
The iconic family was first created by cartoonist Charles Addams in 1938, appearing as single-panel comics in The New Yorker and other magazines. The Addams Family has a rich, long history, so there were plenty of little nuggets for Wednesday to wink at.

Spoiler alert: This post discusses light spoilers from throughout Wednesday. Despite those update, the show is still full of tributes to its source material, and these Addams Family Easter eggs in Netflix’s Wednesday were clearly added just for the superfans.

Sure, the new Netflix show has got the deadpan humor, macabre puns, and gothic style that made the original Addams Family sitcom and its subsequent movies spooky season favorites, but the new take throws some new stuff into the mix: supernatural powers, a boarding-school setting, and oh yeah, a seriously twisted murder mystery. Wednesday may not be exactly what you’d expect when it comes to the Addams Family.
