The New Addams Family | Forgotten Failures
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2021
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Canadian here. This show was a staple of after-school programming in the late 90s to early 2000s and pretty much everybody I knew watched it. Maybe it's forgotten in the USA, but up here, most people who were kids back then will remember seeing at least a few episodes.
I’m with this person, I watched it more than well enough to put it in the minor success category :)
Yes! I’m from Canada and remember watching it all of the time on YTV in the late 90’s/early 2000’s
Also Canadian here. I remember seeing it on ytv a few times when I was a kid
Same here. Was very well known in my neck of the woods in Canada
Fellow Canadian ✊ same here, I watched this religiously
The editing and cinematography in this show feels very “90s commercial”.
Yeah! Like for gushers or a cereal or some sort of aluminum pouch drink
That's what everything made in Canada looked like until about 8 years ago.
It's the Saban look.
It makes sense the Saban owned the Fox Family channel, everything there look like live-action shows from Fox Kids.
I think it's mainly the music actually.
When John Astin jumped in and said "I'm back!" I got such chills.
AND we got him in not one, but TWO episodes in the show!
With that crazy Gomez face he did back in the 1960s
I remember seeing this show from time to time. It wasn't too bad. Seeing John Astin as Grandpa Addams was a highlight.
I remember seeing a few episodes, and seeing the original Gomez was cool, I thought he was in more episodes, I guess I was just lucky to catch the episodes he was in
John Astin is a highlight in almost everything he does on TV. I would watch Night Court just hoping Buddy would appear.
it wasnt bad at all tough
@@ironmaster6496 That's generally what "Not too bad" or "Not that bad" means.
Glenn Taranto got John Astin's voice and mannerisms as Gomez down pat, and I was overjoyed that Astin is in the show as Gomez' father.
He did a great job. I am much older and watched the original series as a child but I liked this version, for reasons stated in the video.
John Astin & Glen Taranto Look Like They Could Be Related
“Hat’s Off” to Gomez from the TV show version being a dead ringer for John Astin (in voice, at least).
He actually had John Astin to measure his performance by.
Oh yeah, he nailed it
the Siskel and Ebert joke got a legit laugh out of me was not expecting that
Same here, so funny!
About seven months before his passing, I met Michael Roberds at a convention. I still have the picture of his Uncle Fester, signed "Yours Awfully... " To this day.
Mike Roberds was my acting agent for a good portion of the early 2010s. Bless him he was super sweet and a lot of fun. He passed away in 2016. My sister and I remember him fondly. RIP.
I love this series, it captured the essence of the original series. The movies made the characters too suave and sophisticated, but the TV series didn't take themselves too seriously and kept the fun-loving family atmosphere.
Rico-suave ?
You're not wrong, I forgot about this show but as soon as I heard the theme song a large chunk of memories were unlocked about that time in my life. I don't remember how I found this channel but I'm glad I did
As soon as I saw the intro, I instantly remembered this show from my deep subconscious. We used to watch Fox Family quite a bit, and this was probably my introduction to the franchise. The idea of casting the original Gomez Addams, John Astin, as the grandpa in this show was genius!
I was born in 1990, I saw this and was like "I really don't remember this" which was shocking because I love the Addams Family but when I heard the theme, it unlocked something I forgot for years. Thank you for bringing this back to life, you brought back a memory from my childhood that was lost to time.
when i was a kid, born '83, all of my peers knew the theme song to the 60s TV show. Im not sure if we all had watched re-runs, im guessing most of them had seen at least a few episodes. But i dont know the re-run schedule in years later.
The one thing I remembered the most was Morticia, Wednesday and the theme song.
@@SammEater Cousin it and fester very memorable
I feel like this version of The Addams Family has the visual aesthetic of the 60s Batman and 60s Green Hornet shows, and I don’t know how it fits so well with The Addams Family. Speaking of the Green Hornet, you ever thought of doing a forgotten failures on the Seth Rogen reboot from 2010/2011?
