The Netflix smash Wednesday fuses past Addams Family-related media, monster-movie imagery, and YA silliness, overlaid with the aesthetic (if not always the inspiration) of producer and sometime episode director Tim Burton.

This is all in service of a television show, yes, but more often those influences also add up to perhaps the most GIF-able, Instagrammable #content on mainstream TV, sometimes more effective in screen grabs or one-minute excerpts than as a whole. It amounts to an odd but admittedly contemporary way of harkening back to the single-panel Charles Addams cartoons that originated many of these characters.

As such, Wednesday TV creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar might have guessed that it would be difficult to top the heavily shared, widely beloved, and even t-shirted

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