The Addams Family Season #2

THE ADDAMS FAMILY

SEASON #2

EPISODE #1: MY FAIR COUSIN ITT – Gomez has written a play for Wednesday’s birthday and hires a director in hopes of rekindling his career. After Fester, upset about Cousin Itt got the lead role, locks him in his room in order to play the role himself. Gomez has written a play that s to be presented for Wednesday’s birthday. Morticia has been cast as the female lead while Cousin Itt ha been cast as the lead male role. Soon, a director is hired and Cousin Itt is coached on how to speak slower for his part, but soon the possibility of fortune and fame goes to Cousin Itt’s head and he becomes hard to work with. Gomez has written a play for the Family to celebrate Wednesday’s birthday. Cousin Itt, Fester and Lurch all want to be the hero. Cousin Itt is brilliant as the hero, Claude, much to Fester’s disgust; he wanted the role. Now all they need is a director, so Gomez decides to hire a professional. Erich von Bissell, who wants to rekindle his faded career and thinks the play beneath until Gomez offers $50,000. Meanwhile, Fester locks Itt in a chest so he can play the hero. Fester is in turn locked in the iron maiden by Lurch, who also wants the role. When Itt is freed, von Bissell refuses to work with him, especially when hears Itt’s voice. Offended, Itt hides up the chimney. Morticia coaxes him to come down and works on improving his voice. It slows his speech down to reveal a deep baritone, which von Bissell adores. Itt now gets airs and won’t do a silly amateur play. Morticia is appalled and tries in vain to get the old Itt back. Gomez brings over producer Sam Detrick, who wants Itt to be the star of his next picture, a monster movie. Itt is so incensed that his voice returns to normal.

✰ EPISODE #2: MORTICIA’S ROMANCE PART: PART #1 – It’s Gomez and Morticia’s 13^th wedding anniversary and they tell the children the story of how they got together instead of him marrying her sister Ophelia. Gomez and Morticia’s 13^th wedding anniversary prompts them to tell Pugsley and Wednesday a bedtime story of how they met and fell in love. It seems that Gomez had been arranged to marry Ophelia, Morticia’s sister but he secretly began falling for the more, shy, more quiet, Morticia. On Morticia and Gomez’s thirteenth wedding anniversary, Morticia tells the children a bedtime story of how she and Gomez met. Gomez was supposed to marry her sister, Ophelia (also played by Carolyn Jones).  Gomez was 22 and a hypochondriac, Grandmama invited Ophelia and her mother Mrs. Frump, over. Ophelia is a blonde, sweet good-natured girl with a habit of strewing daisy petals everywhere. Gomez is unimpressed, but when her younger sister Morticia arrives, it’s love at first sight. She has Kitty and Cleo with her. Mrs. Frump insists that Ophelia the older sister, marry first, but Gomez hates her. She’s not only too bright and cheery, but also a judo expert with a penchant for flipping Gomez. Using judo, Ophelia forces Gomez to propose to her. Morticia goes to Gomez, who is playing with his train set and tries to congratulate him. They blow up trains together. Morticia is obviously the one for him. When she speaks French it inflames his blood and Gomez is convinced. But what are they to do about Ophelia? Morticia calls her Uncle Fester, but he’s no help. Gomez tries his Cousin Itt, who’s better. He suggests Gomez shoot himself. Morticia thinks it’s a good idea and aims to join him (A,K.A. Romeo and Juliet). Ting, however, stops them.

