Uncle Fester is one of the main characters from The Addams Family. The uncle of the Addams' children. He is incorrigible and, except for the good nature of the family and the ignorance of the police, would ordinarily be under lock and key. His eyes are pig-like and deeply embedded. He likes to fish with dynamite and hunt with falcons. He is fat with pudgy little hands and feet.
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Uncle Fester is a completely hairless, hunched, and barrel-shaped man with dark, sunken eyes and often a deranged smile. He always wears a heavy, full-length fur coat. Fester was derived from a character drawn by cartoonist Charles Addams, although these were single-page cartoons, with no stories or character names. Nevertheless, the character is recognizable in a number of cartoons, both by his appearance (bald, stooping, sunken eyes) and behavior (e.g. turning the shower into a special "scalding" setting, feeding his garden plants blood plasma, and releasing an eagle on the neighbor's homing pigeons). While he is occasionally seen with the rest of the family, particularly on anthology covers, he is also seen on his own more often than the others. Fester also has a strange ability to generate electricity. In the original sitcom of the 1960s, Fester is said to be Morticia's maternal uncle (his name rhymes with Morticia's mother Hester's), but from the 1970s onward, he is Gomez's brother; they are very close, though he admits to sometimes “despising” Gomez and is sometimes jealous of his relationship with Morticia, often trying to find love to chaotic consequences. In all adaptations, he is either uncle or great-uncle to Wednesday and Pugsley.