The Addams Family TV series from the 60s
Been watching it on Roku and despite the often simple and formulaic gags the show has a lot to say, whether they designed it to or not.
They're creepy and they're kooky;
Mysterious and spooky;
They're all together ooky,
The Addams Family
From the very intro they call this family out as strange, scary, and gross which is how the people of their community view them. Every episode we are taken into their home, as if into a zoo, to view just how zany and odd these people are and then we send in normal people to laugh at how they try to interact and just end up scaring everyone off. Crazy kooky Addamses.
OR
So get a witch's shawl on;
A broomstick you can crawl on;
We're gonna pay a call on,
The Addams Family
As the intro ends we are invited into the craziness. To be part of the household and make it our new normal. It is not the Addams we laugh at, but the terrified and baffled expressions of the regular folk as they look upon our unique marvels. We chuckle as these people flee in horror because we know from the inside that the Addams are just doing their best.
OR
Neat
Sweet
Petite
Strange
Deranged
The Addams Family
These words appear on their own, not always fitting the imagery they are shown with. Different people may align with different ways of viewing the Addams family. Some may laugh at the Addams and some may laugh at the normies. But at the end of the day the show and all of its humor, and tragedy, center on the fact that these two sides very rarely hold ill will towards each other. Both the normies and the Addams alike are guilty of assuming that their normal is how everyone should be. They never try to talk to or understand what the other person's normal is. The normies hate and fear because they don't understand. The Addams are filled with confusion and derision over what they do not understand.
In a way, it represents a very fundamental breakdown of society. We refuse to try to understand each other, rather choosing to become afraid and hateful. Instead of realizing that we do not intend to harm each other, we actually do harm each other while waiting for the other people to conform to our definition of normal without ever trying to understand.
Perhaps it's time to stop musing to ourselves about how weird other people are and try learning about the weirdness. We might still find each other odd, but we don't have to be scary. At least that is what I taken away from this old television rendition of The Addams Family.
Snap, snap.
They're creepy and they're kooky;
Mysterious and spooky;
They're all together ooky,
The Addams Family
From the very intro they call this family out as strange, scary, and gross which is how the people of their community view them. Every episode we are taken into their home, as if into a zoo, to view just how zany and odd these people are and then we send in normal people to laugh at how they try to interact and just end up scaring everyone off. Crazy kooky Addamses.
OR
So get a witch's shawl on;
A broomstick you can crawl on;
We're gonna pay a call on,
The Addams Family
As the intro ends we are invited into the craziness. To be part of the household and make it our new normal. It is not the Addams we laugh at, but the terrified and baffled expressions of the regular folk as they look upon our unique marvels. We chuckle as these people flee in horror because we know from the inside that the Addams are just doing their best.
OR
Neat
Sweet
Petite
Strange
Deranged
The Addams Family
These words appear on their own, not always fitting the imagery they are shown with. Different people may align with different ways of viewing the Addams family. Some may laugh at the Addams and some may laugh at the normies. But at the end of the day the show and all of its humor, and tragedy, center on the fact that these two sides very rarely hold ill will towards each other. Both the normies and the Addams alike are guilty of assuming that their normal is how everyone should be. They never try to talk to or understand what the other person's normal is. The normies hate and fear because they don't understand. The Addams are filled with confusion and derision over what they do not understand.
In a way, it represents a very fundamental breakdown of society. We refuse to try to understand each other, rather choosing to become afraid and hateful. Instead of realizing that we do not intend to harm each other, we actually do harm each other while waiting for the other people to conform to our definition of normal without ever trying to understand.
Perhaps it's time to stop musing to ourselves about how weird other people are and try learning about the weirdness. We might still find each other odd, but we don't have to be scary. At least that is what I taken away from this old television rendition of The Addams Family.
Snap, snap.
