TV shows nowadays are always trying to teach life lessons but there done in such heavy handed ways that came across as being really rather forced. Yet i've found an episode of a classic TV show that teaches kids a life lesson that we could all do with relearning today with this episode being just a relevant today as it was back in the nineteen sixties and so then join me as I review the episode that saw a bit of a resurgence in popularity just a few short years ago with the episode in question being called simply "Eddie's Nickname" enjoy.
The plot of this episode is when Grandpa cast a growth spell on Eddie after some kids start calling him Shorty it's up to Herman to set his son straight. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad with this episodes plot doing a really good of being really entertaining when it needs to be and being really heartfelt when it wants to be as well as displaying just how good this family works together as a unit with this episodes plot also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this episode is Pet Sematary star Fred Gwynne as Herman Munster and Satan's Cheerleaders star Yvonne De Carlo as Lily Munster. Also starring in this episode is Car 54, Where Are You? star Al Lewis as Grandpa Munster , Pat Priest as Marilyn Munster , Kitaro's Graveyard Gang star Butch Patrick as Eddie Munster , Bewitched star Paul Lynde as Dr. Edward Dudley and Alice Backes as Miss Fairchild.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. With alot of the cast turning in some truly wonderful performances with all of the main cast knowing what kind of performance would best to suit there respective characters at any given performances but what let's the acting down tho is oddly enough the acting from the episodes guest cast as there performances whilst perfectly fine for the role that there characters play in the episode just aren't that good when compared to that of the main cast with the episodes guest cast coming across as being lost and not really knowing what kind of performance would best to suit this show where as the opposite is true for the main cast.
This is also one of the only examples of where Eddie Munster is a main character in an episode of the show. With the character mostly being a side character who was more often then not relegated to the episodes side plot and never being in the episodes main plot which was something that changed with this episode and yet even with Eddie getting more of a focus in this episode we still don't get to find out all that much about him which granted might have happened in one of the previous eighteen episodes it's something that really should have happened as he was the main driving point behind the episodes plot and yet we're not really given any new information about him as a character which is something that really should have happened and yet for some strange reason the episode doesn't take the time to do it.
As was mentioned at the very start of this review this episode started to see a resurgence in popularity a few years ago. All thanks to the speech that Herman gives at the end of the episode with his speech being about accepting anyone no matter what they look like and what truly matters is how they act and what they do and this is something that is such an important lesson for kids to learn as it does say that we should be willing to accept people and this is something that we should be relearning today with people not willing to even talk to people just because of their political beliefs and not due to how they are as people which is the very thing that Herman's speech is trying to convince us to do as we should be willing to treat people equally and talk to people regardless of what they believe in as it's the right thing to do.
What didn't really work for this episode was the fact that Herman's speech as great and as impactful as it is really does come out of nowhere. With there not really being any scene that hints of Herman trying to tell Eddie what the right thing to do is and while we do get kind of subplot of Herman and Grandpa falling out due to Grandpa trying use magic to help Eddie there's no sign that Herman was trying to teach Eddie what the right to do is and as such the subplot with Herman and Grandpa not only comes out of nowhere but it also adds up to nothing as it's a subplot that they don't even resolve which is a shame as they could have tied to the two plots together just by having Herman telling Grandpa that he doesn't want him to get involved because he's trying to teach Eddie what the right thing to do is and yet the episode doesn't even take the time to do that.
This episode really doesn't go all the way with it's bullying plot line as we don't really get to see that much of how this effects Eddie as a character. With him not really acting out of character outside of one outburst at the very start of the episode but aside from that he's acting completely in character and yet when you contrast this episode with other sitcoms that do a bullying plotline alot of them will have the person that's getting bullied act of character to let not only the other characters know but to also let us the audience know that something is seriously wrong with this character and yet as Eddie is acting fully in character it would make no sense that his parents would pick up on something being wrong with him as just based off of what they see they shouldn't really know that anything was wrong him in the first place and then you add in the fact that the bulling doesn't really escalate with it just being the name calling and that's it which granted that's all that they could have gotten away with back in the sixties it still would have helped the episode out quite alot.
Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty five minuets and twenty eight seconds. Which to this episodes credit is the perfect running time for this episode to have as the episode really doesn't have alot there interms of the plot to cover anything longer then that but it still would have been nice if this episode really did have a slightly longer running time given the subject matter and the themes of this episodes plot but on the flip side of that is the fact that if this episode was longer then it would have been stretching was is a very thinly drawn out premise even thinner as now there would be alot of scenes that go nowhere but with those added scenes we could have gotten to see just what Marilyn would say or do to help Eddie out as she's given pretty much nothing to do in the final cut of the episode but I will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.
So now then as this is a comedy that means that I have to talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. With this episode having some really funny moments in it and while this episode does feature some bad jokes in it the episode has alot more funny moments just with Herman alone that more then make up for it with Herman getting all of the episodes best jokes as he really is just a funny character that can and in this case really does make alot of jokes that really shouldn't work actually work and while he does get one really unfunny joke in the whole episode he gets alot more really funny moments in the episode as the episodes jokes are really just that funny in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall while this episodes central message is just as if not more really important today then it was back in the nineteen sixties the episode as a whole is fun episode but it's perhaps not as good as it really have been in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 6.5 out of 10 from me.
Now ten as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then in boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Amazon . Co . Uk , Tenor . Com , Wikipedia and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this episode up on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.
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