Funny / The Addams Family (1992)

• The normally happy-go-lucky Gomez goes absolutely ballistic in the episode "Double O Honeymoon", when the villain Ian Thundermane and his cohorts keep flirting with Morticia, right in front of him at that. Morticia acts the same way to (right down to the arm kissing) Gomez after he shows his beastial side.
• Another funny moment from this version came in the episode Happyester Fester. Uncle Fester is established as a genius inventor, but apparently he doesn't know how to spell his own name.
  Uncle Fester: (is signing a contract) How many L's in Fester?
  Norman Normanmeyer: As many as you want!
  • From the same episode, Granny breaking out her volumes of The Art Of Channeling Mimes.
    Granny: I can feel the mimes speaking through me!
    (A little later when Gomez is offering to help Fester promote his new clothing brand)
    Fester: Oh don't worry about me. I'm enjoying Granny's mime act.
• During the Halloween Episode, the kids run into Cousin Itt and his girlfriend at the golf course. Itt explains he's there to show his girlfriend how he gets struck by lightning. One lightning bolt later, and Itt's girlfriend is all over him.
• The numerous Noodle Implement factors to the Addams Family traditional dances: here is a full list in episodic order:
  • Fester, it's miles to the airport!
  • On a Friday?
  • No way, Gomez, this isn't a wedding!
  • Nah, we did that last year!
  • But Fester, you've never run for congress!
  • Nah, she's (the mayor) too tall.
  • No, forget it, Gomez, I just clipped my toenails.
  • But Fester, it's not Broccoli Season.
  • Come on Gomez, you can't do that without holding a corn dog.
  • Nah, we're out of salad dressing.
  • But you haven't bought a used car in years, Fester!
  • But Fester, you haven't built a picnic table in years!
• A second running gag in Gomez being utterly turned on whenever Morticia speaks in a foreign language and attempting to kiss her hand. He once couldn't decide between which hand to kiss, and he even did it with Fester once in "Itt's Over". Thankfully, Fester told him to knock it off.
  Gomez: Fester! That's French...
  Fester: GET AWAY FROM ME!! Go talk to your wife!
  • One time it was Gomez himself that speaks French, and is about to kiss his own hand when he thinks better of it.
• Norman Normanmeyer's song number "King Of the Polycotton Blues", a blues song about how much he wants to get rid of the Addams, with his son Junior pointing out why his different ideas wont work, because the Addams are Too Kinky to Torture.
  • Another great song number is "The Fester Way", where Uncle Fester sings about his approach to life. At one point he even dresses up as Michael Jackson.
    Fester: I got your Thriller right here!
• The "Festerman" episodes, which revolve around a comic book Uncle Fester has been trying to get published (with no success), and stars a superhero version of himself.
• Three Words: Wednesday. Addams. Breakdancing.
• How does Morticia win her joust against Gomez? Two words: En garde.
• After Pugsley's Darkhorse Victory in the joust, Fester declares that this years fireworks will be dedicated to him, the centerpiece being Fester himself blowing up.
• After Lurch beats Fester in their joust, Fester is disappointed about his vehicle not exploding, but then it does just that, to his satisfaction.
• "Hide And Go Lurch"
  • The episode, which revolves around The Hiding Horn, which you blow before a game of hide n' seek, has Lurch prove to be damn near unbeatable as the searcher, and Gomez and Fester try to think of a good place to hide.
    Fester: I swear, that guy has eyes in the back of his head! Or was that cousin Flouey?
    Gomez: No, he had ears on his ankles...
    Fester: Oh right, it must've been tough finding shoes that fit...
  • Fester and Gomez even try hiding on the moon! For all the good it does them...
    Lurch: (floats by the moon in a space suit, holding a sign that says Uhhhhh!)
  • With only seconds left, Fester resorts to a last-ditch desperation move; dropping a giant anvil on top of himself and Gomez. It seemingly works, as Lurch can't find them before the clock runs out... except after some initial triumph, Fester and Gomez now feel miserable that their continued failures won't bring them shame anymore.
  • After some prodding from Wednesday, Lurch admits that he let Fester and Gomez win, which reinvigorates the two - because now it's time to blow the Searching Horn, where they get to look for Lurch. They blow the horn... and Lurch is suddenly nowhere to be found. The two rushes off to look for him, leaving Wednesday and Pugsley alone.
  Wednesday: Oh well, let's go, Pugsley!
  Lurch: *dressed as Pugsley* Uhhhhhhh... No comment....
• The Spy Twins and their need to speak (and even laugh) in alternating words. One instance from "Beware of Thing", as he sends them to the tentacled creature beneath a trapdoor:
  Ooh!/Ow!/That's/my/spleen/you're/squeezing!
• Granny's cheerleading rap about how great she is at tracing ancestries, and Wednesday and Lurch's reaction in response to it in "No Ifs, Ands or Butlers".
  • Later in the same episode, when Lurch is about to become a cowboy and is saying goodbye to the family there's this exchange:
    Morticia: Au revoir, Lurch.
    Gomez: Tish, that's French!
    Morticia: Darling, Lurch and I are sharing a tender moment.
    Gomez: (looks up at Lurch, then back to Morticia): Whoops. Carry on, dear. (runs off)
  • There's also where the ranch owner tries to undermine Lurch's chances for one-upping him, but Lurch wins every challenge offered.
• The montage of Wednesday and Lurch's playtime activities when he tries to be a substitute doll in "Little Doll Lost".
• In "Girlfriendstein", after the Addamses find out that Lurch's girlfriend dumped him, this exchange occurs as they try to figure out how to replace her:
  Gomez: Maybe we could arrange a meeting with Aunt Ben.
  Morticia: But Aunt Ben is a man... I think.
  • In that same episode, Wednesday and Pugsley come to see if Fester is finished making the robot girlfriend for Lurch, and find what Fester what making was a monkey-hair hoagie. He then tells the kids the robot is already finished.
  • Earlier in the episode, there's this exchange:
    Fester: (hears Lurch moaning): What happened? Did the new cow get out of my bedroom? (A miserable Lurch walks through the gazebo wall and falls into the ground.)
    Fester: (frantically) Lurch! Ol' buddy, ol' pal, speak to me! Are you hurt? Any bones broken? (calmly) You gonna eat that earthworm?
• The montage of the various ways Lurch and Thing try to help Morticia with her artwork in "Art to Art". There's also the end where Thing and Lurch are hiding from Morticia on the roof.

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