As a Fridge subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.
Fridge Brilliance
- Laurel refers to her brother having taken a much more violent approach to killing off the outcasts, and dying for it. Considering that we see in the show that the blood of an Addams is needed to awaken their ancestor Joseph Crackstone, and that her brother tried to kill Gomez, that makes their whole feud make even more sense beyond the love triangle over Morticia; he wanted Gomez' blood to awaken Crackstone!
- Wednesday says in a promotional video that homicidal maniacs "look just like everybody else." This isn’t just a shout-out to the 1991 movie, it’s a hint that Tyler is the murderer. He is, arguably, the most ordinary looking person in the whole series, with an ordinary job and hobbies - he couldn't blend any more into the background if he tried. This is also Truth in Television; if you see pictures of serial killers and homicidal maniacs like Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy, they just look like everyone else. Either so plain that no one notices them, or so attractive that they easily lure victims in with their charm.
- Not only that, Jekyll looked ”just like everyone else” when not transformed into the unrestrained Hyde. And just like his literary inspiration, Tyler’s in full control of his actions when transformed and enjoys being evil the more he indulges in his murderous impulses, using his “normal” persona as a cover to avoid the consequences!
- That Wednesday joins the Bee Club isn't just because it gives her an alibi for other activities - Eugene and the joy he has for his bees reminds her of herself and her pet scorpion. She also clearly has a thing for unusual pets. Also, Eugene reminds her of Pugsley.
- And for an added bonus: It's probably the only club Morticia wouldn't have any involvement in, as Eugene founded the Hummers.
- Enid's relentlessly upbeat approach to life, need for affection, and tendency to express herself physically toward the people she cares about (not like that) are shown to stem largely from her family issues. But they also reflect that she is, in a sense, a puppy.
- Enid's hair, pink, white (blonde) and blue are the colours of the trans pride flag. The character isn't at any point stated to be trans, but her mother tries to send her to conversion therapy camp for werewolves.
- Tyler saved Wednesday from Rowan because they required her blood on the blood moon to resurrect the Pilgrim.
- This is also why he called out for her that the Hyde is coming in the mansion and takes his sweet time to get to her in the cellar.
- Xavier had stuff from the murder scenes to induce visions of the Hyde to figure out who the murderer is. By the time Wednesday finds the paintings and paraphernalia, he is too angry with her to tell her it was to help her, not because he is the killer.
- A meta one for the show's premise. Wednesday defines herself in opposition to the people around her, so dealing with a bunch of people every bit as weird and quirky strikes at her sense of uniqueness.
- In the flashback scene to Gomez's arrest, Morticia states that seeing him in shackles makes her love him even more. At first, it just seems like a typically Addamsish twisted romance scene. However, when more details of what happened that night are revealed, it makes more sense. The reason Gomez was handcuffed and being taken away was because he had just demonstrated to Morticia that he loved her enough to take a murder rap for her.
- The sirens are actually not doing well at all during the boat race, and would lose even more easily than they do if they didn't resort to cheating. This makes sense, because while they are water creatures, they are not used to rowing - normally, they just swim, and then their speed comes from their tail fins, not from their arms.
- Thornhill trying to get Wednesday to read Frankenstein hints at her plan to gather body parts, so she can reanimate the corpse of her dead ancestor.
- Thornhill disappears from the Rave'N dance, only to suddenly reappear later. Her exit and reappearance coincide perfectly with the torching of the cave. Her choice of extinction as the dance's theme also ties in to her plan to bring about the extinction of outcasts.
- The flowers Thornhill gives to Wednesday have meaning. In flower language, the black Dahlia means "betrayal", while the white Oleander means renewal and destiny. White Oleander is also deadly. In short, Thornhill basically tells Wednesday, "I'm going to betray and kill you to fulfill our destiny to renew the status quo." All with two flowers. Impressive, actually.
- Wednesday gets to watch Legally Blonde, and describes it as torture. It's about someone very similar to Enid successfully solving a murder case.
- No wonder the only victim of the piranhas shouldn't, as Wednesday puts it, be allowed to procreate, he thought he could out-swim them.
