This Friday Oct. 26: A Serious "Munsters"?

[GSGregg]

Favorite line (Grandpa): "I have had many brides.....(sigh).....all dead now.....we keep in touch".

 

[sleepy]

But that was a favorite line.
A whole lot of what's going on in that show is sight gags and
the specific context of the situations, like Herman wearing those threads at the end of the show, and the style of the characters like Grandpa.

I'm still trying to figure out where Butch Patrick (the original Eddie Munster) appeared. Was he one of the ambulance attendants? Or one of the delivery men at the start of the show?

But PLEASE! Post No Spoilers!

And Elton, I'm glad you found it online given Hulu's B.S. about international licensing.
Mockingbird Lane was produced by NBC Universal. They own the rights to "The Munsters" and they are also a co-owner of Hulu.

Isn't that B.S.?

 

[elton]

Yeah, you're correct Sleepy - it's total bull. But there's always a way

 

[sleepy]

Have you watched it yet?

 

[elton]

Not yet ... I've just come out of the shower .... need to load it onto my 'film' hard drive, and then its away we go with a few bevvies too :)

I will not be back on this evening, it's 9.30pm now and I'm tired. Time for relaxing mode.

Shall update ya tomorrow.

Goodnight Sleepy :)

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

i'm about 3/4 done watching... will finish it tomorrow.

i didn't like it at first because it smacked of modern, over produced and FX-laden films and shows. made me wish i was re-watching "ed wood" instead. but by the middle of the show i kind of came around. long story short, it seems to work.

note to self: eddie izzard is definitely someone i need to watch more of...

 

[sleepy]

Aw what the heck.
I was up 20 hrs. yesterday!

 

[sleepy]

Yeah. Eddie knocked me out.

On a side note, overproduced was my reaction to the new Hawaii Five-O. That and hey, let the bad guys blow things up two or three times per episode and the prime suspect get hit and killed by the bus while fleeing before McGarrett's crack team does anything right.

Has the show suffered any improvement since?

 

[elton]

Loved it sleepy.

Quite different but the same. Eddie's a blast and I like the dad too. 'Normal' in a munster way but very good.

Shows a lot of promise; I look forward to future episodes.

 

[sleepy]

I'd like that too, but NBC pulled back on series plans claiming something about 'creative differences', though if response to the pilot is good, then maaaybe. It was the third-highest-watched show for Friday night and improved the viewership for the NBC time slot by 50%.

By comparison, the first episode of NBC's classic "Cheers" finished dead last in the overall weekly ratings on first airing back in the 1980's, so maybe there is hope for "Munsters".

I was a bit surprised by the grisly content. It was hilarious.
Normally we don't get that level of gore in U.S. t.v. and just last week I watched the movie "Candyman II" on a purported "cutting-edge Indie-style" broadcast station which would normally have limited censorship and they really cut it to ribbons, so I was very happy with "the surprises".

And that it was broadcast in what is usually "The Family Hour", 8 P.M. in the U.S. where things like that are verboten.
Anything like subtle bullet holes, trickles of blood, mild stuff, is usually suppressed until at least 9 or 10 P.M. on over-the-air telecasts, though the horror shows such as "The Vampire Diaries" and "Supernatural" have lately been pushing the envelope regarding gore, this following the Supreme Court decision which declared the Right of children to buy and play violent video games.

 

[elton]

Yeah, we kinda noticed that the US censors seem to cut out all the 'good' 'gory' bits on television. Not that we watched much TV when we were there in the summer - but what we did watch was hacked to bits and full of adverts. I swear there are more adverts to the hour than programme content

Damn, we see more gore on the news channels here in the UK!

Shit news that they may have pulled the series ... let's hope it makes it.

 

[sleepy]

Odd you should mention the news.
I was watching it this morning after we had a mild bump of an earthquake and apparently somebody got drunk behind the wheel last night and ran up over the curb and into two homeless souls who were sleeping on the sidewalk.

The report said they were killed "nearly instantly", but the 19 year old driver tried to flee with the victims pinned under the car and ended up dragging them 50 yards. And the report showed the car, mangled with flat tires and the chassis off the ground by only a couple of inches with an arm of one of the victims sticking out from under it.

I don't care to see real-life mayhem. They are getting bold with the news.

 

[elton]

That's cutting it too fine - must have been a Brazilian crew

 

[sleepy]

Nope, it was the local Ch. 5 crew. CW = part Warner Bros./part Paramount ownership.