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The Addams Family
The Addams Family in the 1964 TV series.
Created by	Charles Addams
Original work	The New Yorker cartoons
Owner	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (current rights holder) Orion Pictures (original TV series and 1991 film) Warner Bros. Entertainment (Hanna-Barbera 1973 & 1992 TV series, Scooby Doo crossover and 1998 film) Paramount Pictures (1991 & 1993 films) Disney Platform Distribution (1998 TV series)
Print publications
Comics	See below (1938)
Films and television
Film(s)	The Addams Family (1991) Addams Family Values (1993) The Addams Family (2019) The Addams Family 2 (2021)
Short film(s)	The Addams Family Fun-House (1973)
Television series	The Addams Family (1964–1966) The Addams Family (1973) The Addams Family (1992–1993) The New Addams Family (1998–1999) Wednesday (2022–present)
Television special(s)	The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972) Halloween with the New Addams Family (1977)
Direct-to-video	Addams Family Reunion (1998)
Theatrical presentations
Musical(s)	The Addams Family (2010)
Games
Video game(s)	List of video games
Audio
Soundtrack(s)	The Addams Family

The Addams Family is a fictional family created by American cartoonist Charles Addams. They originally appeared in a series of 150 unrelated single-panel comics, about half of which were originally published in The New Yorker over a 50-year period from their inception in 1938. They have since been adapted to other media, such as television, film, video games, comic books, a musical, and merchandise.

The Addamses are a satirical inversion of the ideal postwar American middle-class nuclear family: an odd old money clan who delight in the macabre and are seemingly unaware or unconcerned that other people find them bizarre or frightening. The family members were unnamed until the 1964 television series. The Addams Family consists of Gomez and Morticia Addams, their children, Wednesday and Pugsley, and close family members, Uncle Fester^[a] and Grandmama,^[b] their butler Lurch, and Pugsley’s pet octopus, Aristotle. The dimly seen Thing (later a disembodied hand) was introduced in 1954, and Gomez’s Cousin Itt, Morticia’s pet lion Kitty Kat and Morticia’s carnivorous plant Cleopatra in 1964. Pubert Addams, Wednesday and Pugsley’s infant brother, was introduced in the 1993 film Addams Family Values.^[c]

In 1964, the live-action television series premiered on ABC and ran for two seasons. It subsequently inspired a telefilm titled Halloween with the New Addams Family and cameos from the cast in other shows. An unrelated animated series aired in 1973. The franchise was revived in the 1990s with a feature film series consisting of The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993). The films inspired a second animated series (1992–1993) which is set in the same fictional universe. The series was rebooted with a 1998 direct-to-video film and a spin-off live-action television series (1998–1999). In 2010, a live musical adaptation featuring Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth opened on Broadway and was nominated for two Tony Awards and eight Drama Desk Awards. The series again rebooted in 2019 with the animated film The Addams Family, which led to a sequel in 2021. In 2022, Netflix debuted the original series Wednesday.

The franchise has become a staple of popular culture. It has spawned a video game series, academic books, and soundtracks which are based around its Grammy-nominated theme song. They have had a profound influence on American comics, cinema and television, and are seen as an inspiration for the goth subculture and its fashion.

History[edit]

Original The New Yorker cartoons (1938–1964)[edit]

Charles Addams began as a cartoonist in The New Yorker with a sketch of a window washer that ran on February 6, 1932.^[2] The first Addams Family cartoon was published in 1938, in a one-panel gag format. Charles Addams became a regular contributor to The New Yorker, and drew approximately 1,300 cartoons between then and his death in 1988. 58 of these would feature the Addams Family, almost all of which were published in the 1940s and 1950s.^[3]

Outside of The New Yorker, Addams also published several collections, the most notable being Dear Dead Days: A Family Album in 1959. The editor of The New Yorker, William Shawn, prevented any further Addams family cartoons from being printed after the 1964 launch of the television franchise.^[3]

Science fiction writer Ray Bradbury created a series of tales chronicling a family of Illinois monsters, the Elliotts, that bear a strong resemblance to the Addams family. These stories were anthologized in From the Dust Returned (2001), with a connecting narrative, an explanation of his work with Addams, and a 1946 illustration Addams drew for Bradbury’s short story «Homecoming» in Mademoiselle magazine, the first in the Elliot family series.

TV adaptations and rise to popularity (1964–1977)[edit]

A 1964 television adaptation brought the series to a much wider audience and was well received. Producer Nat Perrin took a «less evil» approach to the characters and stories than Addams had in the cartoons, emphasizing lighter, more comedic elements. Stephen Cox later referred to the series as «more zany than spooky». The popular series, broadcast on the ABC network, ran only two seasons.

The franchise remained in the popular consciousness even after the series concluded, with the «Lurch» dance move remaining popular through the 1960s for example. The television series was often re-run through television syndication for years afterward, in some areas continuing to broadcast as late as 1991. It was followed by a 1972 crossover appearance in Scooby-Doo and a 1973 animated series. The animated incarnation featured a new cast except for Felix Silla, who returned as Cousin Itt. A one-shot special, Halloween with the New Addams Family, reunited most of the original cast from the 1964 series.^[3]

Film series and TV reboots (1991–1999)[edit]

The franchise was largely inactive throughout the 1980s. The 1987 retirement of William Shawn allowed a brief return of the cartoons to The New Yorker, though Charles Addams himself died only a year later.

Two live-action films were directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and released in the early 1990s, featuring a new cast. While the 1991 film received mixed reviews from critics, it performed reasonably well at the box office. A second film in 1993, Addams Family Values, had the inverse reception. It was highly regarded by critics but, unexpectedly, performed poorly at the box office, and earned less than half the revenue of its predecessor. This, and the sudden death of Gomez actor Raul Julia in 1994, prevented Sonnenfeld from producing further films.^[3] Both received nominations for Academy Awards, BAFTA Awards, and Hugo Awards. For her role as Morticia, Anjelica Huston was twice nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, and Raul Julia (as Gomez), Christina Ricci (as Wednesday), Christopher Lloyd (as Fester), and Joan Cusack (as Fester’s wife, Debbie Jellinsky, in the sequel) received multiple Saturn Award and American Comedy Award nominations for their portrayals.

Following the wave of interest in the franchise, a 1992 animated television series notably saw John Astin reprise his role as Gomez, almost thirty years after his first appearance in the role in 1964. It was nominated for four Daytime Emmy Awards, including one for Astin.

A direct-to-video film, The Addams Family Reunion, was produced by Saban Entertainment in 1998 and featured a returning Carel Struycken as Lurch, though was otherwise unrelated to the Sonnenfeld films and was very poorly received. The film was intended as the pilot to a Canadian-produced live-action television series, The New Addams Family, which in the event was made with a mostly different cast and aired until the following year.^[4] Astin, then in his late 60s, returned as Grandpapa Addams in the TV series, rather than Gomez, who was played by Glenn Taranto.^[5]

Animated revival[edit]

A Tim Burton stop-motion film was announced in 2010 but never developed. Instead, a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animated film was announced in 2013. Unlike the Burton version, this would use 3D computer animation. The film was eventually released in 2019, to a moderate box-office reception. A sequel, released in 2021 amid the COVID-19 pandemic, was far less successful. The first film received mixed audience reception, while the second film received negative audience reception with the two films scoring 45% and 28% on review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, respectively.

Premise and background[edit]

Gomez and Pugsley are enthusiastic. Morticia is even in disposition, muted, witty, sometimes deadly. Grandma Frump is foolishly good-natured. Wednesday is her mother’s daughter. A closely-knit family, the real head being Morticia—although each of the others is a definite character—except for Grandma, who is easily led. Many of the troubles they have as a family are due to Grandma’s fumbling, weak character. The house is a wreck, of course, but this is a house-proud family just the same and every trap door is in good repair. Money is no problem.

— Charles Addams^[1]

The family appears to be a branch of an extensive Addams clan with relatives all over the world. In the original television series they are said to be related to «those one-D Adamses», a fact the family are deeply ashamed of. According to the film version, the family credo is, Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc (pseudo-Latin: «We gladly feast on those who would subdue us»). Charles Addams was first inspired by his hometown of Westfield, New Jersey, an area full of ornate Victorian mansions and archaic graveyards.^[6] In the original comics series they live in a gothic house on Cemetery Ridge. According to the television series, the residence is a gloomy mansion adjacent to a cemetery and a swamp located in an unspecified American town. In the musical (first shown in Chicago in 2009), the house is located in Central Park.^[7] In the 2019 film, the Addamses live in an abandoned asylum located in the outskirts of the state of New Jersey which is haunted by a disembodied resident who demands the property to remain undisturbed.

Although most of the humor derives from the fact that they share macabre interests, such as putting each other and themselves in the way of bodily harm (none of which seems to have an effect), the Addamses are not evil. They are a close-knit extended family. Morticia is an exemplary mother, and she and Gomez remain passionate towards each other; as established in the television series, she calls him «bubbeleh»,^[8] to which he responds by kissing her arms, behavior which Morticia can also provoke by speaking a few words in French (their meanings are not important; any words in French will do). The parents are supportive of their children (except in the 2019 film when Wednesday arrives home wearing a pink dress). The family is friendly and hospitable to visitors; in some cases, it is willing to donate large sums of money to causes (television series and films), despite the visitors’ horror at the Addamses’ peculiar lifestyle. The characters were unnamed until the advent of the 1964 television adaptation, except for Wednesday and Morticia who were first named for a 1962 licensed doll collection.^[3]

Adaptations[edit]

Television[edit]

The Addams Family (1964–1966)[edit]

In 1964, the ABC TV network created The Addams Family television series based on Addams’s cartoon characters. The series was shot in black-and-white and aired for two seasons in 64 half-hour episodes (September 18, 1964 – September 2, 1966). During the original television run of The Addams Family television series, The New Yorker editor William Shawn refused to publish any Addams Family cartoons. However, he continued to publish other Charles Addams cartoons. Shawn regarded his magazine as targeting a more refined readership and he did not want it to be associated with characters who could be seen on television by the more general public. After Shawn’s 1987 retirement, the characters were welcomed back to The New Yorker.

The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972)[edit]

The Addams Family’s first animated appearance was on the third episode of Hanna-Barbera’s The New Scooby-Doo Movies, «Scooby-Doo Meets the Addams Family» (a.k.a. «Wednesday is Missing»), which first aired on CBS Saturday morning, on September 23, 1972. Four members of the original cast (John Astin, Carolyn Jones, Jackie Coogan, and Ted Cassidy) returned for the special, which involved the Addamses in a mystery with the Scooby-Doo gang. The Addams Family characters were drawn to the specifications of the original Charles Addams cartoons. After the episode aired, fans wanted more animated adventures featuring the Addamses, and Hanna-Barbera obliged.

The Addams Family Fun-House (1973)[edit]

In late 1972, ABC produced a pilot for a live-action musical variety show which was titled The Addams Family Fun-House. The cast included Jack Riley and Liz Torres as Gomez and Morticia (the pair also co-wrote the special), Stubby Kaye as Uncle Fester, Pat McCormick as Lurch and Butch Patrick (who had played Eddie Munster on The Munsters) as Pugsley. Felix Silla reprised his role as Cousin Itt, connecting it to the original TV series. The pilot aired in 1973, but it was not picked up for a series.^[10]

The Addams Family (1973)[edit]

The first animated series ran on Saturday mornings from 1973 to 1975 on NBC. In a departure from the original series, this series took the Addamses on the road in a Victorian-style RV. This series also marked the point where the relationships between the characters were changed so that Fester was now Gomez’s brother, and Grandmama was now Morticia’s mother (though the old relationships between the characters would be revisited in the 1977 television movie, in order to retain its continuity with the original sitcom). Although Coogan and Cassidy reprised their roles as Uncle Fester and Lurch, Astin and Jones did not; their parts were recast with Hanna-Barbera voice talents Lennie Weinrib as Gomez and Janet Waldo as Morticia, while a ten-year-old Jodie Foster provided the voice of Pugsley. Again, the characters were drawn to the specifications of the original Charles Addams cartoons. The show also had appearances from Thing, Cousin Itt, Kitty Kat and Cleopatra from the original series. The show also introduces new Addams Family’s animal companions, such as Ali the alligator, Ocho the octopus and Mr. V the vulture. One season was produced, and the second season consisted of reruns. The show’s theme music was completely different and it had no lyrics and no finger snaps, although it retained a bit of the four-note score from the live-action show.

The Addams Family Comic Book[edit]

From 1974 to 1975, Gold Key Comics produced a comic book series in connection with the show, but it only lasted three issues. Each issue was adapted from a TV episode, starting with «In Search of the Boola-Boola» (October 1974).^[11]

Halloween with the New Addams Family (1977)[edit]

A television reunion movie, Halloween with the New Addams Family, aired on NBC on Sunday, October 30, 1977. It features most of the original cast, except Blossom Rock, who had played Grandmama. She was still alive but was very ill at the time; Jane Rose replaced her. Veteran character actors Parley Baer and Vito Scotti, who both had recurring roles on the original series, also appeared in the movie. The movie has a slightly different version of the theme song; the finger snaps are used but not the lyrics.

Gomez and Morticia have had two more children, Wednesday Jr. and Pugsley Jr., who strongly resemble their older siblings. Gomez’s brother, Pancho, is staying with the family while Gomez attends a lodge meeting in Tombstone, Arizona. Gomez is jealous of his brother, who once courted Morticia. Halloween is nigh, and Pancho tells the children the legend of the Great Pumpkin-like character of Cousin Shy, who distributes gifts and carves pumpkins for good children on Halloween night. Wednesday (now called «Wednesday, Sr.») is home from music academy, where she is studying the piccolo (breaking glass with it). Pugsley (now «Pugsley, Sr.») is home from Nairobi medical school, where he is training to be a witch doctor. The family’s home has been bugged by a gang of crooks which intends to steal the family’s fortune. Lafferty, the boss, sends a gang member named Mikey into the house to investigate. Mikey panics and flees after treading on the tail of Kitty Kat the lion. The crooks employ a fake Gomez and Morticia to help them carry out their plans, along with two strong-arm goons, Hercules and Atlas. Gomez returns home to celebrate the Halloween party and trim the scarecrow. Lafferty poses as Quincy Addams (from Boston) to gain entrance to the house during the party. He has his men tie up Gomez and Morticia, and his doubles take their places, confusing Pancho, who is still in love with Morticia, and Ophelia, who is still in love with Gomez. Gomez and Morticia escape (thanks to the «Old Piccolo Game»), and rejoin the party, only to have Lafferty use various methods to try to get rid of them. Lurch scares off the thugs and terrifies Lafferty’s other assistant. Fester, trying to be nice, puts Lafferty on the rack. Lafferty tries to escape through the secret passage and steps on Kitty Kat’s tail. When the police arrive, the crooks gladly surrender. The Addamses are then free to celebrate Halloween happily, ending the night by singing together in welcome for Cousin Shy.

