Talk:Marilyn Munster

What the heck?
Hungarian tyranny? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.198.93.122 (talk) 09:21, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

“Musters Today” Pilot
According to the page for Hilary Van Dyke, she replaced Mary Ellen Dunbar, who played Marilyn in the pilot episode of “Munsters Today”, so that would be another name for the list. Jock123 (talk) 15:51, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

The humorous thing about Marilyn is that she is depicted as a satirical member of the typical nuclear family at that time, since it was common for a member of such a family to rebel at that age, dressing and behaving weirdly in order to protest against socially normative parents (as a phase in growing up). Marilyn's behavior was satirically the exact opposite: rebelling against extremely weird parents only to appear as a quite "normal" college student. This helped make the parody complete and more believable—and just plain funnier. In a typical "normal" family at that time, parents would lament a black sheep child, often a female, that would go out and dates people that seemed troublesome, or that the family would not approve of due to their freakish appearance and antisocial ways. Thus, Marilyn's family saw her dates as dressed weirdly and groomed poorly even though they actually would have been quite good catches for most traditional women, and quite acceptable to their parents at that time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2607:FB91:2F9A:6A5B:E03D:78D:FCF5:E80B (talk) 21:12, 7 August 2023 (UTC)