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The Rules - Addams Family Style

• "Take your jackets off, or you won't catch a chill" - Morticia to the children (1.01)
• No running in the house allowed without scissors - Morticia to Pugsley (1.01)
• "Look on the dark side" (1.02, 1.05, and 1.46)
• "Patience. Rome wasn't burned in a night" - Morticia to Gomez (1.02)
• "Don't Hurry Home" - Gomez to Wednesday and Pugsley (1.13)
• "Nothing says forever like a hole in the ground." - Gomez (1.17)
• Gomez' secret for a happy marriage: "Never go to bed angry, or on fire." (1.17)
• "Let's go play in traffic." - Wednesday to Pugsley (1.21)
• "Don't forget to unlock the doors" - Gomez to Wednesday and Pugsley (1.22)
• "Come now children, play with your food" - Morticia (1.23)
• "Be sure to over-exert yourself" - Morticia to Fester (1.23)
• "Drive home carelessly" - Wednesday to the audience at the end of her magic show (1.23)
• Regarding the children: "We try to encourage their young minds to wander" - Morticia (1.24)
• "Good women are hard to find - almost as hard as bad women." - Fester (1.24)
• "Bigamy is a game few men can play or win, unless it involves siamese twins" - Gomez (1.24)
• "Of course - cash - the currency of love" - Gomez (1.24)
• "C'mon Pugsley, let's go spend this all in one place" - Wednesday (1.25)
• "A mother knows her son's skull better than anyone." - Mama (1.30)
• "I'll be back after I put on something a little more uncomfortable" - Morticia to Gomez (1.30)
• "Wednesday - middle of the night and no sweater. Good girl." - Morticia (1.33)
• "Keep up the bad behavior." - Morticia to the children (1.35)
• "A shooting star! Make a curse, 'Tish" (1.38)
• "It is wrong to blow things up and engage in unnecessary torture until after chores are done" - Gomez (1.40)
• "A happy child is just an unhappy child whose having fun." - Morticia (1.40)
• "Spoiling the children ... inspires rebellion and disrespect." - Fester (1.40)
• "Don't forget to drive recklessly" - Gomez (1.46)
• "If razor sharp delivery and lightning speed don't work ... cheat!" - Gomez (1.47)
• "Dating is for the vultures." - Fester (1.47)
• "I'll keep my eyes crossed." - Gomez, hoping for good luck (1.48)
• "What did we say to you about shooting your brother out of a cannon?" "Not outside." - Morticia to Wednesday and Wednesday's answer. (1.50)
• "There are plenty of eels in the sea." (1.50)
• "Be it ever so dismal, there's no place like home." - Gomez (1.50)
• "If you're going to lie, you better learn to back it up." - Fester (1.50)
• "I guess we should all just be greatful for the bad times we've had here." - Gomez (1.51)
• "Dynamite is a girls best friend." - Morticia to Fester (1.53)
• "Well, if your going to play fair, why play at all?" - Morticia to Gomez (1.53)
• "It doesn't matter whether you win or lose. It's how many stitches you require." - Fester (1.53)
• "You have to learn to be insensitive to each other's needs." - Fester (1.53)
• "Make yourselves uncomfortable." - Fester to his clients (1.53)
• "Love hurts." - Wednesday to Pugsley as she drops a tree on him. (1.53)
• "Breaking up is even more fun than making up." - Gomez (1.53)
• "Unpleasant dreams", says Gomez to Morticia at bedtime (1.56)
• "If you can't have a senseless bitter feud with family, who can you have it with?" - Gomez (1.58)
• "It's nice having a feud in the house". "Yes, I believe that's why we decided to have kids." - Gomez and Morticia (1.58)
• "Make sure they spoil their appetites" - Gomez to Lurch regarding Wednesday and Pugsley (1.61)
• "Why are men so predictable?" "Because it makes it easier for us to control them" - Wednesday and Morticia (1.62)
• "A woman likes a man who breaks the rules once in a while. After all, isn't that what romance is all about?" - Morticia to King Lester (1.62)
• "If I'm dead, what will I have to live for?" - Gomez (1.65)

