They’re Certainly Creepy and Kooky, however What Are the Addams Family Members Supposed To Be?

Nov. 16 2022, Published 11:12 a.m. ET

They're creepy and they are kooky, mysterious and spooky, they are all together ooky, but what are they? Questions regarding the species, so to speak, of the ghoulish Addams Family had been swirling for decades. And with the upcoming Nov. 23, 2022, unencumber of Netflix's horror-comedy sequence Wednesday — which stars incredible scream queen Jenna Ortega (X) as the woeful Wednesday Addams — people are more curious than ever.

We're right here to speak about what the heck the Addams Family members are supposed to be. Are they undead? Are they even human? Let's chat.

What are the Addams Family members supposed to be?

For those that do not know, the Addams Family spawned from artist Charles "Chas" Addams' deliciously macabre comic panels for The New Yorker, the first of which debuted in 1938. According to Smithsonian Magazine, the first comic noticed an unwavering salesman drop by way of a haunted mansion to tout his “vibrationless, noiseless” vacuum. He described it as a “great time and a again saver” that “no well-appointed home must do without.”

It's more likely that you understand the gothic family from the Sixties sitcom, aptly titled The Addams Family. The creepy clan has additionally been the topic of a large number of motion pictures from 1991 to 2021. Clearly, their hair-raising influence is timeless.

As it turns out, the Addams Family is just, nicely, a "normal" family. Charles Addams described his introduction as a “satirical inversion” of the archetypal American family. It's more than glaring that Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday, Pugsley, Uncle Fester, Grandmama, the furry Cousin Itt, and their Frankenstein-like butler, Lurch (we can nearly listen him utter the words "You rang?"), are a bit of bizarre. With that being stated, they're technically human.

Then there may be the helpful Thing T. Thing — a cryptic creature whose frame is simply too ghastly to be printed in its entirety. In the tv sequence, Thing is solely observed as a human hand that pops out of tiny boxes. He typically provides a serving to hand, no pun meant. Everyone say "thank you, Thing."

In Barry Sonnenfeld's 1991 movie, however, Thing is pictured as a severed hand that scurries round on its palms. Neither iteration of Thing rings of humanlike qualities, on the other hand, the TV collection version signifies that Thing is not even remotely human.

"They did that wrong in that picture," TV sequence writer Seaman Jacobs informed the Television Academy of the 1991 film, according to MeTV. "They showed the hand out there. That was not the idea of our gag. The gag was: What is at the end of the hand? What is connected to the hand? That made no sense to see Thing all by itself."

With a sprinkling of imagination, Thing can be no matter you need him (or it?) to be.

Grandmama Addams is depicted as a witch.

Charles Addams originally described Grandmama as a "disrespectful old hag" who "willingly helps with the dishes, cheats at solitaire and is roughly dishonest."

"The complexion is dark, the hair is white and frizzy and uncombed... she has a light beard and a large mole... foolishly good-natured... fumbling, weak character... is easily fooled."

Per Slash Film, Grandmama "is Gomez's (and sometimes Fester's) mother." While she is alive and nicely in the iconic '60s sitcom, in the short-lived 1998 remake collection, and in the animated films, Grandmama is as dead as a doornail in the '90s flicks.

In the three '90s motion pictures "she resides in the Addams' family graveyard, having been murdered along with her husband by an angry mob, who presumably killed them for being too different."

In versions the place she has a pulse, Grandmama is a witch, as is Morticia's eerie mother, Granny Frump. Hilariously, Grandmama and Granny Frump will every now and then butt heads whilst making an attempt to percentage the kitchen — aka their potion-making lair.

Being an enchantress does not make her any much less human.

In fact, Newsweek launched a piece of writing in 2018 titled "Number Of Witches Rises Dramatically Across U.S. As Millennials Reject Christianity." The article declared that "the number of witches and Americans practicing Wicca religious rituals increased dramatically since the 1990s," and that "there may be at least 1.5 million witches" in the U.S.

Grandmama is one in every of thousands and thousands of human sorceresses.

Wednesday premieres on Wednesday (obviously), Nov. 23, 2022, on Netflix.

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