✰ EPISODE #3: MORTICIA’S ROMANCE: PART #2 – Gomez and Morticia continue to tell Pugsley and Wednesday the story of how they met and fell in love. As Gomez was arranged to be married to Ophelia, Uncle Fester realizes the best way to get Ophelia out of the picture is to hook her up with another man… Cousin Itt, that way Gomez could be with Morticia. Wednesday and Pugsley refuse to go to sleep until they are told the rest of the story of their parents’ romance. Plans for Gomez and Ophelia’s wedding continue. When Fester arrives, he’s astonished to find that anyone wants to marry Ophelia, but then learns the truth. He decides that the perfect solution is to have Cousin Itt marry Ophelia, so Gomez can have Morticia. Ophelia is a fan of mysteries and no one is more mysterious than Cousin Itt! She’s quite entranced with Itt. Meanwhile Gomez tries to hide in the tunnel under the house. Morticia finds him and forces him to talk to Ophelia. Gomez explains that he can’t marry her and to his surprise Ophelia doesn’t care, she’s smitten with Cousin Itt. Gomez then proposes to Morticia, who accepts. The wedding continues, with a different bride than planned. Ophelia literally throws over Cousin Itt. He’s too much of a playboy for her.

✰ EPISODE #4: MORTICIA MEETS ROYALTY – Princess Millicent von Schlepp and her aide Lady Fingers comes for a visit to the Addams home. Not being able to accept her many demands, she’s moved to a hotel but Thing is depressed after Lady Fingers is fired by Millicent. After returning with her new aide Esmeralda, Millie accuses Thing of stealing her missing bracelets. The Addams family gets a visit from an aunt who is now a princess, Princess Millicent von Schlepp. The entire family soon gets fed up with snobbish ways and her insistence on running the mansion as a castle, with the entire family required to wear costume. The only happy one is Thing who is smitten with the Princess’ handmaiden Lady Fingers. However, soon Thing is down in the dumps when the Princess storms out of the mansion and into a hotel taking Lady Fingers with her. Princess Millicent von Schlepp (who is actually Aunt Millie from Iowa0 arrives for a visit in her sedan chair. She’s a snob, even though her husband squandered all her money on oil stocks, She has a liberal handmaiden, Lady Fingers, a hand that Thing falls desperately in love with. Millicent insists that they spruce up the place and dress accordingly. Fester, the Jester is not amused. They finally can take no more and take her to a hotel. Oil is discovered on her property and she’s rich again. Morticia is relieved that she’s gone and will give no more orders. The Addams Family is a democracy again. Thing is depressed, missing Lady Fingers. Gomez agrees to invite Millicent back, but Millicent has fired Lady Fingers and hired a new maid, Esmeralda, another disembodied hand. Thing goes missing and Millicent discovers one of her bracelets has been stolen. She thinks Thing is guilty, but Gomez proves Esmeralda is thief. Thing returns with Lady Fingers. The two are engaged. Millicent hires her back and Thing promises to wait for Lady Fingers.

✰ EPISODE #5: GOMEZ, THE PEOPLE’S CHOICE – After receiving his new tax bill, Gomez is convinced the Mayor is incompetent and decides to run for the office himself. After a debate it’s Gomez honesty that nearly gets him elected until a technicality has him disqualified. Feeling that their property is worth millions, Gomez and Morticia are insulted by the latest property tax bill that comes in the mail of $8.40. This leads them to contact their local politician, Mayor Henson who misunderstands and offers him a rebate, convincing Gomez and Morticia that he’s incompetent. This leads Morticia to convince Gomez to run for office, however, she soon discovers this may be a mistake, when he becomes obsessed with the campaign. Morticia is insulted by their latest tax bill, which is $84 and complains to the Mayor. Mayor Henson misunderstands and offers them a rebate, convincing Gomez and Morticia that he’s incompetent. Morticia convinces Gomez to run for office, so Fester brings Whizzo, their computer, to the living room to be his “political machine”. Unlike Henson, Gomez won’t lie and cheat and the reporter who interviews him discovers Gomez has odd news, such as aiming to preserve picturesque slums. The Mayor challenges Gomez to a TV debate, which Gomez wants to weasel out of, but then gets utterly preoccupied with. Morticia is distraught because he doesn’t respond to French or “bubela” and tries to get him to quit. When that doesn’t work, she tries to convince people not to vote for Gomez, but her efforts backfire. Gomez is about to be elected, but is disqualified on a technicality which makes everyone happy, especially the Mayor.