Smootchies up the Arm

• French: Gomez first felt it 13 years ago just after they met and before they were married: M:"C'est la vie", G:"That's strange. All of a sudden I feel a peculiar urge coming over me.", M:"Pardonne", G:"Morticia - that's French! Speak some more!", M:"Un, deux, trois, Toulousse la treque, coux de pas" ... followed by smootchies up the arm. And a while later ... M:"C'est marvelleusse", G:"That strange feeling is coming over me again. Morticia, say something in French just one more time.", M:"Pourquoi?", G:"I don't know what I'm doing, but I can't help it. Well I could help it but I don't want to" ... followed by more smootchies. (1.15)

  "Mon cher" leads to a burst of energy in Gomez allowing him to easily defeat cousin Vlad in a duel.(1.01) and "raison d'etre" gives Gomez enough energy to easily escape the Buckled Blazer of Doom (1.54)

  M:"Share", G:"When you say 'Cher', it drives me wild!", M:"No, I think you mean 'Mon Cher'" (1.11).

  M:"Merci", G:"'Tish, that's French! More! More!" M:"Crepes Susette, Comsi Comca, Oui Oui Monsieur", G:"Keep Going! Go on! Go on! ... Go on 'Tish. Say some more - Moulon Rouge - Vive La France" (1.12). M:"As do we darling". G:"Did you say we? Sometime's that's French you know" (1.19). "Enchanter" says Dr. LeBlanc to Morticia. Gomez replies, "It's French, and I don't care who says it", but after awhile: "Will you take it easy with the French? I'm feeling a little conflicted here" (1.19). Gomez can even say a French word himself and be affected: "This barbaric chapeau. Chapeau! That's French" (1.30), or "... rendevous. That's French. And I have nothing to kiss" (1.31). Sometimes, it doesn't have to be French: "'Tish, that's Spanish! Oh well, just as good." (1.24). M:"... status is back to quo", G:"'Tish. Is that French?" M:"No. But I won't tell if you won't." (1.35). Sometimes Gomez stretches it a bit: "I love when you pontificate."-M "'Tish. Was that French?"-G "No."-M (1.42)

  [Aside: "sac du papier" (1.30) is a tribute to the late Dr. Joseph J. Miranne, Jr., Glenn Taranto's college professor who often used to say it.]

  This whole issue of French may be an inherited thing. Long John Addams was affected the same way by Lady Penelope: "A bientot". "Penelope ... That's French" and smootchies up the arm. (1.63) Grandpapa Addams got carried away when he heard French from Morticia and he went on with: "'Tish that's French. Cara Mia - speak some more, soup de jour, la plume de ma tante, crepes suzette, Charles De Gaul." (1.21) Gomez's cousin Ramon Jones is affected by his wife's Italian in almost exactly the same way (1.64).

  However, when Gomez loses his memory, even French has no effect and cannot revive him(1.30).

• Morticia's animal cries: She imitates a wolf and bullfrog (1.06). Her vulture cry gets Gomez to respond with "'Tish - you know just what to do to drive me wild!" (1.09) and (1.36). Her humpback whale call really drives Gomez wild (1.39).

• Other Starters: "'Tish - you know what you do to me when you hold a steering wheel that way" (1.07). "When you pat my cheek that way, it drives me wild" (1.10). "'Tish. You know what the Miranda rights do to me!" (1.13) "Clay drives me wild" (1.18). "You know what you do to me when you steal my marbles" (1.20). "Do you know what you do to me when you chip away at a great big granite slab?" (1.35). "Morticia - I just found out that catnip drives me wild" (1.41).

• The rest of the family is sometimes unappreciative of Gomez and Morticia's wild attraction to each other. "Why can't we have parents who don't like each other - like all our friends." - Wednesday. "Yeah. Some kids get all the breaks." - Pugsley (1.24). "Will you too get a room" implores Fester (1.17), although he often likes to watch (1.65).

