Talk:Thing (The Addams Family)

The Beast with Five Fingers
Possibly inspired by the short story and its 1946 film version with Peter Lorre, The Beast with Five Fingers, in which after a pianist's death, his disenbodied hand reeks revenge. Matthew BG 117.102.151.231 (talk) 14:07, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

More likely inspired by the original short story by W.F. Harvey, on which the movie is very loosely based. The character of the hand in the story is much more in keeping with C. S. Addams's Thing. However, in the absence of corroborating evidence from an Addams biographer, it's all speculation. I actually visited this page (as well as the Harvey page and the page on the film) to see if anyone had found corroboration.71.67.110.168 (talk) 02:51, 20 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Perhaps by extension of the theme, it is along the lines of the story about The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs? 32.212.102.239 (talk) 06:50, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

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German name
Eiskaltes Händchen (roughly, ice-cold tiny hand) wasn't a Gizmo in the German edition. –84.46.53.26 (talk) 08:45, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

Language
At times in the Wednesday production, Thing is showing to speak sign language. I'm wondering if this is real ASL or also just made up language Aethalides (talk) 12:29, 24 November 2022 (UTC)
 * More than likely, the Manual Alphabet or fingerspelling. ASL uses both hands, arms, the face, and other parts. 12.231.109.142 (talk) 17:07, 13 December 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for your answer user 12.231.109.142 but we cannot put "more than likely made up" in an article in an Encyclopedia. We would need an actual speaker of ASL to answer this question with references before we could include it in the main article. Whilst I have seen people speak sign language which does include both hands and lip movements, I cannot say for certain that this is a hard requirement.Aethalides (talk) 17:21, 13 December 2022 (UTC)


 * @Aethalides The cast of wednesday said that the whole language was improvised upon filming. QuaggaZebra13 (talk) 08:42, 27 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Ok, if you have references, please add them. Aethalides (talk) 13:26, 27 April 2023 (UTC)

Latest edits with different languages
I note that some "translations" have been added to the article describing "Thing" in different languages. I'm not entirely sure that this is appropriate and should perhaps be put in translations of the article? Aethalides (talk) 15:25, 26 November 2022 (UTC)

Possibly related toy
About the time of the original series, there was a toy that enjoyed a minor vogue at the time. It was a savings bank in the shape of a black box with a slot on its top. One would put a coin in the slot, to which a door would open, a hand would reach out, snatch the coin, take it into the bank & the door would snap shut. I don't know if there was a connection between the two, but kids at the time did believe there was one. Someone might be able to research this & salvage a bit of forgotten pop culture. (Or maybe just reissue a cool toy from the past.) -- llywrch (talk) 07:31, 3 January 2023 (UTC)