Lily or Morticia?

This should’ve been a poll.

Morticia of course. Classy.

Team Lillie especially when she sang that song and played the harpsicord on the episode of the Munsters with the Beatniks.

Tough call. I love them both.

Morticia team.

Lilly is warmer, and has class.....Morticia is classier.. but I love them both.

Morticia is classy, but Lily seems more fun.

Morticia Addams... She was smokin' 😛

Morticia, of course. She was sexy, sultry, and so macabre.

How could you not love her as she cut the blooms off all her roses or when she played that weird harp thing and shrieked while she did it?

Morticia and Gomez had sexual chemistry.

Herman seemed asexual, so Lillie was more of a motherly wife.

Carolyn Jones was a beautiful woman who we lost too soon. And the original Addams Family was campy fun.

I never watched the Munsters, even as a young child-. I thought it was stupid.

[quote] Herman seemed asexual

Herman was a flaming queen. Even as a kid I could see that.

Yvonne DeCarlo was almost 10 years older than Carolyn Jones. She was pretty hot during her early film days.

@r12, He was henpecked, at least that's what they called it in the 60s

Both!

mortician was a lady, Lily was simply a housewife

I loved them both. But I have to give the slight edge to Morticia just for the delighted way she always thanked Thing, the help of which she never seemed to expect: "Why, THANK YOU, Thing!"

Morticia was more interesting. Lily was a sweetheart, but never seemed curious about anything.

It was obvious that Gomez and Morticia had a kinky sex life.

Morticia never left the house.

^ She didn't need to, she was Mrs. Aaron Spelling the 1st

Lily Munster- especially when she was hired as a model to walk the catwalk for fashion designer Lazlo Brastoff.

Morticia.

[quote]It was obvious that Gomez and Morticia had a kinky sex life.

Yes. It was overt. They seemed somewhat switchable, but Morticia was the dom more frequently.

Morticia, most definitely.

Morticia was once married to Aaron Spelling.

One was in House of Wax and played a wonderful human who had been waxed alive and place on exhibit by Vinvent Price. The other was married to Moses and gave a beautiful speech about how she would cross any desert and climb any mountain to follow him. How can you compare?

Team Lilly

R11- I like the Addams Family but there's no comparison. The writing on the Munsters was far better than the Addams Family.

The Munsters was a far funnier show than the Addams Family.

I'm Still Here

I never understood what Morticia was. Was she just an eccentric regular person or something more? You knew who and what Lily was. For those reasons, I'm picking Lily.

I never understood what Lily was. Her dad was a werewolf, her husband Frankenstein. Was she supposed to be a vampire?

Lily Munster was hilarious - Morticia was just droll.....

I love Lily.

R25, are you also R21?

R31, her father was Count Dracula. She was part Bride of Frankenstein and part vampire.

Lily certainly knew her way around cool cars

Morticia (specifically the Angelica Huston portrayal). Carolyn Jones may be the original but she had a very round and sweet looking girlish face (still a phenomenal actress in the role nonetheless) whereas Angelica at the time had this strong more seductive and mysterious dark sinister witchy beauty that bordered on otherworldly.

R30 With the exception of Lurch and Cousin It, the Addams were human, but eccentric and macabre. The Munsters were based on the monsters from the Universal films.

^ That's true, they really were nothing alike. The Munsters were your average all-American family that came out of Universal's back lot. Where the Addams Family were actually written to show that even those weird people down the street had the same rights as everyone else. Both shows were kind of a metaphor on the Civil Rights movement of the time. People who looked or acted "different" weren't really all that different

Tough call, but it's Lily for me. So much more resourceful.

R32- One of my favorite Munsters episodes- When her and Marylin open a beauty parlor.

I'm Mrs. Harkness THE Mrs. Harkness

This episode was so outrageous and outrageously funny.

This is like Sophie's Choice.

Morticia had more class but Lily wore a strap-on.

R30, Morticia was a witch from Salem.

