What Happened To THE ADDAMS FAMILY? (A Full Series Retrospective) 

Barry Sonnenfeld represents the typical case of society focusing on the bad rather than the good. Such great movies created by Barry yet one misstep is enough to make him lose his career, it’s really unfortunate. Once again, fantastic video! Cracked up with the wolverine flirting XD

Apparently in the original ending for the Addams family movie, the imposter would gradually come to love the family and they would just take him in and the real Fester would never be found. But the cast thought it was so fcked up that they wanted it changed

Random Fun Fact: The Addams family was made to be the opposite of a normal family. So it makes the fact that Morticia and Gomez have such a good relationship really sad.

I grew up watching Addams Family reruns for the 60's black and white version and I loved it because my family was really abusive and "not normal" and the show made me feel understood, like "hey my family is so fucking deranged that we actually have a different vocabulary for everything than everyone else out in the real world," and Addams Family captured that for me... then 91 version also made me feel this sort of feeling of "the world may laugh at us, but we laugh at the world"... Then all the rest of the Addams Family shows and movies just kept me feeling like the creators didn't quite "get it". They don't understand what made Addams Family charming, kooky, deranged/edgy, and yet so endearing to its fans... it's about not fitting in, sure, but it's also about having such a dysfunctional family that fitting in with society is impossible. It's not just "being yourself"... it's literally feeling like the world can never understand you so when other people laugh at you, you make THEM the thing that's funny to you and you make your own twisted humor... and EVERY good Addams family is a double sided joke, a joke that is about the real world laughing at the weird family... and then the weird people also laughing back at the world. THAT is the main sit-com original charm... Addams Family needs to go back to it's roots with using Double Sided Humor. That's what it lost.

I think the worst thing about the 2019 Addams Family is that it could have been a commentary on "hipster goths" but no...they did the bare minimum and went home.

I kinda like the idea of Wednesday starting out as an innocent child then becoming more edgy as she gets older. I feel like that’s how most kids are, and the Addams don’t see an issue with it, whereas most other families would

I...don't know where the concept of "the Addams family are evil sociopathic serial killers and that's funny" came from when anyone who has actually been harmed while interacting with them has been through either hubris or bad luck. I'm not gonna pretend the movies are good but the Addams to me have always just been "Those weird spooky neighbors down the street" cranked to the extreme and given essentially immortality. Then again my introduction to them was the 90s cartoon where anybody who came across them were RIGHTFULLY ousted or humiliated with little hint they were actually dangerous outside of their home.

There’s also an Addams Family musical, which is genuinely fantastic. It’s full of the dark adult humor that makes the franchise so great. You should definitely check it out.

Shout out to Addams Family 1991 for being the only adaptation to give Pugsley a personality

Nary a word about Carolyn Jones' Morticia and how she tunes her languid sensuality to Astin's magnificent exuberance? Or how their relationship was so different from most tv parents of the 1960s? For shame, forsooth. It's been a while since I've watched the 1991 movies, but as I recall, there are hints to us all the way through that this is the real Fester: the Mamushka, for example; and, in fact the actions he takes to demonstrate his affection for the children, such as the way his help in "Hamlet" turns out. He is shocked back into correct memory by the book, and by that time, I, at least, am perfectly primed to understand that this is the full return of Fester.

As a pinball aficionado, I can confirm that the Addams Family Pinball table is one of the best that I have ever experienced. Seamless combination of great theme with great gameplay

Addams Family Values is my families thanksgiving film and we justify it with that play scene.

I would be interested in your take on the fan made "Adult Wednesday Addams". They are a series of five minute shorts available on RU-vid.

