Other Media; Cultural References
In The Munsters Today, Grandpa's name was Vladimir Dracula (reflecting Vladislav Dracula).
In an episode of The Simpsons, when Marge Simpson exclaims that she can see "grandpa", Homer Simpson responds expectantly "Grandpa Munster?", only to be disappointingly told "no, Grandpa Simpson". In the intro of a "Treehouse of Horror" episode, Grandpa was parodied as the similar character.
Robert Prosky as Grandpa Fred, in Gremlins 2: The New Batch, is dressed in a similar outfit, hairstyle, and makeup.
In 1987, Al Lewis reprised the character as the host of TBS's Super Scary Saturday movie. The program aired each Saturday at noon from October of 1987 to the fall of 1989. The name "Munsters" was never referred to in the show or its promotion and Lewis's character was simply referred to as "Grandpa".
Atari licensed the likeness of Al Lewis for the video game Midnight Mutants. However, as with the "Super Scary Saturday" movie, the name "Munster" does not appear anywhere in the game.
Democratic Senator (MI) Carl Levin bears some resemblance to Al Lewis, which inspired Jon Stewart of The Daily Show to jokingly refer to Sen. Levin as "Grandpa Munster".
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“All cultural change reduces itself to a difference of categories. All revolutions, whether in the sciences or world history, occur merely because spirit has changed its categories in order to understand and examine what belongs to it, in order to possess and grasp itself in a truer, deeper, more intimate and unified manner.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)