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** Gomez perks up when the super-intendant mentions Hilliard as a "difficult, troublesome man."

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** Gomez perks up when the super-intendant superintendent mentions Hilliard as a "difficult, troublesome man."



* HollywoodVoodoo: When the super-intendant mentions how much trouble Hillaird can be, Gomez recommends his friend [=DuBois=] in Haiti, who could take his picture and make a voodoo doll out of it. Thinking he's joking, she suggests a nice, old-fashioned horse-whipping or dipping him in boiling oil.

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* HollywoodVoodoo: When the super-intendant superintendent mentions how much trouble Hillaird can be, Gomez recommends his friend [=DuBois=] in Haiti, who could take his picture and make a voodoo doll out of it. Thinking he's joking, she suggests a nice, old-fashioned horse-whipping or dipping him in boiling oil.
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* AMFMCharacterization: Lurch plays Music/FryderykChopin's Polonaise No. 6 in A-flat major ("Heroic") on the harpsichord. Morticia taps his head, and he changes to a more upbeat rock tune, only for Gomez to change it back.

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* AMFMCharacterization: Lurch plays Music/FryderykChopin's Polonaise No. 6 in A-flat major ("Heroic") on the harpsichord. Morticia taps his head, and he changes to a more upbeat rock tune, only for Gomez to change it back.
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* TheGhost: Cousin Imar, an Addams relative with three arms who Morticia knits a sweater for.

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* TheGhost: Cousin Imar, an Addams relative with three arms arms, who Morticia knits a sweater for.
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* HollywoodVoodoo: When the super-intendant mentions how much trouble Hillaird can be, Gomez recommends his friend [=DuBois=] in Haiti, who could take his picture and make a voodoo doll out of it. Thinking he's joking, she humors the idea of a nice, old-fashioned horse-whipping or dipping him in boiling oil.

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* HollywoodVoodoo: When the super-intendant mentions how much trouble Hillaird can be, Gomez recommends his friend [=DuBois=] in Haiti, who could take his picture and make a voodoo doll out of it. Thinking he's joking, she humors the idea of suggests a nice, old-fashioned horse-whipping or dipping him in boiling oil.

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** Gomez is opposed to the idea of public school because "why have children just to get rid of them?" When Hilliard brings up that someday Wednesday being able to read would be useful, he remarks "see you then."

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** Gomez is opposed to the idea of public school because "why have children just to get rid of them?" When Mr. Hilliard brings up points out that someday Wednesday being able needs to read would learn to read, Gomez asks what there is for a six-year-old to read.
--->'''Mr. Hilliard:''' But someday she'll
be useful, he remarks "see twenty-six.\\
'''Gomez:''' See
you then."



* NotWhatItLooksLike: When Gomez tries introducing Hilliard to Fester and Grandmama, they happen upon them throwing knives at a statue at a red devil suit. One knife hits the door just a few inches from Hilliard's face and Gomez remarks that they should aim for the heart. Thinking they were trying to throw knives at ''him'', Hilliard runs from the house in terror.

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* NotWhatItLooksLike: When Gomez tries introducing Hilliard to Fester and Grandmama, they happen upon them the latter two throwing knives at a statue at of a red devil suit.devil. One knife hits the door just a few inches from Hilliard's face and Gomez remarks that they should aim for the heart. Thinking they were trying to throw knives at ''him'', Hilliard runs from the house in terror.
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* TooKinkyToTorture: When Morticia notices how tense Hilliard is, Gomez recommends putting him on the rack.

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* TooKinkyToTorture: {{Lampshaded}}. When Morticia notices how tense Hilliard is, Gomez recommends putting him on the rack.

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* TheGhost: Cousin Imar, an Addams relative with three arms who Morticia knits a sweater for.



* TheGhost: Cousin Imar, an Addams relative with three arms who Morticia knits a sweater for.



* NotWhatItLooksLike: When they try introducing Hilliard to Fester and Grandmama, they happen upon them throwing knives at a statue at a red devil suit. One knife hits the door just a few inches from Hilliard's face and Gomez remarks that they should aim for the heart. Thinking they were trying to throw knives at ''him'', Hilliard runs out the the house in terror.

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* NotWhatItLooksLike: When they try Gomez tries introducing Hilliard to Fester and Grandmama, they happen upon them throwing knives at a statue at a red devil suit. One knife hits the door just a few inches from Hilliard's face and Gomez remarks that they should aim for the heart. Thinking they were trying to throw knives at ''him'', Hilliard runs out the from the house in terror.
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* AMFMCharacterization: When Lurch is playing the harpsichord, he is playing an easy-going waltz. Morticia taps his head and he changes to a more upbeat rock music, only for Gomez to change it back.

