The Munsters rent their house to a rock group.The Munsters rent their house to a rock group.The Munsters rent their house to a rock group.
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Did you know
- TriviaThe Standells were an actual rock group that first performed the American hit "Dirty Water".
- GoofsWhen Lily tells Eddie not to go out on the ledge of the hotel room, Marilyn's arms are at her side. Then it cuts to a wide angle and her arms are behind her back.
- Quotes
Marilyn Munster: My aunt and uncle are out right now, and grandfather is up in the attic.
Pops Murdock: Oh, eh, working?
Marilyn Munster: Oh no, he just likes to hang around up there.
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The Beatniks vs. the Hippies
They caught it on film. They didn't know what they had, but they caught it ... that amazing inflection point in time where the 50's were in the process of morphing into the 60's. It was just a period of months in 1964/65 between writing and filming this episode when the culture and the country changed wildly. JFK was gone for about a year, the Beatles had come and turned everything popular upside down and Vietnam and Civil Rights were about to shake the country to its foundation.
But for a little black and white TV show that was simply riding the early/mid 60's TV sitcom wave of the supernatural ... monsters, witches, genies, martians, talking cars and horses and flying nuns ... a bunch of middle aged writers, likely without any understanding or interest in either cultural genre, managed to crystalize on film a very innocent, fleeting time in Americana.
Just about every show at that time had to do something acknowledging the Beatles phenomenon; even Gilligan's Island did so. Of course the writers at the time, as exemplified in the generational disparity had no idea what to make of the Beatles, who - to them - looked like freaks in mop head wigs and made noise not music.
So, the Standells were brought in to serve as America's poor man's Beatles, complete with the sharp, hip outfits and a cover version of I Wanna Hold Your Hand. But with the show having no real concept of what was or would become cool, they reached back a decade or so to Kerouac and Co. and pulled the Beats forward a few years.
In fairness to the show's creators, it was the exact in between period where the 50's were dying off and the 60's were taking off. The very month the show aired, March of 65, the first combat troops were sent into Vietnam and later that year Ken Kesey would be staging his first "acid tests" in California with the house band, the Warlocks ... soon to be renamed, the Grateful Dead.
If this show were filmed just a year later, it probably would have been filmed in color and, assuming somebody was keeping up with the times, the house probably would have been filed with tie-dyed shirts and other hippie, not beatnik symbols.
But for a little black and white TV show that was simply riding the early/mid 60's TV sitcom wave of the supernatural ... monsters, witches, genies, martians, talking cars and horses and flying nuns ... a bunch of middle aged writers, likely without any understanding or interest in either cultural genre, managed to crystalize on film a very innocent, fleeting time in Americana.
Just about every show at that time had to do something acknowledging the Beatles phenomenon; even Gilligan's Island did so. Of course the writers at the time, as exemplified in the generational disparity had no idea what to make of the Beatles, who - to them - looked like freaks in mop head wigs and made noise not music.
So, the Standells were brought in to serve as America's poor man's Beatles, complete with the sharp, hip outfits and a cover version of I Wanna Hold Your Hand. But with the show having no real concept of what was or would become cool, they reached back a decade or so to Kerouac and Co. and pulled the Beats forward a few years.
In fairness to the show's creators, it was the exact in between period where the 50's were dying off and the 60's were taking off. The very month the show aired, March of 65, the first combat troops were sent into Vietnam and later that year Ken Kesey would be staging his first "acid tests" in California with the house band, the Warlocks ... soon to be renamed, the Grateful Dead.
If this show were filmed just a year later, it probably would have been filmed in color and, assuming somebody was keeping up with the times, the house probably would have been filed with tie-dyed shirts and other hippie, not beatnik symbols.
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- May 19, 2020
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- Runtime30 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
- 4:3
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