Addams family has to be one the weirdest franchises in history lmao

16:10 It's not "out of nowhere" When Gordon/Fester goes out to try and break into the safe, he ends up in the Graveyard. Morticia sees him and walks him through the family plot, going over the history of the Addams's and their credo. This is where Morticia signals "I know you're not Fester, but I'm going to let Gomez believe. But if you hurt him or harm us, I will kill you." All by asking if he understands the credo "Sic Gorgiamus Allos Subjectatos Nunc" or "We Gladly Feast on Those Who Would Subdue Us." Fester acknowledges this threat: "As an Addams, I understand" I think this was that tipping point. He knew he was on thin ice and to be convincing, he needed to play a larger role in the family. He calls his "mother" to help and we see little glimpses. He tells Puglsy what poison to use without blinking an eye. Gomez even admits that Fester was untrustworthy before his disappearance. After this we see Fester/Gordon talk with Abigail. I don't remember the exact lines, but it was "If you love me, you'll break into the vault, Gordon." And right after, Gomez is smiles and hitting golf balls. He invites Fester, but he refuses. Gomez tells Gordon that he belongs here. That leads to the play, the Mamushka, and Gordon/Fester's betrayal because of his mother. If you want to break it down further, it's about toxic vs healthy familiar relationships. Actual forgiveness and acceptance over manipulation.

Honestly I think that the A Series Of Unfortunate Events TV show directed by Barry sonnenfeld counts as a redemption from wild wild west

What on earth are you on about, 'Be yourself is a terrible message for the Addams Family'. This has been a core theme of the Addams Family since as long as I can remember. It's what drew me to the property in the first place, that no matter how messed up you are, there's a place for you somewhere. I don't understand how you can watch *everything* and still get that wrong.

The 1960s Adams were terriffic for their time. The 90s brought a sort of irreverence into media that made them finally look dated, specially for kids who reached adulthood in the 2010s. But the idea of an out of place family rather than said family living in a haunted mansion was still fresh in the early to mid 90s.

I'm someone that only watch the 90s Live Action Addams Family movies and I love it,the other adaptations don't bring nostalgia to me and I haven't watch last 2 version because I knew at the beginning that it was going to be insulting to the Fanbase and I was right to douch those bullets,I believe that the problem with the franchise is that it was afraid of being dark,cruel,and not captured what the sores material really is,like all adaptations nowadays they remove what is good and added alot of bad rendition,all in all there might be a chance that the Addams Family would return in some way,shape,and form if we hope and pray,but in reality the chances are extremely slim,I will stick with the 90s version since in my opinion they are the definitive version.

Wednesday and Fester were great in the show! He doesn't impersonate her son, she says flat out she found him, she leverages this against him when he says he doesn't want to kick the Addams out.

One of my favorite descriptions of the 1964 TV show Gomez and Morticia is that they're the only couple you could believe actually had kids. All other sitcom couples of the time were so sexless and sanitized they didn't even seem human, while the Addamses clearly passionate about each other. In their best adaptations -- the 1964 TV show and the 1991-1993 films -- Gomez and Morticia were the perfect couple, and the perfect parents. Even after all that time, their passions for each other were still fiery, they were clearly equal partners in the relationship, they were truly invested in the lives of their children without being overbearing or controlling in any way, had a great extended family dynamic, and really were superb role models as parents. (I mean, I loved the Munsters too, but Herman was clearly an idiot who would have been lost without Lily). I haven't seen any of the latest animated films, thanks to quite a few other reviews, and that dismal trailer completely put me off of the upcoming Wednesday series on Netflix.

I added timestamps so you can watch specific parts if you want to. Happy Halloween everybody!

Barry Sonnenfeld seems to have had something of a comeback recently with the Netflix adaptation of Series of Unfortunate Events, which I adore for many of the same reasons I love the 90s Addams family films! I honestly don’t think they could have picked a more perfect person to helm the project.

The biggest disappointment for me with the newer animated films is that they literally had Oscar Isaac voicing Gomez, and they still couldn't pull it together.

