We agree on an awful lot in life, but
there is one thing on which Loraine and I will, apparently, never
compromise.
The whole issue probably goes back to
our childhoods, and the ways in which we grew up. She grew up
downstate, in a farming community. I grew up in Marquette, a college
town. She had older siblings; I was the first-born. She was a
relatively normal child, while I was (and still am) a dork. And I
think that once you know those differences in our upbringings you’ll
fully understand why we have this chasm separating us.
You see, she likes “The Munsters”,
and I like “The Addams Family”.
This has been a point of contention for
the 30-ish years we've been together, and it came up against this weekend
when we were out to lunch with my friend Deanna. I don't know how
the topic came up, but she (Deanna) professed a fair amount of shock
when she found out I'm a huge fan of “The Gilmore Girls”. I then
had to explain how I like certain kinds of TV shows, and that led to
the revelation that Loraine and I have this fundamental disagreement
in our relationship.
I like “The Addams Family” for the
same reason I like two other shows Loraine’s not really that fond
of, “Rocky & Bullwinkle” and the aforementioned “The
Gilmore Girls”. I like the shows because they’re hyper-verbal.
They feature offbeat characters doing offbeat things, and what they
say is often much more important than what they do. That’s the
kind of kid I was growing up, and that’s pretty much the way I am
now. So I guess it’s no surprise that I would gravitate toward
shows that feature characters like that, especially a show like “The
Addams Family”.
It’s also not a surprise that Loraine
would favor “The Munsters”. Like I said, she wasn’t a dork, so
she probably wouldn’t find appeal in a show full of dorks. Not
only that, but she had an older brother who gravitated toward movie
monsters, and seeing as how “The Munsters” was a show put
together so Universal could feature their famous movie monsters of
the 1930s, I can see entirely why she likes the show. And it’s not
like it’s a really bad TV show.
It’s just not “The Addams Family”.
As I said before, it’s just one of
those things about which Loraine & I will have to agree to
disagree. She feels, from the depths of her heart, that “The
Munsters” is the superior show, while I feel, from the depths of my
dorky heart, that “The Addams Family” will never be topped. To
quote a great American philosopher, “We’re obviously separated by
denominational differences”. And I guess we’ll just have to live
with it.
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