the munster s were powerhouse hollywood writers. laura morowitz: they had just finished leave it to beaver and they really wanted to keep this kind of mold of the family sitcom but marry it to something new and strange. lily: marilyn, take the chicken back to the kitchen. i m afraid it s not quite done. grandpa: looks good to me. butch patrick: the fact of the matter remains is we were a normal family. you know? herman went to work. lily kept the house. cousin marilyn went to college and i was a regular kid. it was perfect. herman: can i try kicking one? eddie: sure! herman: thank you! alysson hannigan: herman munster, he s just a soft little teddy bear on the inside. so. so it s really your first lesson of like don t judge a book by its cover. herman: i think i am going to take up golf, although i am not sure about being out in the sun too much. i d hate to lose my parlor pallor.
butch patrick: back in the 60s what was going on in the country was uh, a lot of people were having issues about who was living next door to who. neighbor: this was such a nice neighborhood, until they moved in. butch patrick: we were of color, even though it was green, but we were like the family you didn t want to have move into the block. sheryl lee ralph: i saw the munsters as the black people. and i thought, i like this. this is good. marilyn: uncle herman i d like you to meet my date. this is. oh uncle herman what s the matter with me anyway? sheryl: back then, the world is bubbling up for a change. i just wish the producers could ve cast black people, but they couldn t. they had to go with real monsters, which is deep in itself. butch patrick: joe connelly and bob mosher created
people, but they couldn t. they had to go with real monsters, which is deep in itself. joe connelly and bob mosher created the munsters, and they were powerhouse hollywood writers. they had just finished leave it to beaver, and they really wanted to keep this kind of mold of the family sitcom but marry it to something new and strange. marilyn, take the chicken back to the kitchen. i m afraid it s not quite done. looks good to me. the fact of the matter remains is we were a normal family, you know? herman went to work. lily kept the house. cousin marilyn went to college, and i was a regular kid. it was perfect. can i try kicking one? sure! thank you. herman munster, oh, he s just a soft little teddy bear on the inside, so it s really your first lesson of, like, don t