THE ADDAMS FAMILY

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The Addams Family is a creation of American cartoonist Charles Addams that appears in print cartoons, television shows, movies and video games. A satirical inversion of the ideal American nuclear family, the Addamses are an eccentric, wealthy family who delight in everything grotesque and macabre and are unaware that people find them bizarre or frightening.

Addams's cartoons in The New Yorker magazine originally gained popularity in the 1930s. He was noted for his morbid sense of humor, and over the years various bizarre people and creatures who lived in a huge decaying Second Empire house became recurring characters.

Premise
(Addams' original cartoons were one-panel gags and he never developed any of the characters or even gave them names until the sitcom was being developed. All information below is derived from the various media versions.)

The family that the cartoons, movies, and television shows are based on is apparently only one surviving branch of the Addams clan. Many other "Addams families" exist all over the world. Their family credo, according to the film version, is Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc (pseudo-Latin: "We gladly feast on those who would subdue us").

They reside next to a cemetery and a swamp at 0001 Cemetery Ridge, in a gloomy mansion. (Charles Addams was first inspired by his home town of Westfield, New Jersey, an area full of ornate Victorian mansions and archaic graveyards.)[1]

Although they all share macabre interests, the Addamses cannot be considered evil people. They are a close-knit extended family, regularly attending events involving the children and loudly cheering their accomplishments (despite the two usually doing very poorly at whatever is being attempted). Morticia and Gomez remain passionate toward one another. She sometimes calls him "Bubbele" (a Yiddish term of endearment), to which he responds by kissing up and down her arms - behaviour which Morticia can also evoke by speaking a few words of French, such as "specialite de maison". Also, in several of the TV episodes, the family is unfailingly friendly and hospitable to their visitors, even though these are often horrified at the Addams' lifestyle.

Addams Family characters

Family members and servants
The Addams family consists of Gomez, Morticia, Pugsley, Wednesday, Uncle Fester, and Grandmama. The family is attended to by their butler, Lurch and their servant, Thing, a disembodied hand in a box.


Gomez
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Gomez Alonzo Addams is the Addams patriarch. He is the husband of Morticia and the father of Wednesday and Pugsley. Originally Grandmama's son, this was retconned later on to make him Grandmama's son-in-law. His brother (originally uncle-in-law) is Uncle Fester.

Gomez is portrayed as a charming, handsome, and successful man, although he takes a childlike, eccentric enthusiasm to everything he does. For instance, his personal portrait depicts him as standing gleefully on his head. Though a peaceful man, he is known to be well-versed in many types of combat. He and Morticia fence with foils sometimes.

Gomez has an endless love for Morticia. He studied to be a lawyer, but rarely practices, while taking great pride in losing his cases. Gomez is also quite pleased with the fact that his law class voted him "Least Likely to Pass the Bar."

Gomez is extensively wealthy from inheritance and extensive investments, but he seems to have little regard for money. Although Gomez invests in the stock market, to the point where there is a ticker tape machine in their living area, he seems to play the market primarily to lose.

Gomez is of Castilian origin and loves to smoke cigars and play destructively with his model trains. Despite his macabre sense of humor, he is extremely generous and known for going out of his way to help those he considers friends.


Morticia
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Morticia A. Addams (née Frump) is the matriarch of the Addams Family. Her original mother was Hester Frump, but her origins were later retconned and she became Grandmama's daughter. (Grandmama subsequently became known as Esmerelda Frump.)

Morticia has an older sister named Ophelia.

In the sitcom, her marriage brought her uncle Fester into the family. She is a woman with pale skin and a Gothic appearance, clad in a Vampira-esque, skin-tight black gown with octopus-like tendrils at the bottom.

Morticia is portrayed as elegant, artistic, and musically inclined (opera singing, tango dancing, and playing numerous instruments). She also knits strange items of clothing for various members of the family.

The original drawing of Morticia in The New Yorker was said to be the inspiration for Maila Nurmi's Vampira character, the forerunner of Elvira.



Pugsley and Wednesday
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Gomez and Morticia have two children, Pugsley and Wednesday. Wednesday, whose middle name is Friday, was originally — as her name suggests — a quiet, somewhat pathetic child, full of woe. Her name appears to have been a satirical reference to contemporary actress Tuesday Weld. In the TV show she is a sweet-natured, innocent, happy child, largely concerned with her pet spiders. A favorite toy is her Marie Antoinette doll, which she had guillotined. The movies gave Wednesday a much more serious and mature personality with a deadpan wit and a morbid fascination with trying to physically harm or possibly murder her brother (she was seen strapping him into an electric chair, for example, and preparing to pull the switch); she is apparently often successful, but Pugsley never dies. Like most members of the family he seems to live in a semi-immortal state.

