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The Addams Family · The Art of Costume Podcast

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What is horde in thine eternal cell?
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Sweet Oblivion, open your arms. I can't believe you just maybe
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do that Elizabeth. That was brilliant.
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Daniel one that starts. Need to play like some dramatic
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music in the background. Absolutely, that needs to
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happen. Hello and welcome to the artists
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Houston. Blogcast, I most enjoy glass and
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I'm Spencer Williams. We hope you all had a fantastic
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Thanksgiving, we hope your family, enjoyed our podcast,
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opposed to, you know, just my Bless catching up.
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I hope you stayed safe on Black Friday that you didn't do
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anything too crazy. But you got good deals.
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How about you Spencer? I mean, I feel the same way and
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if you celebrate Black Friday and you had to like kick,
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someone's, I hope you got yourself.
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Something nice, at least out of it.
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That's a take, that's a take. I'm not a big fan of Black
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Friday. I never go out for it is just
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two days. Dangerous and like, I don't need
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stuff that bad, you know, I'll just wait, it'll come to me.
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I know and also I don't feel like I need to get other
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people's stuff that bad either. I know, I'll like I go out like,
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kind of later on Black Friday now, but I feel like if you
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really want deals, you just gotta wait for Cyber Monday.
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Like that. That's the Real Deals.
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That's just the way the world is changing at this point.
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But yeah, just so you know as soon as Thanksgiving Ends.
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It's just becomes holiday season.
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I'm already in the zone. I love to especially be home.
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I one of my favorite things of the holidays, which is pretty
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cheesy is, I love having like the tree up only because I just
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love the soft glow of it and I'm like, always in a dark except
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for my tree. So that's like my favorite part.
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Put the tree up the decorations. It doesn't need decorations to
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me. It just needs.
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It just needs lights. I The decorations I'm going
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wild, I need Garland around the house.
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I go wild, I hope my gosh. Wild Elizabeth's house.
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I imagine is just like this big holiday mess just stuff
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everywhere. Mistletoe Garland, ornaments
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reindeer in the front yard fake snow.
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A snow machine train, set a Santa Claus some more reindeer
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polar bears penguins Hold that and mine is like a little tree
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from the dollar section at Target.
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I'm literally looking at a sign right now that says reindeer
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parking that I want to convince my parents to put up on our
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house. I'm not gonna hint that what
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movie were about to talk about just yet but I feel kind of
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inspired to maybe get like a goth.
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Maybe like a black tree. Do they make black trees?
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They Absolutely do. And you know what?
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I think. That's how the atom family
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celebrates Christmas with a black tree or a dead Charlie
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Brown tree, either one. Yeah, totally like a black
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holiday tree with the creepy lights and maybe like some
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purple or some blue Garland on it.
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You you should get a like, a thing ornament.
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So you just have like a hand like crawling up your tree.
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Oh yeah. Oh my I'm going to do that now.
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I am going so deliciously Macabre for this year's holiday.
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Yes, yes. Yes.
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With that being said, Elizabeth take us there in celebration of
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its 30th Anniversary this month. We watch The Addams Family, I
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love this movie. Oh my gosh, this is one of the
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greats. I love this so much somehow okay
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I'll admit I've been a little nervous to admit this but
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somehow I I've never seen this Addams Family.
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I've only ever seen the second one.
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I definitely had seen this one before, but I'd seen it.
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Like it was something I saw on TV and like need to do chores or
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something, so it's like I remembered it.
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But in Parts because I'm like I definitely saw this like on TV
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with commercials never just like all the way straight through.
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I mean, that's fair. I kind of refuse to believe that
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I've never seen parts of it. I did recognize parts of it but
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that's just because The Addams Family, so recognizable.
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I mean, it's like everyone's seen it even without seeing it.
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Sometimes, you know, I agree. It's just like, you know, the
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images, you can recognize the images.
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That's one of the things I like about The Adams Family.
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It's like there's no mistaking it for anything else.
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Absolutely. You know, exactly what your get,
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what you're about to get yourselves into and with that,
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I'm going to give a little summary in case you need a
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reminder. Yeah of what kind of chaos
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happens and the stunningly beautiful home of The Addams,
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Family mmm-hmm. So here's our summary when a man
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played by Christopher Lloyd claiming to be Fester the
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missing relative of the creepy and the kooky mysterious and the
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Spooky Addams Family reappears. The family is thrilled.
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However Morticia Addams played by the legendary Anjelica Huston
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and Gomes played by the equally as legendary Raúl.
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Juliá begin to suspect the man. Is a fraud since he cannot
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recall details of his own life, with help Fester manages to get
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the atoms Clan evicted from their home with this betrayal
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that Adams, Family must band together to reclaim their home.
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So a little simple, it's The Addams Family.
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You know, what happens, creepy stuff.
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Exactly. If you haven't seen this movie
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in the last 30 years, go run it on Amazon.
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Yeah. It's worth it.
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It's worth it. Just go watch it.
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It's less than Two hours and it definitely holds up, it totally
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holds up which I really liked. I was a little, like, it's 91.
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So while back, but no, it is still fantastic.
