The Addams Family (1991)

Christina Ricci: Wednesday Addams

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• Girl Scout : Is this made from real lemons?

  Wednesday : Yes.

  Girl Scout : I only like all-natural foods and beverages, organically grown, with no preservatives. Are you sure they're real lemons?

  Pugsley : Yes.

  Girl Scout : Well, I'll tell you what. I'll buy a cup if you buy a box of my delicious Girl Scout cookies. Do we have a deal?

  Wednesday : Are they made from real Girl Scouts?

• Wednesday : I'm a homicidal maniac, they look just like everyone else.

• [Wednesday is hooking up an electric chair] 

  Wednesday : Pugsley, sit in the chair.

  Pugsley : Why?

  Wednesday : So we can play a game.

  Pugsley : What game?

  Wednesday : [strapping him in]  It's called, "Is There a God?"

• [about to bury two people] 

  Pugsley : Are they dead?

  Wednesday : Does it matter?

• Morticia : Children, what are you doing?

  Wednesday : I'm going to electrocute him.

  Morticia : But we're late for the charity auction.

  Wednesday : But, Mother...

  Morticia : I said no.

  Pugsley : Pleeaaaase?

  Morticia : Oh, all right.

• Wednesday : May I have the salt?

  Morticia : What do we say?

  Wednesday : [sternly]  Now.

• Margaret : [Questioning the absence of a Halloween costume]  What are you, darling? Where's your costume?

  Wednesday : This is my costume. I'm a homicidal maniac. They look just like everybody else.

• Wednesday : Nobody gets out of the Bermuda Triangle, not even for a vacation. Everyone knows that.

  Dr. Pinderschloss : Oh, my little bundle. So much you don't understand. The human spirit, it is a hard thing to kill.

  Grandmama : Even with a chainsaw.

• [performing abridged "Hamlet" in school play; sword fighting] 

  Wednesday : How all occasions do inform against me and spur my dull revenge. O, from this time forth, my thoughts be bloody or nothing worth. If I must strike you dead, I will.

  Pugsley : [slashes Wednesday's left wrist; blood sprays out]  A hit! A very palpable hit!

  [Wednesday cuts of Pugsley's arm, Pugsley slashes her throat; there is lots of blood spraying everywhere, getting the front rows] 

  Wednesday : O, Proud Death. What feast is toward in thine eternal cell?

  [drops both swords and falls to her knees] 

  Wednesday : Sweet Oblivion, open your arms!

  [choking and gasping for breath, collapses, and dies] 

  Wednesday : [the audience sits aghast in stunned silence, covered with blood while the Addams give a standing ovation] 

  Gomez : Bravo!

  Morticia : Bravo!

  Gomez : Bravo! Bravo!

• Uncle Fester : Haven't you ever slaughtered anyone?

  Wednesday : He's only a child.

  Uncle Fester : No excuse! Aim for a major artery. The jugular.

• [to Pugsley, who is tied up, mumbling urgently around an apple in his mouth] 

  Wednesday : Don't be a baby. I know what I'm doing.

  [she levels a crossbow] 

• [Pugsley is strapped in the electric chair] 

  Wednesday : [Cranking the switches]  It has to warm up.

  Pugsley : Why?

  Wednesday : So it can kill you.

  Pugsley : I knew that.

• [last lines] 

  Uncle Fester : Children, look. Great-Aunt Lavinia! She was beheaded by her own children!

  Wednesday , Pugsley : Yay!

• Uncle Fester : [reading a book]  Look, children. A new chapter.

  Uncle Fester , Wednesday , Pugsley : "Scabs".

• Gomez : [Playing with the train set, ranting about Fester's finger-trap]  "How do you take it off?" That's absurd! That finger-trap was a party favor at his 10th birthday!

  Morticia : [In the room below, Morticia is reading a bedtime story to Wednesday and Pugsley. She looks up at the noise]  Oh, no.

  Pugsley : Father's playing with his trains.

  Gomez : He wore that finger-trap for two years! Mother had to teach him to eat with his feet! And the combination! AND the password! And my cigar! And he slept so well!

  [Thing bangs his fist as Gomez speeds up the trains] 

  Pugsley : He's using the diesel!

  Wednesday : [Looking horrified, as the train approaches a bridge]  The covered bridge!

  Morticia : [Horrified, as the train runs through a ravine]  Dead Man's Curve!

  [Grandmama looks up exasperatedly then continues read Gray's Anatomy. Lurch looks up as he darns his socks. A man on the train looks up as Gomez laughs maniacally] 

  Wednesday : It's all about Uncle Fester, isn't it?

  Morticia : [Looks up as Fester passes through a pipe. Her eyes narrow] 

  [as the trains approach each other] 

  Gomez : Spirits above me... Give me a sign! Shall I be joyous? Or shall I be damned?

  [Trains collide and explode in front of Gomez's face]