Spoiler alert: This article contains spoilers for Episode 7 of Wednesday.
It's comical that a silent, sentient severed appendage is one of the most beloved members of the eerie and eccentric Addams Family. For those who are lost, we're talking about the lovable Thing T. Thing. The handy helper crawls around on his (or its?) five stitched-up fingers, assisting the Addams Family in the 1990s films as well as in Netflix's deadpan comedy series Wednesday.
Does Thing die in 'Wednesday'?
Episode 7 sees the arrival of Uncle Fester (Fred Armisen), who's just as shocked as Wednesday to learn that Thing has been stabbed in the palm.
Wednesday returns from a not-date (which is totally a romantic date) with Tyler (Hunter Doohan) to find that her dorm room has mysteriously been defaced and poor Thing has been pinned to a wall, his goopy blood dripping onto the floor.
Wednesday immediately pulls the knife from Thing's wound (which we all know not to do in real-life), rushing him to Uncle Fester. Her kooky uncle uses his cryptic electric abilities to perform defibrillation, so to speak, on Thing, repeatedly shocking his lifeless "body."
After Uncle Fester declares Thing dead, Wednesday — with tears in her eyes — begs him to try one more time. After a few seconds, Thing finally wiggles his fingers.
"For a minute we thought you picked your last lock, buddy!" Uncle Fester exclaims.