What's For Supper?

• Hemlock Pot Pie (1.01), Lizard Pot Pie (1.07), A homemade meal of canned blowfish (1.05), Lizard a L'Orange (1.11), Loch Ness Lasagna - next time leave out the Tofu (1.16), for a barbeque, defrost the Emu ahead of time (1.17), Eel spleen, eel sinue, and tofu (1.18), Red snapper-based bouillabaisse (1.19), Loch Ness lasagne, puree of aardvark, roast yak, and eye of newt (1.23). We're all as healthy as horses. We should be. We eat enough of them (1.27). Mashed yak (1.31), Skull-shaped waffles from their skull-shaped waffle maker - burned to perfection by Mama. (1.32), Hen's brains (1.35), Mama's slug stew - only use fresh slugs, leech pudding and deviled egg along with a vintage hemlock for dinner and toadstools which are particularly toxic at certain times of the year (1.38), Platypus perogies (Lurch's favorite) (1.39), Mama's special slug souffle is loved by the children (1.40), Bat Wing (1.64)
• An eel sandwich makes a nice light snack, or timber wolf for lunch. (1.02). Nothing like radioactive ant legs to really hit the spot. Try them with some chocolate sauce. It really brings out the flavor (1.10). Hyena hearts is a nice dessert. They taste like chicken (1.18). Warm musk ox milk is a good drink to help get to sleep (1.31). For a picnic, try salt, pepper, and ants along with finger food - but noone Thing knows (1.38). Poison apples for the teachers at school (1.35). Grub cakes are a good between-meal snack (1.40). Fresh baked scorpion cookies have to be eaten fast before they lose their sting (1.40). Kimodo puffs to help spoil the children(1.40). Rattlesnake cakes are great when Mama makes them extra crispy to knock in the venom (1.42). How about a chocolate elk shake? (1.42) When you don't have much time to make a good meal, TV dinners will do. Eating them in the elevator will help make you nautious. More cold claw please (1.47).
• On birthdays, birthday cake is in order, with the hope that the all come down with food poisoning together(1.14). Mama's best birthday cake ever was her Arsenic and Old Lace cake for Morticia's surprise party (1.52). For celebrations, a batwing cream pie is just right. (1.32).
• When you want a real feast, such as on Halloween, Mama cooks up a real beast. The decision is whether to kill it before they eat it. Make sure it is done just right, not too tender so that teeth can break on it. Good right to the last bone (1.13). Gourmet food must be prepared correctly. Never cut off all the grissle, never cook it all the way through, and serve the shrimp live (1.50). Leave lots of time to prepare the buffet as you'll have a lot of things to disect for it (1.17). An elegant meal that's Morticia's favorite includes Arachnid Chowder, Chicken Face Melody, and Mousse of Moose (1.35). For the meal to taste just right, add a pinch of Cyanide, a dash of Anthrax, and one drop of Mad Cow Syrum (1.52). When asked to make a very special meal, Mama asked back: "Who died?" (1.58). Pugsley's favorite Christmas song is "Cat Guts Roasting On An Open Fire" (1.28)
• A great refreshment to sell at a refreshment stand is Henbane (1.25); Battery acid is a good drink to help Fester get his power back (1.32); Mama dices her mutant mulch for killing the plants, but the beverage looks so good that Gomez can't resist drinking it. Nasty huge side-effect to it (1.46); Fester thinks Dr. Sterling's hair growth formula shampoo tastes so great, he even tries to recreate it (1.49); Care for a cup of Deadly Night Shade Iced Tea? (1.50); How about an extra large batch of acid punch that's guaranteed to strip the lining from anyone's stomach (1.52); Alligator Aid (1.57); Scalding hot apple spider (1.57)
• Special treats for visitors: Punch with Bat and Lizard Cookies (1.02), Baby Bat Pops and Tea (1.04), Cookies with ants and spiders (1.06), Molatov Cocktails - blue in color (1.06), eel venom on the rocks - a smoking gold-colored drink (1.08), Tea, Lemon, and Sugar (1.08), Mississippi Mud Pie, with real mud (1.11), Cobra Venom on the rocks - don't skip the eyeballs (1.17), Scorpion egg dip - "You haven't lived until you've felt one of these little buggers slithering down your windpipe" (1.17), Fester's favorite: Jurassic chocolate chip cookies (1.23), nothing like the sting of jellyfish ordeurves for that extra punch. It can burn the tastebuds right off your tongue (1.24), To Kill You Sunrises (1.26), a batch of batwing puffs (1.34), Wednesday makes a snack of burnt cookies - as hard as concrete (1.34), a nice cool glass of lizard aid (1.34). Mama baked key slime surprise pie for the McAddamses with a bomb as the surprise(1.58)
• Some of the recipies include: eye of newt, tail of rat, brain of monkey, brain of goat, essense of maggot, dash of paprika (1.01). Bug spray is only supposed to be used for cooking (1.11). Eye of Newt, Brain of Yak, Monosodium Glutamate (1.25). Stricknine is to be used in nice scalding soup (1.39). Eel fin and sea urchin venom can be obtained at the market (1.39). If you put the alligator in the pot when it's still alive, it will stir itself (1.45).