The Addams Family: The Animated Series (1992–1993)[edit]

The remake series ran on Saturday mornings from 1992 to 1993 on ABC after producers realized the success of the 1991 Addams Family movie. This series returned to the familiar format of the original series, with the Addams Family facing their sitcom situations at home. John Astin returned to the role of Gomez, and celebrities Rip Taylor and Carol Channing took over the roles of Fester and Grandmama, respectively. Veteran voice actors Jim Cummings, Debi Derryberry, Jeannie Elias and Pat Fraley did the voices of Lurch, Wednesday, Pugsley and Cousin Itt, respectively. New artistic models of the characters were used for this series, though still having a passing resemblance to the original cartoons. Two seasons were produced, with the third year containing reruns. Oddly in this series, Wednesday maintained her macabre, brooding attitude from the Addams Family movies. Still, her facial expressions and body language conveyed the happy-go-lucky, fun attitude of her portrayal in the original television show. The original Vic Mizzy theme song, although slightly different, was used for the opening.

The New Addams Family (1998–1999)[edit]

The New Addams Family was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and ran for 65 episodes (one more than the original TV series) during the 1998–1999 season on the then-newly launched Fox Family Channel. Many storylines from the original series were reworked for this new series, incorporating more modern elements and jokes. John Astin returned to the franchise in some episodes of this series, albeit as «Grandpapa» Addams (Gomez’s grandfather, a character introduced in Addams Family Reunion). The cast included Glenn Taranto as Gomez Addams, Ellie Harvie as Morticia, Michael Roberds as Fester, Brody Smith as Pugsley, Nicole Fugere (the only cast member from Addams Family Reunion to return) as Wednesday, John DeSantis as Lurch, Betty Phillips as Grandmama and Steven Fox as Thing.

Wednesday (2022)[edit]

In 2021, Netflix announced a live-action TV series adaptation based on the character of Wednesday Addams, starring Jenna Ortega as the title character. Produced by MGM Television, with Alfred Gough and Miles Millar as showrunners and Tim Burton as series director in his first televised directorial effort.^[12] Wednesday, a student at Nevermore Academy, solves mysteries using her psychic ability. These include murders and a 25-year-old mystery involving her family.^[13] Luis Guzmán stars as Gomez,^[14] and Catherine Zeta-Jones stars as Morticia.^[15] In addition, Fred Armisen appears as Uncle Fester, George Burcea as Lurch, Victor Dorobantu as Thing, and Isaac Ordonez as Pugsley. Hunter Doohan, Georgie Farmer, Moosa Mostafa, Emma Myers, Naomi J. Ogawa, Joy Sunday, Percy Hynes White, Thora Birch, Riki Lindhome, Jamie McShane and Gwendoline Christie were also added to the cast as series regulars.^[16][17] In March 2022, Christina Ricci, who portrayed Wednesday in The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993), had joined the cast as a series regular.^[18]

Feature films[edit]

Crew/detail	Live action	Animated
The Addams Family (1991)	Addams Family Values (1993)	Addams Family Reunion (1998)	The Addams Family (2019)	The Addams Family 2 (2021)
Director	Barry Sonnenfeld	Dave Payne	Conrad Vernon Greg Tiernan	Conrad Vernon Greg Tiernan Co-directed by: Laura Brousseau Kevin Pavlovic[19]
Producer	Scott Rudin	Mike Elliott	Gail Berman Conrad Vernon Alex Schwartz Alison O’Brien	Gail Berman Conrad Vernon Danielle Sterling Alison O’Brien
Writer(s)	Caroline Thompson Larry Wilson	Paul Rudnick	Rob Kerchner Scott Sandin	Screenplay by: Matt Lieberman Story by: Matt Lieberman Erica Rivinoja Conrad Vernon	Screenplay by: Dan Hernandez Benji Samit Ben Queen Susanna Fogel Story by: Dan Hernandez Benji Samit
Based on	The Addams Family by Charles Addams
Composer	Marc Shaiman	Amotz Plessner	Mychael Danna Jeff Danna
Cinematography	Owen Roizman	Donald Peterman	Christian Sebaldt	—
Editor(s)	Dede Allen	Arthur Schmidt Jim Miller	J. J. Jackson	David Ian Salter	Ryan Folsey
Production company	Paramount Pictures Scott Rudin Productions	Scott Rudin Productions	Saban Entertainment	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Bron Creative Nitrogen Studios Cinesite Studios The Jackal Group	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Bron Creative Nitrogen Studios Cinesite Studios The Jackal Group Glickmania
Distributor	Paramount Pictures (United States and Latin America) Columbia Pictures (International)[20]	Paramount Pictures	Warner Home Video	United Artists Releasing (United States) Universal Pictures (International)
Runtime	99 minutes	94 minutes	91 minutes	87 minutes	93 minutes
Release date	November 22, 1991	November 19, 1993	September 22, 1998	October 11, 2019	October 1, 2021

The Addams Family (1991)[edit]

In the 1990s, Orion Pictures (which by then had inherited the rights to the series) developed a film version, The Addams Family (released on November 22, 1991). Because of the studio’s financial troubles at the time, Orion sold the US rights to the film to Paramount Pictures. On October 1, 2019, Paramount Pictures^[21] released double feature of Addams Family and Addams Family Values on Blu-ray in the United States.

Addams Family Values (1993)[edit]

Upon the last film’s success, a sequel followed: Addams Family Values (released on November 19, 1993, with worldwide distribution by Paramount). Loosened content restrictions allowed the films to use far more grotesque humor that strove to keep the Addams cartoons’ original spirit (in fact, several gags were lifted straight from the single-panel cartoons). The two films used the same cast, except for Grandmama, played by Judith Malina and Carol Kane in the first and second films, respectively. A script for a third film was prepared in 1994, but was abandoned after the sudden death of actor Raul Julia that year.

Addams Family Reunion (1998)[edit]

Another film, Addams Family Reunion, was released direct-to-video on September 22, 1998, this time by Warner Bros. through its video division. It has no relation to the Paramount movies, being in fact a full-length pilot for a second live-action television version, The New Addams Family, produced and shot in Canada. The third movie’s Gomez, played by Tim Curry, follows the style of Raul Julia, while the new sitcom’s Gomez, played by Glenn Taranto, is played in the style of John Astin, who had played the character in the 1960s. The only actors in this Warner Bros./Saban Entertainment production to have played in the previous Paramount films were Carel Struycken as Lurch and Christopher Hart as Thing.

Cancelled film[edit]

In 2010, it was announced that Illumination Entertainment, in partnership with Universal Pictures, had acquired the underlying rights to the Addams Family drawings.^[22] The film was planned to be a stop-motion animated film based on Charles Addams’s original drawings. Tim Burton was set to co-write and co-produce the film, with a possibility to direct.^[23] In July 2013 however, it was reported that the film was cancelled.^[24]

The Addams Family (2019) and The Addams Family 2 (2021)[edit]

On October 31, 2013, it was announced in Variety that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer will be reviving The Addams Family as an animated film with Pamela Pettler to write the screenplay and Andrew Mittman and Kevin Miserocchi to executive produce the film and they were in final negotiations with BermanBraun’s Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun to produce it.^[25] By October 2017, Conrad Vernon had been hired to direct the film, which he will also produce along with Berman and Alex Schwartz, based on a screenplay written by Pettler, with revisions by Matt Lieberman.^[26] The film was released on October 11, 2019.^[27] On October 8, 2020, MGM announced that a sequel is in the works with an announcement trailer.^[28] The original cast set to return. Bill Hader and Javon «Wanna» Walton have also been cast to voice. Bill Hader played a new character named Dr. Cyrus Strange, while Javon replaced Finn Wolfhard as the voice of Pugsley Addams. Directors Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon returned as directors. The film was released on October 1, 2021.^[29]

Homages and adaptations[edit]

• An animated television homage was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. Mr. & Mrs. J. Evil Scientist, a family of fictional characters inspired by The Addams Family appeared on the Snagglepuss and Snooper and Blabber animated television series beginning in 1959 and it also starred in its own comic book.
• Comedian Melissa Hunter wrote the web series Adult Wednesday Addams, which is a comedic adaptation of the franchise.^[30] Hunter was forced to remove the series due to legal action.
• In an episode of Horrible Histories a song titled «The Borgia Family» was created in reference to the Addams Family Theme.
• In 1964, the year The Addams Family debuted, Hanna-Barbera introduced Weirdly and Creepella Gruesome and family, based in part on Mr. & Mrs. J. Evil Scientist and in part on the Addamses, as recurrent characters on The Flintstones.^[31]

Video games[edit]

Ten video games released from 1989 to 2021 were based on The Addams Family.

• Fester’s Quest (1989) is a top-down adventure game that features Uncle Fester.
• The Addams Family LCD Video Game by Tiger Electronics is a handheld unit released in 1991.
• ICOM Simulations published The Addams Family video game for the TurboGrafx-CD in 1991.
• In 1992, two versions of The Addams Family were released by Ocean Software based on the 1991 movie: an 8-bit version for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear, ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64, and a 16-bit version released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Amiga, Atari ST and Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
• The games’ sequel, The Addams Family: Pugsley’s Scavenger Hunt (1993), also by Ocean Software, was based on the ABC animated series and was released for SNES, NES, and Game Boy (although the latter two are 8-bit remakes of the first SNES game, swapping Pugsley’s and Gomez’s roles).
• Addams Family Values (1994) by Ocean is based on the movie sequel and returns to the style of gameplay seen in Fester’s Quest.
• An arcade shocker, The New Addams Family Electric Shock Machine (also known as Electrifying), was released by Eurocom and Nova Productions in 1999.
• A Game Boy Color game was released in 2001 for promotion of The New Addams Family. The game was titled The New Addams Family Series. In this game, the Addams mansion had been bought by a fictional company called «Funnyday» that wanted to tear down the house and surrounding grounds to make room for an amusement park.
• A 2019 mobile game for Android and iOS, The Addams Family Mystery Mansion, was released by Animoca.^[32]
• The Addams Family: Mansion Mayhem, a movie tie-in game for Steam, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox and Google Stadia developed by PHL Collective and published by British publisher Outright Games, was released on September 24, 2021.

Pinball[edit]

A pinball game by Midway (under the Bally label) was released in 1992 shortly after the movie. It is the best-selling pinball game of all time.^[33]

Books[edit]

The Addams Family[edit]

This first novelisation of the television series, written by Jack Sharkey, was released near the end of the show’s second season. The book details the family’s arrival in their new home and explains how it got its bizarre décor. The arrival and origins of Thing are explained. Each chapter reads as a self-contained story, like episodes of the television show. The novel concludes with the Addams family discovering that their lives will be the basis for a new television series. It was published in paperback by Pyramid Books in 1965.^[34]

The Addams Family Strikes Back[edit]

The Addams Family Strikes Back by W.F. Miksch tells how Gomez plans to rehabilitate the image of Benedict Arnold by running for the local school board. The tone and characterizations in this book resemble the TV characters much more closely than in the first novel. Cousin Itt appears as a minor character in this story, but as a tiny, three-legged creature rather than the hairy, derby-hatted character seen on television and in the movies. The novel was published in paperback form by Pyramid Books in 1965.^[34]

The Addams Family: An Evilution[edit]

The Addams Family: An Evilution is a book about the «evilution» of The Addams Family characters, with more than 200 published and previously unpublished cartoons, and includes text by Charles Addams and H. Kevin Miserocchi, Director of the Tee and Charles Addams Foundation. Pomegranate Press published the book in 2010.

Advertising[edit]

In 1994, the actors cast as the Addamses in the first two films (sans the recently deceased Raul Julia) were in several Japanese television spots for the Honda Odyssey.^[35] The Addamses are seen speaking Japanese—most prominently Gomez (for whom a voice actor was used to impersonate Julia while footage from Addams Family Values was seen) and Morticia.^[36]

In 2007 and 2008, the Addams Family appeared as M&M’s in an advertising campaign for M&M’s Dark Chocolate.^[37]

Soundtrack[edit]

A theme song for the 1964 TV series as well as a soundtrack album the next year were released, both composed by Vic Mizzy and the latter containing all of his compositions for the series entitled Original Music From The Addams Family.^[38]

Musical[edit]

The Addams Family[edit]

In May 2007, it was announced that a musical inspired by The Addams Family drawings by Charles Addams was being developed for the Broadway stage. Broadway veterans Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice wrote the book, and Andrew Lippa wrote the score. Julian Crouch and Phelim McDermott (Improbable theatre founders) directed and designed the production, with choreography by Sergio Trujillo.^[39] A workshop and private industry presentation was held August 4–8, 2008. Featured in the cast were Bebe Neuwirth as Morticia, Krysta Rodriguez as Wednesday, and Nathan Lane as Gomez. In addition, Kevin Chamberlin played Uncle Fester and Zachary James played Lurch.

The musical opened in previews at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Broadway on March 8, 2010, with an official opening on April 8,^[40] after an out-of-town tryout in Chicago at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts from November 13, 2009, to January 10, 2010.^[41][42] The cast includes Lane as Gomez, Neuwirth as Morticia, Terrence Mann as Mal Beineke, Carolee Carmello as Alice Beineke, Chamberlin as Uncle Fester, Jackie Hoffman as Grandma, Zachary James as Lurch, Krysta Rodriguez as Wednesday, and Wesley Taylor as Wednesday’s love interest, Lucas Beineke.^[43] The Broadway production ran for 22 months, closing on December 31, 2011, after 35 previews and 722 performances.^[44]

On September 5, 2016, it was announced that the musical would premiere in the UK, on a major UK and Ireland tour produced by James Yeoburn and Stuart Matthew Price for United Theatrical.^[45] The production was directed by Matthew White and it opened at Edinburgh Festival Theatre on April 20, 2017, starring Samantha Womack, Les Dennis and Carrie Hope Fletcher.^[46]

Cast and characters[edit]

Show	Gomez Addams	Morticia Addams	Pugsley Addams	Wednesday Addams	Uncle Fester	Grandmama	Lurch	Thing	Cousin Itt
The Addams Family (1964–66)	John Astin	Carolyn Jones	Ken Weatherwax	Lisa Loring	Jackie Coogan	Blossom Rock	Ted Cassidy	Ted Cassidy / Jack Voglin	Felix Silla
The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972)	John Astin	Carolyn Jones	Jodie Foster	Cindy Henderson	Jackie Coogan	Janet Waldo	Ted Cassidy		John Stephenson
The Addams Family Fun-House (1973)	Jack Riley	Liz Torres	Butch Patrick	Noelle Von Sonn	Stubby Kaye		Pat McCormick		Felix Silla
The Addams Family (1973–74)	Lennie Weinrib	Janet Waldo	Jodie Foster	Cindy Henderson	Jackie Coogan	Janet Waldo	Ted Cassidy		John Stephenson
Halloween with the New Addams Family (1977)	John Astin	Carolyn Jones	Ken Weatherwax	Lisa Loring	Jackie Coogan	Jane Rose	Ted Cassidy	Ted Cassidy	Felix Silla
The Addams Family (1991)	Raul Julia	Anjelica Huston	Jimmy Workman	Christina Ricci	Christopher Lloyd	Judith Malina	Carel Struycken	Christopher Hart	John Franklin
The Addams Family (1992–1993)	John Astin	Nancy Linari	Jeannie Elias	Debi Derryberry	Rip Taylor	Carol Channing	Jim Cummings		Pat Fraley
Addams Family Values (1993)	Raul Julia	Anjelica Huston	Jimmy Workman	Christina Ricci	Christopher Lloyd	Carol Kane	Carel Struycken	Christopher Hart	John Franklin
Addams Family Reunion (1998)	Tim Curry	Daryl Hannah	Jerry Messing	Nicole Fugere	Patrick Thomas	Alice Ghostley	Carel Struycken	Christopher Hart	Phil Fondacaro
The New Addams Family (1998–99)	Glenn Taranto	Ellie Harvie	Brody Smith	Nicole Fugere	Michael Roberds	Betty Phillips	John DeSantis	Steven Fox	David Mylrea / Paul Dobson
The Addams Family (musical) (2010)	Nathan Lane	Bebe Neuwirth	Adam Riegler	Krysta Rodriguez	Kevin Chamberlin	Jackie Hoffman	Zachary James	Fred Inkley	Fred Inkley
The Addams Family (2019)	Oscar Isaac	Charlize Theron	Finn Wolfhard	Chloë Grace Moretz	Nick Kroll	Bette Midler	Conrad Vernon		Snoop Dogg
The Addams Family 2 (2021)	Oscar Isaac	Charlize Theron	Javon «Wanna» Walton	Chloë Grace Moretz	Nick Kroll	Bette Midler	Conrad Vernon		Snoop Dogg
Wednesday (2022–)	Luis Guzmán	Catherine Zeta-Jones	Isaac Ordonez	Jenna Ortega	Fred Armisen		George Burcea	Victor Dorobantu

