Mary Kay and Johnny were really married, though, but they were technically the first. Just out of curiosity, I looked up the first non-married actors that shared the same bed. First appears to be the Flintstones. Second was Bewitched and third was the Munsters. Bewitched first showed Darrin and Samantha sharing a bed on October 22, 1964. The Munsters first showed Herman and Lily sharing the same bed in the episode “Autumn Croakus,” which aired on November 26, 1964.
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Although I prefer the* Addams Family*, Munsters did inspire cooler music (I mean, M.C. Hammer? Come on!)
Addams Family (I too make the “mail’s in” sound when I bring in the mail.) Also, it was fun to watch Gomez playing with his trains.
Still, I liked Eddie Munster’s pet–Spot the dragon, who lived under the staircase.
The shows are more alike than partisans for either willingly admit. They both have the same basic concept of a “different” family that doesn’t think of themselves as different. (You might also recognize this from The Beverly Hillbillies.) Both shows had a lot of corny gags and recycled those corny gags from episode to episode. The chemistry between Gomez and Morticia is often held up as superior to that between Herman and Lily, which is arguably true. That, however, misses that the relationship between Herman and Grandpa is actually the engine that drives much of the humor in The Munsters. There is no analogous relationship between any of the Addamses. I like both shows about equally well. The Addams Family gets a boost from the great 90s movies with Raul Julia, the only Munsters movie I ever saw had the TV cast and was essentially just a longer version of a TV episode. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t an improvement on the original the way the Addams Family movies were. Both shows had TV revivals with different casts. These are nearly forgotten and best remain so.
One problem with that:
Memories are notoriously unreliable, which is why Paul “TV Geek” Goebel refuses to accept Snopes’ answer.
I have no problem with that. Snopes is not the only source that Mary Kay and Johnny were the first couple to share a bed on TV. The show ran for 300 episodes over three seasons and on three networks, so even if there is no surviving film, I accept people’s memories of this as reliable. And since I’ve never heard of Paul Goebel and have no idea who he is, I give exactly zero fucks for his opinion.
And all of them rely on nothing but people’s memories. Do the words “Mandela Effect” mean anything to you?
I’m familiar with the term. I’m curious, though, why I should give a wet shit about this guy’s opinion on the matter. He doesn’t have any films either. Why should I put greater weight on his pronouncements than on the memories of people who at least actually watched the show?
Denizens of a message board dedicated to fighting ignorance are supposed to know better than accept answers for which there is absolutely no solid evidence.
There’s a difference between “no evidence” and “less evidence than we would like”, and memories are evidence.
Right. Memories may not be give firm confirmation of a fact, but they are unequivocally evidence.
No reason has been given for why Goebel doesn’t believe this evidence.
Comparing the two series is like comparing the cartoons in The New Yorker to MAD Magazine—two completely different kinds of humor. They were both funny, but in very diverse ways. Fred Gwynne and Al Lewis were brilliant comic actors, just like John Astin et al. were. In terms of sheer bizarreness, though, I’d have to say the Addamses had the edge over the Munsters.
No.