The Addams Family · Tesla Light Show
by Vic Mizzy
Vic Mizzy wrote the theme in 1964: harpsichord, bass clarinet, and two finger snaps that everyone on the street already knows how to do. The show keeps it creepy and kooky in equal parts: the rear and front turn signals trade cues about once a second, working both ends of the car, and it holds one level for all eighty-five seconds. It sits on the darker side, with close to a quarter of the values fading, which suits the mood. Short enough to loop for trick-or-treaters, and friendly enough for the smallest ones in costume.
How this one is choreographed
The lights re-fire about 0.8 times a second, a middle pace that tracks the beat without crowding it. It holds a level: right around 30% of the car stays lit from start to finish, with no single section stealing the show. If you are filming, the fullest ten seconds start at 0:46, when about 36% of the car is lit at once. Most of the work falls on the rear turn signals, re-firing about 1.0 times a second, with the front turn signals answering back at 1.0. About 55% of the re-firing happens at the rear, so the better view is from behind the car. The quietest part of the car is the inner main beams, at about 0.4 re-fires a second. It runs 1:25 and averages 59 of 255 across the light channels, a darker show that spends most of its time well below full, so the hits carry further. About 23% of the light values are partial, toward the top of the range for this catalog, so the show leans on swells and dimming as much as on hits. Once it starts there is no full blackout at all: at least one light is on the whole way through.
Measured from the exported light sequence for this show, not estimated from the song.
Get it for your Tesla
This show downloads for every Tesla: Model 3, Model Y, Model S, Model X, and Cybertruck. Preview it on your model with the View-on picker above, add it to your library, and it re-tailors to your car's lights automatically.
How to play it on your car
- Open the show above and add it to your library (remix it in the builder first if you want).
- Add your own copy of the song: an MP3/WAV you own. We distribute only the light pattern, never audio.
- Export the
.fseqbuilt for your model, then place your song next to it (or let the one-click USB writer do both). - Put both files in a
LightShowfolder on a USB drive. Or skip the manual steps: in Chrome/Edge, click 🔌 Write it to my USB drive for me right after exporting and we do it all, verified byte-for-byte. Then plug in and start it from Toybox → Light Show. Full walkthrough in the setup guide.
Car says Light Show instead of Custom Light Show, or the drive is not detected at all? That is the USB format, the folder name, or filenames that do not match. If it plays but drifts out of time, that is the audio sample rate. Fix both here.
Running this on Halloween night? The Halloween guide covers timing it for trick-or-treaters, keeping the battery happy over a long evening, and what to do about the neighbours. Read the Halloween guide.