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* AMFMCharacterization: When Lurch is playing plays Music/FryderykChopin's Polonaise No. 6 in A-flat major ("Heroic") on the harpsichord, he is playing an easy-going waltz. harpsichord. Morticia taps his head head, and he changes to a more upbeat rock music, tune, only for Gomez to change it back.



---> '''Gomez''': A little nip now and then, but it's all in good fun.

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---> '''Gomez''': --->'''Gomez:''' A little nip now and then, but it's all in good fun.



* TheGhost: Cousin Imar, an Addams relative with three arms that Morticia knits a sweater for.

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* TheGhost: Cousin Imar, an Addams relative with three arms that who Morticia knits a sweater for.



* TooKinkyToTorture: When Morticia notices how tense Hilliard is, Gomez recommends putting him on a rack.
--> '''Gomez''': That stretching, so relaxing.

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* TooKinkyToTorture: When Morticia notices how tense Hilliard is, Gomez recommends putting him on a the rack.
--> '''Gomez''': -->'''Gomez:''' That stretching, so relaxing.
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When Gomez and Morticia keep Wednesday and Pugsley home from school, truant officer Sam Hilliard pays a visit. After Gomez and Morticia are persuaded to let the kids go to school, they take action after a fairy tale book that depicts a violent action where a knight slaying a dragon saddens Wednesday.

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When Gomez and Morticia keep Wednesday and Pugsley home from school, truant officer Sam Hilliard pays a visit. After Gomez and Morticia are persuaded to let the kids go to school, they take action after Wednesday is reduced to tears by a fairy tale book that depicts a violent action where about a knight slaying a dragon saddens Wednesday.dragon.
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* BaitAndSwitch: When Morticia shoes a turtle-neck sweater she knitted for their Cousin Imar to Gomez, it feature three sleeves. Gomez finds it odd... that Imar likes turtleneck sweaters.

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* BaitAndSwitch: When Morticia shoes shows a turtle-neck sweater she knitted for their Cousin Imar to Gomez, it feature features three sleeves. Gomez finds it odd... that Imar likes turtleneck sweaters.
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* CensorshipBySpelling: The school receptionist tells Gomsz she suspects Hilliard's strange behavior is because he's drunk, but tries to censor it because Wednesday is there. Unfortunately for her, the six-year-old knows ''exactly'' what "B-O-O-Z-E" spells.

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* CensorshipBySpelling: The school receptionist tells Gomsz Gomez she suspects Hilliard's strange behavior is because he's drunk, but tries to censor it because Wednesday is there. Unfortunately for her, the six-year-old knows ''exactly'' what "B-O-O-Z-E" spells.
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* CensorshipBySpelling: The school receptionist tells Gomsz she suspects Hilliard's strange behavior is because he's drunk, but tries to censor it because Wednesday is there. Unfortunately for her, the six-year-old knows ''exactly'' what "B-O-O-Z-E" spells.

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** When the school calls and tells the Addamses that they'll be changing the curriculum like they wanted, Gomez thinks that Hilliard had a point and that they may have saved the world. Morticia wonders if they did the right thing because of it and Gomez's face hints that he isn't sure.



** When the school calls and tells the Addamses that they'll be changing the curriculum like they wanted, Gomez thinks that Hilliard had a point and that they may have saved the world. Morticia wonders if they did the right thing because of it and Gomez's face hints that he isn't sure.

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* AMFMCharacterization: When Lurch is playing the harpsichord, he is playing an easy-going waltz. Morticia taps his head and he changes to a more upbeat rocking music, only for Gomez to change it back.
* AppropriateAnimalAttire: One of the paintings in the Addam's living room is a non-anthropomorphic giraffe dressed in a suit and frill-collar. Wednesday says that it is a portrait of a friend of Gomez's.
* BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: Gomez perks up when the super-intendant mentions Hilliard as a "difficult, troublesome man."

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* AMFMCharacterization: When Lurch is playing the harpsichord, he is playing an easy-going waltz. Morticia taps his head and he changes to a more upbeat rocking rock music, only for Gomez to change it back.
* AppropriateAnimalAttire: One of the paintings in the Addam's Addams's living room is a non-anthropomorphic giraffe dressed in a suit and frill-collar. Wednesday says that it is a portrait of a friend of Gomez's.
* BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad:
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Gomez perks up when the super-intendant mentions Hilliard as a "difficult, troublesome man.""
** When Fester and Grandmama are playing cards, she admonishes him for not cheating.


