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I love the cast.

… but I know this is about which would be picked over the other. I'd say the Addams Family had a richer, more original source and expanded it more on TV. The Munsters was a collection of Universal monsters, made into a comedy show. Both shows were very well done... they both had a great "message" about what being "normal" meant. They celebrated diversity... I think that was the message: the folks that are not "normal" or like us are really very appealing and should be accepted.

Any chance you're the Mike Nelson from Mystery Science Theater 3000?

… if they would let me change, I would change it...

Cara mia!

Fred Gywne as Herman was great though.

They started it all.

New Yorker cartoons, too, she gave me a blank look.

She had no idea that the Addams Family started out as a series of loosely-related macabre cartoons by Charles Addams, and published in New Yorker magazine.

I knew the cartoons first, and then the TV family.

With Anjelica Huston as Mortisha and Raul Julia as Gomez. I've watched those movies so many times and still laugh!

My first celebrity crush:

You know the one that would rise out of the wooden box.

And Uncle Fester.

That was the Munsters, right? I liked Uncle Fester.

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"When we're together, darling, every night is Halloween".

Herman is my guy.

And I'm not saying that because I grew up with a Charles Addams book that was rarely shelved. Well, maybe I am.

No question.
Definitely depends on what you feel like on any given day. I have all of them on dvd. Pro and con. Herman Munster cracks me right up though.

They were classier and more surreal...


A little trivia...
I looked it up once, and they both on the same two years, but AF started one week earlier and lasted one week later. I think the music was classier too. I think the theme was by the same guy who did Green Acres.

Although I too liked Fred Gwynne as Herman.

What a name ! LURCH. And Ted Cassidy's vocalizations were great. When he auditioned, he asked them what they wanted him to do. They said, "Wing it." He did. My cousin used to do the best Lurch impression.

enjoyed having sex with each other.

The new version is pretty scary, too:

IMO

I preferred the Munsters.

However, after Addams Family Values, the movie, came out when I was close to 30 years old, I grew more fond of Addams Family.

How often do you see a stately mansion rounding a corner on two wheels? And I liked Kitty Catt and Thing.

Wolf

When I first watched those shows, the Munsters joke was that they passed themselves off as the all American family, the Addams just seemed to be a bunch of eccentrics. Though now I like them a lot better.

And Fred Gwynne was just funny as hell.

Especially on how Uncle Herman and Aunt Lily tried to be so understanding and compassionate about how their niece Marilyn was so ugly and disfigured.

No question

Or do you even remember?

The Beatles (Addams Family) of course.

I had the Chas Addams coffee table book when I was 10.

Post-Munsters, "Grandpa" Al Lewis had THE BEST progressive radio program for two hours every Saturday in NYC on WBAI. You have to imagine listening to his gravelly voice calling George Pataki a "piece of shit" regularly. And he was a strong advocate for prisoners' rights. He regularly visited prisons and jails to show his support. He also advocated listeners becoming pen pals with prisoners. He was so much more than Schnauzer and Grandpa. I miss him and wish he were here to call out Trump.

I LOVED that show.