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Wednesday can't even say that her type is different from the family, since Enid is all colorful. Wednesday's type is like her uncle's type, Uncle Fester. I can even imagine Morticia saying once again when she sees their house: Pastel? At least it will be pastel gothic, but pastel will be present, a lot of pink.
I miss crazy Debbie, too.
It's even been doubled down on.
First time I have been in a BK in 9 years, second time in 20yrs.
But I am a sucker for Addams Family.
Been a minute since I stopped by a Lowes so was surprised by the ... Halloween decorations.
I hope Jenna and Emma are getting money off of these.
After Fester marries Debbie and then Margaux, and Wednesday befriends Parker, I have to think Gomez and Morticia aren't exactly surprised when Wednesday brings Enid home.
The interesting thing about the Wednesday show is that it basically says "all the mythical creatures are real and around us and living vaguely boring human style lives."
But then there's the Addams family. They're not werewolves or vampires or merpeople or any specific species. They're a whole different category of outcast. Fester has electricity, Cousin It is ... the hybrid of a tribble and a bigfoot? Who knows. Gomez doesn't seem to have any abilities, and Addams women are witches but that's a career choice. Morticia isn't an Addams by blood but she falls in the Psychic category for the show. But in the Addams Family movies we see hunchbacks and siamese twins and possible vampires that are blood relations and a female version of Fester who isn't a blood relation.
And it ends up feeling like they are implying that the Addams family is what you get when every outcast species and randomly crop up out of the human population outcasts marry and reproduce for generations upon generations (they danced for Nero, that family is old).
So it's not so much that Gomez and therefore the kids are weird humans that happen to have abilities and iron stomachs, it's that they're 3% squidman and 8% harpy and maybe half a percent garuda and the rest is so muddled no one can remember what else is in there.
A small weird question. The last Addams Family artwork Charles Addams did, as far as I know, was the late 80s ad campaign for British Telecom. Does anyone have any photos of the posters? Or know anywhere they are hiding on the web?
To go with the Ricci shop pic: what do you think of Wednesday marrying a woman who at first glance doesn't appear to fit into the Addams' world?
I could be sold on it! Depends on the woman.
One of the aspects of Wednesday’s character – I think of all the Addams Family but her in particular because she’s a young girl – is that she’s not just the outsider, she’s also the voice of outsiders, she’s the speaker for the weird. She’s defiant but with a purpose: she defends the right to be different if different is who you are, when she is literally the person in the family who is most likely to be abused by the outside world for it.
Morticia and Gomez and Pugsley just ARE weird, in a sort of confident but unconscious way, and Fester struggles with being weird but not always knowing if he wants to be weird, but Wednesday is targeted for being weird and is well aware of it and fights back consciously. Which is why she would never grow up to be, say, a Stepford Wife type of creepy – she’s the antithesis of that conform-or-die mentality, even though the Stepford Wives are 100% a form of horror.
So I think she would be fine to marry a woman who didn’t apparently fit in at first, because “not fitting in” is who she is and it’s also what she does, aggressively. It’s why she’s instantly so likable, because she wins every fight she gets into about being a weirdo and a lot of us have repeatedly lost that fight. But I also think any woman Wednesday could love would still have to share the Addams family ideals of accepting the Other and unconditional love for family. She’s not going to marry the Queen Bee, she’s not going to marry someone cruel or normalizing, which is the immediate idea of “not like the Addamses”.
But I can see her marrying a woman who’s super awkward or not slim and slinky the way Morticia is and it’s sort of implied Wednesday will be, or even just someone who doesn’t quite get the point of The Aesthetic™ but okay hon, we’ll do the Dark Swing Dance, it’s not like I don’t LIKE the Dark Swing Dance. Or someone who’s really upbeat and cheerful and likes pictures of kittens and fuzzy blankets and wearing bright colors and the entire family is like “What…do you two even talk about” and Wednesday turns to her dad super deadpan and says, “Skeletons” and in the background her fiance-soon-to-be-now-that-she’s-met-the-parents, who also happens to be a forensic anthropologist, just nods super enthusiastically. (True fact, the most cheerful, upbeat person I know used to dig up bodies for a living.)
And Morticia considers this very carefully and then announces, “It’s time she met Grand Nana Sylph” and they get the shovels and head out to the graveyard. Grand Nana Sylph had the best bone structure of the whole family, and after Wednesday’s Young Woman articulates her, everyone can admire it in the comfort of the parlor!
And then she wears like, a BRIGHT RED DRESS to the Addams Family Reunion and everyone looks at everyone else in black Victoriana and then back to this ONE PERSON in bright red and thinks to themselves, “It fits. The Aesthetic™ is still served. Wednesday found her a keeper.”
You guys I have a LOT MORE THOUGHTS about the Addams Family than I expected, wow.
I honestly probably still think about Wednesday Addams and her wife the forensic anthropologist like, at least once a week.
… I’m sorry somehow all I was picturing throughout this entire post (aside from the forensic anthropology part) was Penelope Garcia. She and Wednesday would RULE THE WORLD … and the BSU.
Also hello crossover I never knew I needed quite this much.
