Wednesday's Original Dance Scene Would've Been So Much Worse

It attracted quite a lot of attention upon the series' release, causing an Internet trend of fans copying Wednesday 's moves on TikTok. And there even was a loud minority of complainers, who thought that the dance scene was just too weird.

That scene features Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega ) standing out among her white-clad classmates by wearing a gothic black dress.

Then she refrains from dancing to modern pop songs, but takes to the dance floor when the DJ plays "Goo Goo Muck" by The Cramps, a psychobilly rock song with an eccentricity that matches Wednesday's bizarre dance moves.

Various incarnations of the Addams family on the screen differed on whether the family members failed to notice their own oddness and reactions it caused in normal people, or embraced it, with Wednesday leaning towards the latter, but in any case the whole dance number perfectly fits the character's black sheep nature.

(Whether playing that angle makes sense, given that the series takes place in the Nevermore Academy, a school for outcasts, where everyone is theoretically supposed to be a black sheep, is a different question.)

It takes inspiration from mannerisms of Lisa Loring, who played Wednesday in the 1960s sitcom and from goth kid dances of 1980s (the actress prepared for the scene by watching videos of dances from goth clubs), so, again, it fits the character perfectly.

So you might be surprised to hear that originally the scene was supposed to be much different.

In an interview on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Ortega revealed that the initial idea was to include Wednesday Addams dancing in a flash mob.

But before even picking a song and dance moves, Jenna Ortega and Tim Burton decided against this idea.

That happened because, as Ortega said: "I thought, no, there's no way Wednesday would be cool with dancing and encouraging a bunch of people. So Tim and I – the director Tim Burton, and I talked about it a little bit, and he said "Yeah, let's not do a circle. Let's have it be her own thing.""

But in any case, given how memorable the final scene ended up, this decision was clearly correct.