History Fridge / TheAddamsFamily

** In this TV special, Wednesday Jr is stated to be an adult Wednesday's daughter and Pugsley Jr is stated to be an adult Pugsley's son staying with Gomez and Morticia while the adult Pugsley apprentices as a "witch doctor" with Dr. M'Benga.

!!FridgeLogic

* When The Addams Family is seen with a bubbling cauldron to get rid of carolers, it is entirely possible that, if it was cold enough outside, and the pot was filled with water, that the water would disappear into steam before it hit the carolers, leaving them unharmed. Or at least cool down to a non-lethal temperature before it hit them, as we see the water has a fairly long way to fall in both the movie, and the comic.
** Exactly. They're [[DarkIsNotEvil not evil enough to actually kill someone, just morbid and playing on the idea of killing people]].
*** Isn't it still rather disturbing that they ''fantasize'' about murder?
*** They're supposed to be a bit disturbing.
** Not quite: when the family is moving out, you can see what looks like black paint splattered on the front door and the porch; it's left over from whatever they poured on the carolers. (Of course, its still possible that the act was non-lethal.)
* In the first film, Abigail Craven's plan to steal the Addams's fortune is to play off "Gordon" as Fester. This ends up biting her in the ass when he finds he highly prefers being surrounded by a loving family of equally strange gothics than having an abusive mother who only saw him as a tool, and ultimately gets him his memory of actually ''being'' Fester back when he's struck by lighting while trying to close the hurricane book. Had she not tried some half-baked con of him pretending to be himself, and actually told the truth in the first place that she found him with amnesia, it's entirely plausible that "Gordon" wouldn't have started looking at his family situation so closely, and she could have managed to get away Scot-free.
** Craven ''didn't know'' the amnesiac she found in the Bermuda Triangle was Fester Addams: she just knew '''he wasn't her natural son'''. There's nothing in the film to suggest Craven knew all along that Gordon was Fester. If she did, don't you think a woman as greedy and calculating as her would have used that knowledge (and Fester) to her advantage, like holding him hostage for a huge payday, or for at least what would have probably a ''huge'' reward from an immensely grateful Gomez?
* The way that "Gordon" took to dancing the Mamushka should have been a tip-off that he was Fester. After all, Gomez said that only the Addamses knew the dance.
** I think it was a ''deliberate'' hint that "Gordon" really was Fester.
* This troper always thought that Thing was some creature that you only saw the hand of, not ''just'' a hand.
** This troper agrees: In the show, Thing has a lot more forearm and one time you see a second hand- one hand drew into the box and another one popped out to close it. This isn't to say I don't like Thing as he appears in the movie, of course.
** In Charles Addams' cartoons, Thing ''is'' a creature, not just a hand -- in fact, he's a whole other ''human'' (or... something like one), usually peering at the Addamses from some vantage point or another. What was unique about him here was that you never fully saw him -- he was almost completely obscured by something, or silhouetted, or what have you. Charles Addams originally wanted to make him a disembodied ''head'' for the television series.

* In the musical, why is Pugsley the same age, but Wednesday eighteen? In the show, she was six, meaning she would have aged twelve years, so Pugsley ''should'' be about twenty to twenty-two years old, but he's still a small (about eight to ten years old) boy!
** The musical and the show are in two different continuities.
* Gordon is eventually confirmed to be Fester, who has been bald since childhood. Yet he can grow a full head of hair when he's in his forties.
** Maybe he shaved his hair on purpose as a boy.
** I know it's a different continuity, but at least in the newer show, Fester was shown growing hair when in great distress; maybe that started up when he was away from the family for that long.
** The sequel provides a possible explanation for this; when the family began falling apart, Pubert became more and more 'normal.' Being separated from his family for 25 years with amnesia would have the same affect, but given who Abigail Craven was as a person, it wasn't normal enough to change him completely.
* Gomez's Spanish heritage is much, much more pronounced in the musical than in any other version. Despite this, he's the only member of his family, both living and deceased who shows any sign of Latin origins.
* The only reason the Beinekes don't leave at the end of Act 1 of the musical is due to Fester and the ancestors causing a storm, but as soon as act 2 starts, everything's cleared up. So why didn't Mal try to leave?
** The storm isn't ''immediately'' cleared up at the beginning of Act Two. It's not until a few scenes in that someone mentions the weather has changed. Also remember that the Addamses live in the middle of Central Park, and the Beinekes walked there; presumably the whole place is flooded with mud and water, making travel impossible. And finally, the ancestors only conjured the storm as a solution to keep the Beinekes from leaving immediately--once they weren't able to exit at that very second, they all started discussing their problems, so they didn't want to go any more.
* Despite singing and dancing with them at the beginning of the musical, all the Addams except for Fester seem completely oblivious about the ancestors surrounding them.
** Since Fester is the one who locks the Addams Family Crypt to prevent the ancestors from returning to the afterlife, maybe he is the only one who ''can'' see them at the moment. The other Addamses expect the ancestors to manifest in the graveyard, but they all go back inside before Fester seals the crypt. Fester is the only one who knows they're in the house, so perhaps he's the only one who can interact with them.
* The musical plot makes a big fuss about how Morticia and Gomez are not supposed to keep any secrets from each other, but they ''also'' have a big family traditional Game that requires disclosing a secret you've never told anyone before. How is that supposed to work?
** There are two possibilities. One: while Morticia and Gomez don't keep secrets from each other, they might be perfectly willing to let the ''rest'' of the family keep secrets from them, possibly even for the express purpose of the Game. They also operate in a parenting style based on independence and trust ("if our kids need us, they'll ask; otherwise we believe in their ability to handle their own problems"), so everyone is encouraged to live their own lives and thus develop secrets. Two: the Game is only played with people meeting the Addamses for the first time, as the Beinekes were doing that night. It's a lot easier to share secrets with total strangers!

* There are several hints that [[spoiler: "Gordon" really was Fester all along]]: Granny was able to sense his presence at dinner because he was already in the room, he showed the children how to gut with a sword, and he danced the Mamushka perfectly.[[note]] There are real-world instances where [[GeniusBonus amnesiacs can briefly recall aspects of themselves when exposed to music that they listened to, such as Ilene Woods (the voice actress of Cinderella) with 'A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes"- while she still didn't remember she voiced her, it made her happy and the nurses would play it all the time]]. The Mamushka was [[AncientTradition an Addams Family tradition passed down through the generations]], and Fester had probably already danced it with Gomez many times before his accident. When the music started, his muscle memory kicked in and he was able to perform the dance flawlessly, even if he had no conscious memory of it. [[/note]]

** It's also possible that because the Addams are, well, [[TooKinkyToTorture the Addams]], they may have had [[OhCrap something else]] in mind when it comes to [[WhipItGood cable]].

** Could be that an Addams was one of the ''victims'' of any one of those tragedies. Alternately, they could just see any great tragedy as an occasion worthy of a Mamushka.
** It's more likely that they were celebrating having ''survived'' those things, given that the Mamushka we see was celebrating Fester making it out of the Bermuda Triangle and returning home alive.

* Gomez laments his failure to contact Fester in the afterlife for 25 straight years. By all accounts he should eventually have some success in that regard, but think about what he meant when he said he feared that Fester might be "truly lost". 25 years of no response may have convinced Gomez one of either two things: either there is no afterlife or Fester may not have a soul.
** Or that he believes Fester's spirit is ''still'' too pissed at him to talk.