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So let's go behind The Horde herb, Spencer.
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Let's do it. The Adams Family was directed by
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Barry, sonnenfeld and costume. Design was by Ruth Meyers, you
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might recognize her from a couple different things.
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She The 1996 version of Emma with Gwyneth Paltrow.
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One of Elizabeth's, probably favorites.
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Maybe l.a. confidential Deep Impact Ella Enchanted.
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With Anne Hathaway. The Golden Compass Dorian Gray
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and The Legend of Tarzan. She is a two-time Academy Award
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nominee, 14 m, Emma. And the other for The Addams
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Family. Oh yeah.
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That's very movie. Is a Academy Award nominee?
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I will say it deserved it so hard.
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I might even Venture say that deserved the Oscar that year,
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but I digress, I because I looked it up on their website
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and like, I can't even remember what it lost to.
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So clearly, it should have one. I looked it up to, and I can't
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remember it. So, Definitely valves family
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should have won but you know, that was about 30 years ago, so
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let's move on. Yeah, it's yeah.
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Let's keep going. So Ruth was brought on to this
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project and she told the director, Barry sonnenfeld.
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She's like, I've never seen the TV show.
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Like, I don't know. She's like I'm, I'm from
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England. I've never seen this in my life
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and he was like, perfect. We don't want You referencing
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the TV show. We want you referencing the
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original Comics. So Spencer.
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I think we all need a little history lesson.
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How about you please? Yes, I could use a refresher on
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The Addams Family. So as you may or may not know
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the Adams Family originated as a series of one panel comics in
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the New Yorker, they were created by Charles Adams in 1938
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for the New Yorker as I said. And while it is his most
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enduring work, The Addams Family Comics only account for about
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like fifty eight of the Thirteen hundred.
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He created for the magazine all of which came out in the 40s and
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50s and I got most of this information from a really great
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Smithsonian. Article, the cultural history of
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The Addams, Family by Patrick swear.
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And in it, he talks about Charles Adams being like, you
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know, that is failing. Most people suspect that it was
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created by someone who had a difficult childhood.
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You know, saw the creepier side of life but in a biography of
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his Charles, Adam is quoted as saying it would be more
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interesting. Perhaps, if I had a ghastly
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childhood but I'm one of those strange people who actually had
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a chappie So, he was apparently a very just normal person who
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enjoyed the McCobb and enjoyed, like, you know, making fun of
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people who saw saw it as something odd, or strange, and
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also his biographer Linda Davis. She says that Adams is one of
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those rare people who made a living throughout his entire
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career in the Arts. So, not only is this just like a
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normal. The person who created this like
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kind of creepy beloved family, but he actually made a living at
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it, which I'm like, that's nice to know that for once someone
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who created like a work of art that we have all, like, grown to
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love and like, enjoy actually profited off of it.
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Well, I mean, that's kind of the dream, right?
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It is totally the dream and I love his drawing style.
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It's so creepy. And Love the new, like, cartoon
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version of it, you can really see.
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They just like pull them straight from these Comics.
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Oh yeah, definitely. But you know, one of the reasons
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there are so few Addams Family comics and in the New Yorker is
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because of the 1964 TV adaptation ABC, debuted The
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Adams Family on Friday, September 18th 1964 to Compete
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with cbs's the Munsters, they were like, you got a creepy
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family, we need a creepy family and also before the show The
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Addams, Family did not have a name, they were just a creepy
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family, the TV show gave the family.
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It's named after their creator. And as Patrick Sawyer, put it,
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The Adams Family has cemented itself in the mausoleum of pop
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or culture history, which is totally true.
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With the TV series, they chose to end, they chose to base the
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series off the comics because it had more highbrow humor.
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But ironically the editor of the New York at The Time band, the
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comics during the show's to season run.
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So that's one of the reasons there's not a ton of them is he
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was like, it's a television show, how dare you, I don't want
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these in my, in my magazine and while only had two seasons and
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And was not super, super popular.
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It's true success came in syndication as it gathered a
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cult following however attempts to bring The Adams Family back
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to prominence failed until their Silver Screen debut in 1991 with
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The Addams Family. Yeah.
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So The Adams Family before this movie, they really had a lot of
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Success Through the comics and The New Yorker and the TV show.
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There were a bunch of other TV related attempts, to bring it
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back but no one really had any interest until Ruth Meyers and
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Barry, sonnenfeld brought it to the big screen.
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They brought to the big screen. It was a hit and one of the
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reasons I feel like it was such a success was how Myers wanted
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to portray the atoms. She really has only done.
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One interview about this with L and she said, my late husband,
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Richard McDonald was a production designer on The Adams
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Family. And we always work very closely
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together, we talked to the director about this idea that
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the atoms were in their own way aristocracy.
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So you're going to get a very sense that they are rich.
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They are like, you know, have a deep family, history of being
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wealthy and that is the end of our behind the Wardrobe facts.
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Well, those are some good ones. Elizabeth, you just took us all
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the way back. I um, I like started getting
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flashbacks while doing this to high school because in high
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school, I took a, I took a Broadway, it was like called
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Broadway, dance class, and for are like big school recital that
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year, we did the opening number to The Adams Family Musical.