- On the Nevermore Academy website it's said that the applications are currently closed and while this refers to the fact that the production of Season 2 hasn't started yet it also refers to the fact that Nevermore currently doesn't have a Principal and therefore can't take applications from new students.
Fridge Logic
- Anyone wondering why Wednesday and Weems didn't have a better plan when confronting Thornhill/Laurel when they know she's not only dangerous and has poisons—and that one of them could be hurt or killed in the process like both Wednesday and Weems are—could point to either the sting idea being so last minute that they didn't prepare anything, thinking she couldn't fight back because they had safety in numbers or that Weems insisted on only doing it if the intended solution with Thornhill/Laurel after that was diplomatic: i.e. make her come quietly.
- Both, most likely. By that point, Wednesday had done enough damage that Weems would probably outright refuse to listen at first. So, by the time Wednesday and Eugene convince her to suspect Thornhill, and her and Wednesday travel back to the school. They come up with a plan to confront Thornhill that won't risk tarnishing the school's reputation any further...
- Goody, or Goodwife, is a title and manner of address in the time period, not a name. Calling someone "Goody Lastname" immediately evokes the Salem Witch Trials for anyone who's read the stories. This feels like a deliberate invocation on the part of the writers, and thus becomes very confusing when Wednesday refers to Goody as if that were her actual first name. Did the writers not understand how it worked? Or is it that Wednesday hasn't read The Crucible and mistakes Goody for a name, as it seems like a perfectly reasonable name to her?
- The most likely answer is that the writers just wanted a Meaningful Name. But in the world of the show, there are a couple of possible answers, from most likely to least;
- Wednesday, Morticia, and Crackstone all used her title as a formality, and everyone else who heard it simply assumed that Goody was her real name.
- Goody's real name was lost to history at some point, and Wednesday simply never had time to ask about it, and just used the first appropriate name or title she was given.
- Wednesday, being Wednesday, simply didn't care enough to find out her real name, because it wasn't relevant to the case.
- Goody took it as an actual name at some point after escaping the fire, either as a Meaningful Name, or to move on from her old life, or just as an alias to protect herself.
- The Addams family is no stranger to weird names (Itt, Pugsley, Fester...). Maybe they actually did name her the equivalent of "Miss Addams."
- The most likely answer is that the writers just wanted a Meaningful Name. But in the world of the show, there are a couple of possible answers, from most likely to least;
Fridge Horror
- Tyler's date at the crypt was meant to be used as a distraction to keep Wednesday out of her room long enough for Thornhill/Laurel Gates to ransack her room to locate the diary. Part of the date was watching "Legally Blonde." In order to have the maximum amount of time to search for the diary, Thornhill would likely have broken into Wednesday's room shortly after she left for the date at the crypt. Add up the time needed to reach the crypt, watch the movie, and return to her room and that means that Thing could have been stabbed and Pinned to the Wall for at least two hours before Wednesday found him.
- The bullies at Nancy Reagan High are going to declare open season on poor Pugsley without his big sister around to defend him. Whatever payback they exact for the piranha incident might place Pugsley in real physical danger.
- Not necessarily, considering Pugsley’s love for explosives and his comment about being the first person in the family who ends up behind bars. He might even deal with the bullies by living up to the Addams Family’s credo.
- Garrett Gates' father hates outcasts so much that he forced his son to sneak into the Rave'N dance and try to sneak Nightshade poison into their food. That alone is horrifying, but then one remembers that Garrett was in love with Morticia and the latter tried to report his assault only to get ignored. One can only imagine how Garrett's father confronted him ...
- Hydes in and of themselves are utterly terrifying, given there's no telling who is one and, like Tyler, they themselves might not even know what they are until it is too late. With that said, the kicker is the process of one awakening as a Hyde which includes going through an initial trauma that brings the monster out and then someone putting them through continuous torture until the Hyde becomes completely submissive to who is essentially their abuser. All while fully succumbing to their Hyde-half's bloodthirsty and sadistic nature. Needless to say this opens an ugly water tank of worms, and needless to say Uncle Fester was damn right in saying people who use Hydes to do their dirty work are "next level sickos".
- Probably safe to say that whatever led to Tyler's mom awakening as a Hyde wasn't pretty ...
