Delightfully cold and rainy!

This morning in the coffee shop I remarked to someone (affecting an insane John Aston grin); “The weather is delightfully cold and rainy!  Channeling Gomez Addams, of course.”

The student behind the counter gave me a funny look, but a professor replied; “You’re dating your self!”  (An expression that always sounded slightly obscene to me.) But it’s true.  You have to be of a certain age to remember the original Addams Family; either the macabre New Yorker cartoons of American cartoonist Charles Addams or the 1960’s television show of the same name, starring John Aston as Gomez Addams and Carolyn Jones (grrrowrrr!) as his wife Morticia.  Gomez was my kind of guy; full of life, madly in love with his wife, fabulously wealthy and possessed of a bizarre sense of humor.  Or, maybe just possessed, it was difficult to tell.

At best, today’s youth have seen the 1991 movie remake, which was a good effort.  And I can’t complain about Christopher Lloyd’s portrayal of Uncle Fester.

Anyway far be it from me to let the youth of today wander in cultural starvation, so I hunted around and discovered 5 episodes of The Addams Family absolutely free and in beautiful high-rez Black & White for your enjoyment.  (Please ignore the laugh track; network executives required them in the ‘60’s and some still do today.)

What are your favorite offbeat shows?

Posted by George on 11/19/09 at 11:09 PM
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