Wednesdayisms

• "When hanging someone by the foot, it is important that their hands not touch the floor. Otherwise they can get splinters." (1.02)
• "Denial sooths the guilty conscience" (1.02)
• "When burying someone alive, it is more humane to do it after they have eaten, so they wont be hungry too." (1.03)
• "Mass destruction is over so quickly, there's no time to enjoy it." (1.05)
• "When burying your spouse, it's best not to use a shallow grave, as the leakage could kill your Geraniums." (1.06)
• "When pushing someone out the window, its best to gag them first so their screams don't disturb the help." (1.07)
• "When throwing someone down the stairs, it's important not to push too hard, otherwise you can pull a muscle." (1.11)
• "There's nothing worse than bad rope." (1.17)
• "When setting Santa's beard on fire, it's best to use a blowtorch. Matches can burn your fingers." (1.28)
• "When firing a crossbow at someone's head, it's best to do it at close range. That way the air can penetrate the cranium smoothly." which was rebutted by Sam Sedgewick with: "Actually, it's best to do it at medium raange. That way the arrow has a better chance of piercing both sides of the bone." (1.34)
• "When drowning someone in freezing water, it's best to tie their hands together with rope. Handcuffs can rust." (1.36)
• "Houseguests should be eaten and not spared." (1.36)
• "When polling prospective voters, always make sure the poll has been sharpened to a very fine point." (1.37)
• "When experimenting with alien technology, one should always make sure to use an expendable guinea pig." (1.38)
• "When smashing a guitar onstage, it is always best to do it over someone's head. Otherwise you might scratch the floor." (1.39)
• "When burying someone alive, it's best to pack the dir nice and tight. Otherwise they won't have trouble breathing." (1.40)
• "When meeting a stranger for the first time, it's best not to expose your fingers, otherwise they might get bitten off." - as explained to a bellhop asking for a tip. (1.50)
• "When being tortured, its best to take a deep breath before screaming. That way your cries will echo much longer." (1.62)

• And a young Morticiaism: "When socializing with others, it's best not to put glass in their iced tea. Cyanide is more effective." (1.15)

• And how about some Gomezisms: "A man who doesn't tell the truth, is like a horse with one leg missing." (1.42) On second thought, forget the Gomezisms.

• And a few Funny Fester Filibusters:
  "Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry."
  "It stinks to be single. It stinks to be single. It stinks to be single."
  "Pocketwatch. Pocketwatch. Pocketwatch."
  "3-D. 3-D. 3-D."

