History Trivia / TheAddamsFamily

* AscendedFanboy / CreatorsFavorite: When asked who his favorite character was that he's portrayed, Creator/ChristopherLloyd answered with Uncle Fester because he was a fan of the original ''Addams Family'' comic strip as a kid.

* AdaptationSequence: Newspaper Comic —> TV show —> Cartoon —> Video Game —> Movie —> TV show loosely based on movie —> Video Game —> Sequel to movie —> Broadway Musical —> Animated Movie

** ''Addams Family Values''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFDh_U2syXo teaser trailer]] has a nurse examining babies in a maternity ward, all while adoring parents look on behind glass. She comes to a crib that's covered in a massive black overhang and opens it up to examine, then turns around and screams once she sees what's inside. Like the original, this clip was shot specifically for marketing purposes, and never appears in the final film.

* RelationshipVoiceActor: A meta cross-language one between the original English version and the Latin American Spanish dub: Wednesday is played and dubbed by an actress named "C(h)ristina": Creator/ChristinaRicchi and Creator/CristinaHernandez respectively.

** Music from the game can also play in ''Pinball/TheTwilightZone''[='=]s "Fast Lock" multi ball.

* HeyItsThatSound: The sound effects played after completing a Three- and Four-Way Combo sequence are the same ones used in ''Pinball/{{Funhouse}}''.

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** CreepyChild

* WagTheDirector: According to director Creator/BarrySonnenfeld, in the first film, [[spoiler:Gordon Craven ''wasn't'' supposed to have been Fester all along, [[http://www.vulture.com/2012/04/barry-sonnenfeld--men-in-black-3.html but still an imposter]], though the family would've accepted him as Fester anyway, as, in Sonnenfeld's words, "...family wasn't about blood, it was about love."]] Sonnenfeld described Creator/AnjelicaHuston as "passionately against" the idea and Creator/RaulJulia as "outraged" (though funnily enough Creator/ChristopherLloyd himself didn't care either way), and in the end, the cast chose ten-year-old Creator/ChristinaRicci to convince Sonnenfeld to change the ending. Their reasoning was that Gordon not being the real Fester implies that the real Fester was still out there somewhere, and audiences would be wondering where he was.

* WagTheDirector: According to director Creator/BarrySonnenfeld, in the first film, [[spoiler:Gordon Craven ''wasn't'' supposed to have been Fester all along, [[http://www.vulture.com/2012/04/barry-sonnenfeld--men-in-black-3.html but still an imposter]], though the family would've accepted him as Fester anyway, as, in Sonnenfeld's words, "...family wasn't about blood, it was about love."]] Sonnenfeld described Creator/AnjelicaHuston as "passionately against" the idea and Creator/RaulJulia as "outraged" (though funnily enough Creator/ChristopherLloyd himself didn't care either way), and in the end, the cast chose ten-year-old Creator/ChristinaRicci to convince Sonnenfeld to change the ending.

** Music/MichaelJackson's song "Is It Scary" got shelved due to contractual disputes before Jackson himself became embroiled in a child molestation scandal, becoming mostly known for the latter and ultimately dying in 2009.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: Or, rather, ''Actor'' Existence Failure: A third film in the Creator/{{Paramount}} trilogy was prepared before Creator/RaulJulia died in 1994. [[TypeCasting Since literally no one could play Gomez like him]] (not even, sadly, Creator/TimCurry), the project was scrapped.

* CastTheRunnerUp: The series was originally going to be from Lurch's perspective (though he wasn't named at the time), and John Astin was ''actually called upon to audition for the role'', leading to him almost backing out of the series until the idea was reworked.

** The series was originally going to be from Lurch's perspective (though he wasn't named at the time), and John Astin was ''actually called upon to audition for the role'', leading to him almost backing out of the series until the idea was reworked.

** Creator/RebeccaDeMornay was originally offered the role of Debbi Jellinsky, the idea being a parody of her role in ''Film/TheHandThatRocksTheCradle''. She declined, feeling it was too similar. Creator/MarisaTomei was also consideerd.
** Music/MichaelJackson was tapped to write a horror-themed song for ''Values'' along with a promotional music video using clips from the film, and in fact much of it was shot (including a closing cameo by Wednesday and Pugsley). However, this was dropped due to contractual disputes between Paramount Pictures and Epic Records. It's commonly purported that these plans were dropped because of Jackson's child molestation accusations in late 1993; while there's no ''hard'' evidence to support this the timing probably didn't help the video's case. "Is It Scary" would was released four years later on Jackson's album ''[[Music/HIStoryPastPresentAndFutureBookI Blood on the Dance Floor: History in the Mix]]'' and served as a basis for the song "Ghosts" on the same album; the video was reshot and reedited into ''Film/MichaelJacksonsGhosts''.

* TheCastShowoff: Creator/RaulJulia gets a full song ([[https://youtu.be/Mw0IakmQri0 The Mamushka!]]) in the first film and [[https://youtu.be/NIDabDkcS8o an extended tango sequence]] with Anjelica Huston in the second film seemingly for no real reason other than to show off Julia's Broadway-honed singing and dancing skills (which, if we're being honest, is [[CrazyAwesome reason enough]]).

** As stated above, a third film was planned, but Raul Julia succumbed to his stomach cancer in 1994, and the film never came about since Julia was deemed irreplaceable.

* DyeingForYourArt: Creator/AnjelicaHuston wore a corset, plus make-up that made her closer to the comic strip's Morticia. She described it as exhausting.

** Music/{{Cher}} wanted to play Morticia. This would have provided a nice CastingGag, as Cher and Creator/ChristinaRicci had previously played mother and daughter in ''Film/{{Mermaids}}''.

* ChannelHop: Creator/OrionPictures originally produced the first film, but the studio's bankruptcy led to them selling the US rights and copyrights to Paramount. Orion retained the international rights, which were licensed to Creator/{{Columbia}} for distribution. The sequel was produced and released by Creator/{{Paramount}} outright.