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Continuing with last week's theme of putting the child of woe to bed, here we have Gomez doing This Little Piggy on Wednesday's toes, as Morticia looks on while learning on the wall just inside the doorway.

"This little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed home, this little piggy had roast beef, this little piggy had none, this ltle piggy went wee wee wee all the way home, and this little piggy...

For anyone familiar with the show, there is octopus art on the foot of Wednesday's bed, Pugsley had a pet octopus.

As an aside, does anyone know what the font used in the caption is called?

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[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Matrix by Emigre – definitely not the original font, Matrix wasn’t created until 1986

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 1 points 13 hours ago

Here is the strip from the book Addams Family Album published in 1947.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yup. Specifically, the Matrix II Tall OT Reg font: note the below-the-baseline β”°.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And that very unusual lowercase 'g'. https://www.emigre.com/Fonts/Matrix-II lets you compare them all.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think the OT variants are missing there. The closest, Tall Regular, is not quite the same, the T is prolonged rather than moved. I found Tall OT Reg at https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/matrix-ii#details-section%20matrix-ii-ext-ot-narrow

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

This book was published in 2010, not surprising they used a modern font.

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Thank you for reminding me of The Addams family. There's a lot of gold in there for editing.

[–] SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Gotta admit, this is the first of this series to make me genuinely laugh out loud :-)

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm not familiar with TLP as a children's goodnight tale, I think the Czech version uses peas rather than pigs. What's funny about this variant? Or just the juxtaposition of this being the well-known (not back then) horror family?

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Little_Piggy

  1. This little piggy went to market,
  2. This little piggy stayed home,
  3. This little piggy had roast beef,
  4. This little piggy had none,
  5. This little piggy cried "Wee! Wee! Wee!" all the way home.

The joke here is that Gonez keeps going, suggesting that Wednesday is polydactyl.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 4 points 1 day ago

I completely missed that, thanks for the clarification!

[–] addie@feddit.uk 16 points 1 day ago

Joke is, that he's counted six toes on her foot. Normally TLP stops at the one that went home.

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

How far would this game have went if the text didnt stop there?

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is the wall art a reference to some deep lore, or just random weirdness?

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago

looks like Mark Gruffalo

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago

The creature on the left appears at least similar to the creature toy near the bed. I believe the humanoid is seen in other art elsewhere, but I will not swear to that.