The Addams Family

I've always loved and been obsessed with The Addams Family. Always. 

I saw the 1991 "The Addams Family" (with Anjelica Huston, Christina Ricci, Christopher Lloyd, Raul Julia, et al) and instantly fell in love with the macabre, the ghoulish, and the bizarre. Of course, the 1993 "Addams Family Values" (featuring Joan Cusack) played right after, and the Girl Scouts quote had me both insulted and inthralled. 

The 2019 and 2021 animated films of the same title were also excellent (voiced by Oscar Isaac, Chloë Grace Moretz, Snoop Dog, Nick Kroll, Charlie Theron, et al). They had the same darkness and depravity that I fell in love with years and years before. 

Watching Netflix's 2022 "Wednesday" a few weeks ago (binged----in a day in a half--stupid work and stupid sleep making me take a break) only further instilled the love of the black and darkness and love that this family has always shown me (with Jenna Ortega, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Luis Guzmán, Christina Ricci, and so much more). 

After binging that show, I went to Amazon and binged the original Hollywood adaptation: the 1964 television show "The Addams Family" (with Carolyn Jones, John Astin, Ted Cassidy, et al). It was quite possibly better than all of the previous movies. Yes, it was much lighter than the movies (and "Wednesday"), lacking a lot of the torture and psychopathic tendencies, but it had the love and protectiveness and deep-seated family values that all of the movies (and "Wednesday") had always portrayed. 

I found out tragically late that all of these movies were based on cartoons originally published in The New Yorker by Charles Addams. For Christmas, I asked for a book or two with some of the original cartoons republished. I discovered two things.. 1: Charles and all of his cartoons, Addams Family and other, are all very macabre and amazing. 2: the animated movies portrayed the family (physically) the closest and the most accurately compared to Charles's cartoons (like seriously, it's like the animators rose Charles from the grave, which he would love, to draw it himself). 

People, my sister included, don't like the Addams Family because they are dark and bizarre and creepy/kooky/mysterious/spooky/all together ooky (*snap, snap*).
Those people don't always realize how happy they are. This family doesn't realize they are different, that people look at them oddly. They're happy and together. They support each other in their endeavors, in their passions. They support each other's dreams and protect each other at all costs.
Yes, they prefer Central Park at night and moon-bathing over sun-bathing. Yes, they have odd pets, they eat odd foods, they have odd clothes. Yes, they prefer storms and graveyard over sunshine and rolling hills.
But they are happy and they love each other. Fiercely. That's all anyone could ask for. 

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