The Addams Family (TV Series)

Crisis in the Addams Family (1965)

Carolyn Jones: Morticia Addams

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• Morticia Addams : Uncle Fester, I regret to tell you that we're going to have to punish you. You've been spending altogether too much money.

  Gomez Addams : Fester, you won't see another penny of your allowance until 1986.

• Uncle Fester : [back from his first day as an insurance salesman]  I tried. I knocked on every door in my territory. I was dynamic. I was personable, charming, and magnetic but it wasn't any use. Oh, my career is ruined. I'm all washed up.

  [Fester plods off to his room] 

  Gomez Addams : I have a feeling all's not well with Fester.

  Morticia Addams : It's hard to tell. He puts up such a brave front.

• Morticia Addams : [decorating]  There now, Lurch. You see what a bit of poison ivy can do for a canon?

  Lurch : Veeeery cheeeerful.

• [Gomez is out sky diving; Morticia explains] 

  Morticia Addams : You see, he has this theory - I'm not quite sure that I understand it - but he hopes to prove that if a jumper jumps, using a smaller chute each time, eventually he'll need no chute at all.

  Arthur J. Henson : Well, how far along is he?

  Morticia Addams : He said he'd have it figured one, one way or another, by the end of this week.

• Morticia Addams : Darling, I think you made the right decision.

  Gomez Addams : The best since I put Winthrope in charge of Addams Motors. Remember? Took a failing company and in three months ran it into bankruptcy.

  Morticia Addams : [flatteringly]  Dear, you could have done it in one month.

• Morticia Addams : [sniffing delicately at the odor from the just-heard explosion]  Just a pinch more sulphur, children!

• Gomez Addams : Ahoy, my beloved, time for another great moment in Addams history.

  Morticia Addams : Will it take long, darling? I want to have these traps ready by tonight.

  Gomez Addams : Only a moment, cherie, but... what a moment!