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And The dance instructor I had she knew I was super interested
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in costume design. So she was like, hey, do you
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want to help me design all the costumes for them?
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And I had like a blast doing the costumes.
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Oh my God, so much fun. Well, that's what I'm so excited
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to talk about The Addams Family. Let's take a quick break.
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Go put on our Smoky, eyeshadow at creepy, black outfits and our
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long wigs. And let's get into Scats
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really ready. Dananana, dananana dananana.
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We're back. Anyways, let's start with my
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absolute favorite character. One of my favorite characters,
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like in the existence is Morticia Addams.
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I'm just obsessed, I love Angelica Houston.
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So much. She was a supermodel.
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She was a hall Stinnett. A brilliant actress still is a
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brilliant actress, and the way she plays Morticia Addams is
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just one of the most beautiful portrayals I've ever seen.
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I, I agree because she is like, full-on Queen of Darkness, but
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it's like, I feel like if you were hugged by her, it would
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feel warm and cuddly. I'm like, The hug everybody
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wants from their mother. It's funny because The Adams
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Family are actually like really nice people with maybe the
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exception of Wednesday, but like The Addams Family looks creepy.
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But actually like nice people who like are giving back to
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society. They love great parties.
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They care about their family. They're just like you and me.
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They just were lots of black which I actually do.
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So, maybe I am an atom's. I think you are an atom's.
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I Think there's a Switched at Birth situation happening.
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You should you should go find your true family.
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So let's get into more tissues. Looks, I love her just whole
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aesthetic. Ruth Meyers wanted her in that
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kind of like, you know, thinking of them as aristocracy really
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wanted her to have that sense that like, she dresses multiple
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times a day. She has like a simpler.
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Day dress, something for the afternoon then something a
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little bit fancy at dinner and she's like, you know, by the
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evening, she's getting exotic with it.
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She was like, she needs to be a peacock, encrusted with like
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beautiful jewels and Lace, which I'm like, yes, yes, so good.
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And just like the way, the all four dresses like flow, like,
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there's just like a shadow trailing behind her with the
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lon. Honk like share hair just a
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flow. So perfectly.
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I feel warm and it's like even it there so much texture which I
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love and I found these pictures of the dress, I think from, like
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an auction house and it's like, there's so much going on here.
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It doesn't look like she has this many dresses, but 20
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dresses were created for Morticia in this film, which
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Insane to me because when you actually watch it, she changes a
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lot, but all of her dresses are so similar, which is what I
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love, right? That's like subtle details on
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each one but she's totally like that person like me who just
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like, opens up the wardrobe and everything's black.
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And you just kind of, like, pick something, but all kind of looks
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the same after a while. Yeah, that's what's happening
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here and I love that. It's totally what's happening
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here, but like she really puts a lot of thought into it, Ruth
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told. Old L that I use a lot of
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vintage brocade. I use a lot of vintage satin.
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I use some velvet, we did a lot of fortuny pleading on very
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fine. Chiffon for these sort of
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insertions I use a lot of vintage trim things were
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multiple multi-layered. The spider lace used on Morticia
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and Wednesdays gowns were also a rare vintage fine.
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So she like really thought about this because it's like the
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atoms. They Just look like a goth
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creepy. They like do look very like
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vintage, they do. They're very vintage.
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You know they've probably had a lot of these garments for a long
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time. It's not like you could go to a
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store nearby and just find all these like really McCobb looking
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to Black which E-Type you know dresses.
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So they probably had him for a long time.
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One of my favorites that she wears was actually like that
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hair dress that she wears. It's Just so cool.
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Like her hair, like Blends into this, it's so great.
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Just like wearing hair. It's definitely like human hair,
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very creepy, but yet like she's also very kind and soft and
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light hearted. It's just so great.
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It is great and I love this hair dress as well because it
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accentuates her silhouette, which the more torque more, the
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Morticia silhouette is very iconic.
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I would say, Like thin waist, big hips and she was like
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completely, you know, padded for her hips.
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They sensed her waist in pushed, you know her boobs up to get
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this very like specific silhouette roof said it was
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brutal but what came out of it was iconic and she never
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complained once. So, apparently like she could
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like barely walk which also gave her that like Like Glide e, walk
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because like she can only move so far in all of this.
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I love that so much and in the L article, apparently Meyers
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remembers that on the last day of shooting Anjelica Huston
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burned, the Wigan corset ceremoniously, like she was
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dying. I know that makes me so sad to
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hear. I mean, luckily, there's still
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other garments are saved but I'd be like Running and grabbing it
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out of the firehouse. I kind of get it though because
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she was probably like, I never complained.
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The least you can let me do is burn this.
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Yeah, I mean, now that I think of it she like barely moves in
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the movie, She's always standing.
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This is my favorite part of Morticia Addams and Anjelica
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Huston, portrayal is the silhouette.
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But then also that vision of light that always just guides
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across her eyes because they use a very like old-school Hollywood
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feel At like, all the acting takes place in the eyes.