The unexpected joke on Siskel & Ebert really got me laughing for more many minutes
Currently watching this series after just watching the old 60's show and it is worth mentioning that all of the episodes of this series are based on episodes from the original. So much so that the original writers get credited for each episode.
Not all of them but most of them
Honestly, loved this one as a kid. It feels childish at times, but I think it was perfect in that way. Great retrospective!
"You know what the Miranda rights do to me!"
Now, that's a line I never thought I would laugh at.
I will always remember John Astin best as Dr. Putra T. Gangreen, "Angry" scientist. "I"m NOT MAD! I'M ANGRY! ANGRY! THERE'S A DIFFERENCE!!!"
A man of culture. I've only seen the movie version once, but I will never forget the odd Fox Kid's cartoon it was based off of.
He's still kicking!
@@Clay3613 truly the moe howard of the modern day.
He’s also the only character to be in all the sequels, and cartoon series.
I still want an FT
I actually liked this show, I love the 90's Addams family.
I had a crush on both Wednesdays when I was a boy.
My mother told me I had a thing for girls with dark hair
I have fond memories of "The New Addams Family" series, it was one air for quite a while here and part of my childhood/teens. I'm not surprised it's still on the air up here. Being Canadian we tend to hold on to Canadian produced programs... forever... just look at "Road to Avonlea", they had to replace the original children in the cast with new characters after all the kids in the town started hitting their twenties.
As a Vancouverite, I can't tell you how wild it was to constantly see your hometown (or school, especially the schools) in so many of the kids shows I watched. I was too young to understand why the Addams family felt so familiar while I watched it every week and now I understand 😂
This was the series I grew up watching on YTV before discovering the original. Wish it would get some kind of a physical release along with Reunion.
Couldn't help myself, but to laught at the Siskell and Ebert part!
I remember hearing about how this was a dream project for the actor playing Gomez, and was quite thrilled he actually got to work with John Astin in a couple of episodes. Everyone here was having fun, and it really did the original series good. A great "update" as the term "reboot" didn't exist and wasn't thrown around as recklessly as it is today. My sister was quite afraid of that Fester arcade machine. Glad it was mentioned. I would like to see a future video discussing one of the two Addams Family cartoons by Hanna Barbera. I could never get into that 1970's one, as I HATED Lennie Weinrib's take on Gomez, making him sound like Clyde Crashcup (I forget the name of the actual comedian that character's voice was based on).
Peter Lorre?
Richard Haydn. From the Wikipedia entry on Clyde Crashcup: "He is voiced by Shepard Menken impersonating Richard Haydn."
@@MsLeenite My mistake.
@@ottagol1985 No problem. You get points for remembering Clyde Crashcup. ;-D
He was amazing.
As a kid I only knew of this Adams family and was very disappointed when I saw other Gomez's
You can tell it’s a Saban production by the intro. Reminds me of Saban Power Rangers intros by how they smile at the camera
Saban music, upbeat but with repetitive lyrics.
Oh my god that theme song just unlocked something in my brain that I forgot. Holy hell.
You weren't kidding, I had no recollection of this series until the theme tune hit.
Same here sir!
It was on Fox Family Channel in the USA, it aired about a season in afternoons and didn't repeat much.
@@petewillson205 Doesn't help me much, I'm from Finland. :D
this video unlocked childhood memories, hadn’t heard that theme song in years but instantly it took me back in time
Seeing the opening credits of this show again was like releasing a long forgotten memory. I only vaguely remember the show but that damn theme song got stuck in my head every time.
I watched this show, and I remember liking… I still do. It’s s not bad.
I honestly didn't think this show was all that terrible yeah it has its flaws why it didn't turned into a hit, but it was a step up over the Addams Family Reunion Movie. Though still not at the level as the OG Series and the two Live Action Films but close. Casting John Astin as Grandpa Gomez was a genius idea.
I'd never seen this and probably would have straight up avoided it after reuntion, but I love this Morticia and Gomez and I laughed actually out loud at Siskel and Ebert, so I'm thinking it's worth watching.
I really liked it back in the day, and having caught a few episodes as an adult, I still think it's kinda neat.
what the hell is a reuntion ?
