The Addams Family (TV Series)

Morticia and Gomez vs. Fester and Grandmama (1966)

Carolyn Jones: Morticia Addams

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Quotes 

• Wednesday Addams : Mother, can we go out and play?

  Morticia Addams : In this weather? With all that blue sky and sunshine?

• Morticia Addams : A happy child is merely an unhappy child who's having fun.

• Morticia Addams : I'm concerned about the children.

  Gomez Addams : I know, but every silver lining has its cloud.

• Gomez Addams : Querida, you're always at your best in a crisis.

  Morticia Addams : And you're so inspiring.

  Gomez Addams : That's what they said about old Ebenezer Addams.

  Morticia Addams : When he led the early settlers across the great plains?

  Gomez Addams : When he sold the first guns to the Indians.

  Morticia Addams : He really was a pioneer.

• Wednesday Addams : My guillotine's busted.

  Inez Thudd : "Broken," not "busted."

  Pugsley Addams : Well, either way, we can't make it work.

  Inez Thudd : You must think positively. Keep repeating firmly to yourself, "My guillotine will work. My guillotine will work. My guillotine will work."

  Gomez Addams : I like her attitude.

  Morticia Addams : She's our kind of people.

• Motel Proprietor : You're the first customers we've had here since you were last here two years ago.

  Morticia Addams : Gomez, darling, look!

  [Morticia picks up a mildewed jeweled hair comb] 

  Gomez Addams : So that's where you left it.

  Motel Proprietor : I'm coming to think there's somthin' wrong with this place. Eh, maybe the location?

  Gomez Addams : Nonsense! The location's ideal. Why, the vinegar works are over there; glue factory's right behind ya.

• Motel Proprietor : Oh, one other little thing - eh, watch out for the badger trap under the bed.

  Morticia Addams : What a divine touch!

• [Hurricane Zsa-Zsa blows into the Addams' neighborhood and everyone runs outside to greet it except for Gomez and Morticia] 

  Gomez Addams : You and I can go up to the attic.

  Morticia Addams : The attic?

  Gomez Addams : I know how sentimental you are about the Last Chance Motel. I tore a big hole in the roof.

  Morticia Addams : Darling.