The original Addams family comics were the fattest mood
Cartoonist Charles “Chas” Adams (1912-1988) drew his macabre cast of characters for The New Yorker magazine from the early 1930s until his death in 1988. The recurring characters eventually became known as the Addams Family and spun off onto TV and film.
Do you recommend any social apps where I can connect with other show fans?
Yes!! I’ve been using this new app called Hively to talk about all my favourite show and movie moments with other fans and I’ve made so many new friends already, plus it has the cutest icon ever!
It categorizes Youtube videos in topics like “What are some of the most unforgettable scenes in 13 Reasons Why?” and so many more. I think you guys would like it…so why not benefit y’all
Fan-work about the Addams Family being online usually focuses on the kids, but consider: Gomez Addams livestreaming uncommentated model reenactments of famous train disasters. Nobody knows who the culprit is – you can see him from the neck down while he’s setting things up, but his face is always out of the frame. The model railroad community is torn between being impressed at the mystery streamer’s dedication and horrified that this maniac keeps taking these beautiful, meticulously accurate recreations and blowing them to smithereens.
so is thing from the addams family the ghost of someone whose hand got cut off, or a hand-shaped monster?
oh i know the actual explanation to this! so if you look through the original charles addams cartoons, pretty soon you’ll find a random guy in the background, just watching the family
so originally that was thing, he was just like a guy that nobody interacted with or acknowledged.
but when the 60s show was trying to adapt things, they figured since you already don’t see much of the thing, why not see even less of him, and have him just be a hand that can pop out of boxes, now they don’t need to have another regular cast member, they can just get ted cassidy to do it. but the implication was supposed to be that there was more of the thing you just weren’t seeing.
anyways then the whole disembodied hand thing became very recognizable, so by the time the 90s movies rolled around thing was known not for being a guy we see only the hands of, but a guy who is only a hand
so technically there was originally more of the thing that he was connected to and later removed from, but i think in later media they just go with the idea that he was always a hand
