View Full Version : Should Eddie have been Uncle Lester's son instead?


'80sSitcoms
10-20-2015, 09:55 AM
I've been going through my new season 1 DVD set of The Munsters this October, and I was shocked to see Lily's brother and Grandpa's son Lester Dracula turn up in an episode. I was even more shocked to see he was a "wolfman" (at first I thought he was a werewolf but then I realized he is a wolfman instead, looking like that apparently all the time, whereas Eddie is a werewolf who changes back and forth from mostly pretty much human to all wolf [or will in the future, if he's never changed into a wolf yet]).

I'm surprised they made Lester a wolfman, though. That makes you think Eddie should biologically be his son, and not the son of a vampire and a Frankenstein's monster. Or maybe Eddie just took after his uncle's genes---though in a surprisingly overwhelming way, lol.

I wish they had shown or spoken of what Marilyn's parents looked like, Lily and Lester's sister, and her husband. :)

Torgo
10-20-2015, 02:08 PM
Well, Herman is made up of different body parts, so maybe some of those parts are werewolf.

Bonniegirl
10-20-2015, 02:29 PM
What is the difference between a werewolf and a wolf man?

Torgo
10-20-2015, 02:40 PM
What is the difference between a werewolf and a wolf man?

Maybe there's a difference in Munster World, but outside of that they're the same. Lon Chaney Jr starred in The Wolf Man, and he changed, and didn't stay one way.

Bonniegirl
10-20-2015, 03:26 PM
Yeah!! Eddie does look like he could be the son/a cross between Lester and Lily!! More so than Lily and Herman!!! But genetics can be funny that way!! A person can even look more like a distant relative even than their own Mom and Dad!!!


I wonder what a child of a Frankenstein type man and a Vampire/Dracula type woman really would look like?

Torgo!!! You have really good artistic talent!! Could you work on a drawing , a picture of a Frankenstein/Vampire child and post it here for us?

Torgo
10-20-2015, 03:51 PM
Yeah!! Eddie does look like he could be the son/a cross between Lester and Lily!! More so than Lily and Herman!!! But genetics can be funny that way!! A person can even look more like a distant relative even than their own Mom and Dad!!!


I wonder what a child of a Frankenstein type man and a Vampire/Dracula type woman really would look like?

Torgo!!! You have really good artistic talent!! Could you work on a drawing , a picture of a Frankenstein/Vampire child and post it here for us?

Thanks, Bonnie
I can try:)

Bonniegirl
10-20-2015, 04:01 PM
Thanks, Bonnie
I can try:)



That would be so cool!!!! I know we all would enjoy it, and esp. cool with Halloween coming up!!! ;)

'80sSitcoms
10-20-2015, 04:03 PM
What is the difference between a werewolf and a wolf man?

Maybe there's a difference in Munster World, but outside of that they're the same. Lon Chaney Jr starred in The Wolf Man, and he changed, and didn't stay one way.

It was my understanding a werewolf is a being who changes from man to wolf and back again with the full moon, but a wolfman remains in human form yet is chronically hairy, like a wolf, with wolf-life features; like Uncle Lester.

But then we have The Nightmare Before Christmas, which has a character called "Wolfman", but he is more like an anthropomorphic wolf and not human.

Torgo
10-20-2015, 06:02 PM
It was my understanding a werewolf is a being who changes from man to wolf and back again with the full moon, but a wolfman remains in human form yet is chronically hairy, like a wolf, with wolf-life features; like Uncle Lester.

But then we have The Nightmare Before Christmas, which has a character called "Wolfman", but he is more like an anthropomorphic wolf and not human.

I guess there's no real definitive answer. I got curious and cruised around the internet. Some say the same as you, and others say werewolves become more wolf like (American Werewolf In London, The Howling), and a wolfman still has more of a human appearance (The Wolfman, Teen Wolf, etc) when he changes.

But actually, what you were saying in your OP, it is a good way to differentiate between the two- Eddie and Uncle Lester with those two terms.

'80sSitcoms
10-21-2015, 08:26 AM
I guess there's no real definitive answer. I got curious and cruised around the internet. Some say the same as you, and others say werewolves become more wolf like (American Werewolf In London, The Howling), and a wolfman still has more of a human appearance (The Wolfman, Teen Wolf, etc) when he changes.

Yeah I did some online research as well and was surprised to see there aren't really any clear answers. But what I was describing was how I've always differentiated them as individual entities.

But actually, what you were saying in your OP, it is a good way to differentiate between the two- Eddie and Uncle Lester with those two terms.

Thanks, that was I thought about when analyzing it, lol.