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So when you look at Angelica Huston every time, she's like
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standing the lighting, she has her own lighting compared to
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every character. And there's always like this ray
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of light that just directs you right to her eyes.
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Yeah, it's so beautiful. But she's always standing in
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like one spot to so they could do that lighting as well.
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She's just standing right there. Giving you all the looks.
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It's just so good. Oh, yes.
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And I would say the Scene is a part place.
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You can really see that. Oh yeah.
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When she has that cloak on, this was another place.
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They really wanted to give her that sense of being beautiful
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and Regal and she wanted it to invoke like an Edwardian, like
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princess coronation feel. Yeah, that is my favorite
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costume of the film. I'll just say right now, it's
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the cloak. She wears in a graveyard.
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She's standing there with Fester.
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She's wearing a Cloak. And the like I'm guessing the
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moonlight just like glows upon her face.
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That's just my favorite look of the entire film.
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We could end it right there and I'd be happy.
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It's so good. So without saying, obviously all
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of these were, you know, exclusive pieces for the film
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one-offs. Another thing that was specially
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made for the film was all the jewelry.
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She wears Ruth wanted it to be kind of like a little bit
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Rudolph. And she wanted to feel like
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something you could get in like goth shops at the East Village.
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So they had these three rings and then these little hand
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Earrings made for the film yet. Heard jewelry is insane.
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And like, it always works out perfectly with her long, red,
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and black nails as well. Just like she thinks about her
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outfits every single day. She goes up.
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Stairs between like events of the day.
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Gets dressed puts on her favorite jewelry.
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Just the best. It's so good.
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It's great. Another great one is Gomez.
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Gomez actually is delivering lots of looks people.
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Always kind of just think of like that black and white suit
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but no, Gomez is serving looks all film.
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Gomez loves color and pattern, he can't get enough of it, I
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love the Plaid suit, he wears to the auction.
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Yeah, and then like that, that velvet red smoking jacket, he
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wears around the house. Oh gosh, right.
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Come on. That is great.
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I want to touch that velvet smoking jacket so bad.
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It's reddish but also kind of like it has a very purple Hue to
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it at the same time. Like that jacket is screaming my
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name. I want it so bad.
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I agree. I also love his love of velvet
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jackets because his like, his dressing-gown.
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Down with the matching hat in the morning.
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I'm just like yes. Gomez, you know how to go to
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bed. I just want to live there.
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I want to be a part of this family, and this is, these are
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my people. I just want to be wearing
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ridiculous amounts of velvet for no reason in the morning, right.
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And it's just like, he also knows how to have fun like with
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that train set where he's literally like, dressed up like
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a conductor, I'm like, what are you doing?
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He's taking out his anger. A train set, just great.
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I know to two characters who don't get quite.
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As many looks our granny and Lurch but I love their
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characters, especially granny, cause she's just like so
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eccentric for no reason. Her looks are crazy.
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It reminds me of it's just like a lots of layering.
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She gives me like really fortune teller type Vibes that you would
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see like you know and a typical amusement park ride or A
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carnival with fortune tellers, that's what I'm getting.
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Like, medium all the jewelry, lots of pattern and like the
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fingerless gloves us all so good.
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I love it all the jewelry, and that I love Lurch.
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He's just like the perfect Butler.
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Looks like the perfect Butler there, just like so happy with
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his Life Alert, just like the best best friend you could have,
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like, we all need a Lurch in our lives.
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He's just there, he loves his family, he loves his job, And he
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doesn't even speak. He just is, there is like mmmm,
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like loves his life, even when they lose the house.
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He's like, cool. I'm coming with you guys.
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Like I love you guys. So I love he tried and he tried
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taking one of the trees with them.
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I saw that. I was like kind of going through
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it today to find pictures. I was like, is he taking the
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tree with them? Definitely he's just a good guy,
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I love Lurch and his costume, I love it how he's like you know,
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you give Kind of that Frankenstein Vibe, but still
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like a classy Butler. Definitely, our next two
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All-Stars of this movie are Pugsley and Wednesday.
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Yes, there's so great, the perfect children and this is
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what I aspire to have one day to little goth children or in black
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and white so good. I did love how Pugsley is black
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and white stripes. Really kind of right.
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Up of the black we've seen so far.
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Yeah, that's definitely true. And that's kind of where they
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had that like, relief from seeing so much black and then
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with Wednesday. She really wanted her to have
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her own identity where it's kind of like okay you know, Morticia
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is definitely her mother but she is not Morticia the Wednesday
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and poke Lee's costumes were actually.
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So Sold at auction for about four thousand seven hundred
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eighty four dollars. That's it.
28:06
Yeah, that's a lot though. For to children's costumes, I
28:11
would have bought those put on after pay.
28:13
Did you know a couple hundred dollars each month I want those
28:17
costumes. Wow Come on auction houses.
28:21
Why don't you reach out to me on that one too late lips?
28:24
The too late. Um, I do love Wednesday's like
28:28
look this Wasn't, I think another one of those vintage
28:32
fabric finds, and I don't know what the I think.
28:35
It's just like a random abstract pattern but to me, it looks like
28:40
a bunch of safety pins that are open.
