"Green Onions"
Booker T. & the M.G.s
single / from Green Onions
1962
Here's a question I have about The Addams Family, after watching the animated 2019 film about 47 times. Okay, so you know how their whole thing is that they love the macabre in all its forms, to an excessive degree? Anything that a normal person thinks is wholesome and fun, they think is disgusting, and anything that a normal person would think is dangerous and scary, the Addams Family sees as just lovely. This makes for some good jokes, but it also some questions. How far, logically, can we take this mindset? For example, it is completely normal for Pugsley Addams to play with explosives. He throws bombs at his father, who, yes, is able to kick them away in time, but who is also extremely proud of his son for being so reckless with these very dangerous weapons. A question would be—if everything that is "bad" to us is considered "good" to the Addamses, then how would they react if Puglsey blew himself up and died? If the family loves everything gruesome, would they be happy if Wednesday's head was chopped off in her guillotine bed? Is there a limit to their love of all things spooky and ooky? The reason I don't let Willow play with large sharp axes is because I want to keep her safe. To keep her safe against very obvious threats is to show my love and care for her. The Addams parents purportedly love their children, and yet actively encourage behavior that could very well bring about their deaths. It just doesn't make sense to me. I reluctantly brought this up with Pam, who said that maybe they don't care about death, since it is shown that Morticia can communicate with her dead parents. If losing all contact with a loved one is the big difference between life and death, but to Morticia and Gomez there is no difference, then they lack the motivation to keep their kids alive. But if we're gonna go down that road, then I think you'd have to wonder why Morticia doesn't just straight up commit filicide and murder her own kids. If everything morbid feels right to her, and death is not an obstacle, then why not?
Second question: Why does Lurch look so much like Michael Shannon?
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