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# Poor families hoping their daughters and female relatives will marry well seems outdated by modern first world standards but was a serious and common way of thinking through history and even still is in some cultures today. The Munsters' shipping Marilyn with nearly every guy she dates isn't surprising or necessarily wrong of them. They are a blue-collar minority family who frequently struggle financially, and this was a time when society, even the privileged US, was not kind to unmarried women.
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# Poor families hoping their daughters and female relatives will marry well seems outdated by modern first world standards but was a serious and common way of thinking through history and even still is in some cultures today. The Munsters' shipping Marilyn with nearly every guy she dates isn't surprising or necessarily wrong of them. They are a blue-collar minority family who frequently struggle financially, and this was a time when society, even the privileged US, was not kind to unmarried women.women.
# At the same time, Marilyn is shown to be a college student and a fairly talented one at a time when female college students were rare on television and nearly all of them were in college only in a bid to find husbands. This also fits in with efforts at the time to have at least one member of the family earn a college degree, and the Munsters likely thought that Marilyn needed one as "compensation".
# At the same time, Marilyn is shown to be a college student and a fairly talented one at a time when female college students were rare on television and nearly all of them were in college only in a bid to find husbands. This also fits in with efforts at the time to have at least one member of the family earn a college degree, and the Munsters likely thought that Marilyn needed one as "compensation".
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# The show was an obvious allegory for how real-life foreigners and minorities were treated. Grandpa, played by a Jewish actor, longs for TheOldCountry where he feels they were treated better in ways (as older immigrants sometimes do), still not used to the new world with its different values. Lily is a child of immigrants and has adapted better than her father, eager to assimilate and not understanding why she and her family are still ostracised. She is in an InterspeciesRomance- a clear stand-in for interracial marriage- with Herman, a fellow immigrant. Though in his own right, Herman appears to be coded as a black man. He dealt with profiling by the police while the actually guilty white criminals almost got away with it.
# The family seeing Marilyn as homely was a surprising critique on Eurocentric beauty standards of the time, right down to who the creators named her after.
# The family seeing Marilyn as homely was a surprising critique on Eurocentric beauty standards of the time, right down to who the creators named her after.
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# The show was an obvious allegory for how real-life foreigners and minorities were treated. Grandpa, played by a Jewish actor, longs for TheOldCountry where he feels they were treated better in ways (as older immigrants sometimes do), still not used to the new world with its different values. Lily is a child of immigrants and has adapted better than her father, eager to assimilate and not understanding why she and her family are still ostracised. She is in an InterspeciesRomance- a clear stand-in for interracial marriage- with Herman, a fellow immigrant. Though in his own right, Herman appears to be coded as a black man. He dealt with profiling by the police while the actually guilty white criminals almost got away with it.
it. Eddie appears to have been born in America, and faces less struggles as a result as he fits into the new country's culture more easily, as is common for immigrant children.
# The family seeing Marilyn as homely was a surprising critique on Eurocentric beauty standards of the time, right down to who the creators named herafter.after.
# The Munsters both take pride in their heritage ''and'' desire to experience the New World and embrace their WASP-y community. Viewers have criticised them as conformists desperately trying to fit in, which is not at all the same thing. Westerners born in the country they currently live in may not be able to relate or understand, but new immigrants hoping for a better life frequently do assimilate and try to be a part of their community. Even disregarding their background, it is perfectly normal and generally ''appropriate'' to respect the customs of the place you are visiting or move to. They regularly get compared to the [[Franchise/TheAddamsFamily other spooky sitcom family]] in a negative way, praising the latter for boldly being themselves while the Munsters wish to fit in, but even if that were true for the Munsters (who are already proud of their Transylvanian heritage), it's very easy to say you don't care about the status quo when you, a rich white noble of European descent, ''already meet'' the status quo.
