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* LargeHam: ''Raul Julia.''
-->"I believe they own... A '''''BUICK!!!!'''''"

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* LargeHam: ''Raul "[[StreetFighterTheMovie OF COURSE!]]" Julia.''
-->"I --> '''Gomez''': I believe they own... own -- \\
'''Morticia''': Gomez, no -- !\\
'''Gomez''': --
A '''''BUICK!!!!'''''"


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** Joan Cusack as Debbie Jellinsky, during her more AxCrazy moments, also qualifies.
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** For that matter, Pubert himself. ''The New Addams Family'' attempts to justify this:
--> '''Wednesday:''' There used to be a third one of us, but Pugsley ate it.
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** ''Halloween with the New Addams Family'': The 1977 MadeForTVMovie sees the family coming together again for a Halloween party.
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Awkward sentence phrasing. I catch myself doing it all the time, nothing to be ashamed of. :)


** Radio ads for the musical didn't even have to mention the show's name. All they were were the famous theme song with an announcer saying "They're coming to Broadway" and giving the info to order advanced tickets.

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** Radio ads for the musical didn't even have to mention the show's name. All they were were It consisted of the famous theme song with an announcer saying "They're coming to Broadway" and giving the info to order advanced tickets.
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** Also, the Camp Chippewah counselors, who are also [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Politically Incorrect Villains]] to boot.
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*** One of Debbie's previous identities (as shown by the headshots kept on her wall) is ''Kathie Lee Gifford'' - so perhaps Monday Night Football has a different announcer in the Addams Family universe...
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* ThemeTuneCameo: In the waltz scene from ''Addams Family'', the scene where Wednesday pulls a match from her headband and lights it in Addams Family Values, and in countless portions of ''Addams Family Reunion''.

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* ThemeTuneCameo: In the waltz scene from ''Addams Family'', Family''; the scene where Wednesday pulls a match from her headband and lights it in Addams Family Values, as well as the tango scene; and in countless portions of ''Addams Family Reunion''.
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* [=~Chekhov's Gun~=]: In TheFilm, the books in the library, which have [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Exactly What It Says On The Spine]].

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* [=~Chekhov's Gun~=]: In TheFilm, TheMovie, the books in the library, which have [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Exactly What It Says On The Spine]].



* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the movie, Tully and Margaret Alford's son, who appears in one scene (and in the credits as "Tully Jr.") but despite the fact that his mother [[spoiler:runs off with Cousin Itt]] and that his father [[spoiler:is buried, [[BuriedAlive possibly alive]], in the Addams' graveyard]], he's never spoken of again, not even in TheSequel ''Addams Family Values''.

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the movie, Tully and Margaret Alford's son, who appears in one scene (and in the credits as "Tully Jr.") but despite the fact that his mother [[spoiler:runs off with Cousin Itt]] and that his father [[spoiler:is buried, [[BuriedAlive possibly alive]], in the Addams' graveyard]], he's never spoken of again, not even in TheSequel the {{sequel}} ''Addams Family Values''.
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** This may just be a function of Wednesday being the better combatant between the two; in one episode, she's capable of giving a much-older boy a black eye, possibly ''while his back was turned''.

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-->'''Morticia''' ''(reproachfully, eying the decor)'': Pastels?

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-->'''Morticia''' ''(reproachfully, eying eyeing the decor)'': Pastels?



* FreudWasRight: Charles Addams' original name for "Pugsley" was "Pubert," but the TV network wouldn't allow the name. It was used as the [[ShownTheirWork baby's name]] in the second Addams Family film.
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* LookMaNoPlane: In the climax of ''Addams Family Values'', the baby somehow gets catapulted high enough to come eye-to-eye with a commuter plane. And not just ''any'' commuter plane, but the one that was transporting Wednesday's perfect blonde rival home.

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* LookMaNoPlane: In the climax of ''Addams Family Values'', the baby somehow gets catapulted high enough to come eye-to-eye with a commuter plane. And not just ''any'' commuter plane, but plane...specifically, the one that's currently flying the AlphaBitch and her family home from the disaster that was transporting Wednesday's perfect blonde rival home.summer camp.
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* LookMaNoPlane: In the climax of ''Addams Family Values'', the baby somehow gets catapulted high enough to come eye-to-eye with a commuter plane.

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* LookMaNoPlane: In the climax of ''Addams Family Values'', the baby somehow gets catapulted high enough to come eye-to-eye with a commuter plane. And not just ''any'' commuter plane, but the one that was transporting Wednesday's perfect blonde rival home.
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*** [[FridgeBrilliance It smells/tastes like almonds!]]
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* {{Homage}}: On ''[[{{ptitle17u4r74z}} Histeria!]]''

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* {{Homage}}: On ''[[{{ptitle17u4r74z}} ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Histeria}} Histeria!]]''
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* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Used in the musical to signify that Wednesday's grown up.
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* ThemeTuneCameo: In the waltz scene from ''Addams Family Values'' and in countless portions of ''Addams Family Reunion''.