✰ EPISODE #6: COUSIN ITT’S PROBLEM – It’s Uncle Fester and his chemistry project to the rescue after Cousin Itt starts losing his hair… and his charmingly good looks. Cousin Itt comes home for a visit and the family surprises him with a pet, a shaggy dog. Later, at a homecoming party, the family discovers Cousin Itt is shedding hair and the family is worried that he’ll also lose his great good looks. This leads Fester to get out his chemistry set to produce a batch of hair-restorer and prevent a disaster. Morticia throws Cousin Itt a welcome home party and buys him a shaggy dog bigger than he is. Itt seems to be shedding hair and the Family is worried that without his hair he’ll be nothing. Itt packs his bags, but Morticia joins him in his bedroom to convince him to stay. Uncle Fester’s new chemistry set arrives and he takes it to his bedroom to produce a batch of hair restorer and prevent a disaster. He brews a concoction that grows hair a on a ball, a banana and Aunt Anemia’s portrait. Gomez puts on his deerstalker and investigates, finding more hair on Thing’s box, the two-headed turtle, a doorknob and even Fester’s pate. Itt realizes he’s not shedding, the dog is. Fester sheds his hair too when his lotion wears off. To soothe him they him Moonbathing.

✰ EPISODE #7: HALLOWEEN, ADDAMS STYLE – Wednesday becomes upset when a neighbor tells her that witches do not exist. The Addams prove they’re real by holding a séance for some of their departed relatives. Meanwhile, they prepare to throw a Halloween bash with some of their bizarre friends. It’s Halloween and despite salamander sandwiches and a fresh porcupine taffy, Wednesday’s upset. A neighbor told her there aren’t any real witches or goblins. Since Morticia and Gomez can’t produce immediate proof to the contrary, they hold a séance to contact their late Aunt Singe, whom they believe was a genuine witch. (She was burned for it, at any rate). They get a quick response via a well-meant deception between Mama and Lurch, but now the family expects a visit from their late, great auntie, a visit that’s surely not to happen. Fortunately, a scavenger hunter dressed as a witch comes to the house and Wednesday’s confidence is restored. Now if the poor, mistaken woman can only get back out again. Halloween has the Addams family preparing for trick or treaters, but Wednesday is down in the dumps when a neighbor tells her that witches do not exist. Wanting to prove the neighbor wrong, Morticia hopes to conjure up one by holding a séance trying to contact Aunt Singe, a family member who had been burned at the stake in Salem. However, Grandmama’s efforts to conjure up a witch may backfire and ruin the family’s favorite holiday. It’s Halloween and The Addams Family are celebrating with some activities. Mr. Thompson, one of the neighbors, shocks Wednesday by telling her that there are no such things as witches. Wednesday returns home in tears and the Family has to rally around to prove that Thompson is wrong and to restore Wednesday’s faith in her favorite holiday. To prove to Wednesday that witches do exist, Morticia and Gomez hold a séance n the playroom in an attempt to summon Great-Great-Great-Aunt Singe. Lunch secretly speaks in falsetto from outside the room, pretending to be Singe and promises to visit Wednesday. Morticia says she can stay in the Guest Room. Gomez is worried Singe won’t appear, so he buys Wednesday a horse for a new pet, just in case. Uncle Fester slides down a fireman’s pole, sees the horse and thinks it’s Aunt Singe. A neighbor, Penelope Sandhurst, dressed as a witch arrives on a scavenger hunt and they all think she is Aunt Singe. When Kitty Kat and Cousin Cackle frighten her, she flies out the window on a broomstick. Gomez gets a new carving knife in the mail and has Morticia sharpen it for them. He then goes to work using Fester as a model to carve a Jack O’ Lantern for Halloween that night. Gomez and Fester begin the festivities by playing Bobbing for Apples on a seesaw. When the doorbell rings, Gomez goes to answer it and Fester wins. He returns to tell Morticia and