A lot of the movies/series you comment, I understood the plot very differently from you. (Maybe it's a question of translation tho). As an example, with the impostor Fester, it was very clear for me throughout the movie that the "mother" had fished the REAL Fester out of the water and manipulated him into believing he was his son and not Fester, so she could use him to get to the Addams money while insuring his total loyalty to her. Anyway, I think you completely missed the point of the Addams. They are not supposed to be dark humor sociopaths. They are supposed to embody what society fears or what makes society uncomfortable. Therefore they can either go towards the "worse than society is" point, or towards the "better than society is" point. The 1964 series as an example, embodies the healthy family dynamics (husband supporting his wife, parents supporting their children, no worries about the outside world because we keep strong together, destroying adversity with kindness and acceptance...) that makes the conservative right-wing bigots shiver in their boots. The 1960s American society was all about grooming / abusing the family into submitting to the head of the house husband - and the Addams of this time turned this model right on its head. In other movies, when the society started to feel that the "kinky, passionate couple still in love after marriage and two kids" was a threat to the traditional "couple hating each-other's guts and hating being married and hating the kids but hey that's what you're supposed to be" - the Addams became a passionate, kids-loving, kinky couple. And so on and so forth. They are meant to embody what we fear - and most importantly, what we fear AND DESIRE AT THE SAME TIME because we know that's what is healthy as a family dynamics, but we just cannot reach this point because the society tells us we must not be this way and that this way is dangerous. The Addams are subversive and you cannot expect them to be the same across time because what is subversive depends on the societal norms of the time.

The new Wednesday series is great. I had to rewatch it.

I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THERE WAS A 2021 FILM LMAOO I'm sadden that The Addams Family isn't being given the proper treatment in recent years.

Never thought I would say this in an Addams family review, but I LOVE Wild Wild West. The movie is a riot from start to finish and it is one of the rare instances that I actually like the steam punk aesthetic. Also I just love how much character the actors put into their performances.

I like Barry Sonnenfeld. He did well with the Netflix Lemony Snicket’s A series of unfortunate events, my favourite book series of all time. He was originally going to direct the Jim Carrey version in 2004, but left due to creative differences. I like the show, I feel as if it was made for him to adapt

22:15 I mean she had a contract with Disney prior to plus and when plus became a thing she had been getting brushed off by Disney for a reevaluation all the way until the release of the movie even though the conditions had changed. I don't think her career is dead because they're trying to pay her less because plus sales aren't theatre sales, a concept that didn't exist when the contract was initially made.

I would argue that the Addams family does have a message, at least in the 90s movies about pressure to assimilate into white middle class society and the assumption that "normal" looking people are never the dangerous ones but you do have to really pay attention to notice it...

I think one of my favorite Addams Family properties (besides the early 90s films) is the short series Adult Wednesday Addams here on youtube. It's not an "official" addams family product but it is so good and I feel like the woman who makes them really understands what the Addams' are about

The original 60s show I think was awesome for what it was a Family show version held back by the rating board. To me, the 60s show is like the 60s version of Batman fun in its family-friendly campy way. The 90s movies are the best representation of the source material The New Addams Family was OK to alright for the child audience it was aimed at nearly all the episodes are remakes of the 60s series I don't hate that show It just wasn't made for me. The 2 new animated films I haven't seen in long enough time to remember how I felt I remember thinking 2019 one was fine for the family audience. I never had a problem with the character designs that never really bothered me.

John Astin was the best of the original show, but I think the early 90s was the best era we're probably ever going to get. Raul Julia was really good at trying to recapture the best of Astin while also being Raul Julia, an actor who somehow makes the best movie ham.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the stage musical. 31:39 I'm surprised you didn't mention that that's Carel Struycken returning from the Sonnenfeld films.

I've accepted that I may be an outlier, as the 60's cast is always my first thought, but the Julia/Huston/Ricci/et al films truly are masterpieces of the time -- no doubt

In the '91 film, I got the impression it wasn't him impersonating her son, it was a woman who saw a simpleton she could take advantage of by playing his mom and getting him to do her dirt work, while also abusing him into submission anytime he stood up for himself. A little more like Overboard than Anastasia. But I haven't seen it in awhile, so maybe I'm mistaken.

I actually like that new Wednesday series. I've only seen 2 episodes but, they were great. You can tell Ortega....as Wednesday....saw Christina Ricci's performance as her starting point and Ricci even pops up later. I'll watch the rest of these at some point.