Legacy[edit]

The family has had a profound influence on American comics, cinema and television,^[47][48][49] and it has also been seen as an inspiration for the goth subculture and its fashion.^[50][51] According to The Telegraph, the Addamses «are one of the most iconic families in American history, up there with the Kennedys».^[52] Similarly, Time has compared «the relevance and the cultural reach» of the family with those of the Kennedys and the Roosevelts, «so much a part of the American landscape that it’s difficult to discuss the country’s history without mentioning them».^[53] For TV Guide, which listed the characters in the top ten of The 60 Greatest TV Families of All Time, the Addamses «provid[ed] the design for cartoonish clans to come, like the Flintstones and the Simpsons».^[54] Owing to their popularity, the first feature-length adaptation has been identified as a «cult film»,^[55] while Addams Family Values was listed as one of The 50 Best family films by The Guardian^[56] and nominated for the American Film Institute’s 100 Years…100 Laughs at the turn of the century.^[57] Ricci’s portrayal of Wednesday in the film series was ranked one of The 100 Greatest Movie Characters by Empire,^[58] and in 2011 AOL named Morticia one of The 100 Most Memorable Female TV Characters.^[59]

See also[edit]

• The Munsters – A franchise based on a sitcom with a similar premise.

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Tee & Charles Addams Foundation
• The Addams Family (1937) at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia. Archived from the original on March 13, 2012.
• The Addams Family UK (musical website)
• The Addams Family on TVLand.com
• The New Addams Family at IMDb
• ​The Addams Family Musical​ at the Internet Broadway Database

The Addams Family
The Addams Family in the 1964 TV series.
Created by	Charles Addams
Original work	The New Yorker cartoons
Owner	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (current rights holder) Orion Pictures (original TV series and 1991 film) Warner Bros. Entertainment (Hanna-Barbera 1973 & 1992 TV series, Scooby Doo crossover and 1998 film) Paramount Pictures (1991 & 1993 films) Disney Platform Distribution (1998 TV series)
Print publications
Comics	See below (1938)
Films and television
Film(s)	The Addams Family (1991) Addams Family Values (1993) The Addams Family (2019) The Addams Family 2 (2021)
Short film(s)	The Addams Family Fun-House (1973)
Television series	The Addams Family (1964–1966) The Addams Family (1973) The Addams Family (1992–1993) The New Addams Family (1998–1999) Wednesday (2022–present)
Television special(s)	The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972) Halloween with the New Addams Family (1977)
Direct-to-video	Addams Family Reunion (1998)
Theatrical presentations
Musical(s)	The Addams Family (2010)
Games
Video game(s)	List of video games
Audio
Soundtrack(s)	The Addams Family

The Addams Family is a fictional family created by American cartoonist Charles Addams. They originally appeared in a series of 150 unrelated single-panel comics, about half of which were originally published in The New Yorker over a 50-year period from their inception in 1938. They have since been adapted to other media, such as television, film, video games, comic books, a musical, and merchandise.

The Addamses are a satirical inversion of the ideal postwar American middle-class nuclear family: an odd old money clan who delight in the macabre and are seemingly unaware or unconcerned that other people find them bizarre or frightening. The family members were unnamed until the 1964 television series. The Addams Family consists of Gomez and Morticia Addams, their children, Wednesday and Pugsley, and close family members, Uncle Fester^[a] and Grandmama,^[b] their butler Lurch, and Pugsley’s pet octopus, Aristotle. The dimly seen Thing (later a disembodied hand) was introduced in 1954, and Gomez’s Cousin Itt, Morticia’s pet lion Kitty Kat and Morticia’s carnivorous plant Cleopatra in 1964. Pubert Addams, Wednesday and Pugsley’s infant brother, was introduced in the 1993 film Addams Family Values.^[c]

In 1964, the live-action television series premiered on ABC and ran for two seasons. It subsequently inspired a telefilm titled Halloween with the New Addams Family and cameos from the cast in other shows. An unrelated animated series aired in 1973. The franchise was revived in the 1990s with a feature film series consisting of The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993). The films inspired a second animated series (1992–1993) which is set in the same fictional universe. The series was rebooted with a 1998 direct-to-video film and a spin-off live-action television series (1998–1999). In 2010, a live musical adaptation featuring Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth opened on Broadway and was nominated for two Tony Awards and eight Drama Desk Awards. The series again rebooted in 2019 with the animated film The Addams Family, which led to a sequel in 2021. In 2022, Netflix debuted the original series Wednesday.

The franchise has become a staple of popular culture. It has spawned a video game series, academic books, and soundtracks which are based around its Grammy-nominated theme song. They have had a profound influence on American comics, cinema and television, and are seen as an inspiration for the goth subculture and its fashion.

History[edit]

Original The New Yorker cartoons (1938–1964)[edit]

Charles Addams began as a cartoonist in The New Yorker with a sketch of a window washer that ran on February 6, 1932.^[2] The first Addams Family cartoon was published in 1938, in a one-panel gag format. Charles Addams became a regular contributor to The New Yorker, and drew approximately 1,300 cartoons between then and his death in 1988. 58 of these would feature the Addams Family, almost all of which were published in the 1940s and 1950s.^[3]

Outside of The New Yorker, Addams also published several collections, the most notable being Dear Dead Days: A Family Album in 1959. The editor of The New Yorker, William Shawn, prevented any further Addams family cartoons from being printed after the 1964 launch of the television franchise.^[3]

Science fiction writer Ray Bradbury created a series of tales chronicling a family of Illinois monsters, the Elliotts, that bear a strong resemblance to the Addams family. These stories were anthologized in From the Dust Returned (2001), with a connecting narrative, an explanation of his work with Addams, and a 1946 illustration Addams drew for Bradbury’s short story «Homecoming» in Mademoiselle magazine, the first in the Elliot family series.

TV adaptations and rise to popularity (1964–1977)[edit]

A 1964 television adaptation brought the series to a much wider audience and was well received. Producer Nat Perrin took a «less evil» approach to the characters and stories than Addams had in the cartoons, emphasizing lighter, more comedic elements. Stephen Cox later referred to the series as «more zany than spooky». The popular series, broadcast on the ABC network, ran only two seasons.

The franchise remained in the popular consciousness even after the series concluded, with the «Lurch» dance move remaining popular through the 1960s for example. The television series was often re-run through television syndication for years afterward, in some areas continuing to broadcast as late as 1991. It was followed by a 1972 crossover appearance in Scooby-Doo and a 1973 animated series. The animated incarnation featured a new cast except for Felix Silla, who returned as Cousin Itt. A one-shot special, Halloween with the New Addams Family, reunited most of the original cast from the 1964 series.^[3]

Film series and TV reboots (1991–1999)[edit]

The franchise was largely inactive throughout the 1980s. The 1987 retirement of William Shawn allowed a brief return of the cartoons to The New Yorker, though Charles Addams himself died only a year later.

Two live-action films were directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and released in the early 1990s, featuring a new cast. While the 1991 film received mixed reviews from critics, it performed reasonably well at the box office. A second film in 1993, Addams Family Values, had the inverse reception. It was highly regarded by critics but, unexpectedly, performed poorly at the box office, and earned less than half the revenue of its predecessor. This, and the sudden death of Gomez actor Raul Julia in 1994, prevented Sonnenfeld from producing further films.^[3] Both received nominations for Academy Awards, BAFTA Awards, and Hugo Awards. For her role as Morticia, Anjelica Huston was twice nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, and Raul Julia (as Gomez), Christina Ricci (as Wednesday), Christopher Lloyd (as Fester), and Joan Cusack (as Fester’s wife, Debbie Jellinsky, in the sequel) received multiple Saturn Award and American Comedy Award nominations for their portrayals.

Following the wave of interest in the franchise, a 1992 animated television series notably saw John Astin reprise his role as Gomez, almost thirty years after his first appearance in the role in 1964. It was nominated for four Daytime Emmy Awards, including one for Astin.

A direct-to-video film, The Addams Family Reunion, was produced by Saban Entertainment in 1998 and featured a returning Carel Struycken as Lurch, though was otherwise unrelated to the Sonnenfeld films and was very poorly received. The film was intended as the pilot to a Canadian-produced live-action television series, The New Addams Family, which in the event was made with a mostly different cast and aired until the following year.^[4] Astin, then in his late 60s, returned as Grandpapa Addams in the TV series, rather than Gomez, who was played by Glenn Taranto.^[5]

Animated revival[edit]

A Tim Burton stop-motion film was announced in 2010 but never developed. Instead, a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animated film was announced in 2013. Unlike the Burton version, this would use 3D computer animation. The film was eventually released in 2019, to a moderate box-office reception. A sequel, released in 2021 amid the COVID-19 pandemic, was far less successful. The first film received mixed audience reception, while the second film received negative audience reception with the two films scoring 45% and 28% on review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, respectively.

Premise and background[edit]

Gomez and Pugsley are enthusiastic. Morticia is even in disposition, muted, witty, sometimes deadly. Grandma Frump is foolishly good-natured. Wednesday is her mother’s daughter. A closely-knit family, the real head being Morticia—although each of the others is a definite character—except for Grandma, who is easily led. Many of the troubles they have as a family are due to Grandma’s fumbling, weak character. The house is a wreck, of course, but this is a house-proud family just the same and every trap door is in good repair. Money is no problem.

— Charles Addams^[1]

The family appears to be a branch of an extensive Addams clan with relatives all over the world. In the original television series they are said to be related to «those one-D Adamses», a fact the family are deeply ashamed of. According to the film version, the family credo is, Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc (pseudo-Latin: «We gladly feast on those who would subdue us»). Charles Addams was first inspired by his hometown of Westfield, New Jersey, an area full of ornate Victorian mansions and archaic graveyards.^[6] In the original comics series they live in a gothic house on Cemetery Ridge. According to the television series, the residence is a gloomy mansion adjacent to a cemetery and a swamp located in an unspecified American town. In the musical (first shown in Chicago in 2009), the house is located in Central Park.^[7] In the 2019 film, the Addamses live in an abandoned asylum located in the outskirts of the state of New Jersey which is haunted by a disembodied resident who demands the property to remain undisturbed.

Although most of the humor derives from the fact that they share macabre interests, such as putting each other and themselves in the way of bodily harm (none of which seems to have an effect), the Addamses are not evil. They are a close-knit extended family. Morticia is an exemplary mother, and she and Gomez remain passionate towards each other; as established in the television series, she calls him «bubbeleh»,^[8] to which he responds by kissing her arms, behavior which Morticia can also provoke by speaking a few words in French (their meanings are not important; any words in French will do). The parents are supportive of their children (except in the 2019 film when Wednesday arrives home wearing a pink dress). The family is friendly and hospitable to visitors; in some cases, it is willing to donate large sums of money to causes (television series and films), despite the visitors’ horror at the Addamses’ peculiar lifestyle. The characters were unnamed until the advent of the 1964 television adaptation, except for Wednesday and Morticia who were first named for a 1962 licensed doll collection.^[3]

Adaptations[edit]

Television[edit]

The Addams Family (1964–1966)[edit]

In 1964, the ABC TV network created The Addams Family television series based on Addams’s cartoon characters. The series was shot in black-and-white and aired for two seasons in 64 half-hour episodes (September 18, 1964 – September 2, 1966). During the original television run of The Addams Family television series, The New Yorker editor William Shawn refused to publish any Addams Family cartoons. However, he continued to publish other Charles Addams cartoons. Shawn regarded his magazine as targeting a more refined readership and he did not want it to be associated with characters who could be seen on television by the more general public. After Shawn’s 1987 retirement, the characters were welcomed back to The New Yorker.

The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972)[edit]

The Addams Family’s first animated appearance was on the third episode of Hanna-Barbera’s The New Scooby-Doo Movies, «Scooby-Doo Meets the Addams Family» (a.k.a. «Wednesday is Missing»), which first aired on CBS Saturday morning, on September 23, 1972. Four members of the original cast (John Astin, Carolyn Jones, Jackie Coogan, and Ted Cassidy) returned for the special, which involved the Addamses in a mystery with the Scooby-Doo gang. The Addams Family characters were drawn to the specifications of the original Charles Addams cartoons. After the episode aired, fans wanted more animated adventures featuring the Addamses, and Hanna-Barbera obliged.

The Addams Family Fun-House (1973)[edit]

In late 1972, ABC produced a pilot for a live-action musical variety show which was titled The Addams Family Fun-House. The cast included Jack Riley and Liz Torres as Gomez and Morticia (the pair also co-wrote the special), Stubby Kaye as Uncle Fester, Pat McCormick as Lurch and Butch Patrick (who had played Eddie Munster on The Munsters) as Pugsley. Felix Silla reprised his role as Cousin Itt, connecting it to the original TV series. The pilot aired in 1973, but it was not picked up for a series.^[10]

The Addams Family (1973)[edit]

The first animated series ran on Saturday mornings from 1973 to 1975 on NBC. In a departure from the original series, this series took the Addamses on the road in a Victorian-style RV. This series also marked the point where the relationships between the characters were changed so that Fester was now Gomez’s brother, and Grandmama was now Morticia’s mother (though the old relationships between the characters would be revisited in the 1977 television movie, in order to retain its continuity with the original sitcom). Although Coogan and Cassidy reprised their roles as Uncle Fester and Lurch, Astin and Jones did not; their parts were recast with Hanna-Barbera voice talents Lennie Weinrib as Gomez and Janet Waldo as Morticia, while a ten-year-old Jodie Foster provided the voice of Pugsley. Again, the characters were drawn to the specifications of the original Charles Addams cartoons. The show also had appearances from Thing, Cousin Itt, Kitty Kat and Cleopatra from the original series. The show also introduces new Addams Family’s animal companions, such as Ali the alligator, Ocho the octopus and Mr. V the vulture. One season was produced, and the second season consisted of reruns. The show’s theme music was completely different and it had no lyrics and no finger snaps, although it retained a bit of the four-note score from the live-action show.

