Okay Twitter, I'm seeing a lot of discussion on this piece of media and nearly all of it ignores a crucial fact that, once understood, changes the nature of the work.

We need talk about Dragula. Thread. (1/21)

In the Summer of 1998, White Zombie frontman Rob Zombie released his first solo album, "Hellbilly Deluxe: 13 Tales of Cadaverous Cavorting Inside the Spookshow International," known to most as Hellbilly Deluxe. It was a hit. (2/21)

Hellbilly Deluxe debuted at #5 on the Billboard 200 primarily on the strength of its lead single, "Dragula." The song and video would become one of Rob Zombie's best-known tracks, and launched the album to triple platinum status in the US. (3/21)

The video for the song features Rob Zombie driving the titular vehicle, but let's rewind a moment-- What is the Dragula, and where does it come from? (4/21)

To find out, we have to go all the way back to 1965 to "The Munsters" and its 36th episode, "Hot Rod Herman." In it, Herman munster modifies the family car-- what Rob Zombie would call the Dragula-- into a drag-racing hot rod and enters a race.(5/21)

But the Munsters' family car is not known as the Dragula. It is called the Munster Koach, and was commissioned by the show's producers to be built by Barris Kustoms in Los Angeles. The Koach is 18 feet long and required 3 Ford Model T bodies. (6/21)

It is a real car with V8 engine. The Koach appeared in over twenty episodes of The Munsters as the family car. But fun fact: Fred Gwynne (who played Herman) was too tall for the driver's seat and had to sit on the floor to drive it. (7/21)

Anyhow, in Hot Rod Herman, Eddie Munster boasts that his father Herman is a better driver than his friend's father, "Leadfoot" Baylor. In his arrogance, Herman modifies the Koach to be a dragster and wagers the car itself on the race. (8/21)

Herman loses the race and the Koach with it. But by now you're probably saying, so what, perhaps Dragula is just a nickname for the Munster Koach, and all of this makes perfect sense... Nope! (9/21)

You see, the episode doesn't end there. Grandpa Munster, in his ingenuity, constructs a new hot rod to win back the Koach. And THIS vehicle is known as the Drag-U-La. (10/21)

Grandpa's Drag-U-La features a golden coffin body and a 350 HP Mustang V8 engine. Instead of a typical exhaust pipe, it had organ pipes. The driver would sit in the rear. (11/21)

This Drag-U-La looks nothing like the Munster Koach or Rob Zombie's Dragula. It's an entirely different car. In it, Grandpa gets behind the wheel and wins back the Munster Koach. (12/21)

So if the Dragula in Hellbilly Deluxe is actually a reference to Grandpa's Drag-U-La, why does the video show the Munster Koach? Was it just a case of the Koach looking cooler for the video? (13/21)

If that were the case, I'd be fine with that answer and the case would be closed. But it doesn't quite add up, particularly the lyric "slam in the back of my Dragula." There's no back of Grandpa's Drag-U-La! It's a one-seater! (14/21)

But there IS a backseat in the Munster Koach. In fact there are demons riding in the back seat in the music video. So the Koach definitely must be the car Rob Zombie was thinking about, despite calling it a Dragula. (15/21)

So how did those wires get crossed? And how did Rob Zombie go through the entire process of writing a song and producing a music video about the wrong car? Furthermore, there is a somewhat active community of custom car manufacturers who (16/21)

would definitely know the difference between the Munster Koach and the Drag-U-La. In fact, there are replicas of both cars around Los Angeles, and one of those replica Koaches is likely what is being ridden in the video. (17/21)

In "House of 1,000 Corpses," footage of the drag race from Hot Rod Herman is included in the film, so the argument could not even be made that the 1998 Dragula is of an alternate canon. The Drag-U-La exists in the Dragula universe. Fucked up. (18/21)

Whatever the case, what is clear is that the Dragula/Koach/Drag-U-La confusion is not terribly unlike the Frankenstein/Frankenstein's Monster discussion-- you'll know what someone's talking about, but they're calling it the wrong thing. (19/21)

To recap: Munster Koach is the original Model T-based car that the 1998 Dragula is based off of. But the name "Dragula" comes from the Drag-U-La dragster built by Grandpa Munster in Hot Rod Herman. (20/21)

Thank you for reading. If you found this thread helpful, please send it to your friends so they can educate themselves about Dragula and learn more about the Munsters. (end)