28:43
And I'm like, ooh, so sharp very sharp, very pointy.
28:47
And I also love how Wednesday's always rain like a nice
28:49
sophisticated collar though. Like, she's very, oh yeah, put
28:53
together another, another standout terms of character was
28:59
more. Margaret all Ford.
29:01
Yes, she's such a great character.
29:04
She's such a great character because she starts out as just
29:07
this very like frustrated housewife, with her like
29:11
obnoxious green coat. Like I love the Plaid skirt with
29:17
the blue velvet and like lacy bowtie.
29:21
She's wearing. I'm like, you, you look like
29:25
fun. But you're just like in the
29:26
wrong life, girl, she's stunning.
29:29
I Dana IV. I just love her face.
29:32
It's just so interesting to me. She's beautiful and I love the
29:36
character that she plays. You might recognize her from
29:39
Home Alone 2, that's where I like, really got to know her.
29:43
She's also a Legally Blond. She's also in Anna's family
29:47
values which, you know, that's a great film which are probably
29:50
going to end up talking about some point too.
29:52
So don't go anywhere. I'm sure we'll be doing that
29:55
maybe in the next season but Dana Dana IV plays Agra Alfred
30:00
so great. I want to be her friend.
30:03
We all want to be her friend but um you know, maybe we should
30:06
take this this break right now and like reach out.
30:09
See if you need some more friends.
30:11
Oh yeah, doing, I'm gonna text her right now.
30:13
Do you have her number? Yeah, that's something I just
30:15
have lying around. Okay cool, let's talk about
30:18
that. Are you ready for a child's
30:43
play? I'm always ready for a child's
30:46
play that involves lots of blood.
30:48
So, let's do it. I love this scene because they
30:52
come in looking, like they're going to like Broadway or
30:56
something. It's so good, we're tissue Has
31:00
wearing the best. Is she wearing fur?
31:02
Probably just her outfit is just so stunning, but I love.
31:07
I mean, Morticia is always stunning, but I love Gomez's
31:10
black and white suit is just like that.
31:13
Such iconic look for Gomez as well.
31:16
It just works so well. I love it.
31:19
The pinstripe suit with like, I don't want his Co almost looks
31:23
like a robe. I'm like, why you got this
31:26
Argyll robot? He's always in a comfy robes.
31:29
I want like some comfy robes now, after watching this movie
31:33
you deserve one Spencer but um thank you.
31:36
I love Morticia in contrast to Wednesday's teacher who just has
31:42
the most 90s Elementary School teacher.
31:46
Look on the right like the wide leg tan pants with the like the
31:53
big sleeve blouse and the leg brocade vest and the bow in her
31:57
hair. I'm like oh my gosh, you were
31:59
22. Totally different.
32:00
People like Morticia is unfailingly polite with her.
32:05
I know. Because Morticia is very polite,
32:08
but yeah, it's almost like startling when you see the
32:11
teacher you were so used to like Cena Adams Family, when anyone
32:14
normal walks up, you like it, who is that?
32:17
Why are they wearing a white blouse with flowers on it?
32:22
I love this. And I love seeing all, just like
32:24
the normal people, the like kids and their bright colored for
32:29
there. Like flowers for their musical
32:32
number. I know, that's even more
32:34
startling is children dressed as flowers.
32:38
I know, were you ever in any plays as a child?
32:42
Yeah. Stuff like this.
32:45
Like I'm at was mostly in plays in like high school and middle
32:49
school. I was in a lot of like
32:52
elementary school plays. We it was actually part of
32:54
curriculum. We had to do on every year.
32:57
I was actually cast as a lead one year.
32:59
Not gonna like brag or anything. But I was detective Hargraves
33:04
and a grammar and punctuation play.
33:07
So grammars, and punctuation play, was that?
33:11
Yeah, we were, we had to find like, we were like a looking for
33:16
a missing like period or semicolon or something and we
33:22
had to like speak to all the different parts of speech and
33:26
stuff. And I was like, the Sherlock
33:29
Holmes type a character. Oh my gosh.
33:34
Spencer's parents! I if you have a video of this,
33:37
please hold on. You don't want my cat out here.
33:40
So demanding. I love that though.
33:46
That's hilarious and I love the parents are just so excited.
33:52
Oh, yeah, I love. I love.
33:53
Everyone's like fake Smiles, as they're watching children plays.
33:57
Like, this is such like a recognized Double part everyone
34:00
goes to these plays. The singing is like, notably,
34:04
awful and Aaron just smile, and his is nodding further kid, but
34:08
The Adams Family, they are like, frowning, like the entire time,
34:12
until their kids show up and Pugsley and Wednesday.
34:15
I'm just like, how did your teacher let you do this?
34:20
Oh man, i-it's so it's crazy, but they also like they're the
34:26
best looking students there Wednesday and like her.
34:29
Aggregate like Al Fateh the pink.
34:33
Like sparkly Miss of it is like, so not her.
34:37
But like so perfect for this scene and then Pugsley with,
34:41
like the gold, like gloves, and just like, just putting like
34:46
stuff over his shirt. I'm like, oh my God.
