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America might love the Addams Family at Christmas more than Halloween
Hundreds of families requested to use this Charles Addams Christmas comic for their holiday cards in the Sixties.
The Addams Family has a reputation for the macabre, but that doesn’t mean fans don’t think of Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday, Pugsley, Lurch and Thing only around Halloween.
In the much-cherished Addams Family episode "Christmas with the Addams Family," fans loved seeing the Victorian mansion decked out with holly, with Morticia dressing the Christmas tree and every single member of the family posing as Santa to fool their trickster kids.
Ken Weatherwax told The Asbury Park Press in 2006 that he especially loved acting in this Addams Family Christmas episode because it "was one of the special shows that centered on the kids. It was great."
In the Sixties, people became just as fond of The Addams Family at Christmas not just because of this classic episode, but also because arguably the most popular Charles Addams comics of all time featured the Addams family at Christmas.
The same year the Christmas episode aired, Addams told the Alternative Press that "probably the most famous and delightfully shocking" of all his cartoons was "a holiday-time drawing of the haunted mouldering Victorian house, obviously on Christmas Eve."
This comic showed a troupe of children caroling in front of the Addams’ house, singing cheerfully. Unbeknownst to the children, up on the rooftop, Gomez, Morticia and Lurch prepare to empty a cauldron over their "innocent heads."
This may not seem totally in the Christmas spirit, but it resonated around the holidays all the same.
"Literally hundreds of people wrote to me asking permission to reproduce it – for their Christmas cards," Addams said.
It would appear that the spooky, ooky family simply helped inspire many families to add more adjectives to their holidays than "merry" and "bright."
In "Christmas with the Addams Family," though, the episode ends on a legitimately merry note, showing the cast earnestly singing "We Wish You a Merry Christmas," with Cousin Itt even joining in for his own solo.
So although we celebrated "Halloween with the Addams Family" a year before in 1964, and it seemed perfectly natural to watch Gomez carve a pumpkin, in 1965, audiences discovered their favorite time of year with the Addams Family just might be Christmas.
It’s fun to imagine Lurch responding to a more wholesome call, not to fetch a medieval weapon, but to bring us some figgy pudding.
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Why The name of BLUTO was
Changed to BRUTUS??
Why did EGGHEAD disappear from Looney Tunes and Egghead
Vanished into THE CARTOON ZONE which is similar to The
SITCOM ZONE.
Christmas Episode of Leave
It To Beaver with
Beaver Wally Ward and June
And
Eddie Haskell
Lumpy Rutherford
Chester Anderson
Tooey Brown
Larry Mondello
Whtey Whitne
Bengie Bellamy
Gilbert Bates
Miss Landers
Gus
Bill Scott
Uncle Billy
Aunt Martha
Also I wis that BOTH
Judy Hensler and Penny Woods
Had been on been on Leave It
To Beaver at the same time.
It also would have been great
if Spike and Chachi had both
Been on Happy Days at the same time and it would have been great if Moose(Barry Greenberg) Bag Zombroski
(Neil J. Schwartz) Spike(Danny
Butch) Eugene Belvin(Denis Mandel) Melvin Belvin(Scott
Bernstein) and Chuck Cunningham (either Randolph Roberts OR Gavan O Herlihy)
Had not vanished from Happy Days with no explanation.
Penny Woods was played by
Karen Sue Trent and Judy Hensler was played by Jeri
Weil and Tooey Brown was played by Tiger Fafara and
Chester Anderson was played by
Buddy Hart and Bill Scott was played by David Kent.
Come on MeTV Writers you can get it out there just in time for Oct. 31.
The Jetsons Meet The
Flintstones and I wish that
METV would show this movie. Back in 1964 or 1965
I wish that there had been
A spooky comedy movie
Called The ADDAMS FAMILY
MEET THE MUNSTERS.
Following on METV:
ALICE
MY FAVORITE MARTIAN
THE ADVENTURES of Ozzie and Harriet
I Dream of Jeanne
Bewitched
I Love Lucy
The Lucy Show
Partridge Family
The Little Rascals
Laurel and Hardy Shorts
Eddie Cantor Movies
Joe Penner Movies
PEE WEE HERMAN Movies
Pee Weeks Playhouse
Shirley Temple Movies
Ernest Movies and
Elvis Presley Movies
Pee Wees Playhouse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Addams_Family_(1964_TV_series)
Like "scary" and "fright", maybe?
Had a nightmare that he
Married Bunny was very funny because GOMER was
The best man preacher
Organist and he was in one
Of the church pews telling
The preacher that Vince
Carter and Bunny were
Perfect for each other and
Go ahead and tie the knot.
I also like the episode of
TAGS where Andy Barney
And Gomer went to the
Old Rimshaw "haunted"
House to pick up Copies
Baseball and Otis and Big
Jack Anderson tried to
Scare them.
Did you ever see that episode of The Andy Griffith Show and did you
Watch Gomer Pyle when he
Was on Andy Griffith's show.??
Episode of Happy Days
At the old Simpson House
Where Bag Zombroski (Neil
J. Schwartz) tried to scare
Richie and everyone else
And Ralph and Potsie tried
To scare everyone also.