Marilyn Munster Traditional Cache
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Marilyn Munster is a fictional character in the CBS sitcom The Munsters, originally played by Pat Priest (and Beverly Owen for a short while). In the original series she is the daughter of Lily Munster's sister, with Herman alluding to her "plain" looks coming from Lily's side of the family.
Marilyn lives with the Munsters through the show's run. It is never made clear why Marilyn lives with the Munsters rather than with her parents in Transylvania, and it is noted that the Munsters have raised Marilyn since she was a baby. Although she is Lily's niece, the daughter of Lily's sister, she is always referred to as "Marilyn Munster" (while the character was being developed, her name was Marilyn Mundane). This was never explained, although it could be possible that Marilyn was orphaned during infancy, and the Munsters have formally adopted her. Although Lily is a vampire/ghoul, her brother Lester is a werewolf, making the nature of Marilyn's mother unknown. A photograph of a woman in European peasant garb, perhaps her mother, was occasionally seen in Marilyn's room, but the camera never zoomed in to give viewers anything but a vague look.
Marilyn is a fetching young blonde resembling Marilyn Monroe, and the only family member who is not ghoulish in appearance; by the Munsters' aesthetic standards, she is distressingly unattractive. The family is faintly ashamed of Marilyn's appearance but still treat her with kindness and love. Marilyn herself is all too aware of her "homeliness" and bemoans that she keeps scaring off potential boyfriends, having no clue that the young men are in fact frightened away by her monstrous family.
She attends Westbury College in Mockingbird Heights. She is devoted to her family, and the surest way for a suitor to alienate Marilyn (rather than vice versa) is to belittle them. She considers her Uncle Herman and Grandpa the "two [finest] men [who ever] walked this earth."
Despite her visible "normality," Marilyn, having been raised in the Munsters' ghoulish subculture of vampires, werewolves, sorcerers, mad scientists, etc., shares her family's tastes for macabre decor (she regularly assists Lily in festooning the house with cobwebs), food, and entertainments, although she dresses more in keeping with contemporary American fashion than her relatives, perhaps thinking that doing so directs attention away from her "homeliness." Like the rest of her family, she believes that their tastes are shared by the majority of society and that people who consider the Munsters' lifestyle odd or frightening are themselves quite strange. When, in one episode, Herman was temporarily transformed into the appearance of a normal human, Marilyn was as shocked and appalled by his transformation as anyone else in the family.
Despite standing out amongst the cast more than any other character, Marilyn was the least developed character in the series. She was never the main character in any episode, and she usually acted as a catalyst for Herman and Grandpa's antics.
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