Christmas with the Addams Family

I guess the joke with the Addams Family, at least in the original TV version, is that despite their odd proclivities, they're actually a very close, loving family. Case in point, in "Christmas with the Addams Family," after a neighbor tells Wednesday and Puglsey that there's no Santa, the rest of the family fall all over themselves getting dressed up as Old Saint Nick to preserve the children's innocence. That's standard family sitcom fare through and through. Sure, the characters reference having a two-headed cousin, but that's just window dressing on an otherwise ordinary plot. I grew up watching reruns of The Addams Family, so I found this particular episode charming. It probably won't inspire any memes, like the new Wednesday series on Netflix, but the original series is still bewitching.

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