The Addams Family Comic Book[edit]

From 1974 to 1975, Gold Key Comics produced a comic book series in connection with the show, but it only lasted three issues. Each issue was adapted from a TV episode, starting with «In Search of the Boola-Boola» (October 1974).^[11]

Halloween with the New Addams Family (1977)[edit]

A television reunion movie, Halloween with the New Addams Family, aired on NBC on Sunday, October 30, 1977. It features most of the original cast, except Blossom Rock, who had played Grandmama. She was still alive but was very ill at the time; Jane Rose replaced her. Veteran character actors Parley Baer and Vito Scotti, who both had recurring roles on the original series, also appeared in the movie. The movie has a slightly different version of the theme song; the finger snaps are used but not the lyrics.

Gomez and Morticia have had two more children, Wednesday Jr. and Pugsley Jr., who strongly resemble their older siblings. Gomez’s brother, Pancho, is staying with the family while Gomez attends a lodge meeting in Tombstone, Arizona. Gomez is jealous of his brother, who once courted Morticia. Halloween is nigh, and Pancho tells the children the legend of the Great Pumpkin-like character of Cousin Shy, who distributes gifts and carves pumpkins for good children on Halloween night. Wednesday (now called «Wednesday, Sr.») is home from music academy, where she is studying the piccolo (breaking glass with it). Pugsley (now «Pugsley, Sr.») is home from Nairobi medical school, where he is training to be a witch doctor. The family’s home has been bugged by a gang of crooks which intends to steal the family’s fortune. Lafferty, the boss, sends a gang member named Mikey into the house to investigate. Mikey panics and flees after treading on the tail of Kitty Kat the lion. The crooks employ a fake Gomez and Morticia to help them carry out their plans, along with two strong-arm goons, Hercules and Atlas. Gomez returns home to celebrate the Halloween party and trim the scarecrow. Lafferty poses as Quincy Addams (from Boston) to gain entrance to the house during the party. He has his men tie up Gomez and Morticia, and his doubles take their places, confusing Pancho, who is still in love with Morticia, and Ophelia, who is still in love with Gomez. Gomez and Morticia escape (thanks to the «Old Piccolo Game»), and rejoin the party, only to have Lafferty use various methods to try to get rid of them. Lurch scares off the thugs and terrifies Lafferty’s other assistant. Fester, trying to be nice, puts Lafferty on the rack. Lafferty tries to escape through the secret passage and steps on Kitty Kat’s tail. When the police arrive, the crooks gladly surrender. The Addamses are then free to celebrate Halloween happily, ending the night by singing together in welcome for Cousin Shy.

The Addams Family: The Animated Series (1992–1993)[edit]

The remake series ran on Saturday mornings from 1992 to 1993 on ABC after producers realized the success of the 1991 Addams Family movie. This series returned to the familiar format of the original series, with the Addams Family facing their sitcom situations at home. John Astin returned to the role of Gomez, and celebrities Rip Taylor and Carol Channing took over the roles of Fester and Grandmama, respectively. Veteran voice actors Jim Cummings, Debi Derryberry, Jeannie Elias and Pat Fraley did the voices of Lurch, Wednesday, Pugsley and Cousin Itt, respectively. New artistic models of the characters were used for this series, though still having a passing resemblance to the original cartoons. Two seasons were produced, with the third year containing reruns. Oddly in this series, Wednesday maintained her macabre, brooding attitude from the Addams Family movies. Still, her facial expressions and body language conveyed the happy-go-lucky, fun attitude of her portrayal in the original television show. The original Vic Mizzy theme song, although slightly different, was used for the opening.

The New Addams Family (1998–1999)[edit]

The New Addams Family was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and ran for 65 episodes (one more than the original TV series) during the 1998–1999 season on the then-newly launched Fox Family Channel. Many storylines from the original series were reworked for this new series, incorporating more modern elements and jokes. John Astin returned to the franchise in some episodes of this series, albeit as «Grandpapa» Addams (Gomez’s grandfather, a character introduced in Addams Family Reunion). The cast included Glenn Taranto as Gomez Addams, Ellie Harvie as Morticia, Michael Roberds as Fester, Brody Smith as Pugsley, Nicole Fugere (the only cast member from Addams Family Reunion to return) as Wednesday, John DeSantis as Lurch, Betty Phillips as Grandmama and Steven Fox as Thing.

Wednesday (2022)[edit]

In 2021, Netflix announced a live-action TV series adaptation based on the character of Wednesday Addams, starring Jenna Ortega as the title character. Produced by MGM Television, with Alfred Gough and Miles Millar as showrunners and Tim Burton as series director in his first televised directorial effort.^[12] Wednesday, a student at Nevermore Academy, solves mysteries using her psychic ability. These include murders and a 25-year-old mystery involving her family.^[13] Luis Guzmán stars as Gomez,^[14] and Catherine Zeta-Jones stars as Morticia.^[15] In addition, Fred Armisen appears as Uncle Fester, George Burcea as Lurch, Victor Dorobantu as Thing, and Isaac Ordonez as Pugsley. Hunter Doohan, Georgie Farmer, Moosa Mostafa, Emma Myers, Naomi J. Ogawa, Joy Sunday, Percy Hynes White, Thora Birch, Riki Lindhome, Jamie McShane and Gwendoline Christie were also added to the cast as series regulars.^[16][17] In March 2022, Christina Ricci, who portrayed Wednesday in The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993), had joined the cast as a series regular.^[18]

Feature films[edit]

Crew/detail	Live action	Animated
The Addams Family (1991)	Addams Family Values (1993)	Addams Family Reunion (1998)	The Addams Family (2019)	The Addams Family 2 (2021)
Director	Barry Sonnenfeld	Dave Payne	Conrad Vernon Greg Tiernan	Conrad Vernon Greg Tiernan Co-directed by: Laura Brousseau Kevin Pavlovic[19]
Producer	Scott Rudin	Mike Elliott	Gail Berman Conrad Vernon Alex Schwartz Alison O’Brien	Gail Berman Conrad Vernon Danielle Sterling Alison O’Brien
Writer(s)	Caroline Thompson Larry Wilson	Paul Rudnick	Rob Kerchner Scott Sandin	Screenplay by: Matt Lieberman Story by: Matt Lieberman Erica Rivinoja Conrad Vernon	Screenplay by: Dan Hernandez Benji Samit Ben Queen Susanna Fogel Story by: Dan Hernandez Benji Samit
Based on	The Addams Family by Charles Addams
Composer	Marc Shaiman	Amotz Plessner	Mychael Danna Jeff Danna
Cinematography	Owen Roizman	Donald Peterman	Christian Sebaldt	—
Editor(s)	Dede Allen	Arthur Schmidt Jim Miller	J. J. Jackson	David Ian Salter	Ryan Folsey
Production company	Paramount Pictures Scott Rudin Productions	Scott Rudin Productions	Saban Entertainment	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Bron Creative Nitrogen Studios Cinesite Studios The Jackal Group	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Bron Creative Nitrogen Studios Cinesite Studios The Jackal Group Glickmania
Distributor	Paramount Pictures (United States and Latin America) Columbia Pictures (International)[20]	Paramount Pictures	Warner Home Video	United Artists Releasing (United States) Universal Pictures (International)
Runtime	99 minutes	94 minutes	91 minutes	87 minutes	93 minutes
Release date	November 22, 1991	November 19, 1993	September 22, 1998	October 11, 2019	October 1, 2021

The Addams Family (1991)[edit]

In the 1990s, Orion Pictures (which by then had inherited the rights to the series) developed a film version, The Addams Family (released on November 22, 1991). Because of the studio’s financial troubles at the time, Orion sold the US rights to the film to Paramount Pictures. On October 1, 2019, Paramount Pictures^[21] released double feature of Addams Family and Addams Family Values on Blu-ray in the United States.

Addams Family Values (1993)[edit]

Upon the last film’s success, a sequel followed: Addams Family Values (released on November 19, 1993, with worldwide distribution by Paramount). Loosened content restrictions allowed the films to use far more grotesque humor that strove to keep the Addams cartoons’ original spirit (in fact, several gags were lifted straight from the single-panel cartoons). The two films used the same cast, except for Grandmama, played by Judith Malina and Carol Kane in the first and second films, respectively. A script for a third film was prepared in 1994, but was abandoned after the sudden death of actor Raul Julia that year.

Addams Family Reunion (1998)[edit]

Another film, Addams Family Reunion, was released direct-to-video on September 22, 1998, this time by Warner Bros. through its video division. It has no relation to the Paramount movies, being in fact a full-length pilot for a second live-action television version, The New Addams Family, produced and shot in Canada. The third movie’s Gomez, played by Tim Curry, follows the style of Raul Julia, while the new sitcom’s Gomez, played by Glenn Taranto, is played in the style of John Astin, who had played the character in the 1960s. The only actors in this Warner Bros./Saban Entertainment production to have played in the previous Paramount films were Carel Struycken as Lurch and Christopher Hart as Thing.

Cancelled film[edit]

In 2010, it was announced that Illumination Entertainment, in partnership with Universal Pictures, had acquired the underlying rights to the Addams Family drawings.^[22] The film was planned to be a stop-motion animated film based on Charles Addams’s original drawings. Tim Burton was set to co-write and co-produce the film, with a possibility to direct.^[23] In July 2013 however, it was reported that the film was cancelled.^[24]

The Addams Family (2019) and The Addams Family 2 (2021)[edit]

On October 31, 2013, it was announced in Variety that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer will be reviving The Addams Family as an animated film with Pamela Pettler to write the screenplay and Andrew Mittman and Kevin Miserocchi to executive produce the film and they were in final negotiations with BermanBraun’s Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun to produce it.^[25] By October 2017, Conrad Vernon had been hired to direct the film, which he will also produce along with Berman and Alex Schwartz, based on a screenplay written by Pettler, with revisions by Matt Lieberman.^[26] The film was released on October 11, 2019.^[27] On October 8, 2020, MGM announced that a sequel is in the works with an announcement trailer.^[28] The original cast set to return. Bill Hader and Javon «Wanna» Walton have also been cast to voice. Bill Hader played a new character named Dr. Cyrus Strange, while Javon replaced Finn Wolfhard as the voice of Pugsley Addams. Directors Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon returned as directors. The film was released on October 1, 2021.^[29]

Homages and adaptations[edit]

• An animated television homage was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. Mr. & Mrs. J. Evil Scientist, a family of fictional characters inspired by The Addams Family appeared on the Snagglepuss and Snooper and Blabber animated television series beginning in 1959 and it also starred in its own comic book.
• Comedian Melissa Hunter wrote the web series Adult Wednesday Addams, which is a comedic adaptation of the franchise.^[30] Hunter was forced to remove the series due to legal action.
• In an episode of Horrible Histories a song titled «The Borgia Family» was created in reference to the Addams Family Theme.
• In 1964, the year The Addams Family debuted, Hanna-Barbera introduced Weirdly and Creepella Gruesome and family, based in part on Mr. & Mrs. J. Evil Scientist and in part on the Addamses, as recurrent characters on The Flintstones.^[31]

Video games[edit]

Ten video games released from 1989 to 2021 were based on The Addams Family.

• Fester’s Quest (1989) is a top-down adventure game that features Uncle Fester.
• The Addams Family LCD Video Game by Tiger Electronics is a handheld unit released in 1991.
• ICOM Simulations published The Addams Family video game for the TurboGrafx-CD in 1991.
• In 1992, two versions of The Addams Family were released by Ocean Software based on the 1991 movie: an 8-bit version for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear, ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64, and a 16-bit version released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Amiga, Atari ST and Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
• The games’ sequel, The Addams Family: Pugsley’s Scavenger Hunt (1993), also by Ocean Software, was based on the ABC animated series and was released for SNES, NES, and Game Boy (although the latter two are 8-bit remakes of the first SNES game, swapping Pugsley’s and Gomez’s roles).
• Addams Family Values (1994) by Ocean is based on the movie sequel and returns to the style of gameplay seen in Fester’s Quest.
• An arcade shocker, The New Addams Family Electric Shock Machine (also known as Electrifying), was released by Eurocom and Nova Productions in 1999.
• A Game Boy Color game was released in 2001 for promotion of The New Addams Family. The game was titled The New Addams Family Series. In this game, the Addams mansion had been bought by a fictional company called «Funnyday» that wanted to tear down the house and surrounding grounds to make room for an amusement park.
• A 2019 mobile game for Android and iOS, The Addams Family Mystery Mansion, was released by Animoca.^[32]
• The Addams Family: Mansion Mayhem, a movie tie-in game for Steam, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox and Google Stadia developed by PHL Collective and published by British publisher Outright Games, was released on September 24, 2021.

Pinball[edit]

A pinball game by Midway (under the Bally label) was released in 1992 shortly after the movie. It is the best-selling pinball game of all time.^[33]

Books[edit]

The Addams Family[edit]

This first novelisation of the television series, written by Jack Sharkey, was released near the end of the show’s second season. The book details the family’s arrival in their new home and explains how it got its bizarre décor. The arrival and origins of Thing are explained. Each chapter reads as a self-contained story, like episodes of the television show. The novel concludes with the Addams family discovering that their lives will be the basis for a new television series. It was published in paperback by Pyramid Books in 1965.^[34]

The Addams Family Strikes Back[edit]

The Addams Family Strikes Back by W.F. Miksch tells how Gomez plans to rehabilitate the image of Benedict Arnold by running for the local school board. The tone and characterizations in this book resemble the TV characters much more closely than in the first novel. Cousin Itt appears as a minor character in this story, but as a tiny, three-legged creature rather than the hairy, derby-hatted character seen on television and in the movies. The novel was published in paperback form by Pyramid Books in 1965.^[34]

The Addams Family: An Evilution[edit]

The Addams Family: An Evilution is a book about the «evilution» of The Addams Family characters, with more than 200 published and previously unpublished cartoons, and includes text by Charles Addams and H. Kevin Miserocchi, Director of the Tee and Charles Addams Foundation. Pomegranate Press published the book in 2010.

Advertising[edit]

In 1994, the actors cast as the Addamses in the first two films (sans the recently deceased Raul Julia) were in several Japanese television spots for the Honda Odyssey.^[35] The Addamses are seen speaking Japanese—most prominently Gomez (for whom a voice actor was used to impersonate Julia while footage from Addams Family Values was seen) and Morticia.^[36]

In 2007 and 2008, the Addams Family appeared as M&M’s in an advertising campaign for M&M’s Dark Chocolate.^[37]

Soundtrack[edit]

A theme song for the 1964 TV series as well as a soundtrack album the next year were released, both composed by Vic Mizzy and the latter containing all of his compositions for the series entitled Original Music From The Addams Family.^[38]

Musical[edit]

The Addams Family[edit]

In May 2007, it was announced that a musical inspired by The Addams Family drawings by Charles Addams was being developed for the Broadway stage. Broadway veterans Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice wrote the book, and Andrew Lippa wrote the score. Julian Crouch and Phelim McDermott (Improbable theatre founders) directed and designed the production, with choreography by Sergio Trujillo.^[39] A workshop and private industry presentation was held August 4–8, 2008. Featured in the cast were Bebe Neuwirth as Morticia, Krysta Rodriguez as Wednesday, and Nathan Lane as Gomez. In addition, Kevin Chamberlin played Uncle Fester and Zachary James played Lurch.