Light Reading

• "Resurrections Made Easy" and "Spellbook for the Living Dead" (1.01)
• Fester's not-so-little "Little Black Book", which includes Anabelle, Agnes, ... Lulu, ... Zelda (1.05)
• In the mail: "Frank's Scalpels and Surgical Supplies" for Wednesday, "Arsenic and Antiques" for Mama, and the "Great Hopes Dating Service" catalog for Fester (1.05)
• Lurch reads his magazine: "Tall, Slim and Grim" (1.09)
• "Bleak House" is a great book for a sunny day. (1.10)
• "Age of Depressionism" (1.11)
• Fester reads the magazine "Psychobabble Today" (1.19)
• Gomez was trying to get help from a copy of "How to Get Out of the Lotus Position Monthly" (1.19)
• "The Hollywood Distorter" (1.20)
• Self improvement books: "The Joy of Narcissism", "Unlocking Your Inner Ego Manic", and "Me, Me, Me" (1.23)
• "Ulysses" by James Joyce is hard to read, especially when one is standing on his head (1.25)
• Great Christmas gifts are available from the Deady-Bower store catalog (1.28)
• "Dis House - 1001 Ways to Renovate" (1.30)
• For children: "Cat in the Vat", for insomniacs: "Hearse and Driver Magazine", and for the plans to build a alarm system: "Popular Surveillance Magazine" (1.31)
• "Head Injuries" is a great book for curing amnesia (1.30)
• As an Interior Decoration phenom, Morticia made the cover of Living and Superior Interiors magazines (1.33)
• "Sculpting for Fun and Profit" (1.35)
• "Sabotage Made Simple", "Great Explotations", or "How To Get More Kick From Your Kickback" are ones that your mayor might be interested in (1.37)
• As a rock star, Lurch made the cover of The Hollywood Retorter: "You Rang. Lurch to Top of Charts", Rolling Groans: "Interview with Lurch, the Man Behind the Groans", and National Inquisitor: "Lurch and Madonna to Wed? New Rock Star Flips for Her" (1.39)
• Bedtime stories need books with real creatures. (1.40)
• An Illustrated History of Witches - From Salem to Sabrina (1.42)
• According to The Joy of Witchcraft, "the longer a spell is in effect, the harder it is to reverse." (1.43)
• Every eccentric millionaire must read the "Ghoul Street Journal" (1.50)
• Morticia enjoys browsing through the "Nieman Carcuss" catalog (1.52)
• Fester has a copy of "Bride and Gloom" magazine (1.53)
• Fester reads the "Torture Times" magazine (1.55)
• "Rosemary's Baby Names". Charles Addams - who would ever name his kid that? (1.57)
• If you become a successful businessman, you can get your picture on the cover of Business Wreck Magazine, like Fester did. (1.59)
• "The Insomniac Field Guide to Bats" (1.61)
• Fester was listed 2nd in the list of Top 10 most electrifying bachelors in America in his "Gentleman's Drawn and Quarterly" magazine. (1.62). Gomez also enjoys the magazine (1.48).
• "The Tale of Long John Addams" - by Long John Addams, as told to Long John Addams, copyright 1699, All Rights Reserved - tells (of all things) the story of Long John Addams. It starts with: "Call me Long John Addams and this is my story." (1.63)
• Fester keeps "Pointless World Records" around for reference. (1.64)
• When the Grim Reapercomes to visit, noone can do without "The Complete Morons Guide to Death". (1.65)