Fester that the children are practicing their doorbell ringing for their trick-or-treating. Grandmama and Fester are in the kitchen making punch while Lurch uses a guillotine to make sandwiches. Morticia worries that none of the neighbors will come for their party – for the eighth year running – but wants to be ready. Wednesday comes in wearing her ballerina costume and Fester is terrified of her horrifying costume. When the girl breaks into tears, her parents ask what’s wrong and Wednesday tells them that their neighbor Mr. Thompson told her that there’s no such thing as witches. Furious, Gomez calls Thompson but the neighbor assumes that he’s a nutcase. Even Gomez begins to wonder if Thompson is right, but Morticia assures him that witches exist and shows him Aunt Singe’s ashes from when she was burned in Salem. Gomez figures that they have to show Wednesday the truth and checks the classifieds, but no one is listed. It’s too late to place a want ad on short notice, so Morticia proposes that they hold a séance to summon Aunt Singe’s spirit and she’ll tell Wednesday witches really exist. Grandmama, overhearing, pulls Lurch aside and tells him that spirits and witches are too busy on Halloween to show up on short notice. She tells Lurch to pretend to be Aunt Singe during the séance and he reluctantly agrees. That night, Cousin Cackle leaves his cave to attend the séance and everyone gathers around the table except Pugsley, who is still out trick-or-treating. Morticia brews a potion to summon Aunt Singe and everyone joins hands. Lurch goes into the next room and speaks through a tube, using a falsetto pretending that he’s Aunt Singe. Fester is skeptical and Grandmama tells “Aunt Singe” to knock repeatedly and in different patterns to prove that she’s there. A despairing Lurch gives up on that and Wednesday asks Aunt Singe to visit them in person. Realizing he has no choice, Lurch agrees and Gomez congratulates Morticia on the successful séance. Later, Morticia paints a welcome sign and worries to Gomez that Wednesday might still be disappointed. Grandmama, overhearing them, complains to Lurch that Aunt Singe won’t be able to make it and he promised too much. She goes out to see if there are any witches flying around that she can requisition on short notice. As Halloween night draws to a close, Gomez paces nervously and worries that Aunt Singe won’t appear. Morticia suggests that they Wednesday a pet just in case to ease her disappointment and Gomez returns with a horse. He claims that it’s highly intelligent and shows that it can count to zero. Wednesday admits that she would rather have a spider and Fester is glad to take the horse so he has an excuse to horse whip Thompson if things don’t go well. Outside, neighbors Penelope and Henry Sandhurst come down the sidewalk, dressed as a witch and a devil. They’re on a scavenger hunt because Penelope didn’t want to stay at home handing out treats. They split up and Penelope finds herself on the Addams’ doorstep. Lurch assures that she’s a real witch and Grandmama hired her and escorts Penelope in. Gomez and Morticia figure that it’s Aunt Singe and Wednesday comes in with the welcome sign. Penelope realizes that they’ve made a mistake and tries to leave, but the Addams insists that she stay. When Fester and Kitty come in, Penelope faints and Cousin Cackle helpfully tries to wake her up. She sees him and runs out screaming and the Addams figure that she had to rush because she has so many Halloween appointments. Grandmama comes in and tells them that Aunt Singe won’t be coming and is surprised to learn that she was already there just long enough to convince Wednesday that witches exist. Gomez and Fester go back to apple bobbing and the doorbell rings again. Thompson has sent a letter apologizing to Gomez for calling him a nut. He admits that witches do exist because he saw a hideous figure on the roof of their house. The Addams are glad to learn that they have a resident witch, but Grandmama comes down and assures them that she was just on the roof and there aren’t any hideous women there.

