The value of the USD 6,500.00 received by The Munsters, for the right of passage plus a bonus, in 1964 would be equivalent to USD 52,930.76 in 2018, if adjusted for US Inflation.
Jane Withers, who played Borden T. Pike's suspicious wife Fanny, who fainted when she saw Herman at her door, played Josephine the Plumber in TV commercials in the 1960s and 70s.
In the living room, Marilyn picks up an issue of "Tomb and Garden" magazine, probably a joke on the American shelter magazine 'House & Garden'. The real magazine was launched in 1901, renamed 'HG' in the March 1988 issue, and its US edition ceased in 1993, and after an unsuccessful relaunch was closed again in 2007.
The title is a parody of the 14,115 feet high mountain Pikes Peak located 10 miles west of Colorado Springs, Colorado and is named for Zebulon Pike, an explorer who led an expedition to the southern Colorado area in 1806.