Origins
A running gag in the television series is his extreme age - his car, the DRAG-U-LA bearing his gravestone reading "born 1367–?" - and he talks of having personally known various figures through history, including Nero, King Arthur, Richard the Lionheart and Jack the Ripper. Grandpa declares his age as 378 years old in the episode "Grandpa's Lost Wife" (airdate: February 3, 1966), placing his date of birth in the year 1588. In the episode "Munster Masquerade", he describes having been married 167 times, and although his wives are all dead, he still keeps in touch with them.
His identity as Count Dracula is also alluded to in the series. For example, in the episode "The Musician", Mr. Gateman refers to him as "Count Dracula" when he comes to dinner. In "The Fregosi Emerald", Grandpa refers to himself as Count Dracula to an operator in Transylvania.
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