!!The Munsters representing the working class struggles
# The family often come at odds with a person or people of a higher social class. The very first episode features this with the masquerade party thrown by the stuffy, wealthy parents of Marilyn's beau. Mr and Mrs Daily scoff at the mere surname "Munster" and the whole party laughs cruelly when Herman is unmasked, which only Lily- who seems far more aware of class differences than Herman in general- notices. After Tom's true colours (shown as superficiality towards appearances but quite symbolic of classism) are revealed to Marilyn and she promptly breaks up with him, Lily concludes that money cannot buy good character.
# Poor families hoping their daughters and female relatives will marry well seems outdated by modern first world standards but was a serious and common way of thinking through history and even still is in some cultures today. The Munsters' shipping Marilyn with nearly every guy she dates isn't surprising or necessarily wrong of them. They are a blue-collar minority family who frequently struggle financially, and this was a time when society, even the privileged US, was not kind to unmarried women.
# The family seeing Marilyn as homely was a surprising critique on Eurocentric beauty standards of the time, right down to who the creators named her
# The Munsters both take pride in their heritage ''and'' desire to experience the New World and embrace their WASP-y community. Viewers have criticised them as conformists desperately trying to fit in, which is not at all the same thing. Westerners born in the country they currently live in may not be able to relate or understand, but new immigrants hoping for a better life frequently do assimilate and try to be a part of their community. Even disregarding their background, it is perfectly normal and generally ''appropriate'' to respect the customs of the place you are visiting or move to. They regularly get compared to the [[Franchise/TheAddamsFamily other spooky sitcom family]] in a negative way, praising the latter for boldly being themselves while the Munsters wish to fit in, but even if that were true for the Munsters (who are already proud of their Transylvanian heritage), it's very easy to say you don't care about the status quo when you, a rich white noble of European descent, ''already meet'' the status quo.
!!The Munsters representing the working class struggles
# The family often come at odds with a person or people of a higher social class. The very first episode features this with the masquerade party thrown by the stuffy, wealthy parents of Marilyn's beau. Mr and Mrs Daily scoff at the mere surname "Munster" and the whole party laughs cruelly when Herman is unmasked, which only Lily- who seems far more aware of class differences than Herman in general- notices. After Tom's true colours (shown as superficiality towards appearances but quite symbolic of classism) are revealed to Marilyn and she promptly breaks up with him, Lily concludes that money cannot buy good character.
# Poor families hoping their daughters and female relatives will marry well seems outdated by modern first world standards but was a serious and common way of thinking through history and even still is in some cultures today. The Munsters' shipping Marilyn with nearly every guy she dates isn't surprising or necessarily wrong of them. They are a blue-collar minority family who frequently struggle financially, and this was a time when society, even the privileged US, was not kind to unmarried women.
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!!The Munsters as minorities
# The show was an obvious allegory for how real-life foreigners and minorities were treated. Grandpa, played by a Jewish actor, longs for TheOldCountry where he feels they were treated better in ways (as older immigrants sometimes do), still not used to the new world with its different values. Lily is a child of immigrants and has adapted better than her father, eager to assimilate and not understanding why she and her family are still ostracised. She is in an InterspeciesRomance- a clear stand-in for interracial marriage- with Herman, a fellow immigrant. Though in his own right, Herman appears to be coded as a black man. He dealt with profiling by the police while the actually guilty white criminals almost got away with it.
# The family seeing Marilyn as homely was a surprising critique on Eurocentric beauty standards of the time, right down to who the creators named her after.
# The show was an obvious allegory for how real-life foreigners and minorities were treated. Grandpa, played by a Jewish actor, longs for TheOldCountry where he feels they were treated better in ways (as older immigrants sometimes do), still not used to the new world with its different values. Lily is a child of immigrants and has adapted better than her father, eager to assimilate and not understanding why she and her family are still ostracised. She is in an InterspeciesRomance- a clear stand-in for interracial marriage- with Herman, a fellow immigrant. Though in his own right, Herman appears to be coded as a black man. He dealt with profiling by the police while the actually guilty white criminals almost got away with it.
# The family seeing Marilyn as homely was a surprising critique on Eurocentric beauty standards of the time, right down to who the creators named her after.