Useful Spells and Potions to Try at Home

• Resurrecting the Dead: "Enoftra Temporey Endomistosey Noris Order Secalorum Viodops Delorum Dupla Du" (1.01)
• Getting rid of the Living Dead (which is much more difficult than the resurrecting): "Omni Quantos Musari Moosto ... Ano Dominey Tempest ... Comey Pigmey Cupid ... Igney Eeenay Ooday" (1.01)
• Love Potion 666 which never fails. One drop is enough to last an eternity. Ingredients include eel oil, lizard spleen, and honey. There is an antidote. (1.05)
• Wednesday's magic words to make Pugsley disappear are: "Abracadabra Yada Yada Yada" (1.23)
• Morticia's request: "I summon the power of my love to bring my Gomez back to me" actually works! It is a force de l'amour. (1.30)
• A potion to cure insomnia includes powdered tarancula and a dash of exploding powder. It works! You'll sleep like the dead. But it could have the side effect of making you sleepwalk (1.31)
• Mama has a good spell to bring up a menacing lightning storm. (1.32)
• Just about as bad as a spell is Mama's perfume: "Au de Formaldehyde" - which is strong enough to knock Lurch out (1.11), or Fester's colognes: Eau de River Raft or Carnage Number 5 for Men, which are two volotile explosives that could be dangerous when mixed together. (1.53). Gomez also uses Carnage Number 5 for Men (1.39). And what woman can resist the stench of Au De River Rat? (1.47)
• Mama mixed up a blue liquid for Fester's cold - supposed to eat right through his sinuses. (1.15)
• "Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble. Tell me the ponies in the daily double." (1.19)
• "As Gomez is suave, as Fester is frightning. To cook up these monsters please bring me some lightning." (1.19)
• "Mama Addams Beauty Cream" makes you look 10 times older and 3 times more haggard (1.25)
• "Bat throats and turtlenecks and a rotton old spleen. Please send us a moon that's a sight to be seen" - can turn the moon green (1.25)
• Mama has a book with a recipe for a "Really Really Strong Truth Serum". (1.26)
• Mama has a very special blend of goose grease, frog's liver oil, and bat's blood that she uses to make her Moon screen MPF 30. (1.32)
• Powdered earthworm can be used to fix an injured hand. (1.32)
• Mama's vote potion could prove to be very useful to politicians. It doesn't taste bad. It's actually kind of minty. But if it's not made just right, it may become a "goat" potion, or a "float" potion. You had better put in just the right amount of Eye of Newt Gingrich. (1.37)
• Mama belongs to the Spell of the Month Club. A particular Bonus Spell used Rhino horn, bat wings, and alligator sweat. (1.43)
• "Rintin toodlum culty rulty roy. Turn this monkey into a boy" can turn a stuffed monkey into a frog. (1.43)
• A happiness potion can keep you grinning from ear to ear. (1.46)
• Mama makes a potion to turn Thing into a hedgehog, but she turns him into a foot instead. "Sorry Thing. It'll wear off in a couple of hours." (1.47)
• "Oh Heaven, Oh Vixen, Oh spirits not nice. I command you deliver the Mad Earl of Vice." ... but Mama gets "mice" instead (1.47)
• It is very hard to make a hate potion. It involves more than 60 ingredients. But when all is said and done, you get Hate Potion #99. Unfortunately, for Mama, instead of making someone alarming, it makes them charming (1.47)
• Mama tries to make a spell for packing. She looks through her spell book: "melting ... milking ... mooing ... Moving!". Ingredients include two emu wings, a peacock beak, a sprig of mint - which she was out of, but said lint would do instead. This spell didn't work as Mama ended up in a box. (1.51)
• Mama trys to help Fester compose a winning poem. She uses a piece of cake, leg of frog, snout of hog, piece of foam for a winning poem. But what she got was a spinning knome. Perhaps if she added toe of tick ... This did manage to get Fester to talk in rhyme. What mama needed to take back his rhyme was a dash of batwing and a little bit of grime. But instead of taking back the rhyme, her magic sent him back in time (1.55)
• Mama's incantation at her seance to try bring back Great Aunt Esther is:

  "Oh great spirits
  We seek one of your number
  Please find great Aunt Esther
  And wake her from her slumber.
  Esther Addams, if you're here
  Make your presence crystal clear. (1.56)

• Mama's freeze spell (a blue liquid) works quite well when thrown in the victim's eyes (1.61)
• Morticia uses crude oil conditioner for her hair. (1.64)
• Mama says there is no spell to free someone from Death's icy grip ... but as soon as you're dead, she can bring you back. (1.65)

Did you Catch These Hidden References?

