TheAddamsFamily

What's your favorite cultural difference joke in the movie

By cultural difference I mean a scene where it's funny because the Addams family understands things differently than your regular joe.

For example, when they tried to torture Morticia to find out the location of the family vault full of gold, Morticia understood the torture differently, and thinks the lawyer was coming onto her.

Gomez was really mad when he arrived at the scene.

When compared to other animated sit-coms such as The Flintstones and The Jetsons, how does the 70s and 90s animated versions of The Addams Family fare when it comes to enforcing traditional gender roles and stereotypes?

For example, both The Jetsons and The Flintstones feature a father as the breadwinner while the mother is a stay-at-home housewife, following traditional 50s gender ideals.

This is especially noteworthy in The Jetsons, as despite all household tasks being done at the push of a button, Jane is still a housewife, and the favorite activity of the female characters is invariably shopping.

Also, one episode, "Jane's driving lesson" hinges upon the joke that women are bad drivers.

Personally both are good, but I am gonna say Morticia because we already have Fester to rappresent Gomez's family side.

I bet Gomez and Morticia would've been so proud.

So, in Addams Family Values (1993), before attempting to electrocute the Addamses, Debbie launched into a dramatic monologue explaining her past murders.

For most of them, it was all for purely materialistic reasons.

She mentioned killing her parents through arson for giving her a Malibu barbie instead of the Ballerina barbie she wanted, and she killed her second husband by shooting him(?) for not buying her a Mercedes.

And we know of course that she was about to kill her third husband, Fester, for his money before Pubert intervened, and she ended up electrocuting herself....

However, I noticed that for her first husband, the heart surgeon, she described how his frequent absences frustrated her ("All day long! Coronaries, transplants!") and pretty much described her breaking point as him missing dinner rather than denying her something material that she wanted, which was the primary motivation behind all her other murders ("Sorry about dinner Deb, the Pope has a cold").

I feel this implies that Debbie actually did love her first husband.

Or at least, whatever she deems to be 'love' in her own twisted way.

What do you folks think?

Especially because she kept trying to kill Fester and Fester seemingly got out of whatever she tried to plan.

But if they had wrote her differently, she could have been the Morticia to Fester's Gomez, if that makes any sense.

The 1992 animated series debuted the same year, over 30 years ago, and despite being popular in the 90s it has yet to see an official dvd release. It didn't even come out on vhs at the time.

But it ran all the time on Cartoon Network both in US and Europe/ Asia and later in the early 2000s also on Boomerang.

WarnerBros owns the show as it was a goofy Hanna Barbera production.

This one? No. All the other movies and shows made it to home video.

Even the 70s series was released 15 years ago.

So, the question logically has to be... what happened?

People forgot about it? WB doesn't have the masters?

Rights issue?

We had the two 3D movies recently, they did okay, and I had hope for the show to come out finally.

Yet... nothing.

I really enjoyed it and would love a decent quality legal copy.

It had even John Astin as Gomez, come on! I hope it eventually happens.

And I hope that I'm not the only one.

Like Say Wednesday or Pugsley Addams are teenagers and they wanna go full rebellious teenager, so...is it preppy and loving your parents?

Being good to your siblings?

Wednesday goes pastel Goth, and Says goodmorning to her parents.

I am currently watching the 1960s tv show, and I love how The Addams Family all have love for each other, especially Morticia and Gomez.

Can anyone recommend any movies or tv shows similar to The Addams Family where the main characters are all nice to each other?

Anything within the same sort of goth/Halloween/kooky themes would be preferred, but I will be happy with any recommendations!

Thanks.

Even their last name wasn’t their’s at first. It was just the creator’s, Charles Addams.

Why is it that when people criticize Netflix's "Wednesday" series, they always go on about the fact that the Addams family members are not "equal" to previous versions?

As someone who has enjoyed the series, I recognize that the flaws are there, but the issue of fidelity to the "Addams canon" to me is really out of all logic.

Wednesday before Christina Ricci was more loving you could talk to, in the 1960s series Fester is Morticia's uncle, and in the 1990's movies he was Gomez's brother.

Pugsley is Wednesday's older brother in most iterations, but from what I hear, he is her little brother in the new Netflix series.

In Addams Family Values they have a third son named Pubert, but he does not make an appearance in any future installments, not even in Addams Family Reunion which came out only a few years later.

I'm pretty sure the grandmother is Morticia or that Gomez's mom changes between different series and movies, but the only thing I'm sure of is that she was Gomez's mom in the 1960s series.

I found the Addams family members in the Netflix series to be very good, simply once again something simply different was done.

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