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** When the school calls and tells the Addamses that they'll be changing the curriculum like they wanted, Gomez thinks that Hilliard had a point and that they may have saved the world. Morticia wonders if they did the right thing because of it and Gomez's face hints that he isn't sure.
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When Gomez and Morticia keep Wednesday and Pugsley home from school, truant officer Sam Hilliard pays a visit. After Gomez and Morticia are persuaded to let the kids go to school, they take action after a fairy tale book that depicts a violent action where a knight slaying a dragon saddens Wednesday.
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!!This episode includes examples of the following tropes:
* AMFMCharacterization: When Lurch is playing the harpsichord, he is playing an easy-going waltz. Morticia taps his head and he changes to a more upbeat rocking music, only for Gomez to change it back.
* AppropriateAnimalAttire: One of the paintings in the Addam's living room is a non-anthropomorphic giraffe dressed in a suit and frill-collar. Wednesday says that it is a portrait of a friend of Gomez's.
* BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: Gomez perks up when the super-intendant mentions Hilliard as a "difficult, troublesome man."
* BaitAndSwitch: When Morticia shoes a turtle-neck sweater she knitted for their Cousin Imar to Gomez, it feature three sleeves. Gomez finds it odd... that Imar likes turtleneck sweaters.
* TheCameo: Madge Blake guest-stars as the principal Miss Comstock, Nydia Westman as Miss Morrison, and Rolfe Sedan as the postman.
* CassandraTruth: When Mr. Hilliard tries to explain his experience with the Addamses, being stressed and hysterical by the experience, the Board thinks that he's drunk.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint:
** Gomez is opposed to the idea of public school because "why have children just to get rid of them?" When Hilliard brings up that someday Wednesday being able to read would be useful, he remarks "see you then."
** When Hilliard brings up concerns about Pugsley being bitten by a live octopus that he wrestles with, Gomez assures him that Pugsley doesn't bite.
---> '''Gomez''': A little nip now and then, but it's all in good fun.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Gomez is perplexed what the point of going to public school would be when they feel like Grandmama is enough. He's later proven right (from their perspective anyway) when he hears the kind of fairy-tales the class is reading (the ones where the dragons and witches are slain) and cries moral outrage over it.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Somehow Pugsley got behind the wheel of the bus on the way back from school, the sound of wheels screeching outside a sign that they're home.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Gomez is introduced playing with his train set, taking absurd glee out of blowing it up and acting cordial with Hilliard despite their inability to find common ground in their train of logic, showing that Gomez is a kid at heart (in a PerkyGoth kind of way) who doesn't think the same way as other men.
* EstablishingSeriesMoment: The first half of the episode features Mr. Hilliard visiting the Addams Estate for business purposes where he acts as an AudienceSurrogate, reacting to the home's many peculiar features and the family's even more peculiar behavior, running in terror while the family thinks of it as a normal reaction. A second one qualifies when a distraught Wednesday comes home from her first day, upset that in a story a dragon was slain by a knight, a sentiment the rest of the family shares.
* ExpertInUnderwaterBasketWeaving: Gomez makes a case that homeschooling works just fine when he shows Hilliard a box full of spiders that Wednesday learned to breed herself.
* FailedDramaticExit: After explaining his harrowing experience in the Addams House, Hilliard tries leaving in a huff, only to accidentally go into a closet instead.
* GiftedlyBad: Implied to be with Fester and dart-playing, Grandmama standing right in front of him when it's his turn because "it's the only safe place."
* TheGhost: Cousin Imar, an Addams relative with three arms that Morticia knits a sweater for.
* HollywoodVoodoo: When the super-intendant mentions how much trouble Hillaird can be, Gomez recommends his friend [=DuBois=] in Haiti, who could take his picture and make a voodoo doll out of it. Thinking he's joking, she humors the idea of a nice, old-fashioned horse-whipping or dipping him in boiling oil.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: When they try introducing Hilliard to Fester and Grandmama, they happen upon them throwing knives at a statue at a red devil suit. One knife hits the door just a few inches from Hilliard's face and Gomez remarks that they should aim for the heart. Thinking they were trying to throw knives at ''him'', Hilliard runs out the the house in terror.
* TooKinkyToTorture: When Morticia notices how tense Hilliard is, Gomez recommends putting him on a rack.
--> '''Gomez''': That stretching, so relaxing.
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