Meaningful commentary about the original Addams Family...

[Pluvious]

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[Wicked Blue]

1. As a kid I wished I was a member of the Addams Family

They seemed much more normal than my own family

[whistler162]

2. You mean the original TV show

The Addams Family was a series of 150 unrelated single-panel cartoons.

[Aristus]

3. Exactly.

It always amazes me that people think the family debuted with the TV show.

Despite growing up in the 70’s, I encountered the collected cartoons from the New Yorker first, in books from the library. I didn’t discover the series from the 60’s until later.

In the cartoons, none of the characters had given names or even the family name of Addams. But I loved the dusty, creepy atmosphere of the cartoons, and they remain my favorite way of entering that bizarre but funny world.

[cksmithy]

5. My in laws

born in Yonkers and Jersey City, 1911 and 1914, always had a subscription to the New Yorker. Moved moved to California in 1963 for a job, my husband was 14. In the 1968/69 time frame when we started dating, I was introduced to the New Yorker and their outstanding cartoons. I seem to remember a book that was a collection of Addams' Family cartoons that his parent bought. I do believe if I looked hard enough I could find that book some where in our house. Maybe that is where I got my sense of humor, and the reason we live in a hundred year old house. Which has way too many cob webs on the outside.

[Nittersing]

7. I think we had that book too

Probably in my sister's attic somewhere...

But no cob webs! If your house is seriously covered with cob webs, we need pics!!!

[cksmithy]

8. Just a few around the porch light and the eaves.

I used to keep them cobweb free, but now it's husband's turn, I did the first 50 years. We used to laugh that we didn't need to put out Halloween spider webs because we already had plenty of them. I've never posted a picture, I might try/learn how to.

[LudwigPastorius]

4. Not to derail, but this is my favorite *non-Addams Family* Charles Addams toon.

[TexasBushwhacker]

6. And Wednesday and Lurch could cut a rug!