Yvonne DeCarlo was a sexy chick. Carolyn Jones was a quirky chick.

Aicitrom was a witch from Melaswen.

Morticia by far.

They were both great in their roles. I like Yvonne as Lily Munster best

Lily seems more fuckable than Morticia. Guess Herman had a bigger implant via Gomez's natural nub.

Morticia was a bohemian wild child. Lily was a frau. End of discussion.

I love them both, but I have to go with Morticia. Now do we like Sam's cousin Serena or Jeannie's twin sister Jeannie II?

Lily had sort of a Spanish accent.

Really, Debbie? PASTELS?

Cultured Queens of the DL should know that Sondheim wrote “I’m Still Here” for Yvonne DeCarlo.

Lilly Munster by a spooky mile.

First you're another sloe-eyed Vamp Then someone's mother Then you're camp

Can that boy ffffffffoxtrot.

R50 Don't forget Morticia's sister Ophelia (also played by Carolyn Jones!)

R56 "Oh, boy, I'm lucky! I'll say I'm lucky!"

Yvonne DeCarlo was more alluring, but Morticia was sexier. She and Gomez couldn’t hope their hands off each other.

Damn you OP, I didn’t not expect to start my day with this extreme thought exercise.

^^oops too many negatives up there^^

R31 her father was a vampire as was she. The kid, Eddie, was a werewolf.

[quote]Morticia (specifically the Angelica Huston portrayal). Carolyn Jones may be the original but she had a very round and sweet looking girlish face (still a phenomenal actress in the role nonetheless) whereas Angelica at the time had this strong more seductive and mysterious dark sinister witchy beauty that bordered on otherworldly.

I have noticed that gay men love Huston's Morticia but straight men prefer Carolyn Jones.

Obviously, I was the most YOUTHFUL Morticia.

R62 what is that next to her?

R63 Luis Guzman

I would not mind Lily as my next door neighbor.

R64 is he supposed to be Gomez?

I haven't seen such miscasting since John C. Reilly as 'Stanley Kowalski' in the 2005 Broadway revival of STREETCAR.

r66, he's the living embodiment of the OG illustrated Gomez:

Raul Julia was THE perfect Gomez.

I preferred Lily's over looks but she was very matronly. I preferred Huston's Morticia.

Yvonne De Carlo was a stunner.

Morticia

I’m going rogue and voting for Samantha Stephens

When I saw The Shining during its first run, the audiences were expecting a traditional horror film. When Shelley Duvall came onscreen, someone in the audience screamed "Morticia".

R66, I think the casting of Luis Guzman is faithful to Charles Addams' rendering of Gomez.

I´m gonna nitpick my way out of an either ore choice.

Lily for TV

Morticia for movies

R74, your response to the “quarry” is golden and solid as iron. It will be mined for generations to come.

Lily would do anal and Morticia wouldn’t. Lily for the win.

Ah but Morticia certainly is a dom, with all the embellishments that go with it.

When I was a little kid, there was a cartoon of Addams Family, in color drawn in the style of Charles Addams, but using the voices from the, you know, tv show. That I loved. And I think Jodie Foster played Pugsley! Why do they never show those?? I think it would clean up on streaming.

By the same token, there was a cartoon version of The Partridge Family!! It used most of the original voices. Except Shirley Jones and they changed her character's name to Connie Partridge! That's another ine I'm simply dying to see.

Hardcore GEN X er here in case you haven't noticed!

[quote]Ah but Morticia certainly is a dom, with all the embellishments that go with it.

Oui.

Angelica Huston back then closely resembled the original illustrations of Morticia best. Gomez is supposed to be a Castilian Spaniard with a hint of Mexican.

Raul Julia and Luis Guzman are both Puerto Rican. Having Wednesday and Pugsley (half French/half Spanish) also played by Spanish actors in the latest iteration is very faithful to the source material even if the acting is a bit uneven at times.

Kitara!