in my impressionable youth in Ethiopia with a collection of short stories in my school library based on The Addams Family. Following that, I discovered that the great aunt of a college friend having dumped Charles Addams served as his 'inspiration' for Morticia which just made me even more enamored with the show as I tried to imagine this woman as Morticia.)
― H (Heruy), Sunday, 15 August 2004 01:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 15 August 2004 01:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 15 August 2004 02:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― H (Heruy), Sunday, 15 August 2004 02:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 15 August 2004 02:12 (nineteen years ago) link
of course i could check if she had at some point been married to Aaron tho I doubt it
― H (Heruy), Sunday, 15 August 2004 02:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 15 August 2004 02:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― H (Heruy), Sunday, 15 August 2004 02:52 (nineteen years ago) link
The Munsters had the better theme song.
― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Sunday, 15 August 2004 03:58 (nineteen years ago) link
Hand was actually named Thing. and Addams Family was way better. Much darker and funnier at the same time. So many great characters: Uncle Fester, Lurch, Cousin Itt. and the comic strip rules too.
― Joseph Pot (STINKORâ„¢), Sunday, 15 August 2004 04:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 15 August 2004 12:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 15 August 2004 15:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 15 August 2004 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 15 August 2004 19:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 15 August 2004 19:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 15 August 2004 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 15 August 2004 19:48 (nineteen years ago) link
The Winnah!
― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 15 August 2004 19:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 15 August 2004 20:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 16 August 2004 04:46 (nineteen years ago) link
and is also in King Creole as the main female lead opposite Elvis...
― koogs (koogs), Monday, 16 August 2004 10:19 (nineteen years ago) link
Original cartoons>tv show>>>>90s Addams family movies>>Munsters.
― C0L1N B3CK3TT (Colin Beckett), Monday, 16 August 2004 10:53 (nineteen years ago) link
The Addams family was probably a better show, objectively, but The Munsters is more fun to talk about.
― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 16 August 2004 11:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 00:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 00:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sir Chaki McBeer III (chaki), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 00:59 (nineteen years ago) link
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
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
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
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYQE9dh6f78
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Monday, 30 September 2019 06:38 (four years ago) link
ok
― xzanfar, Monday, 7 December 2020 15:43 (three years ago) link
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
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.
― When the Pain That You Feel is the Bite of an Eel, That's a Moray (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 13 July 2022 21:38 (one year ago) link
how quickly we forget Herman Munster racing in his hot rod, the dragula
― mh, Thursday, 14 July 2022 14:07 (one year ago) link
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