The worst episodes of The Munsters
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- 01
Herman is tricked into staying late at a office party by his fellow workers and Lily gets infuriated at him when she discovers he is late and tipsy.
- 02
Herman appoints himself as Eddies track coach when Eddies schoolmates call him leadfoot, meanwhile Grandpa decides to whip up some pep pills down in his laboratory to pass off as vitamins.
- 03
Dr. Frankenstein's great-grandson arrives with cousin Johann who looks exactly like Herman right before a planned vacation to Happy Valley. Johann ends up going with Lily by mistake.
- 04
Grandpa and Herman work on a secret project in the garage making a birthday present for Eddie. They set traps so no one can see what they are building. Herman then ruins Eddies present and they draw a line down the center of the whole house with each having to stay on his own side.
- 05
Knock Wood, Here Comes Charlie
Herman's twin brother, a known con artist visits the Munster's to try and sell them a machine that convert's sea water into uranium.
- 06
Grandpa thinks he is unappreciated at home so he leaves home and works at a local night club with a magic act. Herman and Lily search all over for him.
- 07
When Grandpa gets frustrated with Eddies new pal Googie, he tries to turn him into a rabbit.
- 08
Eddie volunteers Herman to preform in his schools talent show and Grandpa uses magic on a pair of slippers so Herman can be good at the Old Soft Shoe. When things don't go quite right with the enchanted slippers, Herman has to change his act to a Magician's act.
- 09
Eddie wants a baby brother so he can have someone to play with and Grandpa's answer is to create a robot brother.
- 10
Grandpa invents a pill that turns water into gas and also gives Marlyn a sleeping pill. He then finds out that he used the wrong formula and instead of just a sleeping pill, he used the Sleeping Beauty formula instead.
- 11
Herman takes Eddie down to the park for some baseball and he hits a mighty drive out of the park. He is then given a tryout by Leo Durocher.
- 12
Love Comes to Mockingbird Heights
Marilyn falls in love with a young bank clerk.
- 13
Grandpa creates a love potion for Marilyn because her boyfriends keep running away. When his attempt to give the potion to Marilyn backfires, Lily and Herman inavertently find themselves the unwilling targets of amorous advances made by their nosy neighbors.
- 14
Herman becomes a wrestler in an attempt to impress his son Eddie and earn money for Eddie to go to college.
- 15
Herman is offered a job promotion at work which would mean selling the house and moving to Buffalo. Everyone but Eddie is happy about the upcoming move.
- 16
After Herman takes one sleeping pill, he accidentally falls asleep inside of an Egyptian sarcophagus.
- 17
After Eddie gambles at school, Herman tries to teach him a lesson on how gambling can loose a person money and ends up involved with crooks.
- 18
Everyone gives Marilyn a birthday present and Eddie presents her with a ring that he found in a old trunk in the Munster's attic. They then discover that the ring has a curse on it that brings bad luck to the wearer.
- 19
A co-worker of Herman's is having problems talking to a woman he likes so he asks Herman for help with writing her poetry. Herman does it and ends up with Lily thinking he is cheating on her.
- 20
After seeing a photograph of Marilyn's sculpture of him, Herman is summoned by anthropologists at the University.
- 21
A couple of fraternity boys mistake Herman for a dummy and cart him of to a sorority house as part of a prank.
- 22
Eddie builds a robot for his school science project and it malfunctions. People mistake Herman for the robot.
- 23
Grandpa finds a matrimony agency add while reading the newspaper classifieds and decides he needs a wife.
- 24
Lily finds out Herman has some money problems and she goes to work to help out in secret because she is afraid that Herman will feel bad if he knows she is working.
- 25
The Munsters go to the park to do some family camping. Grandpa gets home sick for the old country and turns himself into a wolf then forgets how to turn back.
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