✰ EPISODE #8: MORTICIA, THE WRITER – Morticia is appalled after the kids tell her that the books in school portray witches and dragons as evil. After deciding to write her own stories, Gomez gets worried that she has become consumed and is losing her to the writing. Gomez convinces Fester to change the stories before sending them to the publisher, but he instead thinks she is brilliant. Appalled by the children’s school reading assignments, Morticia throws herself into the task of writing proper stories for children, Addams-style of course, but Gomez fears success will take her away. Though it pains him to tamper with obvious masterpieces such as The Good Giant Slays Sir Lancelot, he enlists Uncle Fester’s aid in sabotaging her stories, but to his horror, the tampered tales get published. How can he explain himself to Morticia? Morticia disapproves of the books the children are assigned from school, since they portray giants, goblins and ghouls as the bad guys. She sets up an office in the cave and starts writing better stories such as The Good Giant Slays Sr Lancelot and Cinderella, the Teenage Delinquent, Gomez is worried because she seems so obsessed and is afraid he’ll lose her to her work. She asks him to send her stories to Demon Press because she thinks it sounds perfect for children’s stories. As Gomez is preparing the envelope, Uncle Fester slides down the fireman’s pole. Gomez tells him his objections and Feste suggests he change it to make it unprintable. After he does, though, Boswell, the publisher, arrives, thinking Morticia is a genius. He asks for $5,000 to publish the book, convincing Gomez he’s a con artist. Gomez gives him $10,000 to get rid of him. Morticia returns to work on Goldilocks next; “Trust a blonde to bring on trouble”. Gomez discovers that Boswell was for real and Morticia’s book is selling like crazy, becoming the standard work for schools. When she reads it, though, she’s appalled: The witches are bad and all her other innovations are changed. Gomez confesses what he did an Morticia thinks he was very wise, he’s proved to her that publishers have no idea what good literature is! Morticia is disgusted when she learns that Wednesday and Pugsley have been forced to read at school vilify goblins, giants and witches. Feeling that she could do an even better job, Morticia begins a career at writing children’s stories. She soon devotes all her time to writing leaving Gomez out in the cold, but he quickly comes up with a plan to Sabotage Morticia’s budding career.

✰ EPISODE #9: MORTICIA. THE SCULPTRESS – Morticia takes up sculpting, but after three weeks no one is impressed by her work. So, Gomez hires Sam Picasso to find a buyer for her great artwork. When Morticia declares she’s bored and needs an outlet for her creativity, Gomez suggests several possibilities, including sculpting. This strikes a chord in her and immediately she throws herself into it. The house is soon filled with hug boulders Gomez is purchasing from a quarry. In one scene, he and Fester struggle to move one up the front steps, but Lurch deftly picks it up as if it weighed only a few ounces. Morticia is shown furiously banging away with a hammer and chisel in a montage, finally declaring, supposedly after months of work, that it’s finished. Unfortunately, it pretty much still looks like a big shapeless rock. Gomez has an art dealer appraise the masterpiece, but the man thinks it’s so bad he actually hits it with his cane before storming out. Gomez realizes he’s right, but he’d do anything to keep Morticia happy, so he devises a plan to pay another, more unscrupulous dealer, “The World’s Crummiest”, one Sam Picasso to pretend to like it and purchase it, all with Gomez’s money. This goes off without a problem until Morticia decides to keep the money instead of putting it in the Addams’ family bank account as Gomez thought she would. Instead, she keeps the money ($50,000) for an art school she intends to establish. She also starts work on more statues, which she also sells to Mr. Picasso, each time for more and more (of Gomez’s) money. Eventually, Picasso’s a wealthy, top-hatted success, while Gomez is running out of money so fast, he has to consider liquidating some of his vast world-wide business investments, including the blue-chip top stock of the era, AT&T, to keep up. In desperation, he begs her to give up the sculpting, for which she has neglected Gomez, the house, even sleep itself to pursue, to no avail. But when Wednesday and Pugsley come down from their bedrooms for a midnight snack, things change. Instead of dining on some cold yak meat left in the refrigerator, they make a pan of chocolate fudge. Morticia is horrified that depravity has occurred because of her lack of supervision and decides to hang up her chisel for good. Morticia wants to do something to add to lie artistically, so she decides to take up sculpting. Lurch carries in a huge rock for her and she set to work. Three months later, Fester still isn’t impressed, so Gomez calls in art critic Swain for an informed opinion. He suggests blowing the sculpture up and Gomez has to hide this opinion from Morticia. He decides that the best way out of this is to get someone to buy it and hires Sam Picasso (last seen in episode 14) to do the deed. Sam Picasso and Morticia instead decide to sponsor starving artists. Gomez is driven to distraction (near-bankruptcy) by this, as Morticia neglects everything to concentrate on her work. Then she finds the children making fudge and is horrified. She decides she’s been neglecting them and gives up sculpture. Gomez is more than happy, because he’s been feeling neglected also and Tish promises to make it up to him.

