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🗓️ 23 September 2025
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The matriarch of the Addams family, Morticia Addams, contains (often dangerous) multitudes. We brush off her legacy when it comes to sexuality and mother-daughter relationships.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:09.4 | Hey, this is Annie. |
| 0:10.5 | And Samantha. |
| 0:11.3 | Welcome to Steph on Evertolder, your production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:28.0 | And welcome to another sub, sub,subs-sub-sub-sub-sub segment of fictional women around the world. |
| 0:30.1 | I have to say this is a first for me. |
| 0:35.9 | I started an outline on someone else, Dina, from The Last of Us 2. Oh, uh-huh, uh-huh. |
| 0:37.1 | Because it is Last of Us 2. Oh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Because it is Last of Us Day coming up in September. |
| 0:42.8 | My birthday. |
| 0:44.1 | Also that. |
| 0:45.6 | Um, yeah. |
| 0:48.8 | But I, because I can't talk about the end. |
| 0:53.9 | Yeah. So I can't do it. So this is sort of a one I put together, |
| 0:59.0 | not at the last minute, but it was, I had to redo a whole thing. And I'm not mad about it, but it's the |
| 1:06.8 | first. It's a first. But today we are talking about Mortisha Adams. And yeah, you can see our |
| 1:14.6 | Wednesday Adams episode that we just reran as classic or is about to rerun its classic. It's, yeah. |
| 1:22.2 | There will be spoilers for the Wednesday show, the second season and the first season, I guess. But I'm trying to keep |
| 1:30.7 | them vague, but there will be spoilers. Okay. All right. So today we are talking about the |
| 1:36.3 | matriarch of the Adams family, Morticia Adams, born Mortisha Frump. Her name is a play on |
| 1:43.8 | mortician, perhaps, obviously. She was played in live action by Carolyn Jones, Ellie Harvey, Angelica Houston, and currently by Catherine Zeta Jones, in the Netflix show Wednesday. |
| 1:56.2 | The Adams family is a fictional family created by Charles Adams. It originated as a comic strip in 1938 and followed the adventures of a creepy, kooky family. They weren't named until the TV show debuted in 1964. It's darkly humorous and very strange and has been brought to live action in movies and TV shows and a theme song you probably hear every |
| 2:17.6 | Halloween if you're like me. People loved it, although it did take a minute to really take off. |
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