History WesternAnimation / TheAddamsFamily1992

The second animated series based on ''Franchise/TheAddamsFamily'' that was produced by Creator/HannaBarbera, which aired in 1992 on Creator/{{ABC}} in the wake of [[Film/TheAddamsFamily the recent live-action movie]]. It was more similar to the 1960s live-action sitcom, mainly taking place in the Addams' big mansion, and featuring original Gomez Creator/JohnAstin returning to his role. Unlike the 1973 series, this iteration also used the classic theme song. The show was later rerun on Creator/CartoonNetwork and Creator/{{Boomerang}}.

* AnAesop: "Little Big Thing" revolves around Grandma needing glasses and stubbornly refusing to accept them, which leads to her turning Thing into a giant monstrosity that almost wrecks the town when she enlarges him to make reading his palm easier. In the end, Morticia gives her a lecture about how many people, even ''Lurch'', wear glasses (in Lurch's case, they're reading glasses).

[[caption-width-right:350:Just as creepy and kooky, but much more two-dimensional.[[note]]Clockwise from top:Thing,Lurch,Uncle Fester,Granny,Pugsley,Morticia,Wednesday,Gomez and Cousin Itt.]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Just as creepy and kooky, but much more two-dimensional.]]

* AmericanGothicCouple: The ''American Gothic'' painting is spoofed briefly in the episode "Hide and Go Lurch", where one of the first hiding places Gomez and Fester tries while avoiding Lurch is a similar portrait. Gomez is disguised as the daughter while Fester is disguised as the father.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: For some odd reason, Fester refuses to believe in Grandmama's fortunetelling powers despite the supernatural nature of the Addams, and is very vocal about it. The show is ambivalent whether she can tell the future or not, though she has been shown to have other magic abilities.

* EnfantTerrible: A RunningGag of the show is that while Wednesday is well behaved, Pugsly is usually chained up or otherwise restrained during school hours to keep him from wreaking havoc.
* EveryEpisodeEnding: The episodes mostly end with one of the family members announcing a ‘family dance’ to celebrate resolving the problem of the week. One member generally thinks of a song which someone else rejects and then comes up with another one that they all agree on and then they dance.

* FreakyIsCool: N.J. Normanmeyer certainly falls here. Unlike his parents, who despise the Addamses, N.J. thinks the family is pretty cool, enjoys hanging at their house, and is best friends with Wednesday and Pugsley. This seems to go for almost all the children of Happydale, who on several occasions join the Addamses in their antics, especially in a notable episode where Morticia arranges a scavenger hunt in the Addams house. Which, let's be honest, if the implements that can kill, maim, hurt or transform someone are kept out of reach, is the most perfect place for a scavenger hunt, EVER.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: "Happyester Fester" has Norman Normanmeyer trying to steal Fester's latest invention, a miraculous kind of fabric use to make underwear he calls "Happyester." It's only after Norman swindles the design out of Fester and releases Happyester wholesale that everyone discovers the product is also incredibly itchy and shrinks in the wash. The Addams' naturally applaud Fester for not ruining the surprise.
* HypocriticalHumor: In "Happyester Fester", Fingers called Fester "Baldy" even though he is also [[BaldOfEvil bald]]. The same episode has Fester remark how people outside his home are weird, which is rich coming from a guy who likes to blow himself up and is a member of a family that's rather strange themselves.

* IJustWantToBeNormal: In the "Sweetheart of a Brother " episode, when Pugsley wants to become a normal kid after he gets a crush on a foreign exchange student and is afraid she won't like his Addams personality. Not only does she not care about it, as she can tell he's a good person, but becoming normal means Pugsley cant scare away the school bully like he usually does. He only snaps out of it after the bully threatens the girl for standing up against him, and reverts to his usual self to protect her.

** In "The Day Gomez Failed", Norman tricks Gomez into signing over the Addams' property and convince the city to build a freeway on it. Once the construction workers learn the land is too swampy to support a freeway, they instead build the freeway on Norman's property.

* MadBomber: Uncle Fester is a very rare heroic example, as he's mostly interested in blowing up ''himself'' and [[NonFatalExplosion doesn't cause much collateral damage]] in the process. Some episodes even imply ''his body'' is MadeOfExplodium since he can spontaneously explode himself at will.

* OnlySaneMan: N.J. Normanmeyer is the only member of his family who knows the Addams Family are perfectly harmless and nice people. He also repeatedly tells his parents that the Addams' ''love'' all the horrible, twisted things Norman and Normina do to drive them out of town, and it's why they think the Normanmeyers are their good friends.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In "N.J Addams", Morticia realizes Gomez really ''is'' feeling sad when he doesn't respond to her speaking French.

* PreferJailToTheProtagonist: "Hook, Line and Stinkers" has the Spy Twins enduring scores of injuries at the hands of Wednesday, Pugsley and the Addamses' pet alligator Snappy. When Cousin Itt shows up to arrest the twins, they are grateful to be sent to a maximum security prison. Unfortunately for the Spy Twins, Snappy ends up joining them in the armored car that's to transport them to the prison.

** 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".

* SuperheroEpisode: "Festerman" and "Festerman Returns", which follows the fictional adventures of a comic book Fester has made.

* {{Unishment}}: A key example happens where Norman frames Fester for Itt's supposed death. He finds jail delightful and when Itt turns up fine, he even pulls some strings so Fester can stay as long he wants without the need to commit crimes. To add insult to injury, Norman is arrested for making false accusations.

* ShoutOut: The Spy Twins are reminiscent of the spies from ''ComicStrip/SpyVsSpy'', though they're colored like regular humans and don't wear monochrome outfits.

* IWantMyMommy: Norman Normanmeyer makes a comedic cry for "mommy" when Lurch catches him snooping on the Addamses in "FTV". He does it again in "Itt's Over" when he ends up in jail for lying about Uncle Fester killing Cousin Itt.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: "Happyester Fester" has Norman Normanmeyer trying to steal Fester's latest invention, a miraculous kind of fabric use to make underwear he calls "Happyester." It's only after Norman swindles the design out of Fester and releases Happyester wholesale that everyone discovers the product is also incredibly itchy and shrinks in the wash. The Addams' naturally can't applaud Fester for not ruining the surprise.