The Munsters "Munster Masquerade" Review

Now then boy and girls just because something is apart of the horror genre doesn't mean that has to be scary. In fact sometimes it can quite funny as such i'm dedicating myself to review an episode from a classic comedy that has a horror motif but with so many to choose from where do I begin well how about with an episode from a show that alot of people just don't talk about anymore despite it's characters being well known and so here is my review of the first episode of The Munsters "Munster Masquerade" enjoy.

The plot of the episode is Marilyn Munster , her uncle , her Aunt and her grandpa are invited by Marilyn's boyfriend to his parents masquerade party. That's really it in terms of plot which is honestly all you need since this was a thirty minuet episode and yes there was kind of subplot involving Eddie and a babysitter but nothing really happens and honestly the story was decent it was entertaining and while you could see where the story was going that didn't stop it from being enjoyable to watch or see play out.

Starring in this episode are Yvonne De Carlo as Lily Munster (Vampire) , Al Lewis as Grandpa (Dracula) and Beverley Owen as Marilyn Munster. As well as Butch Patrick as Eddie Munster (A werewolf), Fred Gwynne as Herman Munster (Frankenstein) , Linden Chiles as Tom Daly , Mabel Albertson as Agnes Daly , Frank Wilcox as Albert Daly , Lurene Tuttle as Mrs. Morton and Walter Woolf King as George Washington.

As for what i thought about the acting in the episode it was honestly a lot better then what I was expecting it to be. Simply because I haven't really seen any episodes from this show in a really long time and so I had no idea what to expect performance wise and so to see that the acting in the episode is actually pretty good came as a shock to me and it honestly makes me want to see more episodes from this show.

Now incase your wondering why I put brackets around certain names it's because that character is based on one of the classic Universal Monsters. Honestly the idea of having these usually scary creatures be basically the stars of sitcom is honestly a rather refreshing idea and i'm shocked that no other studio or TV company has tried this idea since it honestly does work even more so when you write the character well which they are here.

To me what makes this show standout isn't that fact that's it's main cast of characters is mostly made up of horror monsters but it's the fact that they are a loving family. All throughout this episode we see the family go to great lengths to make other members of the family happy and that's because they truly do love each other and that's something that you don't see in comedies anymore and I don't know why that's the case.

To hit home what i was just saying about the family loving each other when someone insults Herman by saying he's wearing one mask underneath another Lilly gets her family together and they leave angry and upset. This is something that you just wouldn't see in a comedy these days heck you'd see the family get there jokes in before the big insult happens but here it really does show how much they love and care for each other.

There are a few downsides to this episode the first of which being the thin story which while it is entertaining and still isn't strong enough to support an entire episode. The other being that due to this story being what it is Eddie the youngest in the family has nothing to do in the episode and so spends much of his time off screen which makes those scenes hard to watch because there not fun and nothing funny is happening in them.

Now then since this is a comedy that does mean that we have to talk about the jokes that are in the episode itself. Which I honestly found to be pretty funny with alot of the jokes landing and getting a good laugh out of me , I won't say that all of the jokes are funny because honestly there not and infact alot of the jokes do seem pretty dated but the ones that work are the ones will always be funny no matter what kind of series or film they are in.

Overall this was a pretty funny episode and it's not hard to see why this show became as big as it did since this episode and the show has alot going for it. That doesn't mean that the show show is perfect however since that couldn't be further from the truth but it's a show that proves that just because it's apart of the horror genre doesn't mean that you can't have a few laughs as such this episode gets a 7.5 out of 10 from me and yes the above picture is my next review.

All images used in this review where gathered from either The Munsters official fandom wiki page , Wikipedia , Google Images or The Addams Family fandom wiki page. I'm honestly not that shocked that there aren't that many high definition images not only for this episode but for the show since both came out in 1964 but I did the best with what little I had to work with and as always we end this review with our true goddess Elvira wishing us all some very unpleasant dreams.