Gomez (father) Morticia (mother) Wednesday (sister) Pubert Addams (younger brother, Addams Family Values) Wednesday Jr. (younger sister, Halloween with the New Addams Family) Pugsley Jr. (youngest brother, Halloween with the New Addams Family) Fester (originally maternal great-uncle in the 1964 series, paternal uncle from then on) Pancho (paternal uncle, Halloween with the New Addams Family) Debbie Jellinsky Addams (paternal aunt via marriage to Fester, Addams Family Values; deceased) Grandmama Addams (paternal grandmother) Granny Frump (maternal grandmother) Ophelia Frump (maternal aunt) Goody Addams (ancestor; Wednesday)
Pugsley Pubert Addams is a member of the fictional Addams Family, created by American cartoonist Charles Addams.
Pugsley is depicted as a devious, young, brilliant boy in Charles Addams's original cartoons. He is often shown releasing sailboats in the park with other children, except his boats were more macabre in nature.
Depictions and characteristics
Pugsley was represented as being the oldest child of Morticia and Gomez Addams in the original series: he is a young boy (his age is given as eight years old in the pilot episode, The Addams Family Goes to School, but is changed to 10 years old in the second episode) who is almost always seen wearing a striped T-shirt and shorts. Originally unnamed (as were all of the family members), the character who was apparently the prototype for Pugsley first appeared in the Charles Addams cartoons in The New Yorker during the 1930s. In this first incarnation, he was portrayed as a deviant child with a vicious nature, shown committing deplorable acts with his sister. In all incarnations, he is overweight. In the original series, Pugsley is 4'7" tall and weighs 112 pounds. In the television series, Pugsley usually eats over five pieces of cake at birthday parties.
An energetic monster of a boy…blond red hair, popped blue eyes and a dedicated troublemaker, in other words, the kid next door…genius in his own way, he makes toy guillotines, full size racks, threatens to poison his sister, can turn himself into a Mr. Hyde with an ordinary chemical set…his voice is hoarse…is sometimes allowed an occasional cigar.[1]
When the characters were given names for the television series, he was originally going to be called "Pubert" (a derivation of the word puberty, possibly a reflection of his age, which has consistently remained either 12, 13, or 14, making him a young teenager) but it was rejected as it sounded too sexual, and the name Pugsley was chosen instead. The name Pubert was later used when Gomez and Morticia have a third child in the film Addams Family Values. The Lurch Files' Addams Family Tree lists Pugsley's middle name as Pubert, probably as an homage to Charles Addams' original suggestion.
In the American television series, Pugsley is played by child actor Ken Weatherwax. This incarnation of the character is more jovial and inventive; he displays outlandish engineering skills, including the invention of a disintegrator gun, an anti-gravity gun, and other devices. He and Gomez created a computer named Whizzo and a robot named Smiley (played by Robby the Robot) together. Pugsley and his younger sister Wednesday often play together, rarely exhibiting signs of sibling rivalry; they share an interest in spiders, dynamite, guillotines, and other dangerous "toys" and often play with them together. At Wednesday's request, Pugsley often guillotines Wednesday's beloved Marie Antoinette doll.
In an early episode, "Morticia and the Psychiatrist", the rest of the family is concerned that Pugsley is engaging in behavior they consider "odd": wearing a Boy Scout uniform, playing with a puppy, etc. When sent to a psychiatrist, Pugsley tells of boyhood incidents involving hangings, machine guns, and grenades, with no clue that others might find these accounts unusual. However, no other episodes portray him this way, and he remains more interested in the dark and disturbing side of inventions and science.
In most incarnations of the character, Pugsley had an unusual hobby of stealing road signs, which he used to adorn the walls and door of his bedroom. This may have evolved from an original Addams cartoon in which, rather than road signs, he would steal and decorate his room with cautionary signs, such as high voltage and shallow water signs, thus leading others into danger. He also has a pet octopus named Aristotle; in the animated 2019 film and 2020 sequel, Aristotle has a half-sibling named Socrates, who is Wednesday's pet squid. He also has retained his penchant for using guillotines, and owns a miniature guillotine in the 1991 film, which he uses to chop fruits.
