Pugsley Addams
| Pugsley Addams | |
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| Addams Family character | |
 Ken Weatherwax as Pugsley in The Addams Family television series. |
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| First appearance | The New Yorker cartoon, (1938) |
| Created by | Charles Addams |
| Portrayed by |
Ken Weatherwax (1964 series) Jimmy Workman (1991 & 1993 films) Jerry Messing (1998 film) Brody Smith (1998 series) Danny Herz (2016 Los Gatos Youth Theater Production) |
| Information | |
| Gender | Male |
| Family |
Gomez (father) Morticia (mother) Wednesday (younger sister) Fester (great-uncle, but uncle in the films) Grandmama (grandmother) Itt (cousin) Debbie Jellinsky-Addams (aunt) Pubert Addams (brother) |
| Nationality | American |
Pugsley Addams is a member of the fictional Addams family, created by American cartoonist Charles Addams.
Pugsley is depicted as a devious young genius 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.
Pugsley is the oldest child of Morticia and Gomez Addams. He is a pre-teen boy (His age is given as eight years old in the pilot episode but is changed to ten 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 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.
When the characters were given names for the television series, The Addams Family he was originally going to be called "Pubert" (a derivation of the word puberty, possibly a reflection of his age) 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). 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."
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