For his part, Pugsley is largely either oblivious of the harm his sister tries to inflict on him, or an enthusiastic supporter of it. In his first incarnation, Pugsley (originally to be called Pubert, a name that would be given to the Addams baby in the live action movies) was depicted as a diabolical, malevolent child next door. In the TV series, he is a devoted older brother and an inventive and mechanical genius. In the films, he loses his intelligence and independence, and becomes Wednesday's sidekick, cheerfully helping her in her evil deeds.

In the most recent animated series, Pugsley's and Wednesday's personalities seem to be a mix of their previous ones, with Wednesday a happy and somewhat optimistic child, while retaining her sophisticated manner from the movies and Pugsley having regained some of his genius when it comes to chemistry and machines, but his intelligence still seems to be rather underdeveloped at times.



Pubert
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In the 1993 film Addams Family Values, Gomez and Morticia have a third child, a son named Pubert (voiced by Cheryl Chase), a mustachioed and seemingly indestructible baby with the ability to shoot flaming arrows. (Charles Addams first created the name Pubert for the '60s TV series, but it was rejected and so he changed it to Pugsley.) He is referred to in the unrelated Warner Bros. movie Addams Family Reunion and follow-up series, in which Wednesday states that there used to be a third sibling, but that they ate it.


Uncle Fester and Grandmama
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Other members of the family who live with Gomez and Morticia include Uncle Fester and Grandmama.

Fester is a bald, barrel-shaped man with dark, sunken eyes and a devilish grin. He seems to carry an electrical charge and can illuminate a light bulb by sticking it in his mouth. In the original television series, Fester was Morticia's uncle, and therefore technically not an Addams, although at times he claims the family name as his own. In all other animated and filmed content, Fester became Gomez's older brother, and therefore the uncle of Wednesday and Pugsley.

Grandmama is Gomez's mother in the 1960s live-action TV series, where she is given the name "Eudora Addams". In both the movies and the animated TV series, she is Morticia's mother and her surname is sometimes mentioned as "Frump". Grandmama is a witch who deals in potions, spells and hexes of all kinds. She even dabbles in fortune-telling. Her trademarks are her shawl and frizzy hair. In the original TV series, Mother Frump exists as a separate character from Grandmama. In the animated series, Grandmama is only referred to as "Granny".
 
Thing, Lurch, and Cousin Itt
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The family has a servant in the form of a disembodied hand named "Thing". Thing has been Gomez's friend since childhood. He (it is implied that he is male) often performs common, everyday tasks such as retrieving the mail, writing a letter or just giving a friendly pat on shoulder, appearing out of ubiquitous boxes or other convenient containers throughout the house. He communicates with Addamses with a Morse-like alphabet, knocking on wood. In the movies and in The New Addams Family, Thing is an entirely mobile hand severed at the wrist.

The Addamses also have a tall, ghoulish manservant named Lurch. Lurch is a shambling, groaning Frankenstein's Monster-like butler. He tries to help around the house, although occasionally he botches tasks due to his great size and strength. Surprisingly, he is often seen playing the harpsichord and organ with a great degree of skill. In Addams Family Reunion, Gomez states that Lurch is not really an Addams, and Morticia replies that Lurch has parts of many families, and that he has the heart of an Addams.

Gomez also has a cousin, known as Cousin Itt, who often visits the family. He is short-statured and has long hair which covers his entire body from scalp to floor. Cousin Itt drives a 3-wheeled car: a Messerschmitt KR-175[2]. Although in the series he is shown wearing opera gloves, it is unclear what, if anything, is beneath the hair. He speaks in a squeaky, high-pitched, gibberish language that only the family seems to understand. In the second animated series, Itt is a super-spy for the U.S. Government. In the movies he falls in love with a human woman, Margaret, and marries her after her first husband, Tully the lawyer, is disposed of by the Addams children. He and Margaret go on to have a child in Addams Family Values named 'What'.

Houseguests
Guests include Morticia's older sister Ophelia (also played by Carolyn Jones in the sitcom), Morticia's cousin Melancholia and Morticia's mother (and Fester's sister), Hester Frump (played in the sitcom by Margaret Hamilton, best known for her portrayal of the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz). The Addamses have many other eccentric relatives who, in the sitcom, are described but never shown.

Neighbors
Most of the Addamses' neighbors are less than understanding of the family's eccentricities. Within the larger community, the Addamses are viewed as eccentric, dangerous, or worse. Both the TV shows and movies deal with outsiders attempting to understand and "correct" the behavior of the family, and remain frustrated and horrified by the things that the Addamses find amusing. The Addamses, for their part, are just the opposite, and are often shocked and horrified at the actions of conventional society.

