The Addams Family (TV Series)

Addams Cum Laude (1966)

John Astin: Gomez Addams

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• Gomez Addams : Hilliard, old bean, you just sort of dropped out of sight.

  Mr. Hilliard : I certainly tried.

  Gomez Addams : You're the only truant officer our children ever missed.

  Morticia Addams : We did wonder if you were still with the public school system.

  Mr. Hilliard : No, no, that didn't work out, thanks to you.

  Gomez Addams : Our pleasure, old man, and a shrewd move on your part, too.

• Gomez Addams : You do remember our remarkable offspring?

  Mr. Hilliard : Pugsley and Wednesday... names that haunt even my happiest hours.

  Morticia Addams : Dear Mr. Hilliard, what a lovely compliment.

• Gomez Addams : As Old Erasmus Addams said, "You've got to take the bull by the teeth!"

• Pugsley Addams : When my octopus gave the teacher a hug, she got so flustered she rang the fire alarm.

  Morticia Addams : Dear Aristotle, he's such an affectionate creature.

  Gomez Addams : Sometimes I worry about the way he takes up with total strangers.

• Morticia Addams : Darling, why don't you relax. You must be utterly exhausted.

  Gomez Addams : The Chancellor of Adams Hall has little time for creature comforts, my dear. Remember, "Tempus Fungus."

  Morticia Addams : Fugits.

  Gomez Addams : That, too.

• Gomez Addams : Ah, Cousin Itt! And how is our Professor of Speech Therapy?

• Morticia Addams : Why on Earth would the principal scold you?

  Pugsley Addams : Search us. We were just showing the kids how to shoot dynamite caps.

  Gomez Addams : Ah, seems harmless enough. At last they weren't frittering away their time with marbles.

• Morticia Addams : Gomez, how touching, darling. You wanted to buy me Harvard for my birthday.

  Gomez Addams : Well, come to think of it, it is rather a silly gift for a beautiful woman. I should get you Vasser.

• Morticia Addams : Ah, Mr. Hilliard, how nice of you to drop by.

  Mr. Hilliard : Drop by? I was brutally kidnapped by that one-man goon squad!

  Gomez Addams : Same old Hilliard, he can charm the birds out of the trees...