The musical opened in previews at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Broadway on March 8, 2010, with an official opening on April 8,^[40] after an out-of-town tryout in Chicago at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts from November 13, 2009, to January 10, 2010.^[41][42] The cast includes Lane as Gomez, Neuwirth as Morticia, Terrence Mann as Mal Beineke, Carolee Carmello as Alice Beineke, Chamberlin as Uncle Fester, Jackie Hoffman as Grandma, Zachary James as Lurch, Krysta Rodriguez as Wednesday, and Wesley Taylor as Wednesday’s love interest, Lucas Beineke.^[43] The Broadway production ran for 22 months, closing on December 31, 2011, after 35 previews and 722 performances.^[44]

On September 5, 2016, it was announced that the musical would premiere in the UK, on a major UK and Ireland tour produced by James Yeoburn and Stuart Matthew Price for United Theatrical.^[45] The production was directed by Matthew White and it opened at Edinburgh Festival Theatre on April 20, 2017, starring Samantha Womack, Les Dennis and Carrie Hope Fletcher.^[46]

Cast and characters[edit]

Show	Gomez Addams	Morticia Addams	Pugsley Addams	Wednesday Addams	Uncle Fester	Grandmama	Lurch	Thing	Cousin Itt
The Addams Family (1964–66)	John Astin	Carolyn Jones	Ken Weatherwax	Lisa Loring	Jackie Coogan	Blossom Rock	Ted Cassidy	Ted Cassidy / Jack Voglin	Felix Silla
The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972)	John Astin	Carolyn Jones	Jodie Foster	Cindy Henderson	Jackie Coogan	Janet Waldo	Ted Cassidy		John Stephenson
The Addams Family Fun-House (1973)	Jack Riley	Liz Torres	Butch Patrick	Noelle Von Sonn	Stubby Kaye		Pat McCormick		Felix Silla
The Addams Family (1973–74)	Lennie Weinrib	Janet Waldo	Jodie Foster	Cindy Henderson	Jackie Coogan	Janet Waldo	Ted Cassidy		John Stephenson
Halloween with the New Addams Family (1977)	John Astin	Carolyn Jones	Ken Weatherwax	Lisa Loring	Jackie Coogan	Jane Rose	Ted Cassidy	Ted Cassidy	Felix Silla
The Addams Family (1991)	Raul Julia	Anjelica Huston	Jimmy Workman	Christina Ricci	Christopher Lloyd	Judith Malina	Carel Struycken	Christopher Hart	John Franklin
The Addams Family (1992–1993)	John Astin	Nancy Linari	Jeannie Elias	Debi Derryberry	Rip Taylor	Carol Channing	Jim Cummings		Pat Fraley
Addams Family Values (1993)	Raul Julia	Anjelica Huston	Jimmy Workman	Christina Ricci	Christopher Lloyd	Carol Kane	Carel Struycken	Christopher Hart	John Franklin
Addams Family Reunion (1998)	Tim Curry	Daryl Hannah	Jerry Messing	Nicole Fugere	Patrick Thomas	Alice Ghostley	Carel Struycken	Christopher Hart	Phil Fondacaro
The New Addams Family (1998–99)	Glenn Taranto	Ellie Harvie	Brody Smith	Nicole Fugere	Michael Roberds	Betty Phillips	John DeSantis	Steven Fox	David Mylrea / Paul Dobson
The Addams Family (musical) (2010)	Nathan Lane	Bebe Neuwirth	Adam Riegler	Krysta Rodriguez	Kevin Chamberlin	Jackie Hoffman	Zachary James	Fred Inkley	Fred Inkley
The Addams Family (2019)	Oscar Isaac	Charlize Theron	Finn Wolfhard	Chloë Grace Moretz	Nick Kroll	Bette Midler	Conrad Vernon		Snoop Dogg
The Addams Family 2 (2021)	Oscar Isaac	Charlize Theron	Javon «Wanna» Walton	Chloë Grace Moretz	Nick Kroll	Bette Midler	Conrad Vernon		Snoop Dogg
Wednesday (2022–)	Luis Guzmán	Catherine Zeta-Jones	Isaac Ordonez	Jenna Ortega	Fred Armisen		George Burcea	Victor Dorobantu

Legacy[edit]

The family has had a profound influence on American comics, cinema and television,^[47][48][49] and it has also been seen as an inspiration for the goth subculture and its fashion.^[50][51] According to The Telegraph, the Addamses «are one of the most iconic families in American history, up there with the Kennedys».^[52] Similarly, Time has compared «the relevance and the cultural reach» of the family with those of the Kennedys and the Roosevelts, «so much a part of the American landscape that it’s difficult to discuss the country’s history without mentioning them».^[53] For TV Guide, which listed the characters in the top ten of The 60 Greatest TV Families of All Time, the Addamses «provid[ed] the design for cartoonish clans to come, like the Flintstones and the Simpsons».^[54] Owing to their popularity, the first feature-length adaptation has been identified as a «cult film»,^[55] while Addams Family Values was listed as one of The 50 Best family films by The Guardian^[56] and nominated for the American Film Institute’s 100 Years…100 Laughs at the turn of the century.^[57] Ricci’s portrayal of Wednesday in the film series was ranked one of The 100 Greatest Movie Characters by Empire,^[58] and in 2011 AOL named Morticia one of The 100 Most Memorable Female TV Characters.^[59]

See also[edit]

• The Munsters – A franchise based on a sitcom with a similar premise.

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Tee & Charles Addams Foundation
• The Addams Family (1937) at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia. Archived from the original on March 13, 2012.
• The Addams Family UK (musical website)
• The Addams Family on TVLand.com
• The New Addams Family at IMDb
• ​The Addams Family Musical​ at the Internet Broadway Database

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Семейка Аддамс

Семейка Аддамс: основные персонажи

Эудора Аддамс или Эсмеральда Фрамп, также известная как бабуля. Мать Мартиши. Ведьма, не чурается экспериментальной кухни, например на Хэллоуин бабуля подает такое эксклюзивное лакомство как живой йети. Если она вас проклянет, торопитесь к нотариусу, ведь закончить все свои дела вы точно уже не успеете.

Загадочный член семьи, иногда называемый «другом детства» Гомеса. Представляет собой живую правую кисть руки, общающуюся с другими языком жестов. Живёт в шкатулке.

Глава семейства. Брат Фестера Аддамса, муж Мартиши, отец Вэнсдэй, Пагзли и Пуберта. Отличный фехтовальщик. Любит играть в гольф на балконе, плясать «мамушку», в период острого стресса устраивает поездокрушения на игрушечной (и не только) железной дороге. Страдает приступами неконтролируемой страсти когда его жена начинает изъясняться по-французски.

Периодически навещающий семью родственник. Представляет собой комок шерсти ростом чуть выше метра с надетыми поверх него шляпой и тёмными очками. Вместо речи издает странный визг, что, однако, не мешает членам семьи Аддамс, в отличие от прочих людей, понимать его.

Верный дворецкий Аддамсов. Прекрасно играет на органе. Когда хочет отдохнуть — пользуется дыбой. Немногословен.

Жена Гомеса Аддамса, мать Вэнсдей, Пагзли и Пуберта. По фильмам — дочь бабушки Аддамс. Мазохистка, любит изъясняться на французском, разводит хищные растения, обрезает у букетов бутоны для красоты.

Старший сын семейства. Не страдает отсутствием аппетита — может съесть пять кусков торта за раз. Имеет домашнее животное-осьминога по имени Аристотель. Очень живуч — выжить после того, как тебя столько раз убивает Вэнздей, может только очень живучий мальчик. Любит химические опыты. По словам Вэнздей — съел маленького брата.

Младший сын семейства. Очень страдает когда дядя Фестер женившись, покидает семью. Может дышать огнем. Подлинный Аддамс.

Брат Гомеса. Рассорился с ним, ушел из дома и потерял память, позже принимая участие в попытке разорения своей же семьи. В комиксах являлся дядюшкой Гомеса.

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Семейка Аддамсов

Бонни Арнольд
Джек Камминс
Грэхэм Плэйс

Чарльз Адамс
Кэролайн Томпсон
Ларри Уилсон

Семейка Адамс
The Addams Family
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«Семейка Адамс» (также встречается написание «Аддамс», англ. The Addams Family ) — фильм режиссёра Барри Зонненфелда.

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Адамсы — странная семейка, перекочевавшая на киноэкран из популярного мультсериала Чарльза Адамса. К Адамсам проникает не менее странный товарищ, который выдает себя за Фестера — пропавшего 20 лет назад старшего брата главы семьи, а сам рассчитывает добраться до сокровищ могильной семейки. Он и не подозревает, что на самом деле является Фестером…

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ХЬЮСТОН Анджелика — ХЬЮСТОН (Huston) Анджелика (р. 08 июля 1951, Санта Моника, Калифорния), американская актриса. Выросла в Ирландии. Дебютировала в кино эпизодом в фильме своего отца, режиссера Джона Хьюстона, «Грешный Дэви» (Sinful Davey, 1969) и в тот же год… … Энциклопедия кино

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Семейка Аддамс (англ. The Addams Family) первоначально появилась в 1938 году в журнале The New Yorker в комиксах художника Чарльза Аддамса, черпавшего вдохновение в образах своей собственной вполне реальной семьи и доводившего до гротеска некоторые примечательные черты её членов. С 1964 по 1966 год выходил одноимённый сериал, который, не будучи поначалу очень уж успешным, позднее стал поистине культовым для ценителей чёрного юмора.

Впоследствии, на волне позднего успеха, вышло ещё несколько сериалов, мюзиклов и полнометражных фильмов (1991, 1993, 1998), а в 2019 году вышел полнометражный мультфильм, стилистика которого достаточно приближена к оригинальным комиксам.

Семейка Аддамсов живёт в огромном запущенном особняке, совершенно, до абсурда, классическом доме с привидениями, в Кладбищенском переулке. Они чертовски богаты, поэтому всё своё время тратят на приём гостей и прочие развлечения. Между собой Аддамсы общаются на темы, которые кажутся обычному человеку, мягко говоря, довольно мрачными: например, какая гильотина лучше или от какого яда помер троюродный дедушка. Но, несмотря на пугающую атмосферу дома и жутковатые привычки, Аддамсы вовсе не злы — они приветливы, на свой лад доброжелательны, всегда готовы помочь и терпимы к чужим ошибкам. Правда, здесь как нигде уместна поговорка про благие намерения и дорогу в ад: Аддамсы обладают специфическим чувством юмора, приводящим в ужас всех не-членов клана, а наиболее мягкотелых и неподготовленных специфические шуточки и розыгрыши Аддамсов могут довести до гроба — в буквальном смысле. Жизнь Аддамсов является, фактически, полной противоположностью жизни средней американской семьи, но они, кажется, совершенно не замечают этого.

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The Addams Family is a group of fictional characters created by American cartoonist Charles Addams. Addams Family characters include Gomez, Morticia, Uncle Fester, Lurch, Grandmama, Wednesday and Pugsley.

The Addamses are a satirical inversion of the ideal American family; an eccentric, wealthy clan who delight in the macabre and are unaware that people find them bizarre or frightening. They originally appeared as a series of single panel cartoons, published in The New Yorker between 1938 and Addams’s 1988 death. They have since been adapted to other media, including television series (both live action and animated), films, video games, and a musical.

Premise and Background

Addams’s original cartoons were one-panel gags. The characters were undeveloped and unnamed until later versions.

“	Gomez and Pugsley are enthusiastic. Morticia is even in disposition, muted, witty, sometimes deadly. Grandma Frump is foolishly good-natured. Wednesday is her mother’s daughter. A closely knit family, the real head being Morticia—although each of the others is a definite character — except for Grandma, who is easily led. Many of the troubles they have as a family are due to Grandma’s fumbling, weak character. The house is a wreck, of course, but this is a house-proud family just the same and every trap door is in good repair. Money is no problem.[1]	”

The family appears to be a single surviving branch of the Addams clan. Many other «Addams families» exist all over the world. According to the film version, the family credo is, Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc (pseudo-Latin: «We gladly feast on those who would subdue us»). Charles Addams was first inspired by his home town of Westfield, New Jersey, an area full of ornate Victorian mansions and archaic graveyards.^[2]

They live in a gloomy mansion adjacent to a cemetery and a swamp at 0001 Cemetery Lane. In The New Addams Family, the address was changed to 1313 Cemetery Lane.^[3] In the Addams Family musical, first shown in Chicago in 2009, the house is located in Central Park.^[4]

Although they share macabre interests, the Addamses are not evil. They are a close-knit extended family. Morticia is an exemplary mother, and she and Gomez remain passionate towards each other. She calls him «Bubele»,^[5] to which he responds by kissing her arms, behavior Morticia can also provoke by speaking a few words in French (the meaning is not important, any French will do). The parents are supportive of their children. The family is friendly and hospitable to visitors, in some cases willing to donate large sums of money to causes, despite the visitors’ horror at the Addams’s peculiar lifestyle.

Addams Family Characters

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Gomez Addams

Main article: Gomez Addams

Gomez Addams was the master of the Addams household and the Addams patriarch, married to Morticia and the father of Wednesday and Pugsley. In the 60’s sitcom, he was Grandmama’s son, but this was retconned in the 1991 film, and he became Grandmama’s son-in-law instead, staying true to the comics. Also retconned in the films, he became the younger brother of Fester instead of his nephew-in-law. In the original cartoons in the New Yorker, he appeared tubby, snub-nosed and with a receding chin.

In the 1960s television series, Gomez was portrayed as a naive, handsome, and successful man, although with a childlike, eccentric enthusiasm for everything he did. For instance, his personal portrait depicted him as standing gleefully on his head. Though a peaceful man, he was known to be well-versed in many types of combat; he and Morticia fenced with foils sometimes.

Gomez professed endless love for his wife, Morticia. He had studied to be a lawyer, but rarely practiced, one of the running jokes being that he took great pride in losing his cases. He was also pleased with the fact that his law class had voted him the man «Least Likely to Pass the Bar».

Gomez was depicted as extremely wealthy, through inheritance and extensive investments, but he seemed to have little regard for money. Although he invested in the stock market, to the point where there was a ticker tape machine in the living room, he played the market primarily to lose, or else invested in odd schemes that inadvertently paid off big (swamp land found to have oil under it, etc.). One novel claimed Gomez became wealthy through his ghoulish sense of humor, when he discovered it was possible to make a killing in the stock market. Despite his macabre sense of humor, he was extremely generous, and would go out of his way to help those whom he considered friends.

Gomez is of Castilian origin, loved to smoke cigars, and would play destructively with his model trains. Of the names which Charles Addams suggested for the family, «Gomez» was the only one that was not «ghoulish» (in the manner of Morticia or Fester). When asked why he suggested the name Gomez for the character, Addams replied that he «thought he [the character] had a bit of Spanish blood in him.» However, Addams had trouble deciding whether the character should be Spanish or Italian. He decided that if he were Spanish he should be called «Gomez», but if Italian he would be «Repelli» (even though Gomez and Repelli are actually surnames). The final choice of first name was left up to actor John Astin.^[6] Gomez was typically seen wearing conservative businesswear long out of fashion, such as pinstripe suits and spats.

