On the contrary, they're compassionate and loving, friendly to all whom they meet, eager to help strangers in times of need, and tolerant to a fault. They also invert various horror-movie tropes about evil families: in spite of their outré tastes and the apparent trappings of pain and horror amidst which they live, the Addamses are clearly (well, mostly in the movies) NOT evil. Although visibly different from virtually everyone they encounter, they still perceive themselves as a "perfectly normal family" in fact, they seem somewhat incapable of even noticing that their lifestyle varies widely from that of their neighbors. In the 1960s these were adapted into a popular TV sitcom which gave the characters names and codified their relationships with one another, providing a model for all subsequent versions.Ī deliberate inversion of the ideal American Nuclear Family, the Addamses are an obscenely wealthy clan of borderline supernatural beings with a taste for the grotesque and macabre, holding opinions and preferences that are mirror images or inversions of more conventional attitudes. It originated in a recurring series of comically grotesque single-panel cartoons by Charles Addams, which appeared in The New Yorker magazine beginning in the late 1930s. The Addams Family is a franchise spanning multiple media.
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