Episode 850: We Don’t Respect The Munsters, and We Don’t Respect the Monkees

On the Overthinking It Podcast, three dads get an itty-bit spooky, with a deep dive on the culture and meaning of children’s Halloween costumes.

Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month!

Matt Belinkie, Peter Fenzel, and Mark Lee step slowly up to the wrought-iron knocker on the old oak door of this haunted mansion we call a podcast and knock three times to welcome Halloween! The door creaks on rusty hinges to reveal a bowl of tricks and treats: the spooky-scary and the spooky-silly. These three fathers wonder then on the meaning of Halloween costumes for children: the scary, the aspirational, and the ones with retirement plans. Discussions follow of our favorite scarecrows at the crossroads of ghoulish and gigglish, from remembrance of Crypt Keepers past, to blazing hot takes on a chilling corpse of a topic: The Addams Family versus the Munsters. Are scary things here, or are they yet to come? You’ll have to wait and scream!!

Download (MP3)

Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps

Further Reading

Here’s a cleaned-up version of your HTML. I’ve removed redundant styles and attributes to streamline the code:

Add a Comment