Morticia

Main article: Morticia Addams

Morticia Addams (née Frump) was the matriarch of the Addams Family, a slim woman with pale skin, clad in a skin-tight black hobble gown with octopuslike tendrils at the hem. Certain sources suggested she may be some kind of vampire. She adored her husband, Gomez, as deeply as he did her.

Pugsley and Wednesday

Main article: Pugsley Addams

Main article: Wednesday Addams

Gomez and Morticia had two children, a son called Pugsley and a daughter called Wednesday. Wednesday was said to have been named after the phrase, «Wednesday’s child is full of woe,» from the poem Monday’s Child. Her middle name, Friday, corresponds to the 1887 version of the poem. In the television show she was a sweet-natured, innocent, happy child, largely concerned with her fearsome pet spiders. A favorite toy was her Marie Antoinette doll, which Pugsley had guillotined. The movies gave Wednesday a much more serious and mature personality with a deadpan wit and a morbid fascination with trying to physically harm, or possibly murder, her brother (she was seen strapping him into an electric chair, for example, and preparing to pull the switch); she was apparently often successful, but Pugsley never died. Like most members of the family, he seemed to be inhumanly resilient.

For his part, Pugsley was largely oblivious of the harm his sister tried to inflict on him, or an enthusiastic supporter of it, viewing all attempts as fun and games. In his first incarnation in The New Yorker cartoons, Pugsley was depicted as a diabolical, malevolent boy-next-door. In the television series, he was a devoted older brother and an inventive and mechanical genius. In the movies he lost his intelligence and independence, and became Wednesday’s sidekick and younger brother, cheerfully helping her in her evil deeds.

In the animated series, Wednesday became a happy and somewhat optimistic child, while retaining her sophisticated manner from the movies, and Pugsley became a genius at chemistry — especially explosives — and machines, though his intelligence seemed undeveloped at times.

The children appeared to be home-taught, receiving all the education they required from Grandmama or Uncle Fester. An attempt to enroll them in the local elementary school did not work out initially, but in later episodes of the television series, they are depicted as attending it.

In the first movie, the children attended an elementary school and Wednesday was praised for her performance. Both children performed in school plays with their uncle’s help. In the second movie, they are on summer vacation from school.

In the stage musical, Wednesday was aged to about 18 years old, while Pugsley was kept as a young child.

Uncle Fester

Main article: Uncle Fester

Fester is a bald, barrel-shaped man with dark, sunken eyes and a devilish grin. He seemed to carry an electrical charge, as he could illuminate a light bulb by sticking it in his mouth. In the original television series, Fester was Morticia’s uncle. In the 1991 film and all subsequent animated and film media, Fester was Gomez’s older brother. The character played a central role in both of the first two feature films. In The Addams Family, Fester was reunited with the other Addamses after 25 years apart, while The Addams Family Values focused on his relationship with Deborah «Debbie» Jellinsky.

Grandmama

Main article: Grandmama

Not to be confused with Granny Frump

Grandmama is Gomez’s mother, and is also a witch who deals in potions, spells, hexes, and even fortune-telling. Her trademarks were her shawl and grey, frizzy hair. The 2010 Broadway musical version of The Addams Family poked fun at the inconsistencies of Grandmama’s origins. In one scene, Morticia and Gomez both revealed that each believed she is the other’s mother. People didn’t know about her ghost son, named Eduardo.

Thing T. Thing

Main article: Thing

Another member of the family is the disembodied hand named «Thing». Thing was Gomez’s friend since childhood. He appeared out of ubiquitous boxes or other convenient containers throughout the house. He communicated with the Addamses with a Morse-like alphabet, sign language, writing, and knocking on wood. In the movies and The New Addams Family, Thing was a fully mobile hand, cleanly severed just below the wrist (although no muscle or bone was exposed). He lived in an upstairs closet made up as a house-within-a-house, though he was also shown to reside in a cigar box. In the original television series, Thing was generally played by Ted Cassidy (the actor who also played Lurch). He was usually a right hand, but Cassidy occasionally used his left, «just to see if anyone noticed».^[7]

Lady Fingers

Main article: Lady Fingers

Lady Fingers is the female counterpart of the Thing and, like him, lives inside a box. Lady Fingers is a finer hand than Thing and occasionally sports long red fingernails. Appears only 3 times with the Addams Family

Lurch

Main article: Lurch

In addition to Thing, the Addams family also had a tall, ghoulish manservant named Lurch. Lurch served as a shambling, gravelly-voiced butler, vaguely resembling Frankenstein’s Monster although he is a considerable «jack of all trades». He tried to help around the house, although occasionally he botched tasks due to his great size and strength, but is otherwise considered quite a catch by the Addamses for his skill at more personal tasks, such as waxing Uncle Fester’s head and amusing the children (to whom he was deeply devoted). Surprisingly, he was often seen playing the harpsichord and organ with a great degree of skill and somewhat uncharacteristic enthusiasm. In Addams Family Reunion, Gomez stated that Lurch is not really an Addams, and Morticia replies that Lurch has parts of many families, and that he has the heart of an Addams. In one episode of the 1960s television series, Lurch’s mother, played by actress Ellen Corby, came to visit; she was a short, overbearing little old lady. Lurch, too, had a level of invulnerability; in Addams Family Values, a 20-pound cannonball is dropped from the top of the Addams mansion, landing directly on his head, seemingly with no ill effect. In the original comics, Lurch did not speak. In the sitcom, he was capable of speech; beckoned by the pull of a noose-shaped rope which sounded a thunderous gong, he would answer with a signature monotone, brusque and basso profundo, «You rang?» This was due to actor Ted Cassidy ad-libbing the line while rehearsing a scene early in production of the original TV show. The producers liked it so much that Lurch then became a speaking role. In the theatrical movies, Lurch never spoke, using only grunts, sighs, or simple gesticulations. The New Addams Family returned to the original sitcom style, right down to the noose that rang a gong. In it, Lurch also seemed a little more polite than his earlier counterparts.

Cousin Itt

Main article: Cousin Itt

Cousin Itt (spelled as «Cousin It» in the movies and the pinball game), who frequently visited the family, was short-statured and had long hair that covered his entire body from scalp to floor. He was known to speak in a high-pitched nonsensical gibberish that only the family seemed to understand. In the second animated series, Itt was a super-spy for the U.S. government. He fell in love with Margaret Alford and married her after her husband, Tully, was disposed of by the Addams children.^[8] He and Margaret have a child named «What» (from the obstetrician’s reaction).^[9]

Pets

In the sitcom, references were made to an innumerable collection of bizarre and unconventional creatures such as hawks, bats, and alligators, although there were a handful with some consistency throughout the various media which the characters have subsequently appeared in.

• Kitty Kat is the family lion, and can be seen in several 1960s television episodes roaming around the house. (Though not seen in the 1991 film, Gomez can be heard shouting ‘Down, Kitty!’ while going to the vault to pay Tully, while a lion’s roar can be heard.) The entire family regarded Kitty Kat as they would an average housecat, and seemed flummoxed at the notion that Kitty Kat is in any way dangerous.
• Pugsley had an octopus called Aristotle, and Wednesday a large collection of spiders, with only one she mentions in particular by name, called Homer. The family also had a pair of piranha named Tristan and Isolde, who lived in a fish tank, and a vulture named Zelda. In the first film, as a child Fester had a vulture named Muerto.
• Cleopatra is an African Strangler, a carnivorous plant, belonging to Morticia. The plant eats meatballs made of yak and other tasty meats specially prepared, and (more often than not) spoon-fed to her. In a season 1 episode, «The Addams Family Meets the V.I.P.’s», Gomez stated that Cleopatra is only 3 years old. At another point in the series, however, it’s said that Morticia had Cleopatra before she and Gomez married, having grown her from a seedling.
• In the musical, the family had a pet giant squid named Bernice, that, one night, crawled up from the toilet. She lived in the sewers beneath the house, and appeared in the grotto. Only her tentacles were shown.

Fictional History

See Addams Family History for a historical summary of the fictional family’s ancestry

Adaptations

Television Series

Main article: The Addams Family (TV Series)

In 1964, the ABC-TV network created The Addams Family television series based on Addams’s cartoon characters. The series was shot in black-and-white and aired for two seasons in 64 half-hour episodes (18 September 1964 – 2 September 1966). During the original television run of the series, The New Yorker editor William Shawn refused to publish any Addams Family cartoons, though he continued to publish other Charles Addams cartoons. Shawn regarded his magazine as targeting a more refined readership, and did not want it associated with characters who could be seen on television by just anybody. After Shawn’s 1987 retirement, the characters were welcomed back to The New Yorker.

Main article: Wednesday Is Missing

The Addams Family’s first animated appearance was on the third episode of Hanna-Barbera’s The New Scooby-Doo Movies, «Wednesday Is Missing» (a.k.a. «Scooby-Doo Meets the Addams Family»), which first aired on CBS Saturday morning 23 September 1972. Four of the original castreturned for the special which involved the Addamses in a mystery with the Scooby-Doo gang. The Addams Family characters were drawn to the specifications of the original Charles Addams cartoons. After the episode aired, fans wanted more animated adventures featuring the Addamses, and Hanna-Barbera obliged.

Main article: The Addams Family Fun-House

In late 1972, ABC produced a pilot for a musical variety show titled The Addams Family Fun-House. The pilot aired in 1973, but was not picked up for a series.^[10]

Main article: The Addams Family (animated 1973)

The first animated series ran on Saturday mornings from 1973–1975 on NBC. In a departure from the original series, this series took the Addamses on the road in their creepy camper.

Main article: The Addams Family (animated 1992)

The remake series ran on Saturday mornings from 1992–1993 on ABC after producers realized the success of the 1991 Addams Family movie. This series returned to the familiar format of the original series, with the Addams Family facing their sitcom situations at home. John Astin returned to the role of Gomez. New artistic models of the characters were used for this series, though still having a passing resemblance to the original cartoons. Two seasons were produced, with the third year containing reruns. Oddly in this series, Wednesday maintained her macabre, brooding attitude from the Addams Family movies, but her facial expressions and body language conveyed the happy-go-lucky, fun attitude of her portrayal in the original television show. An altered version of the original Vic Mizzy theme song was used for the opening.

Main article: The New Addams Family

The New Addams Family was filmed in Vancouver, Canada, and ran for 65 episodes during the 1998–1999 season on the then newly-launched Fox Family Channel. Many storylines from the original series were reworked for this new series, incorporating more modern elements and jokes. John Astin returned to the franchise in some episodes of this series, albeit as «Grandpapa» Addams (Gomez’s grandfather). Pubert’s absence in the new series (and possibly Addams Family Reunion) may have been explained in an early episode when Wednesday mentioned that «There were three of us, but Pugsley ate the little one.»

Films

Main article: Films

Main article: Halloween with the New Addams Family

A television reunion movie, Halloween with the New Addams Family, aired on NBC Sunday, October 30, 1977. It featured most of the original cast, except Blossom Rock, who was very ill at the time; she was replaced by Jane Rose.

Main article: The Addams Family (1991)

In the 1990s, Orion Pictures (which by then had inherited the rights to the series) developed a film version, The Addams Family (recorded 30-31 October 1989 and released 22 November 1991). Due to the studio’s financial troubles at the time, Orion sold the US rights to the film to Paramount Pictures.

Main article: Addams Family Values

Upon the last film’s success, a sequel followed: Addams Family Values (released on November 19, 1993, with worldwide distribution by Paramount). Loosened content restrictions allowed the films to use far more grotesque humor that strove to keep the original spirit of the Addams cartoons (in fact, several gags were lifted straight from the single panel cartoons).

Main article: Addams Family Reunion

Another film, Addams Family Reunion, was released direct-to-video 22 September 1998, this time by Warner Bros. through its video division. It has no relation to the Paramount movies, being in fact a full-length pilot for a second live-action television version, The New Addams Family, produced and shot in Canada. The third movie’s Gomez, played by Tim Curry, follows the style of Raúl Juliá, while the new sitcom’s Gomez, played by Glenn Taranto, is played in the style of John Astin, who had played the character in the 1960s.

Main article: The Addams Family (2019)

The first animated Addams Family film was theatrically released 11 October 2019 in the United States by United Artists Releasing and internationally by Universal Pictures. Directed by Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan, the film was met with mixed reviews and is set to have a sequel released in October 2021.

Cartoon Inspirations

Two animated Hanna-Barbera television shows have been inspired by The Addams Family.

• Mr. & Mrs. J. Evil Scientist, a family of fictional characters inspired by The Addams Family appeared on the Snagglepuss and Snooper and Blabber animated television series beginning in 1959 and starred in their own comic book.
• During the first season of the 1960s The Addams Family television show, a Stone Age version of the Addams Family called The Gruesomes moved next door to The Flintstones.

Video Games

Main article: Video Games

Five video games released from 1989 to 1994 were based on The Addams Family.

• Fester’s Quest (1989) was a top-down shooter that featured Uncle Fester saving the world from an alien invasion.
• In 1992, two versions of The Addams Family were released by Ocean Software based on the 1991 Movie; an 8-Bit version for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear, ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64, as well as a 16-Bit version released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Amiga, Atari ST and Sega Mega Drive. ICOM Simulations published The Addams Family video game for the TurboGrafx-CD in 1991.
• The game’s sequel, The Addams Family: Pugsley’s Scavenger Hunt (1993), also by Ocean Software, was based on the ABC animated series and was released for NES, SNES and Game Boy (although the later two were just 8-bit remakes of the first SNES game, swapping Pugsley and Gomez’s roles).
• Addams Family Values (1994) by Ocean was based on the movie’s sequel and returned to the style of gameplay seen in Fester’s Quest.
• A Game Boy Color game was released in the 1990s for promotion of The New Addams Family. The game was simply titled The New Addams Family Series. In this game, the Addams mansion had been bought by a fictional company called «Funnyday» that wanted to tear down the house and surrounding grounds to make room for an amusement park.

Pinball

Main article: The Addams Family (pinball)

A pinball game by Midway (under the Bally Technologies label) was released in 1992 shortly after the movie. It is the best-selling pinball game of all time.^[11]

Books

Main article: Books

There are many books associated with The Addams Family. Many of Charles Addams’ original cartoons from The New Yorker were collected into books. Novels have been written about the Family. The television and film productions have been featured in many books and magazines, and spoofed in others.

Advertising

In 1994, the actors cast as the Addamses in the first two films (sans the recently-deceased Raúl Juliá) were in several Japanese television spots for the Honda Odyssey.^[12] The Addamses—most prominently Gomez (for whom a voice actor was used to impersonate Juliá while footage from Addams Family Values was seen) and Morticia—are seen speaking Japanese.^[13]

In 2007 and 2008, the Addams Family appeared as M&Ms in an advertising campaign for M&M’s Dark Chocolate.^[14]

Musical

Main article: The Addams Family (musical)

In May 2007, it was announced that a musical inspired by The Addams Family was being developed for the Broadway stage. Broadway veterans Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice wrote the |book, and Andrew Lippa wrote the score. Julian Crouch and Phelim McDermott (Improbable Theater founders) directed and designed the production, with choreography by Sergio Trujillo.^[15] A workshop and private industry presentation was held 4–8 August 2008.

