“Wednesday Addams” Meaning: Why Wednesday is called Wednesday

Wednesday Meaning (Addams) Explained

If you are a fan of Netflix’s Blockbuster adaptation series which premiered on Wednesday November 23, 2022. You might have been wondering, what is Wednesday meaning and why did her parents choose that name ? And why is Wednesday called Wednesday?

 

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Wednesday Meaning: Why Wednesday is called Wednesday 

A lot of people think Wednesday meaning is because that was the day she was born. According to Morticia, her mother, Wednesday meaning is borne out of the fact that it is a line from one of her favorite Nursery rhymes “Wednesday’s Child is full of woe”.

Shocking? Well it shouldn’t surprise you, it’s the Addams’ family. They take pleasure in such things. On the contrary, a lot of people think Wednesday meaning is because that was the day she was born

Her mother named her Wednesday because she felt the child would be one of woe and take after her, as inferred in her favorite Nursery rhyme.

Wednesday  Addams is a fictional character created by American cartoonist Charles Addams, the only daughter in The Addams Family. The character has also appeared in television, film, and in video games, in both the live-action and animated formats.

Wednesday is the sister of Pugsley Addams (and, in the 1993 movie Addams Family Values, Pubert Addams) and as such the only daughter of Gomez and Morticia Addams. In earlier adaptations she is the younger sister of Pugsley, and in later adaptations she becomes the older one.

That’s Wednesday meaning as named by Morticia Addams

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Wednesday is an American coming of age supernatural comedy horror television series based upon the character Wednesday Addams from The Addams Family. Created by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, it stars Jenna Ortega as the titular character, with Catherine Zeta-Jones, Luis Guzmán, Isaac Ordonez, Gwendoline Christie, Riki Lindhome, Jamie McShane, Fred Armisen, and Christina Ricci appearing in supporting roles. Four out of the eight episodes are directed by Tim Burton, who also serves as executive producer.

Wednesday premiered on November 16, 2022, and was released on Netflix on November 23 to generally positive reviews by critics, who praised Ortega’s performance, but criticized it for its similarities to CW dramas

Wednesday Friday Addams is a fictional character created by American cartoonist Charles Addams, the only daughter in The Addams Family. The character has also appeared in television, film, and in video games, in both the live-action and animated formats.

In Addams’ cartoons, which first appeared in The New Yorker, Wednesday and other members of the family had no names. When the characters were adapted to the 1964 television series, Charles Addams gave her the name “Wednesday”, based on the nursery rhyme line, “Wednesday’s child is full of woe”.

The idea for the name was supplied by the actress and poet Joan Blake, an acquaintance of Addams.

Wednesday Addams is a 13-year-old who is obsessed with death. Wednesday does most of her experiments on her brother Pugsley Addams for “fun” or for punishment. Wednesday has tried to kill Pugsley many times. She likes raising spiders and researching the Bermuda Triangle. She has a tendency to startle people due to her gothic personality.

Wednesday’s most notable features are her pale skin and long, dark braided pigtails. She seldom shows her emotions and is generally bitter. Wednesday usually wears a black dress with a white collar, black stockings, and black shoes.

In the 1960s series, she is sweet-natured and serves as a foil to the weirdness of her parents and brother, although her favorite hobby is raising spiders; she is also a ballerina. Wednesday’s favorite toy is her Marie Antoinette doll, which her brother guillotines (at her request). She is stated to be six years old in the television series pilot episode. In one episode, she is shown to have several other headless dolls as well. She also paints pictures (including a picture of trees with human heads) and writes a poem dedicated to her favorite pet spider, Homer. Wednesday is deceptively strong; she is able to bring her father down with a judo hold.

Wednesday’s most notable features are her pale skin and long, dark braided pigtails. She seldom shows her emotions and is generally bitter. Wednesday usually wears a black dress with a white collar, black stockings, and black shoes.

In the 1960s series, she is sweet-natured and serves as a foil to the weirdness of her parents and brother, although her favorite hobby is raising spiders; she is also a ballerina. Wednesday’s favorite toy is her Marie Antoinette doll, which her brother guillotines (at her request). She is stated to be six years old in the television series pilot episode. In one episode, she is shown to have several other headless dolls as well.

She also paints pictures (including a picture of trees with human heads) and writes a poem dedicated to her favorite pet spider, Homer. Wednesday is deceptively strong; she is able to bring her father down with a judo hold.

In the 1991 film, she is depicted in a darker fashion. She shows sadistic tendencies and a dark personality and is revealed to have a deep interest in the Bermuda Triangle and an admiration for an ancestor (Great Aunt Calpurnia Addams) who was burned as a witch in 1706.

In the 1993 sequel, she was even darker: she buried a live cat, tried to guillotine her baby brother Pubert, set fire to Camp Chippewa, and (possibly) scared fellow camper, Joel, to death. These films were the first version of The Addams Family in which violent or horrific acts could be depicted on-camera rather than implied, which makes Wednesday’s personality difficult to define: in the first film, she is seen to successfully electrify her brother Pugsley in an electric chair, but she and Morticia express no surprise that he is neither killed nor even harmed.

In the animated series and Canadian TV series The New Addams Family from the 1990s, Wednesday retains her appearance and her taste for darkness and torture; she is portrayed as having her parents’ consent to tie Pugsley to a chair and torture him with a branding iron and ice pick.