The Sleeping Cutie

Infobox Television episode
Title = The Sleeping Cutie
Series =The Munsters


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Season =1
Episode =12
Airdate =December 10, 1964
Writer = James Allardice, Tom Adair
Director = Norman Abbott
Guests = Grant Williams, Walter Woolf King, Gavin McLeod, John Hoyt
Episode list =List of "The Munsters" episodes
Prev = The Midnight Ride of Herman Munster
Next =Family Portrait"The Sleeping Cutie" is an episode of "The Munsters" from the show's first season. It guest-stars Walter Woolf King as Mr. Hadley and Grant Williams as Dick Prince, and its title is a play on the fairy tale "Sleeping Beauty."

Plot

Grandpa invents a pill that can turn water into gasoline, and immediately writes to the Reliable Oil Co. offering to sell the product. When the pill arrives, the company's president Mr. Hadley (Walter Woolf King) thinks that it's is a scam until he accidentally lights the water it's been tested on on fire. He quickly sends his employee Dick Prince (Grant Williams) to negotiate with the count.

Meanwhile Marilyn has been suffering from inexplicable insomnia, which Grandpa decides to cure with a sleeping potion. Unfortunately he is also rushed to make more pills for Mr. Prince's arrival, and in the hurry accidentally brews a Sleeping Beauty potion for Marilyn. When Grandpa and Herman fail to awaken her, Grandpa decides to burn the Sleeping Beauty formula so he'll never make the mistake again. Unfortunately, he burns up the gas pill formula instead.

When Mr. Prince arrives, Lily tells him that Grandpa is busy with a "family crisis" and can't meet with him. When Mr. Prince returns to his office, Mr. Hadley tells him that the Munsters are trying to stall while other companies make offers, and tells Prince to return immediately and get Grandpa to sign the contract.

Meanwhile the Munsters are busy trying to find a prince to break Marilyn's enchantment. Herman and Lily place an advertisement in the paper asking for an eligible prince, and two stage actors (Gavin McLeod and John Hoyt) arrive in the hopes of getting a job. When they realize that the Munsters are not actors in a play but real, live monsters they flee in terror.

Dick Prince arrives back at the Munsters and is again refused entrance by Lily until Herman realizes that his name is "Prince". Delighted, he lets Mr. Prince in and Grandpa agrees to sign the contract, but under the stipulation that Mr. Prince take part in the traditional Transylvanian ceremony of kissing the youngest female family member before signing a contract (a ruse of Grandpa's to save Marilyn). When Mr. Prince does kiss Marilyn, he is so enamored with her that he momentarily forgets his job.

When it gets time to sign the contract, Grandpa is unsure what to do without any pills, but Mr. Prince informs him that the contract is an agreement to keep the pills off the market so that oil companies don't go out of business.

Even so, Herman refuses to let Grandpa accept any money since the formula has been destroyed, and Mr. Prince asks Marilyn on a date to celebrate the signed contract.

Characters

*Herman Munster (Fred Gwynne)
*Lily Munster (Yvonne De Carlo)
*Grandpa (Al Lewis)
*Marilyn Munster (Beverley Owen)
*Eddie Munster (Butch Patrick)
*Richard "Dick" Prince (Grant Williams), a representative from the Reliable Oil Co.
*Mr. Hadley (Walter Woolf King), president of the Reliable Oil Co.
*Paul Newmar (Gavin McLeod)
*George Spelvin (John Hoyt)

References

*"The Sleeping Cutie"
*"A Trip Down Mockingbird Lane"