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  The Addams Family Origins
It would be a full year later until members of the family were again featured in a cartoon, but each year after that the family seemed to grow.
In 1972, The Addams Family appeared as guest of the spook hunting teens and rated Scooby Doo one of the highest watched kids shows of the year.
In 1973, NBC and Hanna Barbera reintroduced the lovable Family from 001 Cemetery Lane.
www.geocities.com /~cousin_itt/origins.htm   (1471 words)

  
  Addams Family Slot Machines - Adams Family Slots
IGT made Wheel of Fortune the most succesful slot machine in the last generation Since Addams Family combines the sounds and graphics of television's oddest ensemble with a progressive jackpot in the six and seven figures, the Addams Family progressive will probably be a monster hit in the slots industry.
Since Addams Family is a nickel slot machine, the qualifying bet for the progressive is only 45 cents.
Addams Family slot machines come with several different bonus options, each of which offers the same odds of winning or losing.
www.slotmachinefan.com /slot-machines/addams-family   (504 words)

  
  Addams Family, happy family, family poem
Sociologists distinguish between conjugal families (relatively independent of the kindreds of the parents and of other families in general) and nuclear families (which maintain relatively close ties with their kindreds).
Typically, societies with conjugal families also favor neolocal residence; thus upon marriage a person separates from the nuclear family of their childhood (family of orientation) and forms a new nuclear family (family of procreation).
They feel that the family structures of the past were superior to those today and believe that families were more stable and happier at a time when they did not have to contend with problems such as illegitimate children and divorce.
www.telepk.com /family/addams-family   (2321 words)

  
 The Father of the Addams Family : NPR
Addams was the creator of the Addams Family -- the warped and gruesome stars of magazine cartoons, a TV show and two movies.
Addams originals were owned by Roald Dahl, Evelyn Waugh, John O'Hara, Ray Bradbury, Herbert Marshall, Ronald Coleman, "a New Haven doctor who specializes in medical humor," and a fortunate few others, including a friend who hung her two classic Addams cartoons on a wall with a Picasso and a Léger.
Though Addams had described death as "a kind of cozy condition" that he thought shouldn't be too upsetting, he was also a collector; perhaps all the memento mori and the preoccupation with death and violence in his cartoons revealed an attempt to resist the inevitable by literally building a fortress against it.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=6407492   (3845 words)

  
 Mutant Reviewers from Hell do "Addams Family Values"
The Addams Family was a so-so 90s "classic TV series to movie" transition that was the popular wave.
The secret to the Addams Family is not that they're dark and macabre to shock you into laughing; they could've easily started throwing gooey brains and severed body parts around for cheap laughs, but refrained from being crass.
The Addams Family was the brainchild of Charles Addams (1912-1988).
www.mutantreviewers.com /raddams2.html   (1123 words)

  
 The Addams Family TV Show — Videos, Actors, Photos and Episodes from the Classic Television Show — TV Land
The cartoons featured a ghoulish family in a gothic mansion who lives were in opposition to the cheerful and upbeat values which were suggested by the mainstream media.
When Addams agreed to the TV series, his only obligation was to create names for the characters.
Unlike a similarly offbeat family, The Munsters, who resided in prime time contemporaneously, the family of Addams was never disturbed about not being accepted by regular society.
www.tvland.com /shows/addamsfamily   (336 words)

  
 The Addams Family (1937) - Don Markstein's Toonopedia
Addams was a cartoonist with a macabre sense of humor, who delighted in juxtaposing the fantastic and gruesome with the mundane and ordinary.
Addams, needless to say, is the one who supplied the names.
As for the real-life Addams and the cartoons that started it all — he seems to have lost interest in his fictional family after it became a media sensation, as they appear less often in his later cartoon collections.
www.toonopedia.com /addams_f.htm   (598 words)

  
 `The Addams Family' planned for Broadway - Boston.com
Now a musical version of "The Addams Family," based on cartoonist Charles Addams' creepy characters, is planned for Broadway, aiming to arrive during the 2009-2010 season.
Now a musical version of "The Addams Family," based on Addams' creepy characters, is planned for Broadway, aiming to arrive during the 2009-2010 season, producer Stuart Oken announced Monday May 21, 2007.
Among the ghoulish folks in Addams' menagerie are Gomez, Morticia, Uncle Fester, Wednesday, Pugsley and Lurch.
www.boston.com /ae/theater_arts/articles/2007/05/22/the_addams_family_planned_for_broadway   (304 words)

  
 The Addams Family & Addams Family Values
Based on Charles Addams' beloved cartoons and following the success of the hit TV series, The Addams Family is a visual funhouse, packed with plenty of treats, tricks and turns by director Barry Sonnenfeld.
TAF was Sonnenfeld's initial directorial attempt, and he quickly establishes what would become his signature style of flashy camera movements.
The Addams Family is definitely worth a rental, and you may want to add it to your collection if you enjoy this kind of broad humor; Addams Family Values merits a rental at best.
www.dvdmg.com /addamsfamilyandvalues.shtml   (2409 words)

  
 The Addams Family DVD
THE ADDAMS FAMILY was originally produced by the Orion pictures and was released by Paramount who made a mint off the franchise while Orion went bankrupt.
After the series ended, the Addams Family lived on in pop culture through syndication, cartoons, comic books, toys, etc. The most revered aspect of the original TV series was the manic portrayal of Gomez Addams by actor John Astin.
The Addams Family’s crooked lawyer, Tully (Dan Hedaya) has recruited a con-woman Dr. Pinder-Schloss (Elizabeth Wilson) and her brutish son Gordon, who is a dead ringer for Fester to locate the Addams Family fortune.
www.dvdcult.com /rev_AddamsFam.htm   (1286 words)

  
 Addamses: The Addams Family Archive
Well, this may not be exactly what most Addams Family fans are looking for, but the Addams family and the Munsters were recently mentioned in a piece of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fanfiction called "The Letter" by shylittlemuse of livejournal.
A warning to Addams Family fans, though, the story mentions Addams Family character deaths, and the main focus of the story is on characters of Buffy the Vampire.
While not everyone dressed in Addams Family gear — the wedding’s 55 guests were warned in advance it was a costume party — everybody had a costume of some sort.
addamses.blogspot.com   (637 words)

  
 Pinball Archive Rule Sheet: The Addams Family
There are 13 rooms in the Addams' mansion that can be collected by shooting either the electric chair or the swamp kickout when the yellow lamp is lit.
Addams Theme: Played at the beginning of your first ball until you plunge the ball into play.
The Addams Family was released in 1991, and was designed by Pat Lawlor, creator of Whirlwind, Funhouse, and later, Twilight Zone and Road Show.
www.pinball.org /rules/addamsfamily.html   (6602 words)

  
 :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: The Addams Family (xhtml)
There are a lot of little smiles in "The Addams Family," and many chuckles and grins, but they don't add up to much.
Many of the better moments involve the two Addams children, Wednesday (Christina Ricci) and Pugsley (Jimmy Workman), who before they go off to school are handed their lunches in brown bags with something alive inside.
Both movies are about strange evil creatures inhabiting a tricky haunted house, and yet in "The Addams Family" the effects seem put in for their own sake, to be looked at, and are not really exploited in the story.
rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19911122/REVIEWS/111220301/1023   (629 words)

  
 Addams Family Values - The Kooky Family Returns - Addams Family Values - Epinions.com
After The Addams Family went on to become a popular movie, it wasn’t surprising when a sequel was made.
Addams Family Values was released in 1993 and worked well as a sequel to the first movie.
The Addams Family wasn’t a normal family in any way, so it fit that they had to deal with some strange and bizarre things.
www.epinions.com /content_273656483460   (1089 words)

  
 The Addams family Creater, Charles Addams
Born on January 7, 1912, in the town of Westfield, New Jersey, Charles Samuel Addams is known as the Father of the Addams family.
His own home, and the home he broke into, are said to be the inspiration for "The Addams Family Mansion" that was so prominent in his drawings.
Competition with "The Munsters" and reactive producers placed "The Addams family in an early grave in 1966." The characters refused to stay buried though.
www.geocities.com /~cousin_itt/charles.htm   (717 words)

  
 ‘The Addams Family’ (PG-13)
For family friends, it would seem a viewing is de rigueur mortis.
Anjelica Huston and Raul Julia are ideally cast as the glamour ghoul Morticia "Tish" Addams and her doting husband, Gomez.
An ooky, kooky, spooky oeuvre, "The Addams Family" is decidedly not for the grave.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/theaddamsfamilypg13kempley_a0a280.htm   (481 words)

  
 The Addams Family
Addams Family Costume: Morticia Addams - Girl's Size 4-6
A latex Addam's Family Uncle Fester mask and hooded robe with belt cord.
Become part of the family, the Addams family that is. Gomez’s get-up includes purple and fl striped pants and jacket with inset red shirt and bowtie.
www.classictvstore.com /the-addams-family.htm   (164 words)

  
 The Addams Family
Addams was noted for his morbid sense of humor, and over the years various bizarre people and creatures who lived in a huge decaying Second Empire house became recurring characters.
Addams Family Values (1994) by Ocean was based on the movie's sequel and returned to the style of gameplay seen in the original Fester's Quest.
Lurch is the shambling, groaning, eight-foot-tall Frankenstein's Monster-like butler to the Addams family.
www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/The_Addams_Family.php   (2698 words)

