The Creepy and Kooky History of The Addams Family 

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The Wednesday Addams I know will always be that blank faced girl that's sadistic and enjoys the darker things in life. I thought that Addams Family Values did a perfect way of capturing the romantic aspect with Wednesday. She wasn't boy crazy and still had that sadistic side of her, even scaring her love interest at the end.

So happy I made it to the end of this to catch that great Simpsons reference.

I grew up with Cartoon network and the old Addam's family cartoon from the 90s. Every incarnation brings me joy. Due to the unconditional love that family has for one another.

I was surprised at what the family looked like for the 2019 movie. Especially Gomez. I've always seen Gomez Addams to be like really tall and handsome and debonair but I never saw the original drawings of the comics. So then when I saw the 2019 version I was like are you kidding me what is this? And then when I looked back and saw some of the original Comics I was like, oh my gosh! That is so faithful to it. Pleasant surprise

I have watched and re-watched the original show, it's my favorite. I loved the first two movies with Raul Julia and Angelica Houston. Morticia & Gomez are still couple goals.

How are your videos not getting millions of hits??? They're so freakin well done man. Every video is so polished, well thought out, and researched. I can't wait to see your channel blow up and get to say I was here for the early days.

I appreciate how far you went with your passion for this series! Great job!

This video deserves way more views. You did a great job dissecting this wonderful franchise

I love the Addams Family. I feel it would be fun and some times get ideas for a modern version. One that would add more characters, and give a shout out and a voice any one in real life who lives differently. overall I liked the video. Wish you had gone in to more details on a few areas. But I liked it.

THANK YOU! I've been watching Addams Family since I was little with my mom. I always thought Morticia and Gomez were such a cute couple. This is the perfect start to Halloween! Great work man!!!

Back in the fall of 1965, My late pop took me to the main library. While there, I found a collection of The new Yorker Adams family cartoons, that I checked out, and was blown away by. They managed to do perhaps, the best translation to the screen ever done.

I think they can make a 3rd Addams Family movie with Wendesday and Pugsly grown up. Wednesday can be the new Morticia married to the boy in the second movie and she pities him as he loves her. Pugsly can look like Fester and Pubert can be a spitting image of Gomez. An older Morticia is basically the new grandmama. The movie can say that Gomez has just passed away and Morticia is in mourning but proud how how Gomez went out like an Addams. Say that he went mad and a mob went after him with torches. His mausoleum can be the grandest in the cemetery. Fester hangs around with his beloved Dementia and their kids. They can say Lurch went away to live out his playboy ways and have a new butler who is Lurch like. Thing has a lady Thing.

can’t wait to watch this all when i finish work!

Ted Cassidy didn't entirely improvise "You rang". He borrowed it from a popular show called The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, where it was the catch phrase of Maynard G Krebs. The characters from that show were later the basis for the characters on Scooby Doo (who met the Addams Family, as you mentioned), with Maynard becoming Shaggy. And Bob Denver, who played Maynard, later went on to be Gilligan of Gilligan's Island. Both Gilligan and Shaggy met the Harlem Globetrotters. It's a weird little nexus around a show most people seem to have forgotten.

If only you waited 2 MORE YEARS to do this I would love what you have to say about The Netflix Series Wednesday. But this was an awesome video. Hats Off to you

Someone's gotta write an Addams Family cookbook

Happy Halloween!!!

this was an excellent video! also fun fact! if you go to westfield, the birthplace for charles addams, there are murals of the addams family that you can find when you enter the city! on top of that, westfield does an annual celebration every october called addamfest! they've been doing this since 2018 to honor charles addams and lemme tell you the decorations and paintings that are put up are incredible! i haven't been able to attend one since my family is religious so they're sensitive abt halloween stuff but i remember going into westfield during an addamfest celebration while we were going to a restaurant and stuff i've seen were stunning!

This one looks like one of the channels best

The thing about Saban Entertainment's Addams Family productions is they OWNED Fox Kids and Fox Family because of their Power Rangers successes…until they ended up selling to Disney (in 2001)

Well, if you thought the 2019 version was bland, now we have the 2021 version which is even more bland! You know what Addams Family needs? A family-bonding road trip! No wait, they need Wednesday to want to not be an Addams! Hell, just do both plots at the same time, and while you’re at it, make Fester an octopus!

