Wednesday is for some reason on the outs with her parents, and initially has trouble fitting into the school. (None of the previous versions of the story leaned quite so hard into the supernatural.) Nevermore is intended as a school for “outcasts”, including werewolves, sirens, gorgons, psychics, and vampires. It’s built next to a very normie town, Jericho, whose main attracton is called Pilgrim World. She’s now about 16, and she’s sent to a boarding school, Nevermore, which her parents went to decades ago. Now to the Netflix show Wednesday, which as you may know focuses on Wednesday. This grimmer humor is echoed in the ’90s movies, though those are still mostly about normies attempting to swindle the Addamses. This shtick is similar to his cartoon about a patent attorney trying out a client’s invention: “Death ray, fiddlesticks! Why, it doesn’t even slow them up!” The family drops boiling oil on carolersĪddams never actually showed the actual murders, and there were never any consequences– Wednesday was evidently not burned up, and just reappears in the next cartoon.Puggsley has bricked up Wednesday in the furnace.Morticia borrows cyanide from the neighboring witch.Fester releasing a hawk while neighbors release pigeons.Lurch serves a two-headed pig for dinnerĪnd jokes where the family is hinted as actually being murderous:. Gomez makes a torture rack with his kids, explaining it’s more fun to make it yourself.The children get a giant iguana as a pet.“Are you unhappy, darling?” “Oh, yes, yes! Completely!”.Grandmama telling a story: “Then the dragon gobbled up the handsome young prince and lived happily ever after”.Jokes where the family is just being goth, or reversing normie values: The 1991 movie went back to the far more impish cartoons. This is actually pretty sophisticated for an era where the typical TV comedy involved a talking horse or a heartwarming sheriff or both. Both shows had the metajoke that the monster family is actually perfectly benign– if there’s any villainy it’s due to the ‘normal’ people outside. My wife prefers The Munsters, but I liked Addams Family. I used to watch the TV show when I was a kid– it was already in re-runs. That’s a lot of transformations, and I’m leaving out some (the ones I never saw). This is of course the Netflix TV show, which updates the movie, which updates the ’60s TV show, which updates the ’50s Charles Addams cartoons.
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