✰ EPISODE #10: GOMEZ, THE RELUCTANT LOVER – The family becomes alarmed when Pugsley seemingly becomes ill, but they soon discover that it is a bad case of puppy love and it is over his teacher, Miss Dunbar. Pugsley decides to write her a love letter and uses an old letter Gomez had written to Morticia, which leads to Miss Dunbar becoming convinced Gomez has fallen for her. Pugsley is all melancholic because he’s in love with his teacher, Miss. Dunbar. Gomez tries to cheer him up by buying him a pneumatic drill, but Pugsley already has one. Pugsley tries to write a love letter, but he can’t get it right, so he copies one of his father’s old ones to his mother. He then sends the love letter to his teacher, Miss Dunbar. She’s horrified and goes to visit Pugsley’s father. Naturally, Gomez knows the letter by heart and she thinks he sent it. The shy and mousey Miss Dunbar is charmed and attracted to Gomez and attacks him. Gomez tries to put her off, without success. Fester sees him in a compromising position with Miss Dunbar and tells him, “I don’t know about you, but I come from a long line of stool-pigeons.” He tells Morticia, who confronts Gomez. Gomez explains that he’s only wooing Miss Dunbar to show her she is an attractive woman and can get a man on her own. He’s afraid to reject her because it might damage her self-esteem. Morticia doesn’t buy it and is about to leave him. Then the Principal, Mr. Jennings, arrives to look for Miss Dunbar and when he sees the new version falls for her. She then rejects a relieved Gomez and everyone is happy again. Pugsley copies an old love letter from Gomez to give to his teacher. But after a visit to the Addams home she is convinced Gomez wrote it and not Pugsley. Pugsley Addams is all melancholic, lying quietly on the bed of nails in the playroom, not eating. When asked why, he sighs because he’s in love with his teacher, Miss Dunbar. Gomez tries to cheer him up by buying him a pneumatic drill, but Pugsley already has one. After she has ticked him in bed for the night, Morticia reenters Pugsley’s room to find him trying to write a love letter. She disapproves of his style and is about to read him one of Gomez’ old letters to her but thinks better of it. She accidentally drops it as she leaves so he copies it. He then sends the love letter to his teacher. Miss Dunbar is horrified and goes to The Addams Family Mansion to discuss it with Pugsley’s father. He dismounts the trampoline and she begins to read it to him. Naturally, Gomez knows the letter by heart and begins to recite it, so she thinks he sent it. The shy and mousey Miss Dunbar is charmed and attracted to Gomez and attacks him. Gomez tries to put her off, without success. Morticia sees but feels for Miss Dunbar and tells Gomez to lead her on. Uncle Fester slides down the fireman’s pole and sees him in a compromising position with Miss Dunbar and tells him, “I don’t know about you, but I come from a long line of stool-pigeons. Morticia!” He tells Morticia, who explains that he’s only wooing Miss Dunbar to show her she is an attractive woman who can get a man of her own. When the action gets too heavy, Morticia doesn’t buy it and is about to leave him. Then the Principal, Mr. Jennings, arrives to look for Miss Dunbar and when he sees the new version falls for her. She then rejects a relieved Gomez and everyone is happy again.

