As a wee sprout, I wasn’t allowed to watch much television. [tag]The Addams Family[/tag], curiously enough, was always on the allowed list. (Both the TV show and the New Yorker cartoons). No wonder I was such a weird kid.
I think, because I basically had every episode of the Addams Family memorized before I ever became aware of the Munsters, I always viewed the [tag]Munsters[/tag] with tremendous disdain. Inferior copies. Bah.
In reality, they both began in 1964, the Addams Family on ABC and the Munsters on CBS. Even after I learned that, many years later, I still didn’t care. Still don’t, in fact. I loathe the Munsters.
I was watching the Addams Family recently and was struck anew by how incredibly beautiful [tag]Carolyn Jones[/tag] was. Damn.
I was always more of an Yvonne DeCarlo fan. I still can’t reconcile the Lily Munster thing with Moses’ wife in the Cecil B. DeMille classic. Maybe it’s the whole “De” thing.
Lily Munster was the only likable munster to me. I forgot she married Moses.