In the 1970s, there was an animated series about the family, in which Pugsley was voiced by an actress Jodie Foster. Foster voiced that same character in an episode of The New Scooby-Doo Movies. In the second animated series, Pugsley was voiced by Jeannie Elias. These depictions remain more faithful to the originals.
In the 1977 TV movie, Ken Weatherwax played a grown-up Pugsley, who has become a witch-doctor. In the interval between the original TV series and this movie, his parents have had two more children, who look just like the original Pugsley and Wednesday, and as such are called Pugsley Jr. and Wednesday Jr., respectively. In all incarnations, he generally has a close relationship with his father and Uncle Fester, who wants to help him get girls in some versions. He is known as Pericles Addams in Spanish-speaking countries and in Brazil (Portuguese) as "Feioso", meaning "Ugly".
In the 1998 series The New Addams Family, Pugsley is played by Vancouver native Brody Smith in a very similar portrayal to the 1960s incarnation, although he is stated to be younger than Wednesday.
In the films The Addams Family and its sequel Addams Family Values, released in 1991 and 1993 respectively, he is still the inventor of the family, often creating dangerous inventions, but while he is smart when it comes to science and creating inventions he is slightly dense, believing almost everything his sister says, being unable to realize that his way of playing with his younger brother may harm him, and is younger than Wednesday. He is depicted as being violent, shooting a bird with an arrow while at camp, afraid of wholesome Disney movies (when forced to watch them, Wednesday's friend Joel asserts that he is 'only a child' and should not have to suffer through watching them), and his relationship with Wednesday is generally darker; although they care for each other, she often tries to torture him and perform science experiments on him, and he returns the favor on occasion, though they are both shown to enjoy the pain, with Pugsley being unhappy when Morticia objects to Wednesday electrocuting him.
In the animated films, he is shown to be a very messy boy, and he prefers to not use plates while eating, and eats with his hands, and also plays in the mud, which causes him to be very dirty and unkempt, usually sporting dirt on his shirt. In the first film, he is chided by his father for not using the Addams men's typical swords in battle and using bombs instead, and he ends up failing a ritual in which Addams men disarm other members of the family with their swords, but ends up teaching his family that using other weapons is acceptable too. In the second film, he plays a more minor role, but as he has in many other portrayals he tries to attract women and ends up dating a human briefly turned into a pig called Ophelia; in the earlier scenes of the film he is seen following his Uncle Fester's questionable dating advice, to chaotic consequences.
Isaac Ordonez portrays Pugsley in Netflix series Wednesday.[citation needed] Unlike most portrayals, he is younger than Wednesday, and his hair is now black instead of blonde. He is shown to be often bullied at school as well, which Wednesday protects him from, stating that she is the only one allowed to torture Pugsley. He is more explicitly close to Wednesday, and is nervous about his father being accused of a crime; is also stated to enjoy fishing, though he throws a bomb into water to kill fish instead of using a typical bait.
In the film The Addams Family and its sequel, Addams Family Values, Pugsley is played by Jimmy Workman. He acts as an unwitting accomplice to his older sister, Wednesday, who makes attempts to inflict lethal harm upon him - although he has returned the favor on occasion.
In The Addams Family, Pugsley and Wednesday open a lemonade stand, but their drinks are toxic, and cause Lurch to spit flames when he tries it.
In Addams Family Values, Wednesday and Pugsley are sent to Camp Chippewa, a summer camp, where they are forced to participate in a Thanksgiving-themed play entitled A Turkey Called Brotherhood. Pugsley is cast as a dancing turkey, and leads the children in a chorus of "Eat Me"; He is later seen assisting Wednesday in overthrowing the camp counselors and setting fire to the grounds.
In the film Addams Family Reunion, Pugsley (now played by Jerry Messing) behaves (for the most part) similarly to his previous two film incarnations. At the Addams Family's family reunion he falls for a young girl named Gina (played by Haylie Duff). According to Pugsley, his name means "stomach pump" in Bulgarian.
↑ In the BroadwaymusicalThe Addams Family, Morticia refers to Grandmama as Gomez and Uncle Fester's mother, to which Gomez reacts with surprise and says that he had thought she was Morticia's mother. Morticia later says that Grandmama "may not even be part of this family", referencing Grandmama's ever-changing relation to the family.
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