Amnesia--TV's favorite neurological disorder. What's interesting about this version is that Gomez's tastes change entirely. He's now more like an ordinary person: he's taken aback by the house, the family members, the way Morticia dresses, the food they eat, everything. Since amnesia is about forgetting... does that mean that his ordinary, weird perspective was learned, and the new "ordinary" outlook is the real Gomez? Gomez gets knocked in the head repeatedly afterward so the whole episode is a showcase of how his ordinary personality differs from the other. The rest of the family, for their part, likes him the old way and do what they can restore him. Madness tends to run in families, after all.
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Intended to demonstrate how "weird" the Addams Family was?
pmicocci-189081 June 2021
Quite apart from the idiotic 20th century trope concerning the causes of amnesia (which went hand in hand with the hypnosis trope), why would amnesia make a life-long Addams think and behave like a "normal" person? It gives the distasteful impression that the Addams were always somehow aberrant.
It was obviously a late season attempt to show just how weird they were, which seems pointless, as the whole entirety of the series did so day to day.
And the whack-on-the-head amnesia switch was so nauseatingly overdone in 1960s TV... the only amusing bit was Uncle Fester asking, "You want me to put a sack over his head?"
It was obviously a late season attempt to show just how weird they were, which seems pointless, as the whole entirety of the series did so day to day.
And the whack-on-the-head amnesia switch was so nauseatingly overdone in 1960s TV... the only amusing bit was Uncle Fester asking, "You want me to put a sack over his head?"
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