The musical opened in previews at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Broadway 8 March 2010, with an official opening 8 April,^[16] after an out-of-town tryout in Chicago at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts from 13 November 2009 to 10 January 2010.^[17][18]

Cast

Show	Gomez Addams	Morticia Addams	Pugsley Addams	Wednesday Addams	Uncle Fester	Grandmama	Lurch	Thing	Cousin Itt
The Addams Family (1964–1966)	John Astin	Carolyn Jones	Ken Weatherwax	Lisa Loring	Jackie Coogan	Blossom Rock	Ted Cassidy	Ted Cassidy / Jack Voglin	Felix Silla / Roger Arroyo / Tony Magro
The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972)	John Astin	Carolyn Jones	Jodie Foster	Cindy Henderson	Jackie Coogan	Janet Waldo	Ted Cassidy		August John Stephenson
The Addams Family Fun-House (1972)	Jack Riley	Liz Torres	Butch Patrick	Noelle Von Sonn	Stubby Kaye		Pat McCormick		Felix Silla
The Addams Family (animated 1973)	Lennie Weinrib	Janet Waldo	Jodie Foster / Ken Weatherwax	Cindy Henderson	Jackie Coogan	Janet Waldo	Ted Cassidy		August John Stephenson
The Addams Family (animated 1992)	John Astin	Nancy Linari	Jeannie Elias	Debi Derryberry	Rip Taylor	Carol Channing	Jim Cummings		Pat Fraley
The New Addams Family (1998–1999)	Glenn Taranto	Ellie Harvie	Brody Smith	Nicole Fugere	Michael Roberds	Betty Phillips	John DeSantis	Steven Fox	David Mylrea / Paul Dobson
Halloween with the New Addams Family (1977)	John Astin	Carolyn Jones	Ken Weatherwax	Lisa Loring	Jackie Coogan	Jane Rose	Ted Cassidy	Ted Cassidy	Felix Silla / Tony Magro
The Addams Family (1991)	Raul Julia	Anjelica Huston	Jimmy Workman	Christina Ricci	Christopher Lloyd	Judith Malina	Carel Struycken	Christopher Hart	John Franklin
Addams Family Values (1993)	Raul Julia	Anjelica Huston	Jimmy Workman	Christina Ricci	Christopher Lloyd	Carol Kane	Carel Struycken	Christopher Hart	John Franklin
Addams Family Reunion (1998)	Tim Curry	Daryl Hannah	Jerry Messing	Nicole Fugere	Patrick Thomas	Alice Ghostley	Carel Struycken	Christopher Hart	Phil Fondacaro
The Addams Family: A New Musical (2010)	Nathan Lane	Bebe Neuwirth	Adam Riegler	Krysta Rodriguez	Kevin Chamberlin	Jackie Hoffman	Zachary James
The Addams Family (musical) (2011)	Roger Rees	Brooke Shields	Adam Riegler	Rachel Potter	Brad Oscar	Jackie Hoffman	Zachary James

References

External Links

• The Addams Foundation website
• The Addams Family musical (official site)
• The Addams Family on TVLand.com.com
• The Addams Family on Tribe.net

The Addams Family is a group of fictional characters created by American cartoonist Charles Addams. Addams Family characters include Gomez, Morticia, Uncle Fester, Lurch, Grandmama, Wednesday and Pugsley.

The Addamses are a satirical inversion of the ideal American family; an eccentric, wealthy clan who delight in the macabre and are unaware that people find them bizarre or frightening. They originally appeared as a series of single panel cartoons, published in The New Yorker between 1938 and Addams’s 1988 death. They have since been adapted to other media, including television series (both live action and animated), films, video games, and a musical.

Premise and Background

Addams’s original cartoons were one-panel gags. The characters were undeveloped and unnamed until later versions.

“	Gomez and Pugsley are enthusiastic. Morticia is even in disposition, muted, witty, sometimes deadly. Grandma Frump is foolishly good-natured. Wednesday is her mother’s daughter. A closely knit family, the real head being Morticia—although each of the others is a definite character — except for Grandma, who is easily led. Many of the troubles they have as a family are due to Grandma’s fumbling, weak character. The house is a wreck, of course, but this is a house-proud family just the same and every trap door is in good repair. Money is no problem.[1]	”

The family appears to be a single surviving branch of the Addams clan. Many other «Addams families» exist all over the world. According to the film version, the family credo is, Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc (pseudo-Latin: «We gladly feast on those who would subdue us»). Charles Addams was first inspired by his home town of Westfield, New Jersey, an area full of ornate Victorian mansions and archaic graveyards.^[2]

They live in a gloomy mansion adjacent to a cemetery and a swamp at 0001 Cemetery Lane. In The New Addams Family, the address was changed to 1313 Cemetery Lane.^[3] In the Addams Family musical, first shown in Chicago in 2009, the house is located in Central Park.^[4]

Although they share macabre interests, the Addamses are not evil. They are a close-knit extended family. Morticia is an exemplary mother, and she and Gomez remain passionate towards each other. She calls him «Bubele»,^[5] to which he responds by kissing her arms, behavior Morticia can also provoke by speaking a few words in French (the meaning is not important, any French will do). The parents are supportive of their children. The family is friendly and hospitable to visitors, in some cases willing to donate large sums of money to causes, despite the visitors’ horror at the Addams’s peculiar lifestyle.

Addams Family Characters

Main article: Characters

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Gomez Addams

Main article: Gomez Addams

Gomez Addams was the master of the Addams household and the Addams patriarch, married to Morticia and the father of Wednesday and Pugsley. In the 60’s sitcom, he was Grandmama’s son, but this was retconned in the 1991 film, and he became Grandmama’s son-in-law instead, staying true to the comics. Also retconned in the films, he became the younger brother of Fester instead of his nephew-in-law. In the original cartoons in the New Yorker, he appeared tubby, snub-nosed and with a receding chin.

In the 1960s television series, Gomez was portrayed as a naive, handsome, and successful man, although with a childlike, eccentric enthusiasm for everything he did. For instance, his personal portrait depicted him as standing gleefully on his head. Though a peaceful man, he was known to be well-versed in many types of combat; he and Morticia fenced with foils sometimes.

Gomez professed endless love for his wife, Morticia. He had studied to be a lawyer, but rarely practiced, one of the running jokes being that he took great pride in losing his cases. He was also pleased with the fact that his law class had voted him the man «Least Likely to Pass the Bar».

Gomez was depicted as extremely wealthy, through inheritance and extensive investments, but he seemed to have little regard for money. Although he invested in the stock market, to the point where there was a ticker tape machine in the living room, he played the market primarily to lose, or else invested in odd schemes that inadvertently paid off big (swamp land found to have oil under it, etc.). One novel claimed Gomez became wealthy through his ghoulish sense of humor, when he discovered it was possible to make a killing in the stock market. Despite his macabre sense of humor, he was extremely generous, and would go out of his way to help those whom he considered friends.

Gomez is of Castilian origin, loved to smoke cigars, and would play destructively with his model trains. Of the names which Charles Addams suggested for the family, «Gomez» was the only one that was not «ghoulish» (in the manner of Morticia or Fester). When asked why he suggested the name Gomez for the character, Addams replied that he «thought he [the character] had a bit of Spanish blood in him.» However, Addams had trouble deciding whether the character should be Spanish or Italian. He decided that if he were Spanish he should be called «Gomez», but if Italian he would be «Repelli» (even though Gomez and Repelli are actually surnames). The final choice of first name was left up to actor John Astin.^[6] Gomez was typically seen wearing conservative businesswear long out of fashion, such as pinstripe suits and spats.

Morticia

Main article: Morticia Addams

Morticia Addams (née Frump) was the matriarch of the Addams Family, a slim woman with pale skin, clad in a skin-tight black hobble gown with octopuslike tendrils at the hem. Certain sources suggested she may be some kind of vampire. She adored her husband, Gomez, as deeply as he did her.

Pugsley and Wednesday

Main article: Pugsley Addams

Main article: Wednesday Addams

Gomez and Morticia had two children, a son called Pugsley and a daughter called Wednesday. Wednesday was said to have been named after the phrase, «Wednesday’s child is full of woe,» from the poem Monday’s Child. Her middle name, Friday, corresponds to the 1887 version of the poem. In the television show she was a sweet-natured, innocent, happy child, largely concerned with her fearsome pet spiders. A favorite toy was her Marie Antoinette doll, which Pugsley had guillotined. The movies gave Wednesday a much more serious and mature personality with a deadpan wit and a morbid fascination with trying to physically harm, or possibly murder, her brother (she was seen strapping him into an electric chair, for example, and preparing to pull the switch); she was apparently often successful, but Pugsley never died. Like most members of the family, he seemed to be inhumanly resilient.

For his part, Pugsley was largely oblivious of the harm his sister tried to inflict on him, or an enthusiastic supporter of it, viewing all attempts as fun and games. In his first incarnation in The New Yorker cartoons, Pugsley was depicted as a diabolical, malevolent boy-next-door. In the television series, he was a devoted older brother and an inventive and mechanical genius. In the movies he lost his intelligence and independence, and became Wednesday’s sidekick and younger brother, cheerfully helping her in her evil deeds.

In the animated series, Wednesday became a happy and somewhat optimistic child, while retaining her sophisticated manner from the movies, and Pugsley became a genius at chemistry — especially explosives — and machines, though his intelligence seemed undeveloped at times.

The children appeared to be home-taught, receiving all the education they required from Grandmama or Uncle Fester. An attempt to enroll them in the local elementary school did not work out initially, but in later episodes of the television series, they are depicted as attending it.

In the first movie, the children attended an elementary school and Wednesday was praised for her performance. Both children performed in school plays with their uncle’s help. In the second movie, they are on summer vacation from school.

In the stage musical, Wednesday was aged to about 18 years old, while Pugsley was kept as a young child.

Uncle Fester

Main article: Uncle Fester

Fester is a bald, barrel-shaped man with dark, sunken eyes and a devilish grin. He seemed to carry an electrical charge, as he could illuminate a light bulb by sticking it in his mouth. In the original television series, Fester was Morticia’s uncle. In the 1991 film and all subsequent animated and film media, Fester was Gomez’s older brother. The character played a central role in both of the first two feature films. In The Addams Family, Fester was reunited with the other Addamses after 25 years apart, while The Addams Family Values focused on his relationship with Deborah «Debbie» Jellinsky.

Grandmama

Main article: Grandmama

Not to be confused with Granny Frump

Grandmama is Gomez’s mother, and is also a witch who deals in potions, spells, hexes, and even fortune-telling. Her trademarks were her shawl and grey, frizzy hair. The 2010 Broadway musical version of The Addams Family poked fun at the inconsistencies of Grandmama’s origins. In one scene, Morticia and Gomez both revealed that each believed she is the other’s mother. People didn’t know about her ghost son, named Eduardo.

Thing T. Thing

Main article: Thing

Another member of the family is the disembodied hand named «Thing». Thing was Gomez’s friend since childhood. He appeared out of ubiquitous boxes or other convenient containers throughout the house. He communicated with the Addamses with a Morse-like alphabet, sign language, writing, and knocking on wood. In the movies and The New Addams Family, Thing was a fully mobile hand, cleanly severed just below the wrist (although no muscle or bone was exposed). He lived in an upstairs closet made up as a house-within-a-house, though he was also shown to reside in a cigar box. In the original television series, Thing was generally played by Ted Cassidy (the actor who also played Lurch). He was usually a right hand, but Cassidy occasionally used his left, «just to see if anyone noticed».^[7]

Lady Fingers

Main article: Lady Fingers

Lady Fingers is the female counterpart of the Thing and, like him, lives inside a box. Lady Fingers is a finer hand than Thing and occasionally sports long red fingernails. Appears only 3 times with the Addams Family

Lurch

Main article: Lurch

In addition to Thing, the Addams family also had a tall, ghoulish manservant named Lurch. Lurch served as a shambling, gravelly-voiced butler, vaguely resembling Frankenstein’s Monster although he is a considerable «jack of all trades». He tried to help around the house, although occasionally he botched tasks due to his great size and strength, but is otherwise considered quite a catch by the Addamses for his skill at more personal tasks, such as waxing Uncle Fester’s head and amusing the children (to whom he was deeply devoted). Surprisingly, he was often seen playing the harpsichord and organ with a great degree of skill and somewhat uncharacteristic enthusiasm. In Addams Family Reunion, Gomez stated that Lurch is not really an Addams, and Morticia replies that Lurch has parts of many families, and that he has the heart of an Addams. In one episode of the 1960s television series, Lurch’s mother, played by actress Ellen Corby, came to visit; she was a short, overbearing little old lady. Lurch, too, had a level of invulnerability; in Addams Family Values, a 20-pound cannonball is dropped from the top of the Addams mansion, landing directly on his head, seemingly with no ill effect. In the original comics, Lurch did not speak. In the sitcom, he was capable of speech; beckoned by the pull of a noose-shaped rope which sounded a thunderous gong, he would answer with a signature monotone, brusque and basso profundo, «You rang?» This was due to actor Ted Cassidy ad-libbing the line while rehearsing a scene early in production of the original TV show. The producers liked it so much that Lurch then became a speaking role. In the theatrical movies, Lurch never spoke, using only grunts, sighs, or simple gesticulations. The New Addams Family returned to the original sitcom style, right down to the noose that rang a gong. In it, Lurch also seemed a little more polite than his earlier counterparts.

Cousin Itt

Main article: Cousin Itt

Cousin Itt (spelled as «Cousin It» in the movies and the pinball game), who frequently visited the family, was short-statured and had long hair that covered his entire body from scalp to floor. He was known to speak in a high-pitched nonsensical gibberish that only the family seemed to understand. In the second animated series, Itt was a super-spy for the U.S. government. He fell in love with Margaret Alford and married her after her husband, Tully, was disposed of by the Addams children.^[8] He and Margaret have a child named «What» (from the obstetrician’s reaction).^[9]

Pets

In the sitcom, references were made to an innumerable collection of bizarre and unconventional creatures such as hawks, bats, and alligators, although there were a handful with some consistency throughout the various media which the characters have subsequently appeared in.

• Kitty Kat is the family lion, and can be seen in several 1960s television episodes roaming around the house. (Though not seen in the 1991 film, Gomez can be heard shouting ‘Down, Kitty!’ while going to the vault to pay Tully, while a lion’s roar can be heard.) The entire family regarded Kitty Kat as they would an average housecat, and seemed flummoxed at the notion that Kitty Kat is in any way dangerous.
• Pugsley had an octopus called Aristotle, and Wednesday a large collection of spiders, with only one she mentions in particular by name, called Homer. The family also had a pair of piranha named Tristan and Isolde, who lived in a fish tank, and a vulture named Zelda. In the first film, as a child Fester had a vulture named Muerto.
• Cleopatra is an African Strangler, a carnivorous plant, belonging to Morticia. The plant eats meatballs made of yak and other tasty meats specially prepared, and (more often than not) spoon-fed to her. In a season 1 episode, «The Addams Family Meets the V.I.P.’s», Gomez stated that Cleopatra is only 3 years old. At another point in the series, however, it’s said that Morticia had Cleopatra before she and Gomez married, having grown her from a seedling.
• In the musical, the family had a pet giant squid named Bernice, that, one night, crawled up from the toilet. She lived in the sewers beneath the house, and appeared in the grotto. Only her tentacles were shown.

