Grandpa creates a potion to give Eddie musical talent.Grandpa creates a potion to give Eddie musical talent.Grandpa creates a potion to give Eddie musical talent.
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- TriviaAfter Eddie takes Grandpa's second potion, he starts playing jazz and wants to drop out of school. When Herman comes to his room to talk to him about, Eddie is playing "Willow Weep for Me." This tune was written in 1932 by Ann Ronell and is widely accepted as a jazz standard.
- GoofsWhen Lily is is basting the Rolled Hyena Foot roast, She is wearing only one oven mitt because she is holding the baster in the other hand. After she puts the baster on the table, she use BOTH hands to push the roast back into the oven. She would have burned the hand without the oven mitt.
- ConnectionsReferences Captain Blood (1935)
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This Is One, Like, Cool Gig, Daddy-O
These episodes when one of Grandpa's potions goes haywire are usually funny, and this is no exception. In this one we see Eddie turn into a jive-talking jazz musician!
It all starts when Herman and grandpa have a loud argument. Herman wants Eddie to learn how to lay an instrument and Grandpa says a child should never be forced to do anything. (Al Lewis always was extremely liberal.)
Eddie's playing is so awful than Grandpa can't take it, and cooks up a potion to make him a better player. Even Igor, the pet bat, is wearing earmuffs to muffle the sound of the trumpet! Anyway, the mad scientist puts in a chopped photograph of Beethoven, Leonard Berbtstein's favorite sauerkraut, a glass of water from the beautiful Blue Danube, a dash of this and dash of that....and, voilà,
The second half of the show deals with Herman inviting "Mr. Gatewood" (John Carradine) to come over to hear Eddie play. This was all good stuff; classic Munster humor. Eddie's dialog with the "groovy," "daddy-o" and other hip expressions was very funny. It didn't hurt to have Carridine in the episode as the dour and expression-filled funeral parlor boss.
It all starts when Herman and grandpa have a loud argument. Herman wants Eddie to learn how to lay an instrument and Grandpa says a child should never be forced to do anything. (Al Lewis always was extremely liberal.)
Eddie's playing is so awful than Grandpa can't take it, and cooks up a potion to make him a better player. Even Igor, the pet bat, is wearing earmuffs to muffle the sound of the trumpet! Anyway, the mad scientist puts in a chopped photograph of Beethoven, Leonard Berbtstein's favorite sauerkraut, a glass of water from the beautiful Blue Danube, a dash of this and dash of that....and, voilà,
The second half of the show deals with Herman inviting "Mr. Gatewood" (John Carradine) to come over to hear Eddie play. This was all good stuff; classic Munster humor. Eddie's dialog with the "groovy," "daddy-o" and other hip expressions was very funny. It didn't hurt to have Carridine in the episode as the dour and expression-filled funeral parlor boss.
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- Aug 10, 2007
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- Runtime30 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
- 4:3
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