@@KenMabie A typo, of course.
@@elisaplays6163 shhh youre ruining the joke
@@KenMabie My reply was the joke.
I have a lot of memories of this one, YTV in Canada reran it into the early 2000's. Surprised it's still not on any streaming services.
Its style really reminds me of other mostly forgotten Canadian teen sitcoms like Big Wolf on Campus for example. Makes sense considering its production.
Big Wolf on Campus is such a good show. The full series is on UA-cam!
Remember my friend is a 6th grade alien
Damn, my Canadian Nostalgia. This ,big wolf on campus, my friend the 6th grade alien, Scary stories, Radioactive, Breaker high, beast wars, reboot, shadow raiders ect.
It was only two/three years ago that I remembered this show existed, as soon as I watched the opening I had mini flashbacks to it being on (I believe ITV) in the UK. Fun times!
Nicole is just so ridiculously perfect for Wednesday. Christina is a dream, never thought anyone could beat her after first seeing her as Wednesday, but dang, Nicole just hits it out of the park! Shame Nicole never got the chance to perform Wednesday in a good theatrical release.
She's the third best actress to portray Wednesday.
@@MikeGalosi If we want to be technical, she's the fourth. The God-awful reunion now titled "Halloween With the Addams Family" had *two* Wednesdays and two Pugsleys (the older duo being Lisa Loring and Ken Weatherwax, the originals from the 1960's series) and a younger pair (Jennifer Surprenant and Ken Marquis) to maintain the childhood element. There's also the animated series from the 1970's which I normally wouldn't think was too notable, but Jodie Foster was the voice of Pugsley, so that piece of trivia alone makes it noteworthy.
Finally! She deserves WAAAY more recognition than she gets.
I never heard or watched this show, but I do remember playing the Uncle Fester's electric generator arcade machine as a kid at Funarama in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire. It was one of the first arcade cabinets you saw when you entered the place. I could not beat it at the time as it was too much for me. I really would love to get my hands on one of those machines, but from what I understand, they're not easy to find. At least in New England and whenever I do see one, it isn't cheap. I still search for one to this day.
I loved this show as a kid. I had no idea it was still being syndicated here in Canada. Can't help but smile when hearing the theme.
There is one question every Addams Family reboot must answer:
-Is our Morticia hot?
Checked here.
Real question
Carolyn Jones or Angelica Huston in her youth?
@@GrosvnerMcaffrey Huston.
@@GrosvnerMcaffrey Real question:
If one of them was in your arms, would you really care for the other one?
@@GrosvnerMcaffrey Jones she had some amazing measurements. And a real beautiful doll face. I just watched her again in House of Wax a few nights back for my usual October Marathon
@@richardnash6111 You can really see her hourglass shape in House of Wax when she's being tied up in her corset thingy. Not 1960's Julie Newmar but darn close. I love House of Wax, such a cool thriller. I always felt that Carolyn had a really nice look, with those amazing cheek bones and large eyes. She should have become a bigger star, especially in movies, but it just didn't happen.
Two things:
1) shouldn’t this be „Almost Cult Classics“ with all the praise?
2) do you know what other tv-rights Haim Saban bought? I had the question after the TV-movie review and now that you mentioned it again, I remembered and got curious again …
Also: Thanks again for another excellent video. Awesome as always.
This remake was hardly a failure. It outlasted the original by one episode.
The other two properties that I remember having home movies by Saban were a Richie Rich Christmas movie and a Casper the Friendly Ghost prequel called A Spirited Beginning. I'm not sure if there were any more, but I'm almost positive those two were Saban products
@@barneynedward It was a failure in the sense that people didn't remember it. I don't know what time it aired, but looking like a kids show couldn't have helped get an adult audience.
@@ThreadBomb I remember coming home and watching this show on TV after school back in '98 and '99.
Another Canadian here. I adored this as a kid and a bit confused by the Forgotten Failures title given the immense praise about it! Very curious, but cheers to bringing to light such a forgotten show. Won't soon forget it or it catchy theme as long as i live. Happy Halloween all the same, everyone! ^=^
It's been well over 20 years since I've even heard the song and I still sang along with it
Snap snap
This show was actually my second exposure to The Addams Family. My first exposure was the 90's cartoon.
