Wednesday Addams isn’t exactly a big fan of Turkey Day. Still, the pigtailed problem child is making an appearance at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, courtesy of a morbid Netflix float.
Flanked by an army of lookalikes, the float features a giant Wednesday presiding over a pile of rotting food and worms, as well as her brother Pugsley with his head on a platter. The float will be accompanied by a performance of the Rolling Stones’ “Paint It Black” by indie-pop artist Bishop Briggs.
Wednesday Addams has long loathed Thanksgiving. In 1993’s “Addams Family Values,” the character (as played by Christina Ricci) is cast as Pocahontas in a holiday-themed play at summer camp. But instead of sticking to the script, Wednesday disrupts the production to call out the historical injustices suffered by Indigenous peoples in the United States.
“We cannot break bread with you,” she says in the play to the pilgrims, breaking from her written lines and sending panic into the camp instructors. “You have taken the land which is rightfully ours. Years from now, my people will be forced to live in mobile homes on reservations. Your people will wear cardigans and drink highballs.”
In Season 1 of Netflix’s “Wednesday,” Jenna Ortega works at the Pilgrim World tourist attraction and doesn’t even attempt to conceal her discontent toward the holiday and its history. Speaking in German, she tells visitors, “Enjoy your ‘authentic’ pilgrim fudge made with cacao beans, procured by the oppressed indigenous people of the Amazon. All proceeds go to uphold this pathetic whitewashing of American history.”
