But surfers weren't happy with how we looked in 'Beach Blanket Bingo' or how we sounded in the dopier surf songs.
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Jason, played by Manny Jacinto, was pure joy in Season 1, and he's somehow even better, even dopier, even more passionate in Season 2.
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James Davis plays the wide-eyed cowboy Will Parker, the erstwhile beau of Laurey's friend Ado Annie, as a few degrees dopier than the average Will Parker, lovable but with flashes of creepiness—sometimes he's a little dead behind the eyes.
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He's also a little dopier—confusing all Germans for Nazis and believing he can genuinely protect the kids when it's fairly clear he can't—which pushes him into the lovable comedic goofball territory, about as big a jump as he could have made from the Steve of season one.
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In Barbary Coast Bunny, a rather different version of Nasty Canasta appears—now with a dopier look, complete with pudgy lips and crooked teeth (and voiced not by Mel Blanc, but by Daws Butler). When Bugs Bunny finds a massive gold nugget, Canasta steals it from Bugs. That prompts Bugs to say, "You realize that this is not going to go unchallenged." Six months later, Nasty Canasta uses the ill-gotten gold to erect a rigged casino.
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Originally conceived as a color show, The Munsters was ultimately filmed in black-and-white to save money and to resemble the old B&W; monster films Universal and other studios used to make. Over the course of season one (completed by Season 1, Episode 7 "Tin Can Man"), makeup for Herman, Lily, and Grandpa was changed. Some of the changes included Lily's hair becoming all black instead of having a gray/white streak on the right side of her head, a change of jewelry to a bat instead of a star, and angled eyebrows. Grandpa was given more exaggerated makeup and heavier eyebrows, and Herman's face was widened to give him a dopier and less human appearance.
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In the earliest episodes, Blanc had used a much higher pitch to the point of portraying Barney as a smart-aleck. After his recovery from the accident, Blanc used a deeper voice, quite similar to the voice of the Abominable Snowman he performed in other cartoons and was shown as somewhat dopier than before. Reed based Fred's voice upon Gleason's Honeymooners interpretation of Ralph Kramden, while Blanc, after a season of using a nasal, high-pitched voice for Barney, eventually adopted a style of voice similar to that used by Art Carney in his portrayal of Ed Norton. The first time the Art Carney-like voice was used was for a few seconds in "The Prowler" (the third episode produced).
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Daws Butler briefly assumed the role for the first, second, fifth, sixth and ninth episodes of season 2 while Blanc recovered from the accident, continuing to deliver a Norton-inspired performance. Incidentally, Butler was also the original voice of Yogi Bear, who was also inspired by the character of Ed Norton. When Blanc woke from his coma, he was able to return to the show much sooner than expected, by virtue of a temporary recording studio for the entire cast set up at Blanc's bedside. Blanc's voice for Barney had changed considerably after the accident, going from the New Jersey smart-aleck voice to a deeper, more chuckle-like voice, quite similar to that of Hugo the Abominable Snowman from Looney Tunes, and he was shown as somewhat dopier than before.
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