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John Cardon Debney (born August 18, 1956) is an American composer and conductor of film, television, and video game scores. His work encompasses a variety of mediums and genres, including comedy, horror, science fiction, thriller, fantasy, and action-adventure. He is a long-time collaborator of The Walt Disney Company, having written music for their films, television series, and theme parks. He has also collaborated with film directors such as Jon Favreau, Garry Marshall, Tom Shadyac, Peter Hyams, John A. Davis, Brad Anderson, Howard Deutch, Mark Dindal, Robert Rodriguez, and Paul Tibbitt. Debney has been the recipient of three Primetime Emmy Awards and an Academy Award nomination for his score for Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ (2004). The son of Disney Studios producer Louis Debney (Zorro, The Mickey Mouse Club), John was born and raised in Glendale, California, nearby to Disney. He began guitar lessons at age six and played in rock bands in college. Debney earned his B.A. degree in Music Composition from the California Institute of Arts in 1979. After ending his career with Disney, Debney worked for Mike Post. Debney furthered his hands-on training by working with Hanna-Barbera composer Hoyt Curtin. After this, Debney went on to score television projects as diverse as Disneyland, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, SeaQuest DSV, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, The Cape, The Lazarus Man, Piggsburg Pigs!, The Further Adventures of SuperTed, Doctor Who, Cagney and Lacey, Tiny Toon Adventures, The Young Riders, The New Yogi Bear Show, Police Academy: The Animated Series, Fame, Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, Dragon's Lair, Freshman Dorm, Pop Quiz, and Dink, the Little Dinosaur, for which he won an Emmy for Best Main Title. In the early 1990s, Debney began to score indie films and Disneyland attractions. In 1991, Debney composed the music for Phantom Manor and It's a Small World (also used at Disneyland from 1993 to 2002) in Disneyland Paris and SpectroMagic at Magic Kingdom. In 1993, he scored his first studio feature, the Disney comedy Hocus Pocus starring Bette Midler. In 1994, Debney wrote Friends Forever with Greg Scelsa from Greg & Steve's album We All Live Together, Vol. 5. Debney has since gone on to have a career composing scores for many films, including Cats & Dogs, The Passion of the Christ, Bruce Almighty, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Elf, Sin City, Chicken Little, Liar Liar, Spy Kids, The Scorpion King, The Princess Diaries, and Predators. Debney has also composed scores for the video games Lair and The Sims Medieval. In 2010, he composed the theme music for the Nickelodeon television series Supah Ninjas. He composed some of Disney Parks's Nighttime Spectaculars, including World Of Colour Celebrate! in Disney's California Adventure, The Magic, The Memories And You! and Celebrate the Magic in Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom and Celebrate! Tokyo Disneyland in Tokyo Disneyland, as well as an arrangement of "When You Wish Upon a Star" as a fanfare for the Walt Disney Pictures logo from 1985 to 2006. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Debney, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The film is set in present day California, but the Munster family is still stuck in their pre-gothic monster lifestyle. Eddie Munster, who is entering middle school, has decided to try out for the basketball team. After making the team he has to talk his family into leaving the house for the first time in hundreds of years, so they can go support him on the court. The Munster family takes baby steps at first, only going to the outskirts of their community. The family becomes overwhelmed with how much the world has changed, and are not able to control their excitement. After scaring all the neighbors away, and nearly causing a county wide uproar, the Munster family decides to never leave home again. Marilyn Munster, the families human niece, decides to teach the Munsters how to act like regular humans and fit in. With basketball season only weeks away, Marilyn works hard to reshape the Munsters. Only two days remain, and the Munsters are ready to try again. Marilyn takes them to downtown Las Angeles, a place that she says that they "will surely fit in". After months of human exercises and a few costumes, the Munsters make it through town without being yelled at, frightening a child, or causing an unnecessary uproar. The first day of basketball camp arrives. The Munsters awkwardly arrive at the game in their Munster Koach (jokingly they still think its normal to drive a 1940 coffin mobile). The family sits with the other families in the bleacher area, and watches the basketball game. All goes well until the concession salesman starts making his away around the gym selling snacks. Herman blatantly stands up and orders 2 bat-pops, a small friedd lizard, and a large sewer water. Herman in the middle of the sentence bends over to ask the family if they want anything, and Lily quickly shouts "ohhh! I want a large intestinal candy roll. Make it bloody strawberry!". The entire gym turns and looks at the Munsters. Faces of fear, disgust, and confusion appear. Someone from the back of the gym yells, "Hey! That's that weird Munster family!". Another person quickly shouts, "Get'em!". Marilyn stops the other families. She explains that there is nothing wrong with her family, and all they want to do is come watch their son play basketball and enjoy each others company. She explains that they are no different than any of the other families, and that they should be treated just the same as they treat each other. The Munster family stands up and removes their costumes. The their families begin feeling sorry for them, and feel somewhat embarrassed. One man continues to show hate towards the Munsters throughout the rest of the game. With seconds left in the last quarter, Eddie scores the winning point. The crowd goes wild. All the families celebrate and apologize to the Munsters. Even the one man who still showed hate even apologized (because his son was on the winning team). Lessons to be learned: Always treat each other equally. Why basketball?: Al Lewis, the original "Grandpa", was also a basketball scout.