Still love the Addams family to this day so goofy.😂

The cartoon also changed mama to morticia's mother instead of Gomez's

Don't forget that the character Lurch was inspired by the performance of Boris Karloff as Morgan the mute drunkard butler in the 1932 film "The Old Dark House" directed by James Whale.

I Remember This Invader Zim Halloween Episode & For Some Reason I Found It SO FUNNY That He Called Trick-Or-Treaters, "The Halloweenies". (It was a 2Parter By the way)

When you said goth I thought you said golf lol

Fantastic video. Since this I’ve been watching the original 1964 Addams Family show, and already it’s got me hooked. On a side note, I love the fitting use of Grim Fandango music. That really put a smile on my face.

I heard you mention this project on stream last night, so I got curious to watch the video, and man, this retrospective is a nauseatingly underrated. You bet your butt I'm gonna share this vid when I can, this deserves more views lol.

As weird as It might seem, I had never seen the 90's movies until recent years. In my personal case, I grew with the 60's show because I used to watch It with my grandma.

loved this video and the addams family! exceptional work!

You forgot the Wednesday Addams as an adult RU-vid shorts but I think it was unauthorized.

Great video, as for the 60s Addams family guy, it had a back to back rerun with the Munsters for a Halloween marathon in my local station in the early 2000s, plus when I met Astin's son, Sean, He was amazed that I knew that much about his father.

We still don't know what happened to Parker and her friends. The sequel should have told us.

watching wednesday has awoken my interest in the addams family again. i never had a connection to it for some reason and now i really wished i did, but I'm gonna catch up one day. this was a great video and i loved to learn so much about this strange family.

There are a lot of parts of The Addams Family 2019 that work, but it also has a lot of problems.

So Charles Addams was sort of the Angus Oblong of his day, more or less.

Toorific Tariq has Peanuts, Hats Off Media has the Addams Family

I'm glad you mention Tim Burton's project that became the hit series Wednesday on Netflix. Wednesday Addams is my favorite character in the Addams world.

Fun fact...the day that "Fester Disappeared" coincided with the date the "Adam's Family" was canceled. As in the day The Movie premiered, was the stated time after The Show was stopped being produced, at least this is the urban legend I heard.

the 90's CN animated series was great so weird hearing Edna Krappable's voice as Pugsley's teacher

24:34 "...but it's Moe, with a lolly...it's so out of character..!!"

very nice documentary! KUDOS! thanks for posting!

This is the video I was looking for!

Tim burton is finally doing the addams family movie.

You forgot the addams family animated series from 1992-1993!

Elvira and Morticia, they forever will be the goth milfs! 🥰

Thank you for this

Hello, I love your video and how detailed you were. Awesome job!

Say what you will, but I saw the musical in Atlanta at the Fox Theatre and it was extremely magical. The best musical I’ve ever seen. Just pure heaven. Great soundtrack too

Thanks for this good video

Loving this video btw

You and I had the same first screen crush, my man. And, like you, she left me with a lifelong type as well :P Also, are you related to Hats Off Entertainment? It's another YT channel that also does film related content. In fact he even did a video on the Tim Curry Addams Family movie. Your content is great but maybe a different channel name might be in order (though I have to imagine that rebranding is a pain in the ass)? Cuz I'll be honest, that's why I initially clicked. Glad I did, though. Again, excellent video.

"Don Knotts" "Dem Nuts" i know why you can't stop saying it bro

Great video

Great job, thank you for making this! I would love to see a followup video with your thoughts about the new Wednesday show!

I hope you do a video like this for The Munsters.

"Fester the not Imposter"......a badass name for a wrestling character

I'll be interested to see your follow up video on the new Wednesday series. I watched it the day it came out and binged all 8 episodes. I haven't enjoyed a new show that much in the longest time. Just the right mixture of gothic imagery, grim-dark humor, a mystery plot, and an incredible cast.

Mmmm, Grim fandango music.. Nice touch. 💀

Tim turned down the Addams family in 1992 but it’s okay cause it’s full circle now Tim burtons Wednesday is a thing lmao

You should totally make an updated video for the second Addams Family animated film and the TV show Wednesday!

