Charles Addams said he saw Gomez as having "Spanish ancestry", though that could also apply to a Latin American person and he often drew Gomez as quite dark-skinned. In the 60s show he lived in Spain, or at least spent a significant amount of time there (although the Addams house in America has been in the Addams family for hundreds of years), up until the age of 5 or 6, and it's stated that some of his ancestors were Castilian aristocrats (though at various points when his ancestry is discussed there's also mention of Amazonian indigenous people, "Mongol chiefs", and a bunch of Arabic names—though the latter might not be too surprising given Spain's history.) In the musical he has ancestors from Spain who were killed by the Inquisition, though it's also mentioned that at least some of them travelled to the Americas hundreds of years ago. In the films, he's played by Raúl Juliá who was Puerto Rican, but where Gomez/his ancestors are from is not discussed—he seems to have spent a significant amount of his childhood in America, but his accent is a blend of Raúl Juliá's natural one and some slightly British pronunciations.
None of them are monsters, that's the joke: they're just rich people with morbid tastes, a parody on the "eccentric rich" at the time Charles Addams was around.
My life was nothing until your your sweet presence breathed the breath of love into my soul.
The Fragile
Why do so many Addams fans say The Munsters are a knockoff like this is an irrefutable fact? They famously premiered the same week and have obvious different sources (comics vs classic monster films). I've had some get quite rude or hostile towards me when I correct them on this. They're G rated sitcoms, it's a weird thing to get angry about.
Edited by cheedo My life was nothing until your your sweet presence breathed the breath of love into my soul.
Morticia of the Snake People.
It was always my impression that she did not have legs or feet. Were these ever shown?
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If you think she is, maybe you could add it to WGM page? But no, her feet or legs where never shown(I heard, there even lampshaded it in the musical when bottom dress was ripped, Gomez shouted "Trish you have legs!") but nothing in canon that said she was a snake person.
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Her feet are visible in some of the comics, namely the "may I borrow a cup of cyanide?" one, and in the musical she rips her dress leading Gomez to shout "You have legs!" (which...raises questions considering how much sex they have...though he might not have been being serious, Gomez in the musical in particular has a quirky sense of humour as well as being generally strange and I've definitely had people go "You have eyes!" when I take my sunglasses off). In the 60s show her legs are visible in the flashback episodes where she wears a dress similar to Wednesday, and there's also a brief glimpse of her feet in one episode when Gomez picks her up in a Bridal Carry.
How do you change a page to a different index so that it can be edited? There's a Western Animation page that should have anything pertaining to the cartoon on it, but I can't change it even though it links back to the series.
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Well, for one thing changing an index doesn't do anything about editability. I think you are running into the edit bug explained in the top thread of the Wiki Tech Wish List.
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OK; I got the issue; you want to make a page on WesternAnimation.The Addams Family. You need to go to this link
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On other pages, the character Gomez Addams is described as being Spanish. I can see that (although with a vampire wife, with a ghoul, and other identifiable horrors in the family - what sort of an undead monster is Gomez actually meant to be??? But that's a different question.) . Then again, I'm European, so the go-to position on seeing somebody with that Latin vibe going on is to say "Spanish". "The Addams Family" is an American TV show/movie franchise. Devised in the USA, isn't it more likely Gomez is meant to be some sort of Mexican. as that's the natural go-to place for an American audience when considering "Latin" tropes? And what's the logic for Gomez being Spanish/Latin American - what's the backstory or Word of God on this?
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