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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.
“American Horror Story” lucky season 13 will be an all-star reunion in more ways than one. Ryan Murphy teased an Avengers-level new season that sees returning players take on multiple roles.
The return of Jessica Lange and first images had many speculating that the 13th season of FX’s anthology series would pick up from “Coven.” It turns out that’s only partially accurate.
Murphy revealed to Entertainment Tonight that the new season is a sequel to “all seasons combined.”
Murphy continued, “So Sarah Paulson is playing six or seven roles. Jessica Lange is playing all four of her iconic characters. Evan Peters is playing five characters, and of course Kathy Bates and Emma Roberts and Billie Lourd. It’s like the Avengers! They all come together to defeat the ultimate evil.”
To be fair, that is hinted at in the film’s official synopsis: “An unrivaled 13th installment that will do justice to everyone’s most feared number. Bringing together an all-star cast, many of whom are reprising fan-favorite roles, American Horror Story: 13 continues to build on the anthology’s decades-long legacy that has been streamed more than 700 million hours across the globe and spawned a legion of dedicated fans.”
“American HorrorStory has redefined the genre with various installments featuring a creepy murder house, a coven of witches, a traveling freak show, a haunted hotel and the apocalypse itself. Which iconic horrors will return to haunt the hallowed halls of 13 and what new terrors await? Light your candles, draw your pentagrams and prepare for a supreme surprise.”
The detail that this all-star cast would take on every iteration they’ve played throughout twelve seasons, though, is new.
Angela Bassett, Gabourey Sidibe, Leslie Grossman, John Carroll Lynch, and Mat Fraser also star.
Newcomers this season include Mena Suvari (American Beauty), Berto Colon (“The Night Agent”), and cult filmmaker John Waters.
Related: Everything we know about Season 13 so far.
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