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The Addams Family (1964 TV series)/YMMV


  • Adaptation Displacement: Of the original cartoons by the TV series.
  • Crosses the Line Twice: Mostly in the original New Yorker cartoons.
  • Ear Worm: Come on, be honest. What do you remember most about The Addams Family? Lurch's "you rang?" Fester's lighting a lightbulb in his mouth? Thing? Wrong. Anyone who's only ever even heard of The Addams Family will perk up at any mention of that famous "duh-nuh-nuh-nuh * snap snap* ."
  • Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory: John Zmirak once explained his tongue-in-cheek theory that the Addams clan represents "(A)n aristocratic, trad-Catholic homeschooling family trapped in a sterile Protestant suburb".
  • Fetish Fuel: Morticia's black dress is a Hobble skirt.
    • Gomez and Morticia, full stop. Especially the auction scene.
    • In-universe, everything Morticia does is this to Gomez.
      • And vice-versa, really.
  • Freud Was Right: Charles Addams' original name for "Pugsley" was "Pubert," but the TV network wouldn't allow the name. It was used as the baby's name in the second Addams Family film.
  • The Problem with Licensed Games: Played straight with the console versions, but the first film also lended itself to a superb pinball machine (featuring magnetic elements and new speech from the film actors). It's the best-selling pinball machine of all time and considered one of the greatest ever made.
  • Recycled Script: Most of the episodes of The New Addams Family were recycled from the original series.
  • Seinfeld Is Unfunny: Many of the TV Family's "weird" affectations (home computing, alternative medicine, being Goth).
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