THE ADDAMS FAMILY

1991, dir. Barry Sonnenfeld

the addams family (1991)

THE ADDAMS FAMILY (1991) dir. Barry Sonnenfeld

I was rewatching the 90’s Addams Family movies and it got to the part where Wednesday and Pugsley are preforming what I think is a scene from Hamlet at their school’s talent show and now I need a season of Wednesday where Enid forces Wednesday to audition for Nevermore’s school play with her.

Because I just know that Wednesday will be like “fine, but I won’t enjoy it” only to be super into it, go completely overboard and already have all of Shakespeare memorised leading to her getting the lead role and the entire Addams family coming to watch.

Best case scenario Romeo and Juliet but Wednesday’s Romeo and Enid’s Juliet and Wednesday makes it 1000x more gruesome than it already is and is always changing the lines but while maintaining perfect Shakespearean English leaving whoever’s directing (preferably Bianca) to be like “you know what sure this might as well happen”

Their opening performance is at the end of the season and also during the final battle against whoever the current villain is and when it gets to the part at the end where Romeo stabs themselves to be with Juliet Wednesday gets stabbed for real backstage but just decides go with it and finish her performance before telling anyone.

Enid: Wednesday you were stabbed! Why didn’t you say anything?

Wednesday: I was method acting, Enid. Don’t disregard my craft. My performance was immaculate.

Intimate Moments | Gomez & Morticia 

 The Addams Family 1991

'The Addams Family' (1991)

"7 tickets to Barbie please"

The Three Wednesdays

ah yes, the 3 genders: boy, girl, and open grave

Gomez and Morticia are NOT a perfect couple.

I'm being a wee bit picky but they're really not perfect.

I'll be brief but! Canonically (as loose as canon is in TAF):

They have very poor communication skills as a couple in the 1964 tv show, majority of the show is basically them miscommunicating. It works because it's a sitcom and this is glossed over but in real life this would impact their relationship in a significant and probably negative way

Then you have 1991 movie and Gomez Addams utter inability to deal with life problems. He gets instantly depressed and just leaves Morticia to deal with everything herself. In Addams Family Values, he literally decides to DIE because Fester marries Debbie and abandons the family. I mean.... hello. So it seems that this behaviour was completely unaddressed for like what?.... 15 -20 years of their marriage?

And no, these are not minor issues, these are serious issues but you know what wins?

Their utter love and devotion to each other? You would never see them being disrespectful towards each other, no matter what. Yes, they're not perfect, they have issues but I'm 100% sure they'd work them out, because they're just so so madly commited to each other. They never bitch about one another to other people. They'd never blame each other, even if that blame would be justified, because they know blaming each other is never a solution.

And that's what I love about them, they work hard on their marriage, they don't settle and don't take each other for granted, they keep the romance up, they openly adoring each other

They are the embodiment of the fact that love is not a feeling, love it doing.

“Tish, how long has it been since we’ve waltzed?” “Oh, Gomez. Hours.”

THE ADDAMS FAMILY (1991) dir. Barry Sonnenfeld 

Hmmm Gomez and Morticia adopting Percy because of Hades killing Sally when he was 10 to get at Poseidon and they found him nomading around the US since there's no way he was staying with Smelly Gabe and refusing to let anyone else be his new parents due to his crazy ass powers,how he'd been using them to do vigilanteism unintentionally by doing stuff like saving people getting assaulted and his personality making him perfect to be an Addams,including the willingness to kill,so he becomes the eldest Addams sibling and a goth punk instead of crustpunk like in canon.They also nickname him 'Seo'(spanish pronounciation)instead of Percy from his full name 'Perseo' and years later Sally gets brought back from the dead through macabe shenanigans and is the family's live-in ghost

THE ADDAMS FAMILY (1991) dir. Barry Sonnenfeld

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The Addams Family 1991