• Vlad refers to "Dead Man Walking". (1.01)
• Lurch (the good?) looks on as Fester (the bad?) and Mama (the ugly?) in Western garb shoot at dummies with background music that is reminiscent of the movie "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly".
• Officers Pepper (Policewomen with Angie Dickenson) and Fife (Officer Barney Fife from the Andy Griffith Show). Detectives Cannon (from Cannon) and Lacey (Cagney and Lacey). (1.09)
• See Riverdance performed by Fester and Lurch (1.10)
• Lurch is the prince in Cinderella. (1.10)
• Gomez is fencing against no-one (perhaps an invisible man or something.) He says: "My name is Gomez Addams. You made my father laugh. Prepare to die." In the movie "The Princess Bride (1987) there is a man called Inigo Montoya who was fencing against a man with six fingers on his right hand, and he said: "My name is Inigo Montoya . You have killed my father. Prepare to die." - From Lonneke Bakx http://www.geocities.com/bigaddamsfan (1.12)
• Pugsley: "I called that explosion predictable and gratuitous". Wednesday: "Really? I gave it two thumbs up." (like Siskel and Ebert) (1.13). Gomez gives 3 thumbs up to Fester and Wednesday's movie (1.60)
• Max Shatner, the toupee salesmand from "Toupee of the Stars" was obviously a dig into William Shatner of Star Trek who is infamous for his toupee. (1.17)
• This series has everything! Even Fidel Castro! (1.19)
• "I'm James Cameron, King of the World" (1.20)
• From My Fair Lady: "The Dane in Spain is Completely Insane." "I think you've got it."
• Dueling Windows - Dox Quixote (1.21)
• Dr. Cratchet - One Flew Over the CooCoo's Nest. (1.21)
• Mrs. Flanders and her son Bart (the brat). Aren't the Flanders the neighbors of The Simpsons? (1.25)
• Mrs. Dorothy and her dog Toto. Obvious! (1.25)
• Gomez racing in slow motion as in the movie "Chariots of Fire" (1.26)
• Fester playing Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade in the Maltese Falcon (1.26)
• Indiana Jones' boulder (1.27)
• "My name is Addams. Gomez Addams." - Gomez as James Bond (1.28)
• Miss Pippins, the housekeeper. "What a nut" (1.29)
• Three Robert DeNiro films in one episode: "You growling at me?" from Taxi Driver, "Come out, come out, wherever you are" from Cape Fear, and the baseball bat with the kids from The Untouchables (1.30)
• "We can only hope so darling, we can only hope" - Gomez with cigar imitating Groucho Marks. (1.32)
• Gomez does a bit of a Rocky-like celebration while boxing with Fester. (1.33)
• Mrs. Drysdale's name is probably taken from Mr. Drysdale, the banker of Beverly Hillbillies (1.33)
• Sandy Warhole refers to Andy Warhol (1.35)
• Mama and Fester model as the farmer and his wife in the painting "American Gothic" (1.35)
• Cartoon butterflies, bunnies, and birds, including a cartoon bird that lands on Gomez' shoulder is reminiscent of Snow White and Mary Poppins. (1.35)
• Gomez and Fester as 2 cool guys from Saturday Night Live (1.35)
• The big fight in "Rocky", and "I could have been a contender" from "On The Waterfront" (1.37)
• Wednesday and Pugsley wear their Mission Impossible clothes as they spy on the aliens (1.38)
• Horrors!!! The Brady Bunch!? "Marsha Marsha Marsha" says Wednesday to Fester (1.38)
• Jeeves shouts: "I'm coming to get you Wednesday, and your little dog too" (1.39)
• Star Trek: "More Power Fester!" "I'm givin' it all I got Captain" (1.38)
• Hurricane Zorba saw Mr. Bates (Psycho) in a chair, the wicked witch, and a cow fly by as in the Wizard of Oz, as well as a Tidal Wave from Hawaii Five-O. (1.40)
• "Alone again. Naturally" - the song (1.41)
• "Harveyitis", from the Jimmy Stewart movie "Harvey" (1.41)
• Fester and Wednesday do a "Mission Impossible" chase of the cat (1.41)
• Gomez does a Patton scene in front of a giant American Flag (1.42)