This show came on right after I got home from school when I was 7. Good memories. Now I want to watch Big Wolf On Campus again.
The Tim Burton Netflix show has the potential to be amazing as long as Tim puts his heart in it. It'd be pretty weird if he didn't have an appreciation for the Addams Family.
They picked the perfect Morticia. Catherine Zeta Jones.
@@rustyrelicsfarm2406 Yep! And Luis Guzman is going to be a PERFECT Gomez! His casting is also spot-on.
He must channel his inner Beetlejuice
Here a year later.I can't say the new one is good but it's also not bad, just okay.
That's just purely my opinion though,so absolutely don't take my word for it.
I loved the original series, did not know about this one, especially with John Astin appearing, thank you so much and I am already watching it now.
I always remember this show because it was really heavily syndicated from when i was in grade school up until like high school. I live in Toronto so it aired regularly on YTV several times a day. It wasn't a laugh riot but I watched it when it was on.
Basically my line up for TV shows every morning before I went to high school was a rerun of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Pokemon Battle Frontier (later the Diamond and Pearl season) New Addams Family and then Lazy Town before I would leave so its safe to say i watched this on/off for well over a decade. I have good memories of this show, and yeah its running in syndication today.
its a shame Michael Roberds who played fester died in 2016 he was easily my favorite
I loved the New Addams Family. I can remember watching it almost every day after school.
used to watch this show all the time as a kid in my grandmas trailer when we were camping, it used to play constantly from what i remember
I think the main problem with this series was that the movies were basically just too good, and it made this just feel like a cheap imitation. If this came out before the films then it would absolutely be seen as a fun update to the original series, but because everything was so on-point in the two films, then this felt like a cheap TV knockoff to try and profit from the films. Which wasn't helped by the production being very similar to Power Rangers - ie, very goofy, full of sound effects and cheap sampled music. But you could tell that everyone was having a lot of fun with their roles which is always key on things like this.
I mean that's the thing love it or hate it, you just can't ignore the fact that the show looks and sounds incredibly cheap.
This is gold!
My first exposure to the Addamses was Barrie S.'s movies, and then it took a bit of effort to warm up to the original TV show... I think this 1998-99 series can be appreciated by the fans of either - or both.
Fox Family Channel was such an exotic network. It was all over the place, and I loved it. Felt like the only network that was marked towards specifically millennials boys.
Then Disney bought it, and it turned into this generic boring teen girl network in 2006
I found this series a few years ago and fell in love with it! Terribly underrated.
It really is
I really wish this had a physical release because I really want to watch the whole thing. I always figured this show wasn’t that great similar to the Munsters Today. It actually looks quite a bit more enjoyable than that though. A true hidden gem it seems like!
I watched this show judiciously and loved it far more than the other one
I haven't seen seen this show since it aired when I was a kid. To this day I still remember the theme song in its entirety.
I watched the New Addams Family every time it was on. I wasn't a huge fan of this iteration but just a fan in general. I still remember some scenes.
This show still holds up so well. I watched a few episodes a couple of months ago and had a great time.
Also, Morticia
Well, that theme did unlock a weird memory I didn't know I have. "Thanks" for that.
Because of Canadian content restrictions, and networks desperately trying to comply without actually making new shows, I don't think this show has ever actually left the air up here in leaf land. It keeps getting tossed out whenever Showcase or whoever needs something cheap to air at 6am. Reruns of it have bounced between at least five or six different channels. I remember liking it at first, then hating it because it became sickening seeing the same episodes over and over again for years. Enough time has passed though that I wouldn't mind giving it a rewatch.
It's so funny; as soon as he mentioned its short run time, I immediately thought of how ALL throughout my childhood it was on TV with that ridiculously catchy theme song. I honestly didn't even KNOW of the movies until I was probably in my teens.
So it's the Family Guy/Seinfeld of Canada?
