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Welcome to The Addams Family Parlour

This is a cheesy little tribute to a TV show that had a rather profound effect on my impressionable young mind. Morticia Addams was my main - well to be honest, probably my only - female role model growing up. There's a scary thought to contemplate.

Now I've heard people say that the TV series didn't live up to Scott Addams' original, creepy little comic strip, and that the movies (at least the 1st two) were better, and that the TV series is dated now by the era it was produced in. All well and good, and there are points there, to be sure, but when I watch those old shows I still enjoy them greatly and want to live in that house! This was a family of people who lived their own peculiar lives oblivious of how others saw them. It wasn't so much that they didn't care as that they didn't ever realise they were the eccentric ones, and that has a charm I can't escape. They are the exact opposite of the poseur, and don't we all hate posers?

This is one couple that has it all - including a fabulous relationship. But the one thing that none of the Addams Family has is a job! (The lucky sods!)

The happy family.
Gomez Addams, the father, the two children, Wednesday and Pugsley, and the lovely Morticia Addams nee Frump.
The family is fabulously wealthy, but thoroughly unspoiled by it.

Gomez is a dedicated student of yoga, often seen standing on his head for lengthy periods of time. He likes to set up elaborate model train sets so that he can blow them up, helps to maintain the family home by sharpening the points on the formidable wrought-iron front fence, and just loves to pay bills.

Morticia is an accomplished musician and painter, though stylistically she is light years ahead of contemporary artistic appreciation, and therefore goes unacclaimed. She tends her plants, decorates, and extends a calming influence over the whole family.

Pugsley, the eldest Addams child, likes to collect road signs as souvenirs of the havoc he has caused on their removal. He has a pet octopus, that we never see, whom he regularly wrestles with. He is interested in physics and chemistry, and often sets off home-made explosives with the help of Uncle Fester.

Wednesday shows every sign of growing up to be very much like her mother. She breeds thoroughbred spiders, plays in the swamp out back of the family house, and is constantly accompanied by her favourite doll, the beheaded Marie Antoinette.

Completely covered in a luxuriant growth of long golden locks, and speaking an extraordianry gibberish unintelligable to non-Addamses, Cousin Itt is truly an enigma.
He seems to exert a strong animal magnetism over many of the opposite sex, who also seem capable of understanding him once they fall under his spell.

Morticia helps Uncle Fester find his inner self, in his sporadic, ongoing search for Ladylove.

Uncle Fester seems to be the under achiever in the family. He has had various jobs, hobbies, fads and emotional crises during the tme we have known him, but ultimately he circles back to the lovable, electrical, quick-tempered Uncle he started as.

Uncle Fester is often suggesting drastic measures to deal with family problems, such as shooting trouble-makers in the back.
If anything, he loves explosives even more than either Pugsley or Gomez, and he is fond of riding his motorcycle through the house.

Uncle Fester and Gomez are often getting into trouble together, apparently feeding off each others enthusiasm and naiveté. Without Morticia's moderating influence this can lead to many odd situations.

Contrary to the 90's films, Uncle Fester is not Gomez's brother, but rather Morticia's uncle.

Her favourite, Cleopatra the Amazonian man-eating creeper, takes an active part in the Addams Family domestic life.