The comedy comes from the Addams Family’s wildly inappropriate behavior. Perhaps what makes the Addams Family so enduring is the subversiveness of its premise, a family of freaks living wholesome domestic lives. There have also been a variety of animated children’s shows and cross-overs with the likes of Scooby-Doo, et al. Later, in the early ’90s, the macabre clan was reintroduced to a new generation of goths and misfits through two wildly popular Hollywood films. Shot in black and white and first aired in 1964, The Addams Family television series originally ran for just two seasons but lived on for many more years in syndication, burrowing its way into the pop imaginary as a symbolic inversion of Norman Rockwell-esque Americana. Or maybe I’m overselling this generation thing? After all, Daniel Mallory Ortberg did memorialize the kinky chemistry percolating through the early 90s incarnation of Gomez and Morticia Addams, portrayed by Raul Julia and Angelica Huston, in his cheeky “High-Water Marks For Heterosexuality.”
“They’re creepy and they’re kooky/ Mysterious and spooky…” Ask any Boomer or some of the older Gen X-ers to hum the theme to The Addams Family and you will quickly be rewarded by “Da-nuh nuh-NUH,” followed by an iconic pair of snaps.
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