✰ EPISODE #11: FEUD IN THE ADDAMS FAMILY – Abigail Addams has arrived in town to remove Gomez as head of the family fortune. Mrs. Courtney would like to meet her while she is around and encourages her son Robespierre to get to know Wednesday, who she believes is Abigail’s daughter. Wednesday already likes Robespierre and asks for advice in getting his attention. Aunt Abigail Adams is in town (spelled with one D, she is one of the one Ds as Gomez puts it) and Gomez is none too pleased as she wants Gomez removed from the head of the family fortune. Meanwhile, Wednesday has a crush on a young classmate, Robespierre Courtney, whose mother thinks meeting Abigail would put her ahead in social circles and enthusiastically accepts an invitation to tea with the Addams family, unknown to her she will be visiting with the wrong side of the family. Prominent socialite Abigail Addams is in a feud with the Gomez Addams branch of the family and is threatening to sue Gomez for his millions. Meanwhile, little Wednesday has met a boy her age, Robespierre Courtney and wants him to be her boyfriend. The boy’s mother, Mrs. Courtney, a social climber who knows nothing of the Abigail-Gomez feud, thinks that Wednesday is Abigail’s granddaughter and is eager to have tea with the Addams family, expecting to meet Abigail. When the Addams family invites Robespierre and his parents to tea so that Wednesday can play with Robespierre, she eagerly accepts. Each member of the Addams family, in the morning before the scheduled tea with the Courtney’s, takes turns coaching Wednesday in how to catch Robespierre’s heart. Robespierre and his parents arrive and after Wednesday’s startling greeting the two children go off to play while the adult Addams and Courtney’s socialize, with the usual disastrous (for the Courtney’s) results. Gomez’s cousin by marriage, Abigail Adams and the rest of “those Boston one’d’ Adams” want to have Gomez removed as the head of the Family fortune. She is in town to visit her grandchildren. Meanwhile, Mrs. Courtney wants to get to know her and she annoys her husband by encouraging their young son, Robespierre, to get along better with Wednesday, who’s in love with him. Mrs. Courtney thinks Wednesday is Abigail’s granddaughter, so she agrees to visit the Addams for tea. Meanwhile, Wednesday is getting advice from her relatives on how to catch men, along with a rope, a gun and love dust. The Courtney’s are taken aback when they arrive and meet Cousin Itt and Uncle Fester. Robespierre objects to playing in the Cave or the Swamp, but reluctantly agrees to play trains. Fester thinks they’re spies when they mention Abigail’s name and gets obsessed. He breaks their pens, thinking they’re bugged. Gomez helps Courtney to invest and he promptly loses all his money. It finally dawns on Courtney that his wife was completely wrong and they leave, laughing hysterically. In the end, Abigail drops her plans to sue Gomez and returns to Boston.

✰ EPISODE #12: GOMEZ, THE CAT BURGLAR – After reading Robin Hood, Gomez becomes a burglar while sleepwalking and stores the loot in the basement. Gomez is having some sleepwalking issues brought on by Grandmama’s famous yak stew. The house descends into chaos when a connection is made between a recent spat of cat burglaries and Gomez’s nighttime adventures. Morticia goes on the search for a cure before Gomez gets caught and branded as a criminal. After a large meal, Gomez gets a sleepy spell, which leads to a case of sleepwalking, Meanwhile, a rash of burglaries in the neighborhood has the family on the lookout for a cat burglar whom they soon realize is Gomez. It seems that while sleepwalking, Gomez has taken to robbing the neighbors and storing feels sleepy and goes to bed. When Morticia comes in, she discovers that Gomez is fast sleep with a lit cigar in his mouth. She goes to bed but wakes up and finds Gomez fully dressed and sleepwalking. He goes out to the hallway and Morticia knocks the loot in the playroom. After dinner at the Addams’s home, Morticia worries that Gomez ate too much of Grandmama’s yak stew. Gomez at Fester’s door. Fester figures that it’s a nice night for sleepwalking and they agree that Gomez should be fine. The next afternoon, Gomez comes down to the greenhouse as Morticia and Fester feed the plants. He’s surprised to learn that he’s been asleