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It is now Wednesday Friday Addams' turn to have her different incarnations shown.

New Yorker comics-

In the original comic strips made by Charles Addams that were published in The New Yorker, the girl that would come to be known as Wednesday had been featured in many of these delightfully dark one-panel gags.

One memorable strip has Wednesday throwing a tantrum in her room while Morticia and Pugsley look on, with Grandmama explaining in the caption that Wednesday is upset because the school put her on the honor roll.

A few of my favorite New Yorker strips involving her feature her interacting with her father Gomez. One has her being pushed by him on a swing that has a broomstick for a seat, another has him entertaining her with shadow puppets at bedtime, and the third one has Gomez playing "This Little Piggy" with his daughter and being shocked to see that Wednesday has six toes on one foot.

I also know of another strip printed in 1953 that I admire because it shows how bold Charles Addams was. To specify, it showed Wednesday and her brother Pugsley getting ready to scare kids swimming with a fake shark fin prank. The audacious nature of the strip is that Wednesday does not have a shirt on! True, she is a young girl and all, but the double standard that has plagued us for so long dictates that it is apparently okay for young boys to go out shirtless, but not for young girls to do the same. I am a man who believes in equality, and I will be a little bit angry for as long as men and women are treated differently for every situation. Why exactly do women have to be more modest than men? Better yet, why do men have to be less modest than women? I'd go on, but I'll have plenty of time to discuss such things later in an unrelated work I have planned.

1960's television show-

The characters in the original New Yorker strips were nameless. They weren't given their original names until the more famous 1960's show was made. As a matter of fact, the names for the characters were chosen by Charles Addams himself!

In the 60's series, Wednesday was the youngest of the two Addams children and was played by Lisa Loring. She was also a rather cute little girl, I might add. There's just something about adorable young children that makes me forget all of my woes. I often devote my time to watch videos of babies laughing or babbling. One of my favorite gags involving Wednesday in the old show was in the episode where the Addamses befriended a biker punk. To try and cheer the boy up, the family decides to invite his father over for dinner. Rocky, the biker, somehow already knows, and when Wednesday tells him of his special surprise, he says "I know. Satan is coming to dinner." Wednesday then says "Oh, no. That was last week!"

There's nothing quite as funny as an innocent little girl admitting that her family had the devil himself as a dinner guest! Especially since this incarnation of Wednesday is much sweeter and nicer than her other counterparts.

Lisa Loring played Wednesday again as an adult in the 1977 reunion special Halloween with The New Addams Family. She was referred to as Wednesday, Sr., though, because apparently, in the time between the 1977 special and the original 1964 series, Gomez and Morticia had two more children that were both identical to their older siblings. The younger Wednesday was referred to as Wednesday, Jr. and was played by Jennifer Surprenant. Whenever Wednesday, Sr. played her flute during the family Halloween party, Gomez would be captured by the villain "Bones" Lafferty and use Morse code to inform his daughter that he is in trouble. Wednesday, Sr. would then send Cousin Itt to help her dad.

1970's animated series-

Wednesday was played by an uncredited actress in a crossover episode of The New Scooby Doo Movies. The main plot involved her being kidnapped as an attempt to get the Addams Family to leave their home. The only thing I didn't like about the episode was how they changed her dress from black to pink. Not only does it clash with the Addamses' morbid and bizarre ideals, but I also happen to be a man who loathes the stereotype that girls like the color pink. I hardly know any women who like that color.

It wasn't long before Hanna-Barbera gave the Addams Family their own cartoon in 1973, which was about the family traveling the world in a camper shaped like their famous house. Cindy Henderson played Wednesday.

To be brutally honest, the 70's cartoon is my least favorite version of The Addams Family. The animation is cheap even for a 70's cartoon and I was really annoyed by Gomez's voice and the lack of stripes for Gomez's suit and Pugsley's shirt. It also seems that back then, Hanna-Barbera didn't care too much about their cartoons, because there were some blatant continuity errors. One of the worst cases was an episode where Wednesday was celebrating her 13th birthday. If the 70's cartoon Wednesday is 13, then she must be a seriously late bloomer. True, 13 has always been considered the unlucky number and a lot of humor comes from the Addamses' beliefs being reversed and odd, but couldn't they have done something more believable like an event's 13th anniversary?

Despite my disdain for this version of The Addams Family, there were some episodes I enjoyed. My favorite episode was when Wednesday wanted to find a Boola-Boola for a pet. The Boola-Boola was a legendary creature that resembled a hairy octopus. Some guys try to scam the family, but the real Boola-Boola gives the con men what they deserve. In the end, Wednesday decides to let the Boola-Boola go not only because it turns out to be a mother, but because parting with it will make her wonderfully miserable.

Orion and Paramount Movies-

The live-action films had Wednesday Addams played by Christina Ricci. These movies were the first continuity to depict Wednesday as creepy and callous, but she did have some level of cuteness in the first film, especially when Uncle Fester kissed her and her doll of Marie Antionette (both the body and the head) goodnight. This was the first incarnation where Wednesday was blatantly older than Pugsley.

Wednesday and Pugsley both had sibling rivalry with their younger brother Pubert in the sequel Addams Family Values, and the villain Debbie Jellinsky tried to get the two out of the way by sending them to Camp Chippewah, a camp that proves to be utter hell for the Addams kids. Fortunately, Wednesday gives all the jerks and those two a-hole camp counselors a satisfying punishment. Debbie also gets hers in the end when Pubert electrocutes her into ashes. She also had some denied feelings for Joel Glicker, the sympathetic Jewish nerd. That camp counselor was a ***** for taking away his book!

1990's animated series-

One of my favorite versions of The Addams Family will always be the 1992 cartoon, which was made by Hanna-Barbera in response to the success of the 1991 film.

Wednesday was played in this version by Debi Derryberry, better known for playing Jimmy Neutron. This incarnation of Wednesday had the same deadpan nature as the film version, but was slightly less mean-spirited.

Despite being taller and more intelligent than Pugsley, Wednesday was once again younger than her brother. However, they were implied to have entered the world in the same birth: Gomez once referred to them as his "twin terrors" and the episode "Sir Pugsley" did show a clip of the two siblings as both being infants during their first joust.

As in the New Yorker comics, the 90's cartoon Wednesday appeals to me because of the few times she interacts with her father. There was one episode that featured a TV personality named Graveyard Gary, who dressed up like a vampire. Wednesday wins the contest to have him over at his house for a day, but Gary is eventually revealed to be a spineless geek who calls out on the Addamses for taking scary stuff too seriously. Gomez is at first worried that his daughter now hates him for destroying her idol, but it turns out that Wednesday always liked her dad and thought that what he did was cool. They proceed to do battle with a two-headed sea serpent to continue their bond.

Addams Family Reunion and The New Addams Family-

The nigh-universally despised Addams Family Reunion has often been confused for being a sequel to the first two movies, when despite having the same actors playing Lurch and Thing, it actually has no relation to the first two films at all. If the entire family being recast and the absence of Pubert doesn't convince you, then you surely must be aware that this film wasn't even made by the same production company!

The first Addams Family film was made by Orion Productions, with the sequel made by Paramount due to Orion going out of business. Addams Family Reunion was produced by Saban and was released as a direct-to-video film by Warner Brothers! Come to think of it, it's also rather conspicuous that it was made five years after Addams Family Values, which was made only two years after the first film.

In both Addams Family Reunion and the series The New Addams Family, which Addams Family Reunion was a pilot for, Wednesday was played by Nicole Fugere. Both depicted Wednesday as an exaggeration of her movie counterpart. She was solemn and sinister, but had her sadistic tendencies with her brother played up to the point that she barely crosses the line between casual indifference and pure evil. She still has some good in her, though.

If you recall the somewhat backwards nature of how the Addams Family see things, you could come to the conclusion that Wednesday tortures her brother all the time because she loves him very much. One of the several remake episodes had a subplot of Pugsley ignoring the pain because he was in love. The girl he had a crush on turn out to be a manipulative little creep who was using boys' affections for her in her advantage, and the episode ended with Wednesday leaving the girl to be eaten alive by alligators. I know that a lot of the people who get killed by the Addamses' actions tend to have it coming, but I think getting eaten by alligators is a little too harsh as a punishment for people who take advantage of those who have a crush on them.

I always got a laugh in the remake of Morticia the Breadwinner where she and Pugsley got a job babysitting. They end up looking after a complete brat of a kid, but by the time his mother comes to pick him up, the boy is so traumatized by what Wednesday and Pugsley put him through that he'll do anything his mom tells him to without question. There's nothing more satisfying than seeing a brat get scared straight.

The Musical-

The most recent adaptation of The Addams Family was a musical originally staged in 2010. Wednesday was played by Krysta Rodriguez in the original production.

The plot was about Wednesday becoming 18 years old and falling in love with a normal boy named Lucas Beineke. To show that she was truly grown up, Wednesday lost her trademark pigtails.

The Addams Family invite Lucas and his parents over for dinner, but things go bad because the Addamses simply cannot even pretend to be normal and Pugsley doesn't like the idea of his sister never torturing him for fun again.

Eventually, the conflicts are resolved and Wednesday goes on with Lucas to get married.

The Addams Family created by Charles Addams

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It is now Wednesday Friday Addams' turn to have her different incarnations shown.

New Yorker comics-

In the original comic strips made by Charles Addams that were published in The New Yorker, the girl that would come to be known as Wednesday had been featured in many of these delightfully dark one-panel gags.

One memorable strip has Wednesday throwing a tantrum in her room while Morticia and Pugsley look on, with Grandmama explaining in the caption that Wednesday is upset because the school put her on the honor roll.

A few of my favorite New Yorker strips involving her feature her interacting with her father Gomez. One has her being pushed by him on a swing that has a broomstick for a seat, another has him entertaining her with shadow puppets at bedtime, and the third one has Gomez playing "This Little Piggy" with his daughter and being shocked to see that Wednesday has six toes on one foot.

I also know of another strip printed in 1953 that I admire because it shows how bold Charles Addams was. To specify, it showed Wednesday and her brother Pugsley getting ready to scare kids swimming with a fake shark fin prank. The audacious nature of the strip is that Wednesday does not have a shirt on! True, she is a young girl and all, but the double standard that has plagued us for so long dictates that it is apparently okay for young boys to go out shirtless, but not for young girls to do the same. I am a man who believes in equality, and I will be a little bit angry for as long as men and women are treated differently for every situation. Why exactly do women have to be more modest than men? Better yet, why do men have to be less modest than women? I'd go on, but I'll have plenty of time to discuss such things later in an unrelated work I have planned.

1960's television show-

The characters in the original New Yorker strips were nameless. They weren't given their original names until the more famous 1960's show was made. As a matter of fact, the names for the characters were chosen by Charles Addams himself!

In the 60's series, Wednesday was the youngest of the two Addams children and was played by Lisa Loring. She was also a rather cute little girl, I might add. There's just something about adorable young children that makes me forget all of my woes. I often devote my time to watch videos of babies laughing or babbling. One of my favorite gags involving Wednesday in the old show was in the episode where the Addamses befriended a biker punk. To try and cheer the boy up, the family decides to invite his father over for dinner. Rocky, the biker, somehow already knows, and when Wednesday tells him of his special surprise, he says "I know. Satan is coming to dinner." Wednesday then says "Oh, no. That was last week!"

There's nothing quite as funny as an innocent little girl admitting that her family had the devil himself as a dinner guest! Especially since this incarnation of Wednesday is much sweeter and nicer than her other counterparts.

Lisa Loring played Wednesday again as an adult in the 1977 reunion special Halloween with The New Addams Family. She was referred to as Wednesday, Sr., though, because apparently, in the time between the 1977 special and the original 1964 series, Gomez and Morticia had two more children that were both identical to their older siblings. The younger Wednesday was referred to as Wednesday, Jr. and was played by Jennifer Surprenant. Whenever Wednesday, Sr. played her flute during the family Halloween party, Gomez would be captured by the villain "Bones" Lafferty and use Morse code to inform his daughter that he is in trouble. Wednesday, Sr. would then send Cousin Itt to help her dad.

1970's animated series-

Wednesday was played by an uncredited actress in a crossover episode of The New Scooby Doo Movies. The main plot involved her being kidnapped as an attempt to get the Addams Family to leave their home. The only thing I didn't like about the episode was how they changed her dress from black to pink. Not only does it clash with the Addamses' morbid and bizarre ideals, but I also happen to be a man who loathes the stereotype that girls like the color pink. I hardly know any women who like that color.

It wasn't long before Hanna-Barbera gave the Addams Family their own cartoon in 1973, which was about the family traveling the world in a camper shaped like their famous house. Cindy Henderson played Wednesday.

To be brutally honest, the 70's cartoon is my least favorite version of The Addams Family. The animation is cheap even for a 70's cartoon and I was really annoyed by Gomez's voice and the lack of stripes for Gomez's suit and Pugsley's shirt. It also seems that back then, Hanna-Barbera didn't care too much about their cartoons, because there were some blatant continuity errors. One of the worst cases was an episode where Wednesday was celebrating her 13th birthday. If the 70's cartoon Wednesday is 13, then she must be a seriously late bloomer. True, 13 has always been considered the unlucky number and a lot of humor comes from the Addamses' beliefs being reversed and odd, but couldn't they have done something more believable like an event's 13th anniversary?

Despite my disdain for this version of The Addams Family, there were some episodes I enjoyed. My favorite episode was when Wednesday wanted to find a Boola-Boola for a pet. The Boola-Boola was a legendary creature that resembled a hairy octopus. Some guys try to scam the family, but the real Boola-Boola gives the con men what they deserve. In the end, Wednesday decides to let the Boola-Boola go not only because it turns out to be a mother, but because parting with it will make her wonderfully miserable.

Orion and Paramount Movies-

The live-action films had Wednesday Addams played by Christina Ricci. These movies were the first continuity to depict Wednesday as creepy and callous, but she did have some level of cuteness in the first film, especially when Uncle Fester kissed her and her doll of Marie Antionette (both the body and the head) goodnight. This was the first incarnation where Wednesday was blatantly older than Pugsley.

Wednesday and Pugsley both had sibling rivalry with their younger brother Pubert in the sequel Addams Family Values, and the villain Debbie Jellinsky tried to get the two out of the way by sending them to Camp Chippewah, a camp that proves to be utter hell for the Addams kids. Fortunately, Wednesday gives all the jerks and those two a-hole camp counselors a satisfying punishment. Debbie also gets hers in the end when Pubert electrocutes her into ashes. She also had some denied feelings for Joel Glicker, the sympathetic Jewish nerd. That camp counselor was a ***** for taking away his book!

1990's animated series-

One of my favorite versions of The Addams Family will always be the 1992 cartoon, which was made by Hanna-Barbera in response to the success of the 1991 film.

Wednesday was played in this version by Debi Derryberry, better known for playing Jimmy Neutron. This incarnation of Wednesday had the same deadpan nature as the film version, but was slightly less mean-spirited.

Despite being taller and more intelligent than Pugsley, Wednesday was once again younger than her brother. However, they were implied to have entered the world in the same birth: Gomez once referred to them as his "twin terrors" and the episode "Sir Pugsley" did show a clip of the two siblings as both being infants during their first joust.

As in the New Yorker comics, the 90's cartoon Wednesday appeals to me because of the few times she interacts with her father. There was one episode that featured a TV personality named Graveyard Gary, who dressed up like a vampire. Wednesday wins the contest to have him over at his house for a day, but Gary is eventually revealed to be a spineless geek who calls out on the Addamses for taking scary stuff too seriously. Gomez is at first worried that his daughter now hates him for destroying her idol, but it turns out that Wednesday always liked her dad and thought that what he did was cool. They proceed to do battle with a two-headed sea serpent to continue their bond.

Addams Family Reunion and The New Addams Family-

The nigh-universally despised Addams Family Reunion has often been confused for being a sequel to the first two movies, when despite having the same actors playing Lurch and Thing, it actually has no relation to the first two films at all. If the entire family being recast and the absence of Pubert doesn't convince you, then you surely must be aware that this film wasn't even made by the same production company!

The first Addams Family film was made by Orion Productions, with the sequel made by Paramount due to Orion going out of business. Addams Family Reunion was produced by Saban and was released as a direct-to-video film by Warner Brothers! Come to think of it, it's also rather conspicuous that it was made five years after Addams Family Values, which was made only two years after the first film.

In both Addams Family Reunion and the series The New Addams Family, which Addams Family Reunion was a pilot for, Wednesday was played by Nicole Fugere. Both depicted Wednesday as an exaggeration of her movie counterpart. She was solemn and sinister, but had her sadistic tendencies with her brother played up to the point that she barely crosses the line between casual indifference and pure evil. She still has some good in her, though.

If you recall the somewhat backwards nature of how the Addams Family see things, you could come to the conclusion that Wednesday tortures her brother all the time because she loves him very much. One of the several remake episodes had a subplot of Pugsley ignoring the pain because he was in love. The girl he had a crush on turn out to be a manipulative little creep who was using boys' affections for her in her advantage, and the episode ended with Wednesday leaving the girl to be eaten alive by alligators. I know that a lot of the people who get killed by the Addamses' actions tend to have it coming, but I think getting eaten by alligators is a little too harsh as a punishment for people who take advantage of those who have a crush on them.

I always got a laugh in the remake of Morticia the Breadwinner where she and Pugsley got a job babysitting. They end up looking after a complete brat of a kid, but by the time his mother comes to pick him up, the boy is so traumatized by what Wednesday and Pugsley put him through that he'll do anything his mom tells him to without question. There's nothing more satisfying than seeing a brat get scared straight.

The Musical-

The most recent adaptation of The Addams Family was a musical originally staged in 2010. Wednesday was played by Krysta Rodriguez in the original production.

The plot was about Wednesday becoming 18 years old and falling in love with a normal boy named Lucas Beineke. To show that she was truly grown up, Wednesday lost her trademark pigtails.

The Addams Family invite Lucas and his parents over for dinner, but things go bad because the Addamses simply cannot even pretend to be normal and Pugsley doesn't like the idea of his sister never torturing him for fun again.

Eventually, the conflicts are resolved and Wednesday goes on with Lucas to get married.

The Addams Family created by Charles Addams