RIP Cousin Itt

[Jake from State Farm]

Felix Silla, Cousin Itt on TV’s ‘The Addams Family,’ dies at 84

 

[maumann]

Wow! There was actually somebody under all that hair? Cousin Itt was on the cutting edge of the Hippie movement, to be sure.

1. Is it terrible that the first person I thought of based on the thread title was Yoko Ono?
2. He had to have been the last surviving adult castmember from The Addams Family.
3. So he's still chasing George Segal, who died last month? Silla played Litvak, who is after Segal's Sam Spade Jr. in the really not-good "The Black Bird" comedy takoff on the Maltese Falcon.

RIP, short sir.

 

[mpcincal]

2. He had to have been the last surviving adult castmember from The Addams Family.

John Astin (Gomez) is still with us; he had his 91st birthday a couple weeks ago. Lisa Loring (Wednesday) is also still alive, though Ken Weatherwax (Pugsley) died in 2014.

As for Silla, I also remember him playing the small robot sidekick in "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century."

 

[maumann]

John Astin (Gomez) is still with us; he had his 91st birthday a couple weeks ago. Lisa Loring (Wednesday) is also still alive, though Ken Weatherwax (Pugsley) died in 2014.

As for Silla, I also remember him playing the small robot sidekick in "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century."

I did not know John Astin was still kicking. That's awesome. I think Addams Family had better writing and character development than the Munsters, plus who didn't snap their fingers to the opening credits?

 

[dixiehack]

Thing I learned today: The Addams Family started as a series of cartoons in the New Yorker.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

Because I was a big kid and was 10 when The Addams Family debuted, I was called Lurch for a time
Still liked Addams Family better
Munsters vs Addams Family isn’t on the level of Ginger vs. Mary Ann or Bailey vs. Jennifer but it’s a great debate

 

[da man]

Thing I learned today: The Addams Family started as a series of cartoons in the New Yorker.

By Charles Addams.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

Thing I learned today: The Addams Family started as a series of cartoons in the New Yorker.

By Charles Addams, who was a weird agent in his own right

 

[PCLoadLetter]

I did not know John Astin was still kicking. That's awesome. I think Addams Family had better writing and character development than the Munsters, plus who didn't snap their fingers to the opening credits?

The Addams Family was absolutely better, though the Munsters opening theme is an all-time classic.

Pluto TV has an Addams Family channel. 24 hours a day, nothing but the old TV series.

 

[ChrisLong]

Lurch lived in Pacific Palisades. His son played basketball at Palisades High. Lurch was at every game, sitting in the top row of the bleachers.

 

[maumann]

The Addams Family was absolutely better, though the Munsters opening theme is an all-time classic.

Pluto TV has an Addams Family channel. 24 hours a day, nothing but the old TV series.

That argument might have earned some kids a black eye during recess in my elementary school days. So did Bonanza vs. Gunsmoke. When you only had three channels (and sometimes PBS), you took TV seriously back then!

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

I'm too far removed from those days of B&W reruns, but the Munsters seemed to have more memorable funny moments to me.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

John Astin (Gomez) is still with us; he had his 91st birthday a couple weeks ago. Lisa Loring (Wednesday) is also still alive, though Ken Weatherwax (Pugsley) died in 2014.

As for Silla, I also remember him playing the small robot sidekick in "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century."

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[DanOregon]

Addams Family was drier, The Munsters more slapstick. Crazy realizing who birthed each show.
Charles Addams (in a series of cartoons from The New Yorker) and Allan Burns who went on to produce the Mary Tyler Moore Show and previously created the character of Cap'n Cruch.

 

[da man]

Addams Family was drier, The Munsters more slapstick. Crazy realizing who birthed each show.
Charles Addams (in a series of cartoons from The New Yorker) and Allan Burns who went on to produce the Mary Tyler Moore Show and previously created the character of Cap'n Cruch.

Was Cap'n Cruch a one-legged seaman?

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

 

[maumann]

Was Cap'n Cruch a one-legged seaman?

You'd be salty, too, if somebody accidentally stepped on your Crunchberries.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

Lurch lived in Pacific Palisades. His son played basketball at Palisades High. Lurch was at every game, sitting in the top row of the bleachers.

Ted Cassidy’s biggest role, other than Lurch, came in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Cassidy, who was 6-9, got beat in a fight by Paul Newman when he kicked Cassidy in the nuts

 

[garrow]

This Addams painting had a prominent spot in our college library book drop room. Odd, since he wan't an alum.....

 

[da man]

This Addams painting had a prominent spot in our college library book drop room. Odd, since he wan't an alum.....

Wednesday's harpoon is a nice touch. As is the grave Pugsley is working on.