@@TheOriginal009 A cheap show because it is already done and it has over 60 episodes, so perfect to run through the year.
I had never heard of this series as a kid but I'm certain I'd watch the hell out of it if I discovered it sooner. The actors did brilliant job bringing these characters to the modern day and the jokes are great too. Sad it didn't catch on
Now this, I actually remember! The theme song especially has been stuck in my head for about 2 decades now. This was the best when I was a kid, I'm happy to see it still holds up. I should look this up sometime, give it a rewatch. It just seems like a lot of fun. I audibly laughed at Wednesday and Pugsly dressed up as Siskel and Ebert, too good
I actively remember genuinely loving this show as a little kid
My neighbor as a child on vancouver idland was the mother of the actor who played lurch in the new adams family. He stopped by frequently and he was always super nice to my brother and i.
I luved watching The New Adams Family & The 2 films growing up the tv series still airs on OutTv along with another YTV favorite Breaker High
That explains the line Wednesday says "we had a little.brotjer but pugsley ate him"
I loved The New Addams Family
I remember watching it back in the day. Good times.
10 years ago I was traveling through Vancouver with my best friend, when a girl we met took us to a comedy club for a charity benefit show for the Tohoku Earthquake/Tsunami relief efforts.
Ellie Harvie was a special guest that night, and they introduced her as “Mortician from the New Addams Family tv show.”
My friend asked “When did they do a new Addams Family?” to which I could only reply “....I have no memory of it”
She did a set and then hosted the improv set and killed it!
After the show she came up to the 3 of us and was incredibly sweet, thanking my friend for being an audience volunteer for the improv segment.
A decade later, I see this video and YES. Joe. You have reawakened the repressed fever dream that was this theme song!
Waves of memories came flooding in of watching Digimon on Sunday morning Fox Family and seeing the ads with the theme song running ad naseum on EVERY SINGLE COMMERCIAL BREAK.
Thank you, Joe Ramoni, for unleashing this evil upon my psyche.....
I loved this series as a kid it's usually what I associate the Addams Family with as it was my introduction to them. I got to meet Gomez, Morticia, Fester and Wednesday's actors at a con a few years ago and they were so incredibly lovely and were excited my friends and I had done a group cosplay. I really wish they would drop this somewhere because I'd love to rewatch it.
I always enjoyed this series because it was a nice marriage between the 90's movies and the 60's show. I hope they put all of the episodes out on DVD or stream it.
Canadian, born in 94. Watched this ALL the time as a kid. It was a huge series here to kids on the YTV circuit. Watched it, literally for years and was more then shocked as an adult to find out there was only the one season. This NEEDS a physical release.
I love how you mentioned the theme song living in some repressed memory somewhere and I was thinking "I don't remember this show at all, it's weird that I wouldn't know a theme song from this time period" and then you played the theme and that part of my brain woke up and started screaming. Very similar to what happened with another Saban show, Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog, which I had no recollection of the show but later remembered the opening and having had several of the toys when I saw a video about it on youtube.
I don't have cable so I didn't even know it existed; actually seems pretty funny from the clips you pulled
I live in America and when I was a kid I used to love this show! I ran home from school every day to watch it!!!
Probably my first exposure to the Addams family characters. I remember really liking it as a kid. Don't remember much other than Uncle Fester trying to impress his date and Lurch accidentally stepping on Thing. Got a good laugh at the end where it was revealed that Thing was faking being injured and was 'dancing ' in his little box.
I've actually been watching this show for a while, and I'm actually enjoying it so far.
Their comments wouldn’t surprise me if they said that
It really is amazing to see how much the Paramount movies permanently altered the Addams Family canon in the form of Wednesday. In older adaptations, she was kind of just a normal girl character; sweet, quiet, with a penchant for things like bats and spiders. Christina Ricci's performance took it in such a different direction, making the character a dark, deadpan, pint-sized serial killer. The new Wednesday was such a show-stealer that every Wednesday Addams since, from the 90's TV series to the Broadway musical to the new animated films, has maintained this characterization.
