[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas]
Gomez & Morticia were going at each other like bunnies, but they only had two children. Go figure.
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One presumes Pugsley and Wednesday killed and ate their younger siblings.
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas]
They both had relatives living with them too. The major difference was that, despite all those children, Ma & Pa Walton never seemed to have sex. Gomez & Morticia were going at each other like bunnies, but they only had two children. Go figure.
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Yup.
Morticia & Gomez had a marriage we all could envy.
…or it might have something to do with their French interests…
Just adding my Addams vote. I so wanted to visit their house! Seemed like such fun. I actually wanted to live there.
I’ve never been able to sit through an episode of the Munsters.
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant]
One presumes Pugsley and Wednesday killed and ate their younger siblings.
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You may already know this, but they say they ate at least one - not in the original series, but in one of the later incarnations.
It’s a particularly dark statement considering that their younger sibling saved the entire family in one of the movies.
[QUOTE=TWDuke]
You may already know this, but they say they ate at least one - not in the original series, but in one of the later incarnations.
It’s a particularly dark statement considering that their younger sibling saved the entire family in one of the movies.
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Cool.
Addams Family for me too.
[QUOTE=DataZak]
Addams family for me. The Munsters tried too hard to be accepted by the norms, I felt. The Addams couldn’t give a damn what others thought about them.
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Someone in a previous thread said that the Addams Family believed that everyone else was like them (that is, weird). The Munsters, on the other hand, believed that they were like everyone else (that is, normal).
[QUOTE=Sampiro]
There was a syndicated version of The Addams Family that ran for a couple of seasons in the late 1990s that was not up to the original series or the movies but wasn’t terrible either.
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I thought I was the only one who didn’t think the 90s version was terrible. Yeah, not a patch on the original - and when they had a bad episode, it was TERRIBLE - but the series as a whole was entertaining. It’s major failing was an over-reliance on guest-stars - which was a real pity, as the core cast was pretty good when they had something to work with.
Although sometimes the guest stars worked, even when it was stunt casting - John Astin as Gomez’s father was a high point. (Obviously, Astin just reprised his Gomez performance, which pointed out the small ways in which Taranto’s was different.)
And, yeah, Addamses all the way - although I liked Munsters as a kid, they didn’t stand up as well.
[QUOTE=Oslo Ostragoth]
The Addams Family. John Astin is a trump card. The only trump card. (See The Adventures of Briscoe County, Jr.)
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And the funniest Western of all time, Evil Roy Slade.
I still have hopes of one day buying an enormous subwoofer and installing it over my front porch to reproduce the Addams Family foghorn “doorbell”.
[QUOTE=Oslo Ostragoth]
The Addams Family. John Astin is a trump card. The only trump card. (See The Adventures of Briscoe County, Jr.)
I have a tastefully small shrine to Charles Addams.
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I also loved Astin’s appearances on “Night Court” as Harry’s stepdad who spent some years in mental-health institutions.
“But I’m feeling much better now.”
[QUOTE=Terrifel]
Addams Family, no question. The shows weren’t even in the same league. The Munsters were essentially a one-note concept, which is perfectly conventional TV light entertainment (see also Gilligan’s Island, The Beverly Hillbillies, etc.). What if the family next door were… monsters? Comedy ensues!
The Addams Family was something else again. With the exception of Thing and Cleopatra (and possibly Cousin Itt?), none of them really qualified as monsters, or even fit into any recognizable category.
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Add Cousin Itt in the monster column, I remember a conversation Morticia had with Itt: (Paraphrasing, and with Cousin Itt, it is impossible )
Morticia: I needed your advice because like our father used to say, you have a good head on your shoulders… [Looks at Itt, around his head]
Uh, you… do have shoulders?.. Cousin Itt?
*
Itt:* #%^ssshliiip
Morticia: Three!!?!?!?
[QUOTE=cochrane]
I also loved Astin’s appearances on “Night Court” as Harry’s stepdad who spent some years in mental-health institutions.
“But I’m feeling much better now.”
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I use that line all the time, but no one ever catches the reference.
RR
I use it too. For me it’s appropriate!
Of course the Addams family wins. Was there ever any doubt? I’d like to say my family resembles them, but I’m not that lucky.