I have this sweet old memory from my childhood when I was sitting alone at home watching “The Addams Family”. It was vintage and black-and-white TV series about crazy-ish gothic family. Whenever I was watching a series it was my favorite part of my day!

Fun fact: Addams first appeared in journalist comics drawn by cartoonist Charles Addams, who in 1938 began to publish comic pictures about the “gothic” family in the popular intellectual magazine The New Yorker. Over time, Addams gave this clan his own last name.

Charles named this family after himself, not because of his ego but simply emphasizing how relatable the humor of the Addams cartoons is to him personally. Charles as a child became interested in death, cemeteries, skeletons, and that he gladly portrayed all this when he became interested in drawing. He was really attracted by what disgusted others, although at the same time he was completely balanced, friendly, peaceful and sweet human being.

Speaking of Addams, this is the image of the most ordinary family only in a sarcastic light. They are aristocratic and polite with their neighbors but only differ in their gloomy look and image. The Addams family was kind of representation of migrants from faraway countries who behave strangely and frighten new neighbors, but in fact, are completely harmless.

What attracted me to this family in my childhood is that they were very similar to my family. The same crazy attitude sometimes has conflicts, but more often makeup afterward. A big family that loves and respects every member. Only one aspect – we don’t have so many black clothes in the wardrobe (which is a pity and I’m working on it!).

To turn Addams into full-fledged characters, the cartoonist, at the request of the creators of the TV show, came up with names for his characters and deepened their images. Thus, the couple Gomez and Morticia Addams, the children of Pugsley and Wednesday, the grandmother Addams, Uncle Fester, the butler Lurch and the magical disembodied Hand, acting as a servant and companion of Gomez, appeared.

Each of them was comic and bizarre: Gomez threw knives and made toy train crashes, Morticia grew predatory plants and cut flowers from roses, leaving only thorns, Fester played with dynamite and grandmother made magic potions.

Now that I have grown up, I sincerely admire a pair of Gomez and Morticia, they inspire me. Both radiate such love and respect for each other and at the same time, both are equally crazy. Power couple that has become an ideal and standard of healthy, beautiful passionate relationships for me. I, myself, aspire this kind of love.

Such sincere, funny and bizarre, Addams won my heart and mind with their humor and pureness of the plot. At the heart of the story of this series, films, comics, are the values of the family, which are so important, especially for me. To this day, I call “The Addams Family Values” my favorite movie, which I watch every time.