While I agree with most of the assessments here, there's ONE fatal flaw in your argument that I can not agree with. And that's the nature of The Addams Family itself. At its core, The Addams Family is NOT evil. At all. The core principle behind Charles Addams' cartoons was that weird is subjective. The family was used always in juxtaposition to the society around it. When everyone thinks that the proper thing was to have a nice house with well groomed lawns, the Addams lived in a decrepit house with dead gardens. When girls would play with sanitised nice dolls, Wednesday would chop of their heads and play with spiders. The problem with adapting The Addams Family today is that society itself went completely bizarre. So when you put the Addams' in it, it no longer works because the contrast went away. For the Family to work in modern day, you'd have to have them do things that go against the grain. For example, when everyone is pathetically playing along with the "preferred pronouns" stuff, you'd need them to oppose it. When everyone thinks the place of women is in the workforce and being "independent and needing no man", you'd need them to do the opposite. Etc etc. Otherwise it doesn't work.

As a writer, I love these videos. Especially the videos you have about villains (which is my favorite character type to write for). It really helps me when I'm trying to figure out what the audience wants in characters and stories.

I am currently hopeful for the Netflix's"Wednesday".Let's see what happens with that...🖤🤞(I don't think she'll be able to replace Christina Ricci in my heart,but...I see potential.)

One year later, the show Wednesday is ✨✨

For arugment though, the 98 Addams Family series did a lot of the darker humor as deadpan to make it sound it was normal to them. I always got a chuckle out of how Gomez and Morticia planned the Romeo and Juilet style suicide.

I think its interesting how much the original tv show snuck in. Theres lots of bondage gear in The Playroom. The hers/his bed of nails. Which the 90s movie hint at when Tish is all tied up and Gomez tells her how its driving him crazy to see her like this and she says, later my love. Or when Tulley pulled the ropes tighter on the rack and Tish replies...you've done this before with a smile.

I had no idea the 1998 Reunion movie even existed until now, but it looks like that was for the better. It was fun seeing all the franchise's main installments laid out and reviewed, good work.

And the sad thing is, there's still an even worse version of the Addams Family than the worst version showcased here. The Addams Family Musical- which on paper with Nathan Lane playing Gomez should have been in my Top Five favorite Addams rendition- completely missed the point of the family, had Wednesday trying to break away from the family to be more normal, Morticia jealous of her daughter's youth and beauty, and a plotline about Gomez and Morticia being worried that they were cheating on each other- which I have seen well done versions of, in the 60's show with Gomez being jealous, and allow me to assure you it was not remotely handled anywhere close to that. Just all around awful.

I am trying to get myself to be satisfied with accepting and rewatching the stories I love. The Addams family is a key example. For a while, I craved that there would be more - more movies, more time to dwell in their dark but loving family, more time where I could dissociate from this world. But I got my wish and it was terrible. So I'm trying to be content. Trying.

Wait wait, people see the point of the family as evil but funny people? I always saw them as literally the perfect family, they're just.... cooky. I thought that (while going over the top too much, like Gomez eating coffee grounds) the animated movies captured that pretty well (of course I was really drunk when I watched it so)

...And then Wednesday (2022)

How is the 91 movie your favorite, but you somehow misunderstood the plot so much. The bermuda triangle story was the cover made up by the "doctor" lady to explain why Fester just came back from the dead and Fester gets shocked by lightning from the storm book and remembers that he actually did get lost at sea and his "mother" really did find him only instead of helping him she just used and emotionally manipulated him as a servant and enforcer. She just used partial truths in their cover story. The bermuda story doesn't come out of nowhere and it is revealed that he is Fester, or at least not really the doctor lady's son, before that seven months later thing, because she gets fed up with him and yells at him something to the effect of "I wish I never found you on that beach and bothered to pretend you were my son". As for coming to care for the Addams, the movie contrasts the manipulative relationship between Fester and his "mom" and the unusual but loving and healthier relationship between him and the Addams family. Fester sees the contrast and begins to care about the Addams to the point where he feels guilty for betraying them and wants to stop, but he can't because he believes it is a relationship built on lies. He begins to resent his "mother" and get caught up in the lie that he really is a part of a loving family. His "mother" doubles down on the manipulation and directly threatens to withhold her "love" if he doesn't continue the plan.

