Herman Munster is one of the main characters from The Munsters. He is a lovable, good-natured, and clumsy patriarch of the Munster family. Despite having been alive for centuries, he behaves rather childishly, often throwing temper tantrums, punctuated with thundering animal-like roaring. In spite of his childish behaviors, he is a caring father figure to his son Eddie and a loving, devoted husband to his wife Lily. Herman was originally created by Dr. Frankenstein.
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Herman is a goofy parody of Frankenstein's Monster. Herman is very kind to everyone, but he is also very naive, often misunderstanding situations or falling for various schemes. He occasionally has problems recognizing when someone has malicious or dishonest intentions towards him. Most people, however, flee in terror on seeing Herman's monstrous visage, which he always attributes to something else. In some instances, his presence has caused inanimate objects or artwork to come to life and flee in terror: such as a statue of Daniel Boone in a park, a stuffed gorilla in a museum, and a graffiti drawing of a face in a jail cell starting out smiling and the facial expression changes to terror. Despite being of German origin and having been raised in England, Herman speaks with a cultured American accent. He does however read German newspapers, which is subtly shown in at least one episode: he is reading a paper, conversing about an unrelated topic, and as the camera gets close enough to his face, it can be seen for a fraction of a second that it is Die Zeit. In episode "My Fair Munster", he reads Die Welt.
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