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"Uncle Fester is incorrigible and, except for the good nature of the family and the ignorance of the police, would ordinarily be under lock and key... the eyes are pig-like and deeply embedded... he likes to fish, but usually employs dynamite... he keeps falcons on the roof which he uses for hunting... his one costume, summer and winter, is a black great coat with an enormous collar... he is fat with pudgy little hands and feet."
-Charles Addams

Uncle Fester was derived from a character drawn by cartoonist Charles Addams, although these were single-page cartoons with no story development or character names. The name "Fester" was chosen by Addams for the sitcom.

Biography[]

Uncle Fester is recognizable in a number of cartoons, both by his appearance and behavior, like turning the shower to a special "scalding" setting, feeding his garden plants blood plasma, or releasing an eagle on the neighbor's homing pigeons.

Uncle Fester has a strange ability to conduct electricity. He would often demonstrate this by putting a light bulb in his mouth, which would illuminate, accompanied by a loud, crackling noise (in the TV series, the bulb's wire is sometimes clearly visible). He claims to possess 110 watts of power in one episode of the sitcom, while in another episode he demonstrated his "magnetic" quality by levitating a metal paperweight up to his hand. When struck directly on the head by a fired cannonball, he appears only mildly dazed, while the cannonball literally bounces off his head. In one drawing by Charles Addams, Morticia is shown growing flowers from his head.

He also often appears to suffer from a severe migraine that can only be relieved by putting his head in a screw press and tightening it to levels that normal people would not be able to withstand. Other times, he seems to do it for mere fun.

In the original 1960s sitcom, Uncle Fester is said to be Morticia Addams' paternal uncle, but in all other filmed and animated content, he is Gomez Addams' older brother, making him uncle to Wednesday and Pugsley. He is the eldest son of Grandmama.

He is known as "Tío Fétido" in Spain and "Tío Lucas" in Spanish-speaking countries. In Brazil, he has two names: "Tio Chico" (original series and cartoon) and "Tio Funéreo" (movies).

Description[]

He is a bald, hunched, and barrel-shaped man with dark, sunken eyes and often a deranged smile. He always wears a heavy, full-length fur coat.

Personality[]

While the rest of the Addams Family have always relished in the grotesque and the macabre, Fester takes this attitude (or philosophy) to an almost surreal extreme at times even coming across as genuinely criminally insane and having committed numerous high-profile crimes seemingly for no other reason other than for his own twisted amusement.

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  • Electrokinesis: Uncle Fester can generate static electricity. His ability depends on conductivity and contact with bare skin.

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Etymology[]

  • Fester - (of a wound or sore) become septic; suppurate.
  • Frump - An unattractive woman who wears dated, unfashionable clothes. Alternatively, from the Yiddish surname Frum, meaning ‘pious or observant’, or patronymic from a variation of the name Abraham, Afrom.

Trivia[]

  • As revealed in a 1977 New Yorker retrospective on Charles Addams, Fester was the avatar Addams chose to represent himself.
  • In the 1965 book The Addams Family by Jack Sharkey, there is a chapter titled "From Here to Perplexity", in which Fester gets drafted. He turns the induction center upside down when they discover that, among other things, he served in the American Civil War, has orange marmalade in his veins, electronic circuitry on his skin, no fingerprints on his fingers, and he is weightless.
  • Actors Rip Taylor and Christopher Lloyd, both of whom portrayed Uncle Fester, starred together in Disney's DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990).
  • "Uncle Fester" is cockney rhyming slang for 'child molester'.
  • Uncle Fester is also the name used by a member of the nationally-syndicated radio show The MJ Morning Show.
  • He was portrayed by Stubby Kaye in The Addams Family Fun-House, but due to lack of funding, the show was cancelled after the pilot was made.

Video Games[]

Fester has appeared in several Addams Family video games, frequently as the player character or a playable character. He is the star of his own Nintendo Entertainment System game, titled Fester's Quest, and the main playable character in the Addams Family Values Super Nintendo Entertainment System game.

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