Gomez gives out better relationship advice than like 90% of dudes.
Gomez Addams is a suave motherfucker who loves his wife more than his own life.
Everyone should want a Gomez. He’s p cool.
Gomez and Morticia Addams actually have a very loving and extremely healthy relationship, both in the old TV show and in the more recent movies. They were also one of the first television couples to be shown to have an active (albeit offscreen) sex life. Their frank attitude towards sexuality was shocking in its’ time, but their relationship and their family dynamic is actually more functional and more…dare I say it…sane than most families portrayed on TV.
The comedy in the show came from the family’s “odd” lifestyle, rather than from infighting and petty bickering, or worse, as was common on other shows of the time, thinly veiled references to spousal abuse. They didn’t make fun of each other or act like their children were creatures from another world. Were they strange and outside of social norms? Yes. Were they united in creating a loving home and being good, supportive parents? Absolutely.
These two support and adore their children, care for an aging mother and an estranged brother, put family before everything, and they love each other, wholly, fiercely, without reserve. They are every bit as much in love after at least a decade of marriage as they were the day they met.
Relationship goals. LIFE goals.
Just remembered in the second movie when their third child became “normal” for a period and although they were shocked and didn’t know how to handle it, they didn’t mistreat the child or love it any less. They accepted the difference, even though it was hard for them.
Reblogged for truth.
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Posts about Gomez and Morticia Addams are almost always uplifting and I’m happy to have them on my dash, but I think my favorite bit about this conversation is what Gomez is actually saying to Fester.
It’s nobody’s surprise that many of the aesthetic and thematic elements of The Addams Family in its various incarnations are influenced by Gothic tradition (not goth, that mostly came later. And not Goth, that was much much much too early), and I think Gomez’s words are a dead bullseye in terms of Gothic mentality.
“Make her feel like she’s the most sublime creature on earth”
The sublime is a recurring theme throughout Gothic literature. Although the word (like “awesome”) has lost a lot of it’s original luster over the intervening decades, sublime doesn’t really mean elevated and lofty (or even heavenly) as it’s often used today, but rather something possessing the power and grandeur to induce awe and veneration in the mind of the beholder. Although less than divine, something sublime possessed a wildness and power that transcended human ability to control…or even to comprehend.
Sublime is standing at the edge of the Grand Canyon leaning as far as you dare over the railing and still not being able to see the canyon floor below. Sublime is warrior-queen Galadriel being tempted by the One Ring. Sublime is waking up in the middle of the night in the heart of a wild thunderstorm.
“Make her feel like she’s the most sublime creature on earth”
Gomez isn’t advising Fester to treat a woman he fancies like a princess, or even elevate her to pedestal of angelic nature (who’s idea was it to equate femininity with purity anyway? What a laughable and historically damaging idea. Shame on whatever dead (probably) white dudes promoted that!)
Gomez is advising Fester that if he truly loves a woman he must do everything he can to remind her of how she’s an untameable force of nature who’s grandeur brings him to his knees in awe and terror. Just like Morticia, for Gomez.
I’ll sign off with one of my most favorite quotes of all time, because it feels suddenly very relevant:
“When I find myself surrounded by so much beauty, I feel as if I am the eye of a hurricane.”
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I watched Under The Dome season 3 episode 3 “Redux” last night and it was awesome, very intriguing.
So the new two were under the dome all along, in fact they are anthropologists who went there just to get their greedy little hands on that egg for some reason. So she caused all this nonsense with it. She wants to be the queen bee or whatever (because the egg told her everything) and killed Melanie once and for all because she was trying to get in her way and was trying to kill Julia.
Big Jim went off in a boat with that cutie pie of a dog who wouldn’t stop following! how could you refuse that face?! After he found the anthropologists camera.
Junior burned down Big Jim’s house because Christine told him to since he had in the dream world.
Christine kept saying something about how the people were going through a change, like they are host bodies or something, I don’t know. Maybe since they were looking up at the moon they are aliens from there who were nearly extinct and want to repopulate it lol. Maybe they are gonna be butterfly people lol. Who knows. You can’t tell with this show lol.
But obviously some of them have already noticed they’ve changed like not needing glasses any more.
If it had only lasted one season like it was meant to we would’ve known what was going on like 3 years ago lol.
Julia found out Eva is real and so Barbie had sort of been with her longer lol. Awkward.
I can’t wait to see what happens next!
Did Eddie Cahill suddenly get really grey? his hair didn’t look that bad last season, a bit grey but not that much, I don’t know how they can say it’s only meant to have been 3 weeks unless he was dying it and ran out lol. That could be a plausible explanation I suppose. It’s more silly than saying Breaking Bad was only 1 year, because they didn’t age 6 years, only in this case the young have only aged 3 but they still look a fair bit older from the start so it’s kinda silly.
