The Addams Family (TV Series)
Ophelia's Career (1966)
Carolyn Jones: Morticia Addams, Ophelia Frump
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Quotes
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Gomez Addams : Ophelia, we found your career! You could be an opera singer!
Ophelia Frump : Me, an opera singer?
Gomez Addams : Oh, you'll have to put on a little weight...
Ophelia Frump : Oh, I will, I will.
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Ophelia Frump : Oh, Uncle Fester, you behold the most wretched of women.
Uncle Fester : Say, you do look better.
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Ophelia Frump : [mixing chemicals, she asks for...] The green bottle.
Uncle Fester : [assisting] The green bottle! Oh, no you don't.
Ophelia Frump : Why not?
Uncle Fester : That's my aftershave lotion.
Ophelia Frump : Uncle Fester, that's sulphuric acid!
Uncle Fester : Yeah, I know. It's real tangy!
Ophelia Frump : [stroking Fester's face] Ahh! There's something about a sulfuric acid man.
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Ophelia Frump : Oh, dear brother-in-law, you behold the most miserable of women.
Gomez Addams : Well, you are that, but what happened?
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Morticia Addams : Darling, perhaps Ophelia should devote herself to art.
[the wildcat clock roars the hour]
Gomez Addams : You may be right. Science doesn't seem to be it. Here it is three o'clock, Ophelia's been up there mixing chemicals for two hours, and nothing.
Morticia Addams : Well, we must be patient with these new scientists. After all, dear, she hasn't the faintest idea of what she's doing.
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Signor Bellini : Stoppa, stoppa, stoppa!
Ophelia Frump : Is something wrong, Signor Bellini?
Signor Bellini : No, except that in-a my twenty years of-a coaching the greats, near greats and even ingrates I have never-a heard such a squaking, a squeeking and screeching from a human-a t'roat!
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Morticia Addams : Ah, the mail's in. Ah, thank you, Thing. Gomez, darling, it's from the Canary Islands.
Gomez Addams : Strange, we don't know any canaries.
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Ophelia Frump : Oh, joy to the world. I've charmed my ma-estro with my simple triple-stop, double vibrato vocal harmonium.
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Gomez Addams : If she cuts out meals and sleep, she can work 25 hours a day.
Morticia Addams : Gomez darling, aren't there only 24 hours in a day?
Gomez Addams : By George, you're right. She'll just have to sing faster.
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Morticia Addams : Darling, I think we should leave the music lovers alone. Lurch will get Ophelia. Lets to got he play room and... read.
Gomez Addams : I've got a better idea: lets go to the play room and play...
[cut to the playroom where Gomez explains to Morticia how to play ice hockey]
