Barnabas and Bats? An Odd Thought or Two

[McTrooper]

When Barnabas turned into a bat do you think he could talk to other bats?

And a weirder thought  . . . do you think Barnabas could fall in love with a female bat?

Has past fandom ever discussed the odd possibility’s?

[Gerard]

That did happen to Grandpa on The Munsters.  One time, he turned himself into a bat to go to school with Eddie on pet day, and Eddie traded him for a squirrel.  Grandpa ended up at a NASA lab to be shot up into space in a rocket and a female bat designated to go with him kept trying to hit on him.  He finally told her:  "Get away from me, you old bat!"

And then another time he turned himself into a wolf and ended up in Kansas City with a police dog.

Gerard

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Can you even imagine a twist on the whole "next Josette" transformation with a female bat instead of a woman? Talk about groundbreaking storytelling for a soap!! 

[McTrooper]

I watch The Munsters reruns back in the day.  Wonder if my odd thought was subconsciously inspired by it then.

That show makes me think it’s likely somewhere in DS fandom there’s been other discussion and / or fan fiction with the idea.

lol Mysterious Benefactor. ^_^

Wonder if Barnabas would give her the Music box and have someone do alterations on the wedding dress?

[Bob_the_Bartender]

I would have liked to have seen Barnabas make Count "Grandpa" Dracula's acquaintance on DS. Maybe the  two creatures of the night could have exchanged "war stories" about their varied adventures over the past few centuries?

I remember an episode of "The Munsters," where the family purchased some vacation land at an old ghost town in the West and they enjoyed it very much. It would have been fun to have seen the Munster clan travel to Maine on a vacation and stop by Collinsport for a week or so. Grandpa would have liked visiting the Eagle Hill Cemetery and perhaps, have looked up some old friends, buried there?

If David Collins happened to meet Eddie Munster, I think the two boys would prove to be kindred spirits, with both sharing a great interest in the occult. No doubt, Herman and Lily would have found Collinwood as charming as their own home at 1313 Mockingbird Lane. The secret passageways, the parallel time room and Quentin 1's Stairway-Through-Time would have intrigued and delighted the entire Munster family. I'll bet that the Collinses and the Munsters had mutual "friends" and "acquaintances" in Angelique, Nicholas Blair, Judah Zachary and the Leviathans.

Oh, if only DS had lasted another season, so we could have seen Mrs. Elizabeth Collins Stoddard and Mrs. Lily Munster, exchanging bon mots over a glass of sherry in the Collinwood drawing room.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Wonder if Barnabas would give her the Music box

Oh, of course he would have - that goes without saying!

I can just see the bat perched on the edge of the opened/playing music box, dancing and flapping its wings to the tune. 

and have someone do alterations on the wedding dress?

That would have been a bit more problematic. But hey, who knows...

[McTrooper]

^_^ Hehe

I enjoy reading those posts Bob and Mysterious.

Now I’ve got Munsters crossovers and dancing bats in my head.