With Wednesday about to take centre stage in her very own live action TV show at some point soon I thought that it was only fitting that I take a look back at an episode from a classic animated Addams Family TV show. Well the one that i've picked isn't Wednesday focused infact she's barely even in the episode but it's also a fairly bad episode in general and so then join me as I review the episode that makes us wonder what The Addams Family would be like if it was to kid friendly with the episode in question being called simply just "The Day Gomez Failed" enjoy.
The plot of this episode is fed up of having success after success Gomez decides to try something new and become a failure. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad with this episodes plot being quite entertaining the only issue that I have with this plot is that it doesn't go far enough with it's central idea which is a shame because the idea behind the episode is a really good idea indeed in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this episode is The Addams Family legend John Astin as Gomez Addams , Nancy Linari as Morticia Addams and Debi Derryberry as Wednesday. Also starring in this episode is Jeannie Elias as Pugsley , Rip Taylor as Uncle Fester , Carol Channing as Granny Frump , Jim Cummings as Lurch , Rob Paulsen as Norman Normanmeyer , Edie McClurg as Normina Normanmeyer and Dick Beals as N.J. Normanmeyer.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. With all of this episodes cast turning in some really good performances which is to be expected since all of this episodes cast are some really good actors and actresses and of course their going to turn in some good performances in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Doing the animation for this episode is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Fil-Cartoons. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad but that's also the issue because it's not that good either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
One thing that i've noticed about this show is how kid friendly it is which seems odd since this is a kids cartoon but at the same time when you think of The Addams Family you tend to think of something that's more for the whole family and not something that's just for little kids. Since making the show kids family takes the edge away from this franchise since we now know that all of the characters are never going to be in any serious harm because of the fact that this show is being aimed at kids and that does hurt this show in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
The one character who really does suffer from this in this episode is Wednesday who is acting so childlike and so kid friendly. Which isn't in character for her since she would pick the most painful way to torture Pugsley since that's how this family shows love to each other and with a more child friendly age rating they can't go as extreme as they did just one year prior with The Addams Family movie in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
This episode really doesn't go as far as it could do with it's central idea since it would be so cool and possibly even so funny to see Gomez succeed at doing even small jobs. Heck it would be funny just to see Gomez going more and more insane with each success that he has since that would be in his character to do that but for some strange reason this show just doesn't go as far as it could do with it's central idea in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty two minuets and thirty five seconds. Which for a story that could be as good as this one is isn't a long enough running time you very easily could have gotten forty five minuets out of this one story alone and so then having this short amount of running time really does hurt the story of this episode since now the episode has to rush to hit all of it's plot points instead of hitting them more organically in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
So now then since this is a comedy that means that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty pretty weak. With alot of this episodes jokes just falling flat which is a such because an IP like The Addams Family should be the easiest thing to write good and funny jokes for since it's all about the dark and the macabre and that makes it easy to write jokes for this property for in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this is a pretty bad episode from a pretty decent show and that's such a shame because the idea behind this episode is a really good and solid idea it's just the execution that let's this episode down in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then since i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that means that this very episode erns itself a grand old score of exactly a 5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official The Addams Family fandom wiki page , the official Netflix fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website that I personally preferred to use to get the images that I personally used in this very review being the wonderful the official The Addams Family wiki page since all of the images that are currently up and and featured / presented to us on freaking the official The Addams Family fandom wiki page are all fairly freaking high in freaking quality and as well as being very fairly freaking high in definition.
