Through the success of the first film, a sequel, also directed by Sonnenfeld, came out in 1993 entitled Addams Family Values. In 1991, director Barry Sonnenfeld, known for The Men in Black trilogy and Get Shorty, directed a live-action film adaptation called The Addams Family, bringing the strange family to the big screen for the first time. Then the '90s happened and changed the way people would view The Addams Family forever. The show takes place in a different world than the sitcom, but the core of the Addams' was still present throughout the series. Interestingly enough, a 10-year-old Jodie Foster voiced Pugsly in this show. The only two actors from the original sitcom to return to reprise their roles were Coogan as Fester and Ted Cassidy as Lurch.

Though the show is a little more lighthearted than the sitcom that came before it, the Addams family was able to come off as even weirder, having their characters and aesthetic only strengthened by the medium of animation. The show follows the Addams on a cross-country road trip in their creepy camper that's meant to look like their Victorian home. This led Hannah-Barbera to produce a cartoon series in 1973 aptly titled The Addams Family. They even got the original cast to voice their animated counterparts and the special was a huge success, though it was never released on VHS or DVD due to copyright issues. In 1972 The New Scooby-Doo Movies: 'Scooby-Doo meets The Addams Family' premiered and saw Scooby and the gang crossing paths with the mysterious and spooky Addams Family. Though they eventually got their own animated show in 1973, the first time The Addams Family appeared in animation on the small screen was with none other than Scooby-Doo. This show also gave fans the iconic, Grammy Award-nominated theme song that has been a staple of The Addams Family ever since. Though the show lasted a short while, the popularity of it kept the show alive through decades of reruns that aired up until the early 1990s.

The series starred John Astin as Gomez, Carolyn Jones as Morticia, and Jackie Coogan as Uncle Fester and ran for 64 episodes in total.

They are never malicious or rude to their guests instead, the Addams' welcome them with open arms, and it's the visitors who are usually mean or misunderstand them. The Addams' love each other and delight in all the strange and unusual things that go on they honestly think that 'normal' people are the ones who are truly strange. The premise of almost every episode is that someone comes and visits the Addams family, and they are either terrified by the literal jungle that is their home or confused as to how a group of people can be so weird and not see anything wrong with it.

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