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Preview the “Wednesday” Float at This Week’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade!
The first horror family to attend the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade may have been “The Munsters” back in 1964, but The Addams Family eventually caught up a few decades later.
It was in 1991 that the Charles Addams-created Addams Family debuted at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, taking over the short-lived “European Village” float in celebration of that year’s live action movie. Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, the live action movie had just arrived in theaters on November 22 of that year, a mere six days before the November 28, 1991 airing of the 65th Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. And the cast of the film even showed up in full costume, including Christina Ricci (Wednesday), Jimmy Workman (Pugsley), Judith Malina (Grandmama), and Carel Struycken (Lurch), joined by Cousin Itt.
The Addams Family float at the 1991 parade was paired up with the Cultural Dance Ensemble of Camden High School in New Jersey, whose goal was to “promote understanding of different cultures through the universal language of dance and music.”
The reason we bring this up is because The Addams Family is returning to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade this week, with Netflix and Tim Burton’s spinoff television series “Wednesday” getting its own float for the first time ever! Netflix has previously paid for floats to promote The Christmas Chronicles and Leo, and this year is all about “Wednesday” starring Jenna Ortega. The hit horror series will debut its hotly anticipated second season next year.
IGN has shared a first-look sneak peek at this year’s “Wednesday” float today (below), giving us a glimpse at a massive depiction of Ortega’s Wednesday and the severed hand known as Thing! According to Fandom, the float is officially titled “Wednesday’s Feast.”
Fandom previews, “The float depicts Wednesday, who hates Thanksgiving and parades, celebrating the dreadful affair by doing something she loves—embarrassing her younger brother Pugsley. She serves his head on a literal platter, surrounded by a buffet of rotten fruit, putrid vegetables, and ominous insects.” Singer Bishop Briggs will be part of the new float.
Preview the “Wednesday” float at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade 2024 below!
This year’s parade airs Thursday, November 28 at 8:30am EST on NBC.
Based on the 2023 prep school thriller novel by American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis, creator Ryan Murphy’s “The Shards” is headed to FX and Hulu this Summer.
Look for “The Shards” to premiere on FX and Hulu on August 5 at 6 p.m. PT.
In the meantime, check out the brand new official poster below.
Igby Rigney (“The Fall of the House of Usher”), Homer Gere (“The Agency”), Graham Campbell, Kaia Gerber (Shell), Evan Rachel Wood (“Westworld”), Igby Rigney, Wes Bentley, and Hayes Warner star in the upcoming series “The Shards.”
Set in 1981 Los Angeles, the semi-autobiographical, dark coming-of-age tale follows a 17-year-old Ellis during his final year at the elite Buckley prep school. Upending the character’s world is the arrival of a mysterious new student, Robert Mallory, whose unsettling presence coincides with the activities of a serial killer known as The Trawler.
In the series, Igby Rigney will portray Ellis, and Graham Campbell will play Thom. Homer Gere, son of actor Richard Gere, has been cast as Robert Mallory. Frequent Murphy collaborator Max Winkler (“American Horror Story,“ “Grotesquerie”) is attached to direct.
The series is produced by 20th Television in association with Ryan Murphy Television.
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