• As Gomez swings on a vine, Morticia calls out: "Ooh look out for that ... Wall" as in George of the Jungle. Gomez faintly responds, "Me Gomez. You 'Tish" from Tarzan. (1.43)
• "Who was that Master Warlock?" from the Lone Ranger. "And we never even had a chance to thank him" was Gomez imitating Walter Brennan. (1.43)
• The title, "Saving Private Addams", refers to the movie "Saving Private Ryan" (1.45)
• General MacPatton is a take-off of Generals MacArthur and Patton (1.45). "I shall return", he says.
• National Velour refers to the movie National Velvet, the screen debut of Elizabeth Taylor (1.46)
• "Why its a horse of course", from Mr. Ed (1.46)
• Elsa looks somewhat familiar. Could she be The Bride of Frankenstein? (1.47)
• "Every girl is crazy about a Sharp Dressed Man" - ZZ Top (1.47)
• Everyone knows Elvira. And Tabatha is from Bewitched. They arrive with a Dragnet-like demeanor (1.47)
• Remember that cute song that sort of went: She wore a "Itsy bitsy amber colored woman's bikini with white dots". (1.50)
• Sir Winston Churchill: "We shall defend our home no matter what the cost. We shall fight in the cemetery. We shall fight in the den. We shall fight in the kitchen. We shall never surrender." (1.51)
• Gomez and Fester fight for the right to lick the machette like The Three Stooges. (1.52)
• "Simon. This is Garfunkle." (1.52)
• Let's Make a Deal (1.54)
• "Lurch, play it again", from Casablanca (1.54)
• Wednesday and Pugsley play as Holmes and Watson (1.55)
• "Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters" (1.56)
• "That's no lady. That's my wife" - Henny Youngman (1.56)
• Frankenstein. Star Wars. You couldn't have missed them! (1.57)
• The Beverly Hillbillies - "I was out with cousin Pa, huntin for a toad, when underneath a rock, I find this glimmering gold". "Ya all come an visit now ya hear". "They sold the golden nugget, and moved to Beverly ... Hills. That is amazing." (1.58)
• The movie: Deliverance. Dueling banjo's. Morticia had a banjo sent in "special deliverance". (1.58)
• What commercial does this remind you of: "Nothing says lovin' like something from the coven" (1.58)
• Donald Grump (i.e. Donald Trump) (1.59)
• The rolling menacing ball of Indiana Jones. (1.59)
• FBI Agent Bond (1.59)
• A bit of a cross between "A Tale of Two Cities" and "The Prince and the Pauper" (1.62). During the show, Glenn Taranto was doing his James Mason immitation.
• The drag race just has to be a takeoff of the movie "Grease" (1.64)
• Gilligan's Island - Gomez is delerious and says, "I'm fine skipper. Just tell Mary Ann and Ginger I put the coconuts in the lagoon." (1.64)
• The Carol Burnett Show: "I'm so glad we had this time together" - Gomez (1.65)
• Casablanca: "As appealing as our problems may be, they don't amount to a hill of beans in the balance of the universe" - Gomez (1.65)

Everything Else

• The unique scene changes are pure genius. Look for scenes changing using bats, axes, lightning bolts, cracking glass, blood dripping, guillotine (''Tish - that's French!) falling, and even crashing into the camera cracking the camera lens. Also, sudden mood changes are often highlighted by the background music being interrupted by a scratching of the record.
• All is not constant during the series. Look for changes in the mailbox and the creature in it. There is more than one flavor of the "Beware of Everything" sign. The inside of the front door is considerably different in the 2nd last episode (1.64), and in a running gag, the object that is in the shark's mouth is different every show.
• Fester's bombs, explosives, dynamites, and explosions in general are quite fun. Which show do you think has the most explosions?
• Why is there so much foliage at the front and back of the house, yet the scene-change shots of the house show no foliage whatsoever?