We chronicle the history of Wednesday Addams and how she went from a side character in a cartoon to the lead of her own TV series.
There are a few names that come to mind when we hear the phrase “goth girl icon”: Maila Nurmi’s Vampira, Beetlejuice’s Lydia Deetz , and even Wonderland’s very own Alice, if we take into account the 2000 video game American McGee’s Alice. But it is no stretch to say that the most iconic of all goth girl icons is none other than a young - sometimes 6, sometimes 18-year-old - pigtailed kid that goes by the name of Wednesday Addams.
Chances are, dear reader, that you can name all of these characters by heart, but, at the time, Addams hadn’t named any of his ink-and-paper children yet. Wednesday, Pugsley, Morticia, Gomez, Lurch, Thing, Grandma, and Uncle Fester would only be given their now iconic names when Addams’ comics were adapted for TV, in 1964.
This cutesy persona followed Wednesday all the way to the realm of animation. In 1972, the Addams made an appearance in a Scooby-Doo episode that was so well-received that it gave birth to a completely new animated series. Produced by Hanna-Barbera, The Addams Family ran for only 16 episodes on NBC. Voiced by Cindy Henderson, cartoon Wednesday even sported a pink dress that was thankfully dropped in future iterations.
This background proves to be the perfect environment for Wednesday to show her true potential, threatening annoying rich kids and their parents as she tries to escape the horrors of canoeing and watching classic Disney movies. In a particularly memorable scene, Wednesday ruins the camp counselors’ Thanksgiving-themed play by bringing up the true, genocide-filled history behind the holiday, and tops it off by nearly burning her arch-nemesis Amanda on a bonfire.
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