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Eddie writes an essay entitled "My Parents: An Average American Family"--in blood, at Grandpa's suggestion. His teacher consults the principal, who thinks that Eddie's "imagination" might be due to an underprivileged childhood. This prompts them to pay a visit to the Munsters.
A lady hits Herman in her car, totaling it. She thinks that she has injured him and tries to settle for $10,000 for his injuries. However, Herman thinks this is what he owes her for the car.
Grandpa puts Herman into a deep sleep to cure Herman's hiccups. Two college students go into the Munsters' house for fraternity initiation, and take Herman and put him in a sorority apartment, where he awakens.
Grandpa and Herman are working on a small car for Eddie's birthday, but Herman accidentally loses control of it when he rides around the neighborhood, causing its destruction. Grandpa and Herman get into a big argument, and Grandpa says half of the house is his, so Herman draws a line throughout the house, making each stay on his own side.
Herman buys a car for Marilyn from "Fair Deal Dan"--but the car is a piece of junk, and Herman is arrested for having a stolen car.
Eddie wants a younger brother, so Grandpa makes a robot brother named Boris. Being a robot, Boris is the perfect child--so Eddie soon resents him.
Dr. Victor Frankenstein IV calls Herman and tells him he has something of interest. He has Johann, a primitive monster who looks just like Herman, with him. Dr. Frankenstein asks Herman to take him home to civilize him, but not tell people. When Johann escapes from the lab, Lily thinks he is Herman--and takes him for a romantic getaway.
Eddie tells Herman that he is going to enter him into the Father of the Year Contest, and Marilyn makes a clay bust of him for her art class. When the professor finds out the subject of the sculpting is alive and breathing, he gets with some of the other professors to call Herman in. While they are examining him for being a missing link, he thinks he they are taking his sizes down for the suits he thinks he has won in the contest.
At Herman's insistence, Eddie takes up an instrument--the trumpet. Herman has faith that his son's awful playing will get better--but the family doesn't want to wait to find out. Grandpa creates a potion to make him good. However, he must make it again when Mr. Gateman is coming, and since the potion wasn't exactly the same, Eddie turns into a defiant hipster.
Herman gets some poetry published in a mortician magazine, and Clyde, a coworker, is impressed and wants Herman to write poetry for him to woo a girl. The girl is impressed by Clyde's "ability." Meanwhile, Lily finds the poetry--and gets suspicious.
Eddie is watching his favorite TV show, Zombo, when he learns that he won the "I Like Zombo Because" contest. Eddie idolizes Zombo's ghoulish appearance and creepy mannerisms. Herman is jealous of it, so he tries to become just like him. Eddie is sorely disappointed when he meets the real Zombo.
It is Marilyn's birthday, and everyone has a gift for her. Eddie found his gift in the attic. It is a ring which Grandpa says is the Fregosi Emerald, which gives bad luck to whoever is wearing it. Herman doesn't believe it, but bad luck does indeed follow the wearer. Then it gets stuck on Herman's finger, so they try to find a member of the Fregosi family to remove the curse.
Herman is reading a detective magazine in bed when he wakes Lily up to show her something terrifying--Grandpa is in a "Wanted" ad. They find out that a lady in Sioux City, Iowa claims he is her husband. Grandpa insists he knows nothing about it, but he is willing to say he is her husband when he learns she is wealthy.
The family receives an inheritance, but the sexes disagree on how to use the money. They split the money for their differing endeavors. Lily and Marilyn open Madame Lily's Beauty Salon, and Herman and Grandpa try to develop a way to send electricity through the air. Unfortunately, things don't go quite as planned.
At Herman's demand, the Munsters, excluding Marilyn, ride a train to go to Buffalo Valley. Everyone falls asleep when he reads from a travel brochure. When the train makes a stop, he goes out, and is lulled to sleep by the barren landscape. The train leaves without him, and he goes to a nearby Indian village--where an old Indian thinks he is an ancient god.
Herman decides to mess around in Grandpa's lab, and a bolt of electricity strikes him in the head. This gives him the appearance of a normal man--so the family is devastated.
Eddie is caught gambling, and to teach him a lesson, Herman takes his money and bets it on a losing horse. Grandpa, however, thinks it's a horrible way to teach a lesson, so he makes it win.
A bully is teasing Eddie at school--and Clyde, a new employee at the Gateman, Goodbury and Graves funeral parlor, is teasing Herman.
Herman and Grandpa find a treasure map in the dungeon. They follow it, and find a treasure--but can't agree on whose it is.
Spot runs away and goes to the sewer. Herman goes to find him, and is seen by workers in the sewer. Hearing of the monsters, the mayor plans on using explosives underground.
Eddie's friend brings a tape recorder to the Munsters' house. After everyone has gone to bed, Herman has fun with it and sings "Dry Bones." Eddie's friend's father works for a radio station, and thinks Herman's song is a demo tape. He plays it on the radio, and it is a big hit, except among the Munsters. Herman starts to become a conceited celebrity--and the family doesn't like it.
Herman gets the job of driving the hearse at the parlor, but in order to do so, he must renew his license. He and Grandpa go over the rules of the road, then Herman goes to take the driving test, and passes--until he crashes into the instructor's car. Grandpa suggests going to a small town to take the test.