Also, minor nitpick; the Paramount films weren't the first to make Fester into Gomez's brother; they were originally made brothers in the 1970's animated series, and have remained as such pretty much ever since.
It's a shame Pugsley is yet to get similar development.
It's both perfect and a double-edged sword because any development outside of that canon mold for the entire family is considered weird and off-brand now.
Aww I get so nostalgic for Fox Family. That is my favorite era in the whole Family Channel evolution.
I remember watching it. I was older and a little busy so I didn't get to see them all. I'd love to give this to my kids
I've been waiting for this video ever since you mentioned it in the Addams family reunion movie video. I remember seeing this show on TV from time to time. Keep up the great content man, You're honestly one of my favorite channels. You deserve so much more exposure. When it comes, please don't change.
I always thought it looked off even before I saw the original movies.
i'm really loving this in every way. the humour, the visual style, the actors, the sets... have to find a watchable version asap! :D
big thanks & greetings from germany!
I watched reruns of the original Addams Family show from about the age of 2 onward and watched The New Addms Family the moment the show was released in the US. I know it's mostly forgotten, but I love it. I can't wait to share the franchise with my daughter. ❤
No way!!! I watched all of them recently on UA-cam. I really enjoyed them. Ellie Harvey is underrated! The whole cast was great!
I remember enjoying this version of The Addams Family as a kid and having a crush on Wednesday Addams. Fox Family brought a lot of memories growing up. I'd be curious if the fox family channel could be a mini documentary on this channel someday.
I've never seen this before, but have been watching the old Addams family one of those free Vizio channels lately. Very cool to see John Astin as grandpa. He must have been fairly old by then but still looked and sounded very vibrant there. He and Raul Julia were both excellent as Gomez. I prefer the Morticia from the 60s because she was so small and cute that it actually gave her gothiness a little understatement and worked better for her deadpan character. Christina Ricci was the best Wednesday, hands down. It was more over the top but that was funny because the darkness came from a little girl.
I remember seeing this version of the Addams Family television show when it came on television in the late 1990’s. I can even recall that this show had a Christmas episode.
I was in my early 20s in the late 90s when the TV show was on air and I loved it.
I still remember the movie and the show 💜
John Astin is the greatest character actor of all time. In my opinion, the best part of the Addams Family.
I had no memory of this show until the theme played and I found myself back in '98. How could anyone forget this chaotic masterpiece.
Thanks, Joe. Now I would like to see this show, especially the episodes with John Astin. Guess I'll have to travel to Canada...
Am I the only one who appreciates that they included Thing's actor in the opening credits, even though we only see his hand? Trust me: Billing, despite being something so simple, can get quite complicated in this industry.
That's actually kind of sweet.
One of the problems was that some of the actors just couldn't compare to thier predecessors. Take Gomez as an example, Raul Julia played the role that well that Tim Curry just couldn't measure up.
I disagree, uncle fester was great, wednesday and pugsly were great. I thought it felt like the addams family
This was the quintessential Adams family from me for sure. Love Morticia. I'm also Canadian!
I loved that show and never quite thought of it as forgotten. Plenty of fans out there, tbh.
Oh my god, this is my favorite iteration of the Addams Family! I absolutely loved it as a kid, but I've always felt like I must have hallucinated it, because no one else ever talks about it!
Great as always! I was maybe just a *bit* too old for this show when it originally aired, but I do remember thinking it wasn't bad when my younger siblings would watch it.
I can't remember if you ever mentioned it in your other Munsters videos, but any plans to do a video on The Munsters Today (which coincidentally, just like this show, also just barely outlasted the original)? Really interested to hear your thoughts on that one.
I remember as a kid this was actually my first exposure to the Addams Family.
I grew up with reruns of the 60s show I binged it on UA-cam (highly recommend it they're all free to find here). Looks like this version is pretty true to the original TV version. I think that It's not a firecracker it's dynamite joke is directly lifted from the original
This was only really a faliure in the US. In Canada, where it aired on YTV, on the other hand, it was promoted A LOT there, and even after the show ended, it still aired primetime there for at least another 4 years.