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Ohmygod, like Eddie was like such a cute little puppy...

I even liked the 80's (or was it 90's) Munsters series they made.

Sacrilege I know but I am a Munsters nut.

Butch Patrick was not the first Eddie. They had a different actor in the pilot. They also had a different actress for the wife and the wife's name wasn't Lily.

Who's Butch Patrick?

Butch Patrick played Eddie Munster, the Munsters' grade-schooler son. He looked like a werewolf cub (come to think of it, if his dad looked like Frankenstein's Monster and his mom and grandpa like vampires, where did he get the werewolf genes from?)

Oh, and welcome back, WWC.

There's probably a fanfic about that. Somewhere.

Either that or a made for video film of an "adult" type.

Thanks Stealth. It's good to be back.

I've missed you guys.

I wish Everyday Girl would stop missing everybody and kill this thread.

Werewolf genes are recessive.

Anyone remember this bit from a very funny movie?

"HOWL"

"Werewolf!"

"Where wolf? There wolf!"

Ironic that I'm participating in all this werewolf talk, because werewolves usually scare me.

Was that from American Werewolf in London?

The bit I found funny was when he is sitting in the porno theatre talking with the ghosts of his victims and the girl ghost is SOOOO cheery and upbeat. She has been ripped apart by a werewolf and she's STILL Little Miss Sunshine.

Werewolves scare me too. I think it's the ripping and shredding thing. Werewolves make Dracula and the Mummy look like gentle cream puffs.

No, it was from Young Frankenstein. American Werewolf is one of the few werewolf movies I like, though -- not just because it's funny, but also because I think the nightmare with the gun-toting zombies is scarier than anything to do with the werewolf.

Amen to that.

I'm not a big werewolf fan, but my very favourite would be Howler from the 1980 cartoon Drak Pack. For one thing, he had a wolf head, not a human head with a lot of hair an a wolf nose. He also had one of my all-time favourite super-powers, super-breath--which I always guessed to be an homage to the Big Bad Wolf huffing and puffing and blowing the little pigs' houses down.

Having said that, the eponymous Drak was may favourite character on the show, being, among other things, one of the few mainstream animated vampires at the time who had powers beyond changing into a bat. He was a fairly versatile shape-shifter and occasionally displayed other powers, such as telekinesis.

That was a good show and I think about five people other than me in the whole world remember it.

I remember it.

I'm glad someone else does. Looking back, I think Drak Pack had the best-written dialogue of any Saturday morning cartoon of that era. It also had a great voice cast, including Hans Conreid, in one of his final roles, as Dr. Dred.

I hope it's issued on DVD some day.

The part in American Werewolf in London I really liked was where he was dreaming in the hospital. When the nurse opens the drapes and he thinks he woke up until the gunmen crash through the window. Then he really wakes up by the same nurse opening the drapes and he is not quite sure if he is awake or if he is still dreaming.

It is kind of like in Sandman, when Morpheus curses the evil guy's son to eternal waking.

I can sort of remember a cartoon about a werewolf who hung about with some kids and the used to solve mysteries and stuff ( a bit of a rip off of Scooby Doo).

I think he had super breath as well...I'm not sure.

I think it was called Fang Face.

Does this ring any bells with you guys or am I just mixing up memories of something else?

I could always just google "Fang Face"?...hmmm

I'll be right back...

Well if anyone feels like trusting a wiki entry then there is an entry for it there.

"..Highly derivitive of Scooby Doo..." pretty much sums it up.

Yes, there was a cartoon called "Fang Face". I never watched it, but I believe it was of the Scooby Doo genre.

There was also Jabberjaws about a shark and a bunch of teens solving mysteries in a futuristic underwater society. Jeannie about a genie (with a bumbling sidekick genie) and some teens solving mysteries. Speedy Buggy about a talking car and some teens solving mysteries. And one of my favorites, The Funky Phantom about the ghost of a Revolutionary War era guy and his cat who solved mysteries with some, you guessed it, teens.

Remember Mr. Jaws, the shark with the top hat and a heavy German accent? Gotcha!

Mr. Jaws also had a derby-wearing sidekick called Catfish.

That Fangface wiki entry doesn't do it justice. Firstly, Fangface was created by Scooby-Doo's true creators, Joe Ruby and Ken Spears, who had just left Hanna-Barbera to start their own production company; the first season of Fangface was as good or better than any of the incarnations of Scooby-Doo (okay, maybe not quite as good as Scooby's seminal first season, but then what is?) Finally, Fangface, which always had real monsters instead of criminals in monster masks, influenced the Scooby season that follow it, using real monsters for the first time; unfortunately, that was also the season that introduced Scrappy-Doo , and, even more unfortunately, Ruby-Spears ruined Fangface by cutting the episodes to half-length so that it could be part of the two-hour Plastic Man show and then by creating their own equivalent of Scrappy (I can't remember the worthless little thing's name ATM).

And BTW, Fangface never scared me, despite his being a werewolf, partly because the transformations were not graphic and partly because Fangface was basically a bumbling clown with fur.

"..a bumbling clown with fur..."

Now that IS scary!!

That would be Coulrophobia - an abnormal or exaggerated fear of clowns

It's not abnormal if they're really out to get you.