1.) What I like about Addams Family '92 other than the show itself is how Wednesday is portrayed as she's looks like a perfect mix between her 1960s tv show and 1991 movie counterparts. She's a mischievous kid but not one to be messed with. 2.) Sometimes I usually get the meaning behind the Addams Family confused because of all the different iterations. Are the really evil? Are they just a creepy & kookie family who are just living life their own way?

I remember really liking the 90ies animated show when it aired on Cartoon Network. I also remember it going absolutely off the rails at times. Like the neighbor family that was obsessed with underwear for some reason. Or when Thing became a model.

It's funny you say you hold the Nineties ones as your definitive Addams Family, because I hold the Sixties show the same way. Part of Wednesday's charm in that show for me was that she acted like any other "normal" six-year-old, she just happened to like holding funerals for her headless dolls. Plus, with Sixties censorship, it's amazing that Gomez and Morticia's relationship still comes off so passionate - doing more with less. (No shade on the Sonnenfeld movies, I love them, too)

The New Addams Family was my childhood introduction to the Addams Family. It might be terrible but I have nostalgic love for it.

Addams family values is my favorite one too. I'll never forget the scene where the camp counselors put wednesday, pugsley & their friend in the cabin & made them watch all of the disney movies & they cane out acting nice. Wednesday's face difficuly contorting into a long smile, her blnking, the other kids leaning back in shock & that little girl beth saying "she's scaring me" is absolutely one of the most hilarious scenes EVER 🤣😂!! That, along with wednesday & her native american co-horts attacking & taking over the play & the camp made her the best wednesday of all & made us all fall in love with her in that role. Jenna ortega is good, but christina ricci is still my overall favorite wednesday!!

i searched for over 2 Years before finding a VHS Tape with the 1998s Addams, and i cried afterwards. Its unbelieveable, and now i try to laugh my Pain away with you.

Adult Wednesday Adams was quite good. Pity she got a cease and desist after season 2.

That was a pleasurable experience

39:10 its really the default message. One, that if you ask me, has been given a little too much. Sometimes being "yourself" is obnoxious to the people around you, and your impulses arent always the right thing to do in every moment. So have some freaking self awareness, and maybe make "yourself" someone less obnoxious, and *then* be yourself.

"When Charles Addams set out to invert the 'ideal' family, he managed to highlight and satirize everything that’s wrong with it - reminding us that perfect is all about perception." "The writer of Addams Family Values says it's a satire of Bush-era conservatism"

I don't understand why people would not like Wild Wild West's Kenneth Branagh performance, he's the most enjoyable part of the movie!

10:04 eew! Lol😂 🥲 the voice is definitely unexpected. Hahaha

“Two years after, he released Wild Wild West” 😃!! “A film that was basically universally hated” 🙁..

Childhood things I never realized 😫I always thought the dr. found Fester and pretended to be his mother? And that it actually was the real Fester that she had convinced him he was his mother so she could use him as “muscle” ??

Fun fact: Joan Cusack (aka the actor for Debbie in the Addams Family Values) is the same actor who played Jessie in Toy Story 4

Fun fact: the Netflix Wednesday show is releasing on a Wednesday. My excitement is immeasurable

According to the TV broadcast on The Black Widow, she's used other names and changed her hair colour repeatedly. Probably not enough to shake of a really competent investigation, mind you!

“This wouldn’t be a episode if everything didn’t end in the worst way possible” Wednesday: I gotchu homie

I honestly enjoyed the Addams family 1992 and the 1964 show. The family value movie is good too.

I took the Fester thing in the Addams Family movie as Fester being discovered by that woman and she using him by telling him she was his mother, rather than him switching places with her son.

I think the real issue is that these companies just don’t understand goths in general or what made the Addams family good to begin with.

I have only looked at the time stamps and I felt a wave of relief to see Addams Family Reunion there because I watched that movie once many years ago and wondered for a while if I had imagined it because no one I ever mentioned it to had ever heard of it, but now I have confirmation: it exists, and some people are, in fact, aware of it existing. XD

That adult cartoon show with the kids hitting puberty is just too much lmao it’s passed sausage party ending too much. Lol

I can't add to what you said about everything that makes "Addams Family Values" absolutely PERFECT!

