The Munsters have been chosen by Event Magazine as the average American family. Grandpa is insulted by being labeled “average”. He disappears, jeopardizing the family’s photo opportunity and the large amount of prize money that came with it. When a journalist and photographer arrive at the Munster home, Herman and Lily think they are burglars.

Herman saves the life of a young boy, Galen Livingston Stewart, by bending the bars his head is stuck between. They immediately become close friends. The only problem is that Galen’s parents think Uncle Herman is a figment of the boy’s imagination. They take him to a psychiatrist, played by Harvey Korman with a broad German accent.

Herman has his ego flattered twice by his family. First, Eddie wants to enter him in the Father of the Year Contest. Next, Marilyn wants to sculpt a clay bust in his likeness. When she tells her art professor that the sculpture represents a living person, he plans to make a bundle from his discovery of a missing link. Herman is summoned to his office for an examination, but he’s under the impression he’s about to receive an award and a bunch of neat prizes.