When Marilyn arrives home from another wedding, the Munsters feel bad that she will never marry. Grandpa decides to turn a nearsighted frog into a prince by turning a potion into a fly and having the frog eat it. However, nothing happens. The Munsters go out but Marilyn stays home in her room. She gets locked in and calls for the help of a passing stranger, who climbs up the trellis to rescue her. From her description of the situation, he thinks some monsters have her held prisoner. When the Munsters arrive, he jumps out the window--and Grandpa and Herman think the potion had a delayed reaction and he is the frog.
The Munsters are all waiting for Herman to come home, especially Eddie, since Herman promised him a kite. On his way home, however, a 300-pound safe drops on Herman's head, giving him amnesia. Grandpa and Lily see him on the news, and go to claim him. Unfortunately, Herman doesn't remember them, and they are instructed not to tell him who he is, since it would be a great shock. There is only one way to get Herman back--to adopt him.
Lily rents out a room. A man named Chester rents it, and gets along well with the family--except for Herman, who is suspicious and jealous. Herman and Grandpa do some sneaking, and determine that he is a gangster when they see his gun and other paraphernalia. However, they don't notice his identification. He is a police lieutenant.
Eddie brings a note home from school saying that his tonsils are bad. He goes with Herman to the doctor, who says the tonsils have to go. After the operation, Herman wants to take Eddie his Woof-Woof doll. The visiting hours are over though, so Grandpa and Herman try to sneak in.
Grandpa reminds Herman that the 100th anniversary of Herman and Lily will be coming up. Herman and Lily both secretly decide to take money out of their account to buy an expensive gift for the other. There isn't enough money for both withdrawals, so they both receive an "insufficient funds" notice. They both look for jobs to get money, and both find jobs at the shipyard, working right next to each other. They begin flirting with each other--not knowing who they are under the welding masks.
Eddie is a failure on the track team, so Herman gives him strenuous training. Grandpa makes a magic pill that will make him an amazing runner, without Herman knowing.
Herman acquires a new hobby: photography. He goes out and takes all sorts of pictures--including one of bank robbers making their getaway. The robbers find out that Herman has evidence against them, so they keep a close eye on the Munsters.
Mockingbird Heights is celebrating Frontier Days, and Eddie enters Herman in a bucking bronco contest. Grandpa turns himself into a horse so that Herman can win--but the people in charge of the event plan on putting Herman on Volcano, a horse they say isn't a horse; she's a time bomb.
The Munsters take a trip to the beach. Eddie buries Grandpa, and Herman goes scuba-diving. However, when it is time to leave, they do not know where he is. In the ocean, Herman is picked up by a Russian boat. He makes friends with the Russians and sings songs and tells jokes with them. They think he is the missing link--but the commissar thinks he's a new American spy.
Eddie's friend says that he will be running away from home, and tries to convince Eddie to do the same. When the family is nice to Eddie, he says they are being mean, and says he will run away and live in a cave in the woods. Herman plays along, thinking if he lets him leave, he'll come back. When Eddie leaves and doesn't return, Herman goes to look for him. He goes to the cave and takes home what he thinks is Eddie--but is really a baby bear.
The Munsters want to have a little Christmas fun. They make a tree with all the decorations, but one problem is that Eddie feels down in the dumps because he misses Transylvania. He also does not believe in Santa Claus. Herman, Lily, Grandpa, and Marilyn try to find ways to make Eddie feel better, by inviting friends and relatives to a monster "Munster" party. Grandpa even conjures up the real Santa.
The newly immigrated Munsters move from Transylvania to the USA, to get away from the persecution they suffered while they were there. They meet up with Marilyn and her parents who are living at 1313 Mockingbird Lane. The Munsters settle in and make themselves feel at home. After a while Marilyn talks about how her father has disappeared, and she can't find him, while her mother has gone into shock because of all the hysteria.
Dr. Diablo, owner of a local wax museum, has many wax statues that are really robots. They are all for use in a master plan to steal priceless items from the tomb of a mummy being shown at a Halloween exhibition. Unfortunately, there are two robots that look just like Herman and Grandpa! Herman and Grandpa must clear their name, and stop Dr. Diablo, while Marilyn woos police detective Glen Boyle. Cousin Phantom of the Opera is also there to save the day when Marilyn is in a bell jar.
Herman arrives home from work only to discover his Uncle Cavanough, from England, has passed away. He soon finds out from the will, that he has inherited his uncle's entire estate, lands and properties, making him Lord Munster, fifth Earl of Shroudshire! Little do the Munsters know though, that their other relatives in England would prefer Freddie Munster to be Lord Munster. Uncle Cavanough bestowed everything to Herman to take his revenge out on his hated son Freddie. The Munsters arrive in England by boat, bringing along the Koach. The American Munsters soon find out everyone in the town hates them because of the British ones' reputation. What's a Munster to do? Aunt Effigie, Uncle Cavanough's wife, convinces Herman to enter the Shroudshire Road Race. Sadly, this is all part of a master plan to do in Herman, and win the title of Lord Munster back to Freddie. Plenty of other secrets are abound, including a counterfeit ring, and an unknown person called "The Griffin"!
