I know he tries to bite, but was he ever successful?
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/9016/grandpabites5ad.jpg

I'll take Grandpa over this guy, anyday. :lol:

http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Movies/9908/16/det.rock.city/link.gene.simmons.jpg

The title of this thread startled me a little AP!


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I knew the title would get people to read but being the original true Vampire, aka Sam Dracula, Count Dracula, Vladmir Dracula, if he never sucks/tastes blood what kind of vampire is he? Kidding of course, it was a family oriented show and maybe Grandpa being around 400 years old or so at this time maybe he had to wear false fangs and could only attempt a bite.

We never saw fangs on Al Lewis or Bela Lugosi.

http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/3527/algrandpa0fv.jpg
Well that answers it! Maybe he kept a set of falsies in a glass just for those special private occasions! ;)

From the day Bela Lugosi first became known as "Dracula", it's been fantasized that any "Dracula" charcter is supposed to have fangs. I don't know why, because in no movie or TV show, the "Dracula" character has ever had any visible fangs.

Didn't Christopher Lee sprout fangs at certain moments in those Hammer Dracula films?
There were fangs on the first film vampire, Nosferatu, in the silent movie days.
Bela and Al seemed to go for a fangless approach.

Hmmm...

I'm really not sure. Any Dracula movie I have seen, I don't remember the character having fangs.

Waitaminute, another vampire movie with fangs, one of my favorites, The Fearless Vampire Killers from 1967.
There was also Fright Night and the Lost Boys in the 1980s. Incisors rampant.
Not Dracula, but offshoots anyway.

Maybe Grandpa would of had more success at putting the bite on Lily if he had been sporting these...

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51131842128_869c135c14_o.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2kUm4fY)Al Lewis with fangs (https://flic.kr/p/2kUm4fY) by counter5 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/counter5/), on Flickr

Al Lewis doesn't have very big bicuspids. As a matter of fact, he has pretty plain straight teeth.

I myself have long bicuspids. You could almost say I have fangs. :lol:

M#1 I think you mean "canine" teeth. Looks like Eddie was sporting some set of choppers! Fang debate or not, I'm sure Grandpa was proud of little Eddie's smile. I wonder if Butch's teeth had anything to do with him getting the part?
http://img314.imageshack.us/img314/9945/bpeddie7ki.jpg

Excellent point AP, it might very well have played a factor in getting Butch Patrick the role of everyone's favorite kid freak son of Frankenstein (sorry I couldn't resist :lol: ), Eddie Munster.

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Ah yes, 'canine" teeth. Sorry. :o :lol:

I remember Butch himself saying that he thought he was given the part because of his teeth.

Another thing I'm surprised no one mentioned about Grandpa, is, if he was a true Dracula vampire, his reflection would not be seen in mirrors or photographs. Yet, in episodes 10, 13, 41, and 68, Grandpa appears in photographs, and mirrors.

Grandpa and Lily don't seem to be bothered by daylight, that's another thing.
Then there was that scene where Herman thought Grandpa was smelling up the house by cooking lasagna again. Aren't vampires repelled by garlic?
Sorry, I'm Italian and I couldn't resist.

I'm Italian, too. I love lasagna. As a matter of fact, I'll pretty much eat anything.

As for the garlic, daylight, photos, and mirrors, I assume Grandpa probably invented a pill he could take everyday so he would be more normal, like the rest of the world. He should have stopped experimenting on himself though. He always kept changing. http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?t=148694

Nonno rompe tutte le regole del vampiro ed odora su la casa con le lasagne.

Translation:
Grandfather breaks all the rules of the vampire and smells up the house with the lasagne.