# Are you ready for a new "Addams Family" TV series? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [October 23, 2020, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-a-new-addams-family-tv-series/923683 "2020-10-23T13:35:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2020, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-a-new-addams-family-tv-series/923683/21 "2020-10-24T14:51:57Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > > [@solost](#): > > > > On another note, I wonder why ‘The Addams Family’ keeps getting rebooted / reimagined / recycled but not The Munsters. > > It has been tried more than once, and each time was horrendous for various reasons. The problem with _The Munsters_ is that it was essentially a one-joke premise; a family of monsters who acted like a typical middle class American family. So once you got past the costumes and make-up, the show had nowhere to go - it was just another generic family-based sitcom. _The Addams Family_ was fresher because the characters didn’t just look strange; they were strange. They had a skewed way of looking at the world which gave the writers an ongoing source of material. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2020, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-a-new-addams-family-tv-series/923683/22 "2020-10-24T15:21:52Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > The problem with _The Munsters_ is that it was essentially a one-joke premise; a family of monsters who acted like a typical middle class American family. So once you got past the costumes and make-up, the show had nowhere to go - it was just another generic family-based sitcom. This is it. The Munsters were like Ozzie and Harriet dressed up as monsters. > [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > _The Addams Family_ was fresher because the characters didn’t just look strange; they were strange. They had a skewed way of looking at the world which gave the writers an ongoing source of material. Even still, the Addams Family TOS was only slightly better than the Munsters. They repeated the same gags over and over again, which were pretty good sometimes, but aside from a few episodes the writing was uninspired and at points it was only the Munsters with a thin layer of sophistication often blotted out by the same cheap endings with the normal visitors running away in jerky sped up motion that could have been accompanied by Yakkety-Sax. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2020, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-a-new-addams-family-tv-series/923683/23 "2020-10-24T23:43:56Z")
> [@DPRK](#): > > Tangentially, I thought “Adult Wednesday Addams” with Melissa Hunter was droll. > [@running\_coach](#): > > Not real. Unfortunately. Cause it would be _awesome._ Can we not combine these two ideas and make an adult Wednesday Addams limited series with Christina Ricci? Just a single season will be enough. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2020, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-a-new-addams-family-tv-series/923683/24 "2020-10-25T01:33:55Z")
> [@solost](#): > > On another note, I wonder why ‘The Addams Family’ keeps getting rebooted / reimagined / recycled but not The Munsters. Maybe because The Munsters were based on the old Universal Classic Horror monsters, which seem old fashioned and outdated, while the ghoulish charm of The Addams Family is more timeless…? In the 1980s they continued the series with _The Munsters Today_ which ran in syndication from 1988-1991. They tried again with _Mockingbird Lane_ in 2012 turning the show into an hour long drama. And in 1995 they had a television movie called _Here Come the Munsters_ with Edward Hermann as Herman Munster. They keep trying to recycle the Munsters but it just doesn’t stick. ---
**Author:** ![Powers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Powers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Powers)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2020, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-a-new-addams-family-tv-series/923683/25 "2020-10-25T01:56:56Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > In the 1980s they continued the series with _The Munsters Today_ which ran in syndication from 1988-1991. 3 seasons? That’s the same as the original series. Doesn’t sound like a failure to me. =) Powers &8^] ---
**Author:** ![Powers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Powers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Powers)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2020, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-a-new-addams-family-tv-series/923683/26 "2020-10-25T01:59:58Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Not real. Unfortunately. Cause it would be _awesome._ It can’t possibly be real because Christina Ricci isn’t nine heads tall. Gads, look at those proportions. Powers &8^] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-for-a-new-addams-family-tv-series/923683.md?page=1)