Inside, there are white outlines showing where bodies were discovered. "He seems perfectly demented." The asylum is deserted (except by ghosts), the entrance blocked with yellow crime scene tape. "Is he all right?" No, comes the relieved and delighted reply. They literally run into the above-mentioned escaped prisoner. Gomez promises her they will find a home that "no one in their right mind would be caught dead in." Cue the 'Welcome to New Jersey' sign. In this modernized, animated version, we first see Morticia putting on that ashy make-up for what turns out to be her midnight wedding, interrupted by angry neighbors with torches and pitchforks who want all the people they consider weirdos out of town. And their deep enjoyment of what otherwise might seem scary-having an escaped prisoner from the asylum for the criminally insane as a butler, a disembodied hand as an all-purpose helper, applying the ashes of dead parents as make-up, encouraging a child to play with explosives-makes it funny and even endearing instead. Father Gomez (here voiced by Oscar Isaac) and mother Morticia ( Charlize Theron) adore each other and are loving and devoted parents to their daughter Wednesday ( Chloe Grace Moretz) and son Pugsley ( Finn Wolfhard).
Occasionally, episodes would feature other relatives such as Cousin Itt (Felix Silla), Morticia's older sister Ophelia (also portrayed by Carolyn Jones), or Grandma Frump, Morticia's mother (Margaret Hamilton).What makes the Addams Family so appealing is the contrast between the ghoulish details of their lives and the endearing sweetness of their family dynamic. Along with their daughter Wednesday (Lisa Loring), their son Pugsley (Ken Weatherwax), Uncle Fester (Jackie Coogan), and Grandma (Blossom Rock), they reside at 0001 Cemetery Lane in an ornate, gloomy, Second Empire-style mansion, attended by their servants: Lurch (Ted Cassidy), the towering butler, and Thing (billed as "Itself" but actually portrayed by Cassidy and occasionally by Jack Voglin when Lurch and Thing appear in the same scene), a disembodied hand that usually appears out of a small wooden box. The very wealthy, endlessly enthusiastic Gomez Addams (John Astin) is madly in love with his refined wife, Morticia, née Frump (Carolyn Jones). No explanation for their powers is explicitly given in the series.
The Addamses are a close-knit extended family with decidedly macabre interests and supernatural abilities.
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