I love they house.

I just watch this after the new netflix series Wednesday Addams, the 1990's version and the first 1960's one will always be iconic but the 2022's version also good. You should watch it and review it too!

The other day, I saw Lurch at the metallic harpsicord - playing Chopin!

I stumbled upon the 60 sitcom back in 2020 and my god it is my absolute favorite. It’s hilarious. I’m 23 btw. So not exactly old or young yet it captured me all the same. I’m sorta glad the character aren’t more dark. I think it’s better that they are a happy loving family living in their own dark strange world rather than a more malicious family like you would have expected. They don’t use bear traps, explosives, and knives to be cruel it just family game night. They are an icon for a happy family and proving that conforming to social norms and convention are not what is needed to be happy. The themes are so incredibly ahead of time. Watching it today and seeing how romantic and affection Gomez and Morticia don’t shock me in the slightest but for the 1960s that in it self was probably considered strange, gross, and inappropriate and exactly the reason why it was included. They were the opposite of what society expected so why would they care that outwardly affection was shameful. And Morticia was so independent and had as much control as Gomez. In fact, it was better than some feminist view where the female plays the head of household instead they were equally head of household. Hardly ever wanting to step over the other. And the children honest felt as awkward as real children. Lol. I don’t need them to have perfectly distinct personalities because they are children growing into themselves. And everyone else, Lurch, Uncle Festar, grandmama. All perfect as well. I think I was just so infatuated with the relationship of Gomez and Morticia that I was going to like the show no matter what. And the humor, how they think they are the normal ones and everyone else is strange, nails it every time for me.

Correction for the addams family 1973 cartoon I believe the only original 60s cast supplied the voices for the cartoon was Jackie Coogan who played fester and Ted Cassidy reprised his role as doing the voice for Lurch

Oh right I don't have fingers

I do hope you've Netflix Wednesday at this point.. It's an epic addition to the family history!

I actually really enjoy the Addams Family musical. The songs are catchy and it captures the spirit of the characters well. Its main flaw is that the plot is basically just The Birdcage with the Addamses thrown in. ("Quick! We all have to appear normal for our kid's fiancée's family!")

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Every couple should aspire to Gomez/Morticia levels of romance.

Ironic how Tim Burton turned it down.

"oh boy does it have problems" what a fucking cocky assed arrogant statement. i just found this channel. and I'll be leaving it now. i really love these new animated versions.

Why you do not have over 50subs k yet? I'm new and fan

This is a great video!!! I also really don’t like Lloyd as Fester. Like I mean he was just playing himself, and I feel like the only thing he did with that character was additional slap stick

Blossom Rock was the sister of Jeanette MacDonald.

So come to find out Orion back down because they didn't have faith in the film. Maybe if they had space in it the movie could have made them a little bit of money and could have saved their Studio

I like Reunion.

33:31= "...It's a really easy-to-follow movie, but where it soars....is in its execution." Ha! Well said. And just in case you missed it, notice Fester's appearance in the 1991 film's teaser trailer at 31:09. The production was still experimenting with facial prosthetics on Christopher Lloyd - who's all but recognizable here - though they would ultimately go without them.

Did you ever watch Adult Wednesday Addams?

Who’s here after Tim burton finally gets to make an Addams family project

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Don Knotts or the Harlem Globetrotters. You're forgetting just how much they were on the show too.

POV: You’re here after watching Wednesday on Netflix

Will you do an update now that “Wednesday” is coming out on Netflix??

Speed Racer is awful. I can't even stay awake through it. 😅😬

43:00 The last... :(

6' 9" damn

😍😍😍😍😍

Avgn cover fester's quest

I don't like Wednesday's boyfriend subplot.

I h0pe a New moVie will com ouT like the 1st 2

47:28 The animation is awful. The skin looks plasticy and the film looks super cheap. The textures aren't up to par with Pixar. Also making that Addams family afraid of people spoils the joke. The whole point is that they think they are normal and completely aloof and unaware that people are scared of them.

I'm only here becuz Toonrific. Make me smile. 😐

Hey you know donald trump apears in every movies

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why would you make it political you were doing good,,.lame junk

the original morticia was hot