Didn't they realize?
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ministerwithoutportfolio — 10 years ago(January 22, 2016 11:33 PM)
Yes indeed. Ive often thought of that.
But discontinuities (or whatever the official film-science word for that is) can be overcome provided the audience is laughing so hard they dont have time to think about it.
There, The Munsters succeeded IMO.
Its similar to Moe hitting Shemp's head with a hammer 10 times. Moe's bathos - or whatever - is so believable and the timing is so perfect - and the sound effect so luscious that you -the viewer - are inclined to suspend disbelief. -
tinkerbell_jonna — 10 years ago(February 15, 2016 11:51 PM)
One thing I didn't get was Marilyn also saw HERSELF as ugly and the rest of her family as normal you'd think Marilyn would have made an ATTEMPT to look like the rest of her family, but she seemed to take pride in her "ugliness" ~what we would see as beauty~
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kenos-542-105972 — 9 years ago(August 12, 2016 08:05 PM)
I wrote on another thread that part of the fun of the show was accepting all those little inconsistencies. I also noticed that The Munsters often cited "normal" looking celebrities like Steve McQueen and Frank Sinatra as examples of sex symbols at the same time that they were describing the average Joe as looking "weird" but it all becomes sort of an inside joke that the whole premise is so unbelievable anyway so why not just take it to the extreme. It's a bit like the suspension of disbelief required to watch all the Raiders of the Lost Ark films.
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paulfreed — 9 years ago(August 19, 2016 09:28 AM)
Going by memory there was an episode in which Lily was a model (Harry Mudd) was the designer. Herman shows up as a rich Texan, and Grandpa takes a pill or something and turns into a blond bomb shell to make Lily jealous. You would think in Munster logical grandpa would have turned into a hideous creature to make Lily jealous, I loved the Blond talking like grandpa.
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pjpurple-1 — 9 years ago(August 19, 2016 03:06 PM)
I like the part where Grandpa forgets he's a girl and lights up a cigar! lol
But I hadn't thought about the beautiful blonde in that way. In the Munster world Lily would be jealous of an Elvira type.
The actress in the episode was more like Marilyn. Lily's real reaction would've been more,"Oh how nice of Herman to take pity on that poor plain girl."
But you know Lily, any female around Herman made her livid.