I grew up with a boxset of the 60s show and fell in love with the movies (especially the sequal) as a teenager too. I was even lucky enough to get the chance to perform in a production of the musical a few years ago. Truly one of the most iconic families of all time, thank you for doing them justice!

This is amazing man

I always did like Gomez from the 60s rendition. Aston just has this look permanently etched onto his face like he’s about to do something diabolical I especially love his part in the intro after it shows morticia and her finger snap it just cuts to Gomez smilin takes a deep breath then snaps his fingers all whilst staring right at the camera… freaking psycho and I love it! 😂

When the first live action show was my favorite Addams family 👁👄👁 I love the vibrancy of the live action movies though. I really wish that Tim Burton directed Addams family stop motion had come to fruition The Broadway musical is trash what they do to Wednesday. And they literally had morticia sing a song about how she couldnt wait to die (not out of character) because Gomez was a DISAPPOINTING HUSBAND (VERY OUT OF CHARACTER WTFFFFFFF THEYRE LIKE THE MOST IN LOVE TWO FICTIONAL CHARACTERS EVER??? ?? ?????) Also 39:50 THANK you for saying this, so many people are like "they're actually great people and a great family they're just goth" LIKE NO THEY BURY CATS ALIVE SUMMON DEMONS DROP BABIES OFF OF BUILDINGS AND MURDER PEO P L E

The characters didn’t have names in the comics, and weren’t named until the original sitcom in 1964. Pubert was actually the originally proposed name for Pugsley, but the showrunners thought it sounded too perverse, so they went with the name Pugsley instead.

There was a RU-vid show called "Adult Wednesday" that was amazing. I believe actress had to abandon that particular premise due to her not having the rights of the property and getting popular for doing something genuinely entertaining with it, but it was pretty darn good. The premise was fairly simple but made for some fresh and funny scenarios. Wednesday is now an adult living in everyday society. I feel super sad because it managed to be really funny from the dialougue and actor talent without any bells and whistles. I only learned about the new Netflix show from watching g this review. I looked it up and yeah..the premise sounds like tha show but done as a Netflix origional rebook of a known property. Wednesday is older but she is in high-school, because of course we need another show about high-school life with a quirky protagonist. She is solving mysteries with her friends and learning to use her psychic powers in a "coming of age" show. This is a show about WEDNESDAY ADAMS right? This kind of thing is done a lot on Netflix and other streaming platforms with shows like hotel transylvania, cloudy with a chance of meatballs, and plenty more. They take characters and locations from an existing franchise and warp it to fit a yarget demographic and popular formula with complete disregard for anything previously established. A lot of times they claim it exists in an alternate reality as an excuse. They tend to pander to what they think will draw a crowd over making good content. This one in particular seems very similar in plot to the new Velma show and I wouldn't be surprised if thar was not partially responsible.. The sad part though is that this doesn't seem to be the Adam's family getting this treatment but rather the "Adult Wendseday" getting it. The creator of that show did a great job and was rewarded by having it shut down by the owners of the preoperty..and now it seems a watered down and commercialized version is what thye are putting out. I can't say if it is bad or good from the premise alone but it certainly discourages me. I really wish you talked about "Adult Wendesday" even a bit because it was the first time (I'm aware of at least) that the concept of a older Wednesday being the lead of a show was done. The fact this Netflix one was mentioned but the RU-vid show was not is just sad and am indication on how well the property owners covered it up. It wasn't the most amazing thing ever, but especially for what ot was on the kind of budget it had, it was leagues ahead of the official failures that came recently and deserves some credit for that. It honestly felt a but like an old Monty Python sketch meeting the Adam's family with the episodes being a sketch in mostly one location and being interactions between Wednesday and other characters. The focus was on the mysterious and dark manner in which Wednesday behaved and that goes back to the root of why people loved the Adam's family in the first place. No disengenuine message pushing or gimiks. Just a focus on the characters and subversion of expectations that was their own regular standard. It's too late for you to add it to your review but as a clear fan of this franchise I urge you to look into it if you still can. A little side note..the poster for the new Nextix series with Wednsday mostly in sillhioute depicts her playing a violin with a large carving knife but is clearly ripping off imagry from the "Alice: Madness Returns" series of dark games based off of the Lewis Caroll "Alice" stories. Again..I can't judge a series before it begins but this art feels too close to be a coincidence and I hate when stuff like that is done. It isn't even in a Tim Burton style of artwork which you would expect with his name attached. A great artist knows and popular for his unique style is attached to the project so I see no reason that they had to do this other than to use imagry they know was successful with another dark property. I don't know when playing a violin was a particularly iconic part of Wednesday's character to use in promotional material or what it has to do with the show (the only stretch is she is solving mysteries so it's a twisted Sherlock Holmes refrence?) but the way it is depicted has the violin less immediatly noticeable to the silhouetted, Victorian dressed young woman with outstretched hand loosely holding a carving knife in front of her abdomin. I know I've seen this imagry before as a Todd Mcfarlin "Alice" statuette and in other media associated with the dark remaining video game series. At least THAT dark female profanonist based franchise had the guts to make the knife (and her clothing) splattered in blood. I would say I want to see a movie/series based on "Alice: Madness Returns" but I feel the Time Burton Disney version is close to what we would get (the sequal even seems to have lifted elements from it) and any stream show would probably get the same treatment most do in this case.