34:49
So we're even a still wearing the black and white stripes
34:52
though. Like, he's like this.
34:53
Yes, my favorite shirt and I'm not taking it off or anything.
34:57
I know I this like this. It's just a whole, the whole
35:01
thing is wild, and I love the atoms.
35:04
Are just like, they're so proud of their children, especially
35:07
ones, all the Blood starts squirting out.
35:10
Oh my gosh, they get up. I, I was even so proud.
35:15
I mean, Gomez stands up, he's like bravo bravo.
35:19
It's so good. You know, that I've always want
35:22
to be a pageant Dad. This is my future or like a
35:28
theater, dad of some For, okay, I've kind of gone away from
35:31
pageants but it's not completely out of the question.
35:34
Good, I'll settle for like a McCobb theater experience.
35:39
Okay. I'm definitely going to be that
35:40
cool. Aunt.
35:41
That's like honey, if you don't want to do the pageants you
35:43
don't have to Elizabeth, I have a bit of a surprise for you.
35:48
I wrote down the lines from the play and I think you and I
35:51
should. Yeah, I think we should tap into
35:54
our theater days and give it all give the old razzle-dazzle and
35:59
and I think you need to be Wednesday and I'll be Pugsley.
36:03
I'm sorry. You get most of the lines but I
36:05
just know that you'll do a better Wednesday.
36:08
Okay. Just get into it.
36:10
Give it your best. All the emotion, the choking and
36:12
everything. See it.
36:14
My pageant dad's coming in already.
36:16
You can do it, honey. All right, let's see.
36:21
How All Occasions do inform against me and spur.
36:25
My dull Revenge. Oh, from this time forth.
36:28
My thoughts be bloody or nothing?
36:30
Worth. If I must strike you dead I will
36:34
hit a very palpable hit. Oh, proud death.
36:40
What is toward in thine eternal cell?
36:44
Sweet Oblivion, open your arms. I can't believe you.
36:51
Just maybe do that bravo. Bravo Elizabeth.
36:56
I was brilliant. Oh my gosh.
36:59
You have to get back into the theater.
37:01
Okay, let's move on Daniel one that starts.
37:05
You need to play like some dramatic music in the
37:07
background. Absolutely, that needs to
37:10
happen. Okay, continue.
37:12
Well, after a little theater experience, what's better than a
37:17
ball? Oh, We have another ball.
37:20
It's like every other episode for us it seems like but we love
37:23
a good ball. We've gotta Addams, Family ball
37:27
this time and everyone looks ridiculously amazing.
37:34
Like I love their cousin. Who's dancing with a Wednesday?
37:39
I'm just like, who are you? Why do you look like so good in
37:43
this suit? Insane, insane.
37:47
I don't know if you could call that dancing, I mean, it's just
37:49
essentially torturing Wednesday by just like shaking her back
37:52
and forth. He's definitely torturing
37:55
Wednesday and I love it because Ruth said she had a mini
38:01
Morticia dress for this fall sequence and at.
38:04
That's so right. Like it's exactly more tisha's
38:08
like iconic dress. Oh, that's so good.
38:11
Like even the sleeves which we have already talked about as
38:14
much like sleeves are so typical Morticia Wednesday looks just
38:18
like her mother. Sir, she's so proud.
38:20
Just like her mother after seeing this.
38:23
I'm like, okay, next live-action reboot of this, Christina Ricci
38:28
needs to be Morticia Addams. Oh, that would be cool.
38:31
Wouldn't that be amazing Pugsley?
38:34
Looks insane. I love pugs these little outfit
38:38
because I love like the white lace.
38:41
It's kind of feminine to me which is why I think I love it
38:44
so much. It's very chic, like, good job
38:46
Pugsley. You're looking great, I love it.
38:48
He looks so great. Goes, Gomez looks great.
38:52
I love his yet again. Another fabulous smoking jacket.
38:55
Oh yeah. Also another great one is cousin
38:59
it. Oh my gosh, I was laughing so
39:03
hard cousin it arrives in such style heeda is Ryan.
39:07
Just like the little hat with the spider web pattern on.
39:11
It shows up his car bumping music and he's ready to party.
39:15
He is so ready to party and he makes a little A little love
39:19
connection. Oh yeah, they are great.
39:22
Couple they are a great couple. I love her cousin.
39:25
It shows up and he's like, ready to like start speaking to the
39:29
ladies, you know, I know he knows he has something to offer
39:34
and he's not afraid to put it out there.
39:37
He says, he sees Margaret Alfred, and he's like, oh yeah,
39:42
that's where it's going tonight. He's like, I know you.
39:45
You are the one for me and another guy.
39:49
Addition at this party is flora and fauna.
39:53
Uh-huh. Yeah.
39:54
I love their dress was so beautiful.
39:58
They're looking quite ravishing, actually as Morticia said, they
40:02
are twice the woman she could ever be.
40:05
Gomez says, I can't see I'm blinded by such a beauty.
