Addams

[ad-uhmz]

noun

1. Charles (Samuel), 1912–88, U.S. cartoonist.

2. Jane, 1860–1935, U.S. social worker and writer: Nobel Peace Prize 1931.

Addams

/ ˈædəmz /

noun

1. Jane. 1860–1935, US social reformer, feminist, and pacifist, who founded Hull House, a social settlement in Chicago: Nobel peace prize 1931

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It’s a rare trait for someone of Armisen’s stature in Hollywood: an A-list comedy giant who spent more than a decade on “Saturday Night Live,” skewered hipster culture for eight seasons on IFC’s sketch staple “Portlandia” and who currently stars as the lovably deranged Uncle Fester on Netflix’s Addams Family revival, “Wednesday.”

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Tim Burton directed the gothic music video to the latter song which also appeared on the soundtrack to the new Netflix Addams Family show, Wednesday, in which Gaga also makes a guest appearance.

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From there, the character fleshed out in form and attitude in the 1964 “Addams Family” television series — created by David Levy in collaboration with Addams — and was later featured in the 1991 and 1993 films “The Addams Family” and “Addams Family Values” — My favorite, for Debbie Jelinsky reasons — where her character was played by Christina Ricci, who appears in “Wednesday” as a different kind of weirdo this time around, Marilyn Thornhill, a science teacher at Nevermore Academy who, of course, has ghastly ulterior motives.

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When we meet back up with Wednesday in Season 2, she’s still hard at work on her novel, “Viper de la Muerte,” a hefty tome about a teenage detective which is primarily, or at least heavily, an outlet for her to fictionalize her grievances towards her own family and friends, whom she would likely rather be referred to as obstacles, although she does love them all, as much as an Addams is capable.

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It’s already been well established that the Addams family doesn’t bend to “normie culture,” and that Wednesday’s writing is as important to her as solving mysteries or breaking in her arsenal of weapons in the process — or on her brother.

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