Another great video

Most of the time I remember the 1993 version, because of the summer camp scene. Really does give the fish out of water vibes, I felt related to it which is probably why I remembered that part specifically and why I felt so uncomfortable like I was out of my own environment.

In the unconvincinvg epilogue to the 1991 movie, it's stated that the creepy mother (in her fake identity of Dr. Pinderschlosse) actually adopted the amnesiac Fester. This explains why he was with her as her son, but not all the lines where she implies that she is his biological mother.

“Would you *die* for me~?” “YUESHHH”

It feels amazing when you use the youtube search feature and find EXACTLY what you were looking for.

Are you going to review Wednesday? I really enjoyed the show.

I fell in love with the Carolin Jones and Angelica Houston versions of THE ADDAMS FAMILY + Morticia Addams

I feel like every kids cartoon in the late 1960s and early 1970s were about just driving around in a car. They all wanted to be the next Scooby Doo

So happy you mentioned the pinball table!

I barely remember the 1973 animated version if the characters, but definitely remembered how Gomez sounded wrong! In the crossover episode with Scooby Doo in "The New Scooby Doo Movies", all the adult actors from the 60s series (minus Blossom Rock as Grandmama), all reprised their roles and were still great. Of course the series didn't turn up in reruns while the NSDM did, so that's the only reason I remember that version more fondly. Ultimately, I prefer the 1960 live action series.

Welp, I’ll be waiting for you to admit that Wednesday has saved the series

I mean They’re supposed to live in a suburban neighborhood, that’s what makes it funny, you’re just walking down the street of your new neighborhood and then you see a giant Victorian mansion just sitting there I’m pretty sure the giant haunted House on a Hill thing is kind of cliché

Wednesday will be out soon I'm so excited tim Burton is perfect for the Adams family

fester in the 91 movie was always fester with amnesia. if you pay attention through parts of the movie he reacts to the family in ways no one but an addams would like catching all of gomez's thrown daggers. and instantly knowing the mamushka dance

The 1990s Addams Family introduced me to the 1964 Addams and it’s my absolute favorite out of all of them.

Brilliant cuts in your introduction.

You should see Addams Family the musical, it's delightful :)

I mean... I guess the franchise is keeping with Gomez Addam's insane level of luck where it succeeds for no reason, even when it shouldnt.

One word, subscribed!!! Thanks for the video I was five when the the film came out and its one of my all-time favorites so needless to say I'm a huge fan of the two films. I definitely agree with what you said here I didn't even bother to see the two new films and I'm glad I didn't. Anyway, please keep up the great work!

32:43 Am I seeing things? For a split-second after Gomez's dramatic "flip", we see RAUL JULIA standing there - obviously STOLEN from the original Addams Family movie! I swear it is him!