Though he is a successful business man, he has little regard for money and will casually spend thousands of dollars on any whimsical endeavor, such as the materials required to build a robot with his son Pugsley. He is a multi-billionaire, having acquired much of his wealth through inheritance and investments. Without a doubt, one of his favorite activities is crashing and blowing up his toy trains as they race on the tracks. He is an accomplished juggler, knife-thrower, fencer and dancer. He is a crafty schemer, optimistic and enthusiastic of his outrageous plots, ideas and activities. Gomez is the athletic, jolly, acrobatic, and eccentric patriarch of the Addams Family. (To take the official professional test yourself, go to Gomez Addams: ENFP – The Champion Photo: Charles Addams, Filmways & MGM Television As usual, if you would like to read the description of the 16 different types in detail you can do so from the Myers Briggs Foundation. I am going to be using the Myers Briggs personality types when discussing these characters. Much of the humor derives from their culture clash with the rest of the world as well as employing zany satire and screwball humor. The Addams Family is about the close-knit extended family with distinctly macabre interests and supernatural abilities with no explanation for them explicitly given. Purely for nostalgia’s sake, I decided to character type each member of this weird and memorable family. I adored each member of the family and all their gothic tendencies.

I never read much of the comic strip Charles Addams created but I did watch the original 1964 TV series often during my childhood. The above adjectives, ghoulish, demonic, bizarre, macabre and memorable have all been used to describe the Addams Family as well as their creator the cartoonist Charles Addams.

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