  
 The Addams Family - Television Tropes & Idioms
A deliberate subversion 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, possessing opinions and preferences that are mirror images or inversions of more conventional attitudes.
Addams Family Reunion, sometimes called Addams Family 3, a hilarious 1998 direct-to-video sequel with Darryl Hannah as Morticia and Tim Curry as Gomez.
The New Addams Family on Fox Family, 1998-1999 was mostly new only in terms of title and cast; most of its episodes were recycled versions of scripts from the original series.
tvtropes.org /pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheAddamsFamily   (1290 words)

  
  Addams Family, The
Addams Family Values (1994) by Ocean was based on the movie's sequel and returned to the style of gameplay seen in the original Fester's Quest.
The Addams Family is a platform game based on the characters and settings from the movie (which, in turn, is based on the famous 1960's television series).
An evil lawyer has thrown the Addams family out of their home and is planning to take their fortune.
www.gamefabrique.com /addams-family.html   (701 words)

  
 The Addams Family
The Addams Family is not your typical family: they take delight in most of the things that "normal" people would be terrified of.
Gomez Addams is an extremely wealthy man, and is able to indulge his wife Morticia's every desire: be it cultivation of poisonous plants, or a candlelit dinner in a graveyard.
People visiting the Addams Family just don't seem to appreciate the 7 foot tall butler "Lurch" or the helping hand (which is just a disembodied hand named "Thing").
emeraldisle-ejs.us /Another_Realm/the_shows/addams_family.htm   (189 words)

  
 TV ACRES: Television Character Bios - Gomez & Morticia Addams (The Addams Family)
Thing is Gomez's childhood companion who moves about the Addams' bizarre home via a labyrinth of tunnels which lead to the mail box, a hidden wall vault and to a myriad of small hinged-topped wooden boxes strategically placed about their bizarre gothic home.
The family's daily diet includes such entrees as baked iguana, breast of alligator, broiled elephant hooves, casserole of spleen (with a pinch of hemlock), dwarf's hair pie, fricassee of toad, marinated gizzard of lizard, soufflé of aardvark, and tongue of yak.
For the 1991 motion picture remake The Addams Family: The Movie, a full-scale facade of the house (which slightly resembled the original) was built in the Burbank Hills.
www.tvacres.com /char_addams_gomez.htm   (1268 words)

  
 The Addams Family (1964) (a Titles & Air Dates Guide)
1-19 19 29 Jan 65 The Addams Family Splurges 20.
1-21 21 12 Feb 65 The Addams Family in Court 22.
1-24 24 12 Mar 65 Crisis in the Addams Family 25.
epguides.com /AddamsFamily   (770 words)

  
 THE ADDAMS FAMILY: VOLUME ONE + BONES: SEASON ONE - DVDs
The problem in turning these characters into a half-hour sitcom, namely "The Addams Family", should be self-evident: it bloats the brisk silliness into a particularly tiresome game of "Opposite Day"--thirty minutes of a family that cheerfully approves of the macabre and homicidal while despising normalcy and respectability.
As the Addams regard everyone outside their sphere of influence as "nice" but "strange," the series reveals itself as something of a lowbrow comedy of manners: a family not necessarily comprised of kooks but of rich eccentrics bound by a sense of noblesse oblige.
Rocky's stock-broker father is touched by the Addams' acceptance of his son and allows Rocky to go his own path; the boy, apparently having achieved what he set out to with his rebellion, responds by giving up his motorcycle and joining Daddy's firm.
filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/addamsbones.htm   (2253 words)

  
 The Munsters vs. The Addams Family @ WWWF Grudge Match
The Addams Family will go on to make another hit movie, and the Munsters will continue to be consigned to cheap, cheezy, made-for-TV movies with stand-in actors.
I cite two cases from the Addams Family movie alone: At the opening credits, when they were pouring a boiling...*something* on innocent trick-or-treaters, and when Pugsley removed the stop sign, causing a major car accident.
Anyone who has played Addams Family Pinball can assure you that the sheer magnetism of the Addams family would pull the audience from their seat to join in the fray.
www.grudge-match.com /History/feud2.shtml   (4298 words)

  
 The Addams Family - Movie Rental Review
Families can also talk about the differences that occur when classic TV series are remade.
Inspired by the cartoon characters of Charles Addams and based on the classic 1960s television series, THE ADDAMS FAMILY re-introduces the world to the Addamses, a ghoulishly demented family who embraces the morbid side of life.
The Addamses are a tight-knit family who clearly care about one another, but they lack the same kind of charm and generosity featured in the original 1964 TV series.
www.commonsensemedia.org /movie-reviews/Addams-Family_2.html   (770 words)

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