It's been a good while since I last talked about anything to do with the live action Addams Family with me last talking about anything do with their live action being a full on series review of Wednesday. Well I thought that i'd end that right now by watching an episode of the classic series and reviewing for you all and so then join me as I review the episode that proves that spider's don't always make the best birthday presents with the episode in question being called simply just "The Addams Family Tree" enjoy.
The plot of the episode is after Wednesday and Pugsley get involved in a fight with neighbors kid the Addams clan set out to discover their own family tree. 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 altho I will admit that this episodes plot wasn't that strong of a plot this is despite it really being a very strong idea in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this episode is John Astin as Gomez Addams , the late Carolyn Jones as Morticia Addams and the late Ken Weatherwax as Pugsley Addams. Also starring in this episode is the late Lisa Loring as Wednesday Addams , the late Jackie Coogan as Uncle Fester , the late Ted Cassidy as Lurch , the late Frank Nelson as Cecil B. Pomeroy , Kim Tyler as Harold Pomeroy and Jonathan Hole as Professor Simms.
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 in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that he actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. Which really isn't all that surprising as the acting in the episodes of this show that i've seen have always had good acting in them and as such it only makes sense that this episode would also have some really good acting in it as well with thew acting really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so good and so all the cast have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally.
The show never shied away from mentioning other dead family members but this episode straight up shows us one. Which even for this family is oddly dark and yet because it's The Addams Family it's something that oddly works and because of that you can believe that this family would have a dead family member stuffed it's also something that makes me wonder if they have other family members hung up in their house as they mention having quite alot of family members and so it only stands to reason that they would have at least a few of them hung up somewhere in their mansion be they dead or alive.
This episode also straight up makes Fester out to be someone who is willing to commit and unforgivable crime. Granted he would only be doing it to project the honor of his family and he does get talked out of it but the fact that he was even willing to do it in the first place makes what was once a very childlike character seem like someone who has alot more of an edge to them buy I do like the fact that they whole family is willing to defend their family name in various as it just goes to show you that The Addams Family are a tight-nit family unit and i'd even go as far as to say that The Addams Family is the perfect fictional family unit as well.
I didn't like the fact that we didn't get to see Wednesday and Pugsley at the kids birthday party as the amount of jokes that they could have gotten from that one setting alone would make the whole episode really worthwhile. Granted alot of it would just be the same joke but what would make it funny is seeing how these people who we are told re "normal" and seeing how they would react when these creepy and cooky start acting how they normally would and seeing the "normal" trying to save face and yet also acting weirded out would really just make the whole thing not only worth while but also really funny as well.
There was no really resolution to the story here which I found to be rather odd as this show does usually resolve it's storylines. Yes they do say that the The Addams Family is a great family but we don't really get to see anything of The Addams Family family tree with Thing scaring of the person who was putting their family tree together at the end of the episode which is a shame as finding out what their family tree is could have been really fun an yet the episode just doesn't give us any kind of resolution to that part of the story at all instead leaving it rather open ended which is something that this show never really does.
Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty five minuets and thirty four seconds. Which is pretty much the bogstanderd running time for this show but at the same time tho this episode really doesn't have enough there interms of plot to cover that amount of running time and so we get alot of scenes that go nowhere and add nothing to the overall plot of the episode even the party that the kids attend doesn't add to the actual plot of the episode and is something that could have been removed from the plot of the episode but I will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it.
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 not that bad. However that's also the issue as this episode wasn't all that funny either which does make sense as you can't expect a comedy to have funny episodes every single episode and while there are some funny moments in this episode there are alot more unfunny moment in this episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this episode while not that funny does have a good idea behind that more then makes up for the lack of actually really painfully funny jokes that are in this episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then 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 review and as such that means this very episode earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 7 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 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 really wonderful the official The Addams Family fandom wiki page as since all of the images that are currently up and featured / presented to us up and on the really great and really and really truly wonderful on the official The Addams Family fandom wiki page are all really fairly high in quality and as well as them all being all really fairly freaking high in definition.