The Munsters or the Addams Family
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Topic: The Munsters or the Addams Family
Posted By: BaldJean
Subject: The Munsters or the Addams Family
Date Posted: March 10 2010 at 20:53
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two black & white tv-series featuring quite unusual families. which one is your favorite? -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: March 10 2010 at 20:55
| Both. |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: March 10 2010 at 20:56
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A Person wrote:Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: March 10 2010 at 20:57
| Split vote, as a kid I preferred Munsters, now i'd say Addams family. |
Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: March 10 2010 at 21:02
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: March 10 2010 at 21:19
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Addams Family rather easily.. though quite a decent silver-age TV show, The Munsters was in the same league as Gilligan's Island (if not as good) |
Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: March 10 2010 at 21:59
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Sheesh, I grew up watching these. I suppose at the time, The Munsters was a bit more favored. Now that I'm older (much), I'd probably prefer to watch the Addams Family. I think it was a bit more sophisticated, if one can use that term w/r/t these shows. ------------- Can you tell me where we're headin'? Lincoln County Road or Armageddon. |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: March 10 2010 at 22:05
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I wanted to see what others say first before uttering my opinion. I think Morticia is a lot more sexy than Lily. and I just love her hobble dress
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Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: March 10 2010 at 22:15
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: March 10 2010 at 22:49
| and John Astin was brilliantly mad in that show, nothing like him on TV at the time |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: March 10 2010 at 23:42
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First vote for the Munsters.
Never really got imnto the Addams family. Good but thats all imo. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: March 11 2010 at 00:01
Without a doubt it's more sophisticated. That doesn't make it a better show.  Munsters for me.
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Posted By: manofmystery
Date Posted: March 11 2010 at 00:24
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The Munsters was fun enough but it also had several major problems not the least of which being that a John Kerry father and a Vampire mother produced a Wolfman child. Now, The Addams Family featured John Astin's simply brilliant Gomez
Raul Julia's Gomez was pretty darn good
And Christopher Lloyd was great as "Uncle Fester"
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Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: March 11 2010 at 00:29
Dane Cook stand-up reference, by any chance? Or did you make those observations on your own (the John Kerry comparison in particular I completely agree with)?
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: March 11 2010 at 00:51
Morticia! 
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Posted By: manofmystery
Date Posted: March 11 2010 at 00:52
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dane cook is the person i'd most like to punch square in the face on this earth right now so no, it is not a dane cook reference and it amazes me that the man was smart enough to see the similarities in appearance between kerry and herman munster (suppose the "punch in the face" line might also be taken as a cook reference as that is how he ends almost every joke). John Kerry also looks identical to the villain from the film version of ReAnimator by the way:
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Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: March 11 2010 at 01:04
That entire post just made me laugh uncontrollably.
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Posted By: manofmystery
Date Posted: March 11 2010 at 01:17
You know, John Kerry got 2 purple hearts for that role ------------- Time always wins. |
Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: March 11 2010 at 02:19
Both excellent but the Munsters were funnier, and great acting from "Thing" 
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Posted By: npjnpj
Date Posted: March 11 2010 at 02:49
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I prefer the Munsters, especially the first season. Later on they had some slapstick thrown in, which I don't care for all that much. But I've always had a slight problem with the Addams Family: Alhough it was funny for a while, they always seemed to redo the same story: Unsuspecting stranger comes to the house and has the .... frightened out of him. The Munster stories were much more diverse. |
Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: March 11 2010 at 03:01
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Damn...this is a question over which I myself have long wondered and struggled...usually I end up picking The Munsters though, since they are much cheesier. Which is a bonus.
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: March 11 2010 at 03:09
| ^ well you can't beat a pet dragon under the staircase |
Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: March 11 2010 at 03:32
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Dragons under the staircase tend to beat out crewmen sticking their hands through a box most days of the week.
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: March 11 2010 at 03:59
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"Dragons under the staircase tend to beat out crewmen sticking their hands through a box most days of the week." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: March 11 2010 at 04:25
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The Addams family for me, altogether darker and cleverer than the Munsters, although Fred Gwynne (Herman Munster) was an excellent comic actor who made The Munsters very watchable. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: March 11 2010 at 10:22
When I read this post all I could think of was "they're altogether ooky, The Addams Family". |
Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: March 11 2010 at 10:49
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Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: March 11 2010 at 11:11
Fair play, The Munsters had a better theme tune. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: March 11 2010 at 11:45
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The Munsters, due to my love for Universal Monster classics... The Addams were good, though.
I didn't like the Addams movie... ------------- 
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: March 11 2010 at 13:23
| I grew up with both, Munsters were more campy. I liked Addams more stylistically. Don't ask why. |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: March 11 2010 at 13:49
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The Addams Family. I won't even bother to give more points to my argumentation. |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: March 11 2010 at 14:57
There's no need to argue something as important as the preference for one of these two defunct series...  -------------
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Posted By: Chicapah
Date Posted: March 11 2010 at 16:13
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Gotta go with the Munsters because I must've been watching something else when the Addams Family was on. I can picture Herman groovin' on "Giant Hogweed" for some reason. ------------- "Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: March 11 2010 at 20:19
Angelica Houston is a good actress, but she just did not have the sex appeal which is necessary to play Morticia ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Sacred 22
Date Posted: March 12 2010 at 01:41
| I lean towards the Adams Family, but I do like the Munsters as well. It's been ages since I last saw either of them. |
Posted By: jampa17
Date Posted: March 12 2010 at 11:25
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Munsters for me, the plot was better, just monsters trying to live a regular life. While the Addams were creepy weird people with a lot of issues in their heads. But Morticia was a lot more sexy than Lilly. No matter, at the end, Munsters for me, easily... ------------- |
Posted By: manofmystery
Date Posted: March 12 2010 at 16:54
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The Munsters as a family unit were a sham; either Herman is covering up his deep inner depression and anger over his wife's obvious adultery or he was given a poor quality brain and Lily is taking complete advantage of that by making him pay for some punk Werewolf's b*****d son. ^ hey, we have self censoring posts now, we can go nuts!------------- Time always wins. |
Posted By: CinemaZebra
Date Posted: March 13 2010 at 17:58
| I never liked The Munsters and I've always loved The Addams Family so that's my vote. Gomez FTW |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: May 06 2010 at 10:02
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