Fictional History

See Addams Family History for a historical summary of the fictional family’s ancestry

Adaptations

Television Series

Main article: The Addams Family (TV Series)

In 1964, the ABC-TV network created The Addams Family television series based on Addams’s cartoon characters. The series was shot in black-and-white and aired for two seasons in 64 half-hour episodes (18 September 1964 – 2 September 1966). During the original television run of the series, The New Yorker editor William Shawn refused to publish any Addams Family cartoons, though he continued to publish other Charles Addams cartoons. Shawn regarded his magazine as targeting a more refined readership, and did not want it associated with characters who could be seen on television by just anybody. After Shawn’s 1987 retirement, the characters were welcomed back to The New Yorker.

Main article: Wednesday Is Missing

The Addams Family’s first animated appearance was on the third episode of Hanna-Barbera’s The New Scooby-Doo Movies, «Wednesday Is Missing» (a.k.a. «Scooby-Doo Meets the Addams Family»), which first aired on CBS Saturday morning 23 September 1972. Four of the original castreturned for the special which involved the Addamses in a mystery with the Scooby-Doo gang. The Addams Family characters were drawn to the specifications of the original Charles Addams cartoons. After the episode aired, fans wanted more animated adventures featuring the Addamses, and Hanna-Barbera obliged.

Main article: The Addams Family Fun-House

In late 1972, ABC produced a pilot for a musical variety show titled The Addams Family Fun-House. The pilot aired in 1973, but was not picked up for a series.^[10]

Main article: The Addams Family (animated 1973)

The first animated series ran on Saturday mornings from 1973–1975 on NBC. In a departure from the original series, this series took the Addamses on the road in their creepy camper.

Main article: The Addams Family (animated 1992)

The remake series ran on Saturday mornings from 1992–1993 on ABC after producers realized the success of the 1991 Addams Family movie. This series returned to the familiar format of the original series, with the Addams Family facing their sitcom situations at home. John Astin returned to the role of Gomez. New artistic models of the characters were used for this series, though still having a passing resemblance to the original cartoons. Two seasons were produced, with the third year containing reruns. Oddly in this series, Wednesday maintained her macabre, brooding attitude from the Addams Family movies, but her facial expressions and body language conveyed the happy-go-lucky, fun attitude of her portrayal in the original television show. An altered version of the original Vic Mizzy theme song was used for the opening.

Main article: The New Addams Family

The New Addams Family was filmed in Vancouver, Canada, and ran for 65 episodes during the 1998–1999 season on the then newly-launched Fox Family Channel. Many storylines from the original series were reworked for this new series, incorporating more modern elements and jokes. John Astin returned to the franchise in some episodes of this series, albeit as «Grandpapa» Addams (Gomez’s grandfather). Pubert’s absence in the new series (and possibly Addams Family Reunion) may have been explained in an early episode when Wednesday mentioned that «There were three of us, but Pugsley ate the little one.»

Films

Main article: Films

Main article: Halloween with the New Addams Family

A television reunion movie, Halloween with the New Addams Family, aired on NBC Sunday, October 30, 1977. It featured most of the original cast, except Blossom Rock, who was very ill at the time; she was replaced by Jane Rose.

Main article: The Addams Family (1991)

In the 1990s, Orion Pictures (which by then had inherited the rights to the series) developed a film version, The Addams Family (recorded 30-31 October 1989 and released 22 November 1991). Due to the studio’s financial troubles at the time, Orion sold the US rights to the film to Paramount Pictures.

Main article: Addams Family Values

Upon the last film’s success, a sequel followed: Addams Family Values (released on November 19, 1993, with worldwide distribution by Paramount). Loosened content restrictions allowed the films to use far more grotesque humor that strove to keep the original spirit of the Addams cartoons (in fact, several gags were lifted straight from the single panel cartoons).

Main article: Addams Family Reunion

Another film, Addams Family Reunion, was released direct-to-video 22 September 1998, this time by Warner Bros. through its video division. It has no relation to the Paramount movies, being in fact a full-length pilot for a second live-action television version, The New Addams Family, produced and shot in Canada. The third movie’s Gomez, played by Tim Curry, follows the style of Raúl Juliá, while the new sitcom’s Gomez, played by Glenn Taranto, is played in the style of John Astin, who had played the character in the 1960s.

Main article: The Addams Family (2019)

The first animated Addams Family film was theatrically released 11 October 2019 in the United States by United Artists Releasing and internationally by Universal Pictures. Directed by Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan, the film was met with mixed reviews and is set to have a sequel released in October 2021.

Cartoon Inspirations

Two animated Hanna-Barbera television shows have been inspired by The Addams Family.

• Mr. & Mrs. J. Evil Scientist, a family of fictional characters inspired by The Addams Family appeared on the Snagglepuss and Snooper and Blabber animated television series beginning in 1959 and starred in their own comic book.
• During the first season of the 1960s The Addams Family television show, a Stone Age version of the Addams Family called The Gruesomes moved next door to The Flintstones.

Video Games

Main article: Video Games

Five video games released from 1989 to 1994 were based on The Addams Family.

• Fester’s Quest (1989) was a top-down shooter that featured Uncle Fester saving the world from an alien invasion.
• In 1992, two versions of The Addams Family were released by Ocean Software based on the 1991 Movie; an 8-Bit version for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear, ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64, as well as a 16-Bit version released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Amiga, Atari ST and Sega Mega Drive. ICOM Simulations published The Addams Family video game for the TurboGrafx-CD in 1991.
• The game’s sequel, The Addams Family: Pugsley’s Scavenger Hunt (1993), also by Ocean Software, was based on the ABC animated series and was released for NES, SNES and Game Boy (although the later two were just 8-bit remakes of the first SNES game, swapping Pugsley and Gomez’s roles).
• Addams Family Values (1994) by Ocean was based on the movie’s sequel and returned to the style of gameplay seen in Fester’s Quest.
• A Game Boy Color game was released in the 1990s for promotion of The New Addams Family. The game was simply titled The New Addams Family Series. In this game, the Addams mansion had been bought by a fictional company called «Funnyday» that wanted to tear down the house and surrounding grounds to make room for an amusement park.

Pinball

Main article: The Addams Family (pinball)

A pinball game by Midway (under the Bally Technologies label) was released in 1992 shortly after the movie. It is the best-selling pinball game of all time.^[11]

Books

Main article: Books

There are many books associated with The Addams Family. Many of Charles Addams’ original cartoons from The New Yorker were collected into books. Novels have been written about the Family. The television and film productions have been featured in many books and magazines, and spoofed in others.

Advertising

In 1994, the actors cast as the Addamses in the first two films (sans the recently-deceased Raúl Juliá) were in several Japanese television spots for the Honda Odyssey.^[12] The Addamses—most prominently Gomez (for whom a voice actor was used to impersonate Juliá while footage from Addams Family Values was seen) and Morticia—are seen speaking Japanese.^[13]

In 2007 and 2008, the Addams Family appeared as M&Ms in an advertising campaign for M&M’s Dark Chocolate.^[14]

Musical

Main article: The Addams Family (musical)

In May 2007, it was announced that a musical inspired by The Addams Family was being developed for the Broadway stage. Broadway veterans Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice wrote the |book, and Andrew Lippa wrote the score. Julian Crouch and Phelim McDermott (Improbable Theater founders) directed and designed the production, with choreography by Sergio Trujillo.^[15] A workshop and private industry presentation was held 4–8 August 2008.

The musical opened in previews at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Broadway 8 March 2010, with an official opening 8 April,^[16] after an out-of-town tryout in Chicago at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts from 13 November 2009 to 10 January 2010.^[17][18]

Cast

Show	Gomez Addams	Morticia Addams	Pugsley Addams	Wednesday Addams	Uncle Fester	Grandmama	Lurch	Thing	Cousin Itt
The Addams Family (1964–1966)	John Astin	Carolyn Jones	Ken Weatherwax	Lisa Loring	Jackie Coogan	Blossom Rock	Ted Cassidy	Ted Cassidy / Jack Voglin	Felix Silla / Roger Arroyo / Tony Magro
The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972)	John Astin	Carolyn Jones	Jodie Foster	Cindy Henderson	Jackie Coogan	Janet Waldo	Ted Cassidy		August John Stephenson
The Addams Family Fun-House (1972)	Jack Riley	Liz Torres	Butch Patrick	Noelle Von Sonn	Stubby Kaye		Pat McCormick		Felix Silla
The Addams Family (animated 1973)	Lennie Weinrib	Janet Waldo	Jodie Foster / Ken Weatherwax	Cindy Henderson	Jackie Coogan	Janet Waldo	Ted Cassidy		August John Stephenson
The Addams Family (animated 1992)	John Astin	Nancy Linari	Jeannie Elias	Debi Derryberry	Rip Taylor	Carol Channing	Jim Cummings		Pat Fraley
The New Addams Family (1998–1999)	Glenn Taranto	Ellie Harvie	Brody Smith	Nicole Fugere	Michael Roberds	Betty Phillips	John DeSantis	Steven Fox	David Mylrea / Paul Dobson
Halloween with the New Addams Family (1977)	John Astin	Carolyn Jones	Ken Weatherwax	Lisa Loring	Jackie Coogan	Jane Rose	Ted Cassidy	Ted Cassidy	Felix Silla / Tony Magro
The Addams Family (1991)	Raul Julia	Anjelica Huston	Jimmy Workman	Christina Ricci	Christopher Lloyd	Judith Malina	Carel Struycken	Christopher Hart	John Franklin
Addams Family Values (1993)	Raul Julia	Anjelica Huston	Jimmy Workman	Christina Ricci	Christopher Lloyd	Carol Kane	Carel Struycken	Christopher Hart	John Franklin
Addams Family Reunion (1998)	Tim Curry	Daryl Hannah	Jerry Messing	Nicole Fugere	Patrick Thomas	Alice Ghostley	Carel Struycken	Christopher Hart	Phil Fondacaro
The Addams Family: A New Musical (2010)	Nathan Lane	Bebe Neuwirth	Adam Riegler	Krysta Rodriguez	Kevin Chamberlin	Jackie Hoffman	Zachary James
The Addams Family (musical) (2011)	Roger Rees	Brooke Shields	Adam Riegler	Rachel Potter	Brad Oscar	Jackie Hoffman	Zachary James

References

External Links

• The Addams Foundation website
• The Addams Family musical (official site)
• The Addams Family on TVLand.com.com
• The Addams Family on Tribe.net

Семейка Аддамсов

Полезное

Семейка Аддамс, без образов которой не обходится ни один Хэллоуин, занимает почётный пьедестал культовых персонажей США. В канун Дня всех святых мы предлагаем вам познакомиться с ней поближе.

They’re creepy and they’re kooky

Аддамсы — в первую очередь герои комиксов. Они носят фамилию своего прародителя — художника-каррикатуриста Чарльза Аддамса. Мрачная готическая эстетика, присущая персонажам, отражает те условия, в которых жил и которыми наслаждался Чарльз: дома в викторианском стиле, заброшенность, старинные вещи, прогулки по кладбищу, чёрный юмор.

Семья Аддамсов впервые увидела свет в 1938 году — когда Чарльз публиковал свои комиксы в журнале The New Yorker. Тогда она ещё не носила «отцовской» фамилии, а её члены даже не имели имён. Зато их внешний вид интриговал с самого начала: в первом выпуске была изображена элегантная худая женщина, за которой следовал здоровяк в костюме. Уже сейчас мы можем узнать в этих образах Мортишу Аддамс и дворецкого семейства Ларча.

Несмотря на то, что семейку Аддамс можно считать воистину актом романтизации жути и «чернухи», комикс всё равно пользовался успехом. Людей привлекает всё необычное в той же степени, что и пугает. Читатели The New Yorker следили за жизнью героев на протяжении 50 лет, до кончины Чарльза Аддамса в 1988 году.

Mysterious and spooky

Так кто же такие Аддамсы? По сути, истории о них являются этакой сатирой на модель американской мечты — идеальной семьи. Несмотря на зловещую атмосферу, окутывающую героев, люди они доброжелательные и великодушные, а главное — исключительные. Они богачи и обладают изысканным вкусом. Одеты с иголочки, имеют роскошный дом с кучей антиквариата и даже машину. Главное их отличие от той самой американской мечты — отсутствие какого-либо желания выделиться (им и стараться не нужно!) и заявить о своей успешности.

Жанр историй о семейке Аддамс — чёрная комедия. Большинство шуток построены на темах, обычно табуированных в социуме. Но для Аддамсов обсуждения смерти, боли и телесных повреждений — не более, чем обыденность и даже увлечение. Комический эффект создаётся за счёт того, что члены семьи искренне не понимают: почему окружающие так боятся и сторонятся их? Но они не впадают в экзистенциальные кризисы, да и вообще не особенно зацикливаются на чужом мнении. Внутри своего мрачного мирка они — крепкая семья, в которой царят любовь и взаимопонимание.

They’re altogether ooky

Глава семьи номинально — Гомес Аддамс, настоящая горячая кровь, испанский миллиардер. По факту же руководящей рукой является, скорее, его обожаемая жена Мортиша. Она развлекает себя выращиванием опасных растений в своей оранжерее, а также искусно накладывает порчи. Наиболее ярким поп-культурным феноменом можно считать их дочь Уэнсдэй — с вечно серьёзным выражением лица и манией к садизму. Садистсткие розыгрыши, в свою очередь, она зачастую практикует на втором ребёнке Аддамсов по имени Пагсли, полном и легкомысленном мальчике. Не волнуйтесь — ни один Пагсли в итоге не пострадал. Кажется, он обладает неуязвимостью к проделкам сестры, да и к увечьям в целом. Двигателем сюжета в комиксах (позднее — в фильмах и мультфильмах) обычно становится дядя Фестер, старший брат Гомеса, одетый как монах и одержимый динамитами. Следует также упомянуть бабушку — стереотипную ведьму, дворецкого Ларча, напоминающего Франкенштейна, и живую кисть руки по кличке Вещь (в оригинале уморительное Thing T. Thing, что можно перевести как Вещь В. Вещевич), которая разгуливает по особняку и общается на языке жестов.

The Addams Family

Семейке Аддамс уже посвящено четыре фильма, несколько сериалов, мультсериал, мюзикл и даже видеоигры. Но на этом их слава не заканчивается: 23 ноября на платформе Netflix состоится премьера сериала «Уэнсдэй». Режиссёром проекта выступает Тим Бёртон, которому все очень доверяют в вопросах, касающихся странных и жутковатых историй.

Netflix охарактеризовали сериал как детективную комедию о взрослении детей Мортишм и Гомеса. Мы увидим Уэнсдэй Аддамс с экстрасенсорными способностями в стенах академии Nevermore, где ей необходимо будет предотвратить серию убийств и приблизиться к некой тайне, связанной с её семьёй.

Состав команды, отвечающий за сценарий и съёмку, впечатляющий: эти же люди работали над вторым «Человеком-пауком» Сэма Рэйми, «Тайнами Смолвиля», «Леденящими душу приключениями Сабрины» и «Чёрным зеркалом».

Интересно, услышим ли мы в саундтреке к сериалу неразрывное с Аддамсами «щёлк, щёлк»? Хотелось бы верить — хотя бы в качестве дани традиции.

Источник фото: kinopoisk.ru