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* ThemeTuneCameo: In the waltz scene from ''Addams Family'', the scene where Wednesday pulls a match from her headband and lights it in Addams Family Values'' Values, and in countless portions of ''Addams Family Reunion''.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Parodied with the camp counselor's Thanksgiving pageant. Wednesday decides to make it...a little more accurate.

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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Parodied with the camp counselor's Thanksgiving pageant. Wednesday decides to make it...[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome a little more accurate.]]
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* EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: John Zmirak once [[http://www.catholicity.com/commentary/zmirak/08634.html explained his tongue-in-cheek theory]] that the AddamsFamily represent "[A]n [[BlueBlood aristocratic]], trad-Catholic homeschooling family trapped in a sterile Protestant suburb".
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Everyone in Purgatory

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* EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: John Zmirak once [[http://www.catholicity.com/commentary/zmirak/08634.html explained his tongue-in-cheek theory]] that the AddamsFamily represent "[A]n [[BlueBlood aristocratic]], trad-Catholic homeschooling family trapped in a sterile Protestant suburb".

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* A 1992-1995 animated series on {{ABC}} spawned by the success of the 1991 movie.

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* A 1992-1995 animated series on {{ABC}} spawned by the success of the 1991 movie. Notable for John Astin reprising Gomez.



* ''Addams Family Reunion'', sometimes called ''Addams Family 3'', a 1998 direct-to-video PilotMovie for ''The New Addams Family'' with [[{{Splash}} Darryl Hannah]] as Morticia and TimCurry as Gomez. Unrelated to either of the previous films.

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* ''Addams Family Reunion'', sometimes called ''Addams Family 3'', a 1998 direct-to-video PilotMovie for ''The New Addams Family'' with [[{{Splash}} Darryl Hannah]] as Morticia and TimCurry as Gomez. Unrelated to either of the previous films.films, though Carel Struycken (Lurch) and Christopher Hart (Thing) did reprise their roles.


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* RemakeCameo: John Astin as Grandpa Addams, Gomez's grandfather, in ''The New Addams Family''.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous: From ''Values'', after Pubert becomes blonde and rosy cheeked. Grandmama is explaining that this change can become permanent. Of course, this IS the Addams we're talking about, so it's a subversion.
-->'''Grandmama''': We're talking dimples!
-->'''Gomez''': NOT in this house!
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** Margaret Alford from the movies is a sort-of subversion. After leaving her husband for Cousin Itt she becomes noticeably perkier and is rather grateful to join the Addams clan. She doesn't change her wardrobe and is usually seen wearing bright colors like pink, yet the Addams don't mind. She does, however, carry around her new baby in a coffin-shaped carriage, dresses in typical Addams attire (that is, for a funeral) to Fester's wedding, and hires a nanny named "Dementia" who looks like a female version of Fester.
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** In introductng the play, Gary refers to the two factions as white meat and dark meat.


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*** This is remade for the New Addams Family; in addition to the above, Halloween is treated with the same pageantry and levity as Christmas morning.


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* GoodIsNotNice: The most flagrant example being the camp counselors from ''Values'', Gary and Becky. Not for the way they treat Wednesday and Pugsley, but the way they heavily favor the rich, white, blonde kids over the minority campers, even casting them as the "savage" Native Americans in Gary's play. Becky can't even pronounce two of their names, Conseula and Jamal.


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* OedipusComplex: In ''Values'', Gomez pulls out a magazine from Fester's bed, opens to one of the centerfolds, and the two say together "Mom!".
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I didn\'t understand why it was horrifying.

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** How is telling a child that two adults had sex horrifying? It's not like they pulled out some porn magazines. Then again, different people have different views on this.
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Typo.


** If that rule was in play, then the Addams Family would have only child, unless Wednesday and Pugsley are twins.

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** If that rule was in play, then the Addams Family would have only one child, unless Wednesday and Pugsley are twins.
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I thought it made sense.

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** If that rule was in play, then the Addams Family would have only child, unless Wednesday and Pugsley are twins.
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** In the animated series, whenever Morticia says something in a different language, Gomez immediately pops up by her side, exclaims "Tish! That's [insert language]" and attempts to kiss her arm before Morticia tells him now isn't an appropriate time. Gomez even did this when ''Fester'' said something in a different language, at which point he tells Gomez to "do that with your wife".
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Debbie provides a slide show of her life to the Addams before she attempts to electrocute them all. She explains how when she was 9 she wanted a ballerina Barbie, when instead, her parents gave her a Malibu Barbie. [[SelfMadeOrphan She then burned down the house with them in it.]]
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* AscendedExtra: The girl scout from the first movie plays [[TheLibby Amanda]] in the sequel. [[WildMassGuessing It's entirely possible that they're the same character]].

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* AscendedExtra: The girl scout from the first movie plays [[TheLibby [[AlphaBitch Amanda]] in the sequel. [[WildMassGuessing It's entirely possible that they're the same character]].

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