The second animated series introduced three new regular characters: the Normanmeyers (Norman, Normina, and N.J.), a family of "normal" people living across the street from the Addamses. While Norman and Normina are constantly appalled and shocked at the Addams' macabre behavior, their son N.J. counts Wednesday and Pugsley as his best friends. Norman owns and works at an underwear factory and is utterly obsessed with underwear, decorating the entire Normanmeyer house with an underwear motif, which arguably makes him less "normal" than the Addamses themselves.

The paranormal nature of the Addamses
Unlike The Munsters, which explicitly stated its characters' supernatural identities, the exact nature of the Addamses is never established. They all seem to share a bond with the occult and supernatural. Uncle Fester is often portrayed as something of a mad scientist, and Grandmama as a fortune-teller, but these activities don't really explain the Addamses' seemingly immortal state. The food they live on is inedible or outright deadly for normal humans to eat, and there is also the family's interest in painful activities like walking across minefields and having a sharp pendulum cut them in half.

In the 1960s television series, virtually every member of the family demonstrates some uniquely "non-human" trait. Morticia is able to light candles with the touch of a fingertip and relaxes by literally "smoking", curls of smoke emitting from her body. Gomez is remarkably athletic, his cigar lights the instant he draws it out of his breast pocket, and extinguishes when replaced, and he can perform complicated calculations in his head, making a mechanical sound as he does so. Fester can generate both electricity and magnetism, while Grandmama, in addition to being able to whip up potions of varying effects, can fly on a broom.

Pugsley is able to hang from tree branches by his teeth (although this trait is only referred to and not seen), while six-year-old Wednesday is strong enough to bring her father down with a judo hold. Lurch is superhumanly strong, and Thing (whose paranormal nature speaks for itself) can apparently teleport from box to box almost instantaneously. None of these traits are considered unusual by any others in the family but treated simply as individual talents that anyone might possess. All are capable of enduring such experiences as lying on a bed of nails, being stretched on a rack, and so on without pain and, indeed, derive pleasure from such experiences.

Occasionally, the 1960s series features guest characters who share the Addamses' tastes, which, along with the fact that the family obviously purchases its yak meat, explosives, etc. from somewhere, implies an entire subculture of people who share the family's tastes (as seen in several Charles Addams cartoons). In contrast, the Addamses themselves consider such things as daisies, chocolate fudge, the Boy Scouts, and other such traditionally "wholesome" things—as well as any distaste for such things as swamps, octopoda, and hanging upside-down from the ceiling—to be odd, if not outright disturbing. Fester once cited a neighbor family's meticulous petunia patches as evidence that they were "nothing but riff-raff." Although the Addamses usually greet "normal" visitors with enthusiasm, these attitudes establish the family as more of an eccentric, old money family that looks down upon the nouveaux riche or bourgeois habits of the outside world.
 
Nisam gledala originalnu seriju, filmovi su mi se dopali, pogotovo drugi deo, jer se uspesno ruga americkoj malogradjanstini. Dosta dobrih fazona :)

Sto ostavljas ovolike tekstove na engleskom?Mozda je dovoljno ostaviti link za one koje to zanima (i koji citaju na engleskom).
 
Bila sam ovisnik o tu seriju... ali zaista, davala se jedno vreme na pinku, i to bas pre nego sto je trebalo da krenem u skolu, i atalno sam kasnila! meni je Lurc skroz super lik.. ma svi su fenomanalni... filmovi su mi se sto dopali i odusevilo me je sto Mortishu igra Andjelika Hjuston...
samo ova velika fotka porodice... ovo nije originalna postava serije ili jeste? meni su svi nesto nepoznati... :roll: a zaista cu da se koknem, ako kao bivsi zavisnik ne mogu da ih se setim...
 
na ovoj velikoj slici se vidi velika budalastina koju su napravili oni koji su birali glumce. mortisa je bila prelepa (na ovoj ogromnoj slici je neka rugoba), a wednesday je bila obino-neobicna, lepa a jeziva devojcica (a na ovoj slici je najobicnija devojcica). Ostali mogu da prodju... mada, foster nije bio zadrigao (kao lik na ovoj slici), vec samo debeo a sa obzirom da bi sminkanjem gotovo svako mogao da lici na njega, i to mu dodje kao veliki propust...
anyway... serija je super. i filmovi stvarno nisu losi :)
 
@polarnimedo,mudro zborish.Tek sam sad bolje pogledala sliku.Prva jeste iz filma,a ova druga veca-moja,mislim da je iz serije /new/,koja je napravljena za potrebe nekog stranog dechijeg kanala.Ali kao shto rekoh,a tu nema greshke ipak je najbolja:

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by the way,u filmu/na prvoj slici/,wednesday je kristina richi.
 

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