This week gave us the trailer for the latest in a long line of new incarnations of the beloved macabre family, The Addams Family. In case you haven’t seen it yet, go watch it now!
This latest version harkens back to the original New York Times comic in style and tone, a mild departure from the later TV and movie version many of us know. The Addams Family started way back in 1938 when comic Charles Addams started to occasionally create comics featuring a mysteriously creepy family in his regular comics in The New Yorker. They were highly stylized and well received over the years. This would lead to the 1964 television show, that would become several cartoons and movies over the decades afterward.
For 81 years, these OG goths have held a spot in our hearts. Morticia and Gomez are absolute relationship goals, Fester is the uncle we wish we had, and I think some of us (especially me) have a whole lot of Wednesday’s outlook on life.
Addams Family Facts!
- The characters actually didn’t have names until the television show. Charles Addams wanted Gomez to be named Repelli originally. Wednesday’s name comes from the poem, “Monday’s Child”, which mentions that children born on Wednesday’s are “full of woe”.
- Cousin IT wasn’t introduced until the show.
- The Addams Family house from the show was a real house, located at 21 Chester Place in Los Angeles. It was unfortunately torn down in 1972.
- The show actually only lasted 2 seasons! It’s legacy however, lives to this day.
- The Addams Family was the first TV family to own a home computer. It was one of those enormous
1960’s , those entire room occupying ones, but still!
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Here’s to eternal spookiness
~ High Tinkerer M