With Gomez and Mortica, yes. I figured it was a coded reference to Alsion's own travailles as a child. Whilst on the Addams: do you remember the scene where Wednesday is telling a spooky story to her roommates at Camp Chippewa where she tells them: 'And all the children woke up in the morning to find they have their original noses..' (Cut to them running out screaming)
Debbie Jellinsky: My parents, Sharon and Dave.
Generous, doting, or *were they*? All l ever wanted was a Ballerina Barbie. In her pretty pink tutu. My birthday.
[the slide shows her as a child, smiling and opening a gift]
Debbie Jellinsky: I was 10, and do you know what they got me? *Malibu* Barbie.
Morticia: Malibu Barbie.
Gomez: The nightmare.
Morticia: The nerve.
Debbie Jellinsky: [flicks to the next slide of her throwing a bared-teeth temper tantrum] That's not what I wanted! That's not who I was. I was a
*ballerina*, graceful, delicate! They had to go.
[the next slide shot shows a burning house]
I’m so sorry you had to go through this
... You ... *do* realise that's a transcript of a scene from "Addams Family Values", right? 😋
With Gomez and Mortica, yes. I figured it was a coded reference to Alsion's own travailles as a child. Whilst on the Addams: do you remember the scene where Wednesday is telling a spooky story to her roommates at Camp Chippewa where she tells them: 'And all the children woke up in the morning to find they have their original noses..' (Cut to them running out screaming)
I love your books. Almost all of them. I even went to Swindon once