40:11
I just love how kind they are. They're the best, they know how
40:16
to give a compliment. They know how to give a
40:18
compliment. Compliment the two of them like
40:21
they look so good but also like I just love how their match he
40:24
match. I guess they have no choice but
40:26
to be matchy match but like I think it's even with the hair.
40:29
I think it's like so adorable. It's so brilliant.
40:33
I just think like every single person at this ball.
40:35
This is why Ruth was nominated for an Oscar.
40:39
I mean cuz everyone at this ball has such interesting beautiful
40:43
but still like McCobb costumes you know, very goth but still
40:47
stunning. I Different than the ball we saw
40:50
in Emma a couple months ago. Oh, yes.
40:53
Very different than that ball. Yeah.
40:56
I love just all the different people like, you see?
40:58
Like it. What looks like Brides dancing
41:01
around? Like just everyone that you
41:06
would think would be at a creepy ball.
41:08
Also, shout-out the conductor, whoever decided he was going to
41:14
have that those like eyebrows and beard.
41:17
I love it. I love Him, even though you see
41:19
him for like, two seconds. Brilliant.
41:23
That's time. Elizabeth to dance the Mamushka.
41:26
I'm almost God. I love how Gomez did an entire
41:31
wardrobe change for this dress for this dance.
41:35
Oh yeah, he said this is the dance.
41:37
Everyone knows and loves I'm gonna go get changed real quick.
41:40
We're about to give these people a show.
41:42
I also love how this is one of the first places, like Fester is
41:45
getting his memories back because he's like it, Use me,
41:50
what are you talking about? But then he just knows exactly
41:52
what to do. I guess she knows every single
41:55
dance move. The flipping the sword
41:58
swallowing or knives, whatever so fun.
42:01
But I think, I wonder if what start to trigger it was when
42:05
Gomes, headbutt, Fester, that kind of, like, knock some sense
42:09
into him. Oh, oh, I think so.
42:13
I think you cracked it, Spencer, I think I did.
42:16
I think that's it. I think you cracked.
42:18
Cracked it. And I also love Fester right
42:21
here because you rarely see him out of his like, gigantic
42:26
overcoat and here. He looks so good.
42:30
So nice on him. It's very like decorated
42:33
embellished, some like hints of gold to it.
42:36
He's coming in as like the leader of this great grand
42:42
family, you know, everyone. So attracted to him to love is
42:47
that like Fester is like Ridiculous looking so like
42:50
creepy. Like, But like everyone thinks
42:53
he's so smooth and sexy, you know, I love it.
42:59
I think we should do right now, some shout outs to the humans.
43:04
They are forced to interact with when they get kicked out of
43:07
their home. Oh my gosh, right.
43:10
Like suddenly we're like surrounded by.
43:12
This is very 90s palette of human beings that were not used
43:17
to seeing. Now all of a sudden, And it
43:19
feels like all of a sudden were watching just like any 90's
43:21
movie on VHS, you know, I know I love just like the stupid girl
43:26
scowl and all of like her green are they made of real girl
43:31
scouts. That's what my favorite lines,
43:35
but it's all good. I was a Girl Scout and
43:37
Elementary School and people would like say that to me when I
43:42
was like selling cookies and I'd like never knew what they were
43:45
talking about because I had not seen this movie.
43:50
You're like why is that a funny joke?
43:52
I don't understand. Yeah, I was like, this doesn't
43:56
make sense but okay and I just, I love how rude she is about the
44:01
real lemons and then is like I'll buy that if you buy this
44:04
and it's like those cookies are way more expensive than that
44:08
glass of lemonade. Yeah, it's nonstop.
44:12
I also love the woman who's like talking to Morticia about
44:16
finding her job because This is 1991.
44:20
So this was probably films and like, what 1990, maybe even 89.
44:25
So like the 80s have not like really officially ended.
44:30
And that really kind of shows on this woman, especially like she
44:33
has the power jacket with the shoulder pads, the big 80s hair,
44:38
the 80s hasn't died yet. At this point.
44:41
No, no. And I love how like bright and
44:44
colorful, she is 0 and then the makeup too.
44:48
It's just Like, very typical like woman at work, like and
44:54
Morticia is just there in one of her beautiful gowns like, oh, I
44:59
majored in hexes, and Witchcraft.
45:02
Okay. So liberal are, that's literally
45:08
me when I'm talking about my degree in fashion design.
45:14
I love like Morticia is just saying the most ridiculous.
45:18
Things to her, but she's like, I've heard it all before and
45:22
just like translates it into what would help her get a job.
45:26
This is so brilliant. And then Morticia is just
45:31
reading a bedtime story. I guess to a group full of
45:35
these, adorably dress children. So cute.
45:39
They're all. So cute.
45:40
But also like, yeah, I do kind of see like a late 80s 90s 5 to
45:45
each of their costumes though, you know, lots of color.
45:48
Parking lots of bright colors like that compare and contrast
45:53
between the children and Morticia is a chef's kiss.
45:58
It is Chef scarce. But on you know, they struggle
46:02
in the outside world but they get their home back just in
46:05
time, for Halloween. Oh my gosh.
46:09
I just have to say one of the most horrific parts of this
46:11
movie was Gomez watching TV and eating snacks.
