The camp turns out to be over-run with white, blonde-haired yuppies where the villains are cheery and politically incorrect (aka racist) counselors. In short, it shows Uncle Fester falling in love with a psychotic nanny who wants to steal his money, so she sends Wednesday and Pugsley to Camp Chippewa so they wont ruin her plans to kill Fester after she marries him. While I don’t remember much from the first movie, the second is one I still consider one of my childhood favorites. If you haven’t seen the movie, Wednesday Addams is pretty much everything you could want from a mean girl icon: a killer wardrobe, sardonic wit and a frightening stare that works on both kids and adults. They even had her be a ballerina! Though her dancing sequence with Lurch is adorable (just check out the vid below), this is far cry from Christina Ricci’s rendition of Wednesday, who enjoyed torturing her nannies (when she wasn’t torturing her brother) and staging real life re-enactments of the French Revolution (real guillotine included).
In other television series (whether live action or animated), Wednesday was depicted as a sweet natured child who was often bullied by her brother (can you imagine?) and whose weirdest quirk was owning pet spiders. Though Wednesday Addams has seen numerous incarnations from television to animated series and even a musical, she was never more well-known (or more loved) than when portrayed by Christina Ricci in the hit 90’s movies, The Addams Family and subsequent sequel The Addams Family Values.
According to the Wiki rumors, Charles Addams gave her the name “Wednesday” based on the well-known nursery poem “Monday’s Child” from the line, “Wednesday’s child is full of woe.” Goodness knows where he found the inspiration for the name Pugsley, her younger brother with an affinity for horizontal striped shirts. Although she made several appearances for the almost 50 years of the Addams’ publication, she wasn’t officially named until 1964, when the characters were adapted into the cult classic television series. As a satirical view of the stereotypical American family, the Addams relished in the macabre and weird and consisted of parents Morticia and Gomez, their two young kids, Uncle Fester, Grandmama and Lurch the butler. At the helm of all things cool and creepy, Wednesday Addams is the queen of outcasts and rebels, and she’s only 6 years old! Well, at least as her first incarnation, when her cartoonist, Charles Addams, created the single panel comic “The Addams Family” for The New Yorker in 1938. You pretty much have had to live under a well-ventilated rock for the last 70 years to not know who Wednesday Addams is. The 200 Best Lesbian, Bisexual & Queer Movies Of All Time.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now.