46:15
I mean that was scary, that was sad.
46:17
That was like this. Was truly a man who has lost his
46:21
place in the world and doesn't know what to do.
46:23
Now he is broken but things work out.
46:28
You know, the family gets in and fights off fester and his evil
46:33
Hep helpers which eventually brings out a Memories Back to
46:36
fester. And he actually is the real
46:39
Fester. He is the real Fester,
46:42
everyone's excited. Has Alfred her husband said.
46:45
Now, she is with a and I love She's like, Glinda, the Good
46:50
Witch and he's just like a random Cowboy.
46:53
Hey, because it shows up and like a little sparkly Cowboy
46:58
outfit. It's so good cousin.
47:00
It is the fashion icon of this movie like, watch out Morticia
47:05
truly. But I do love Gomez and Morticia
47:08
because they're like, we're holiday.
47:10
We're Halloween every single day of the year.
47:13
So they don't need to change what?
47:14
They're wearing know that we're the same thing.
47:17
If anything go mrs. Put Jean like one of his
47:19
favorite smoking jackets. Yeah.
47:22
I have to say one of my biggest fears, it's like being buried
47:26
alive. So that part kind of creeped me
47:28
out when they're just like, are they dead?
47:31
And Wednesday was like doesn't matter.
47:32
I was like that was some dark writing right there, I know.
47:36
But then I love when they are dressed up for Halloween and
47:40
it's like, super cute Pugsley is, you know, dressed up as
47:43
Uncle Fester because he's just so excited that he's back and
47:49
What are you dear? I'm a homicidal maniac.
47:52
They look like everybody else and it's like, you know, I think
47:55
you just admitted to the fact that you are a homicidal Mania.
47:59
I mean, she fully just buried two people in the cemetery who
48:03
are probably still alive. Well, it's been like 7 months
48:06
now, murdered Danny. Yeah, no, but they were alive
48:09
when they were buried with just creepy but I love how Pugsley
48:13
just like looks up to his uncle so hard, you know, he's like, I
48:18
Want to be you for Halloween, because I admire you and that's
48:22
great. That's what Halloween's all
48:24
about is, like dressing up as a people.
48:26
We admire yes. And that brings us to the end of
48:30
The Addams Family, such a good run.
48:33
I'm so glad at first, you know, we, we just finished spooky
48:37
season about that long ago, and now we're moving into the
48:39
holidays. So when you were like, we're
48:41
watching The Addams Family, I was like, this feels wrong, but
48:47
it did start. A holiday type feel and it's the
48:50
35th Anniversary and I'm so glad we watched.
48:53
It was so good. It was so fun.
48:55
I know I loved it. This is like a new favorite
48:58
movie of mine. I've only ever seen the second
49:00
one, and I've just like changed my entire thinking, on a family.
49:04
You gotta see both of them. You've got to see both of them.
49:08
This first one is definitely the kind of movie though where
49:11
you're like I want to watch a holiday movie but I don't want
49:14
to watch a holiday movie. This is the kind of movie you
49:17
put on you put It on The Addams Family, I just keep thinking
49:21
about Morticia and that lay across her eyes.
49:24
I know, so beautiful. All the detail that Ruth Meyers
49:28
put into everything that it's like, it's so hard to see
49:32
because everything is black, but it makes such an impact.
49:36
What? Like the texture, the like
49:39
everything she put into them. It's so beautiful.
49:43
It's so great. It's just so much detailed
49:45
people. It's not easy to do like
49:47
designing. And almost all black, you know
49:50
or In This Very Gothic sense of thinking.
49:53
So Props to Ruth, it was brilliant, so good.
49:59
It was truly excellent. Elizabeth next week is our
50:04
season finale. I know.
50:07
Irene that's crazy. It's insane.
50:11
This is absolutely insane. I've had so much fun.
50:16
I will spray a little bit emotional.
50:17
This is about self. So fun, I can't believe this
50:20
season is coming to an end and we are ending.
50:22
I think with the greatest movie to end a costume podcast on, I
50:28
agree. Everybody.
50:30
Next week, we are watching the soon-to-be-released house of
50:37
Gucci. Father, the Son and the house of
50:41
Gucci. I'm stoked.
50:44
I know. Spencer is going to be in his
50:46
happy place. I mean I love a fashion movie
50:51
but I am a Lady Gaga's. Stan.
50:53
I've been chasing Lady Gaga ever since she released her first
50:58
album so we are going into a very happy place for me.
51:03
Lady Gaga. Adam Driver.
51:06
A story of one of the most famous fashion brands in the
51:09
world. What could be better?
51:12
This is going to be so fun. I'm so excited.
51:15
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the best in costume design. I um, I like started getting
52:26
flashbacks while doing this to high school because in high
52:31
school, I took a sorry. My mom just texted me, something
52:37
weird. I took a Broadway.
52:41
It was like, called Broadway dance class.
52:23
I um, I like started getting flashbacks while doing this to
52:28
high school because in high school, I took a sorry.
52:36
My mom just texted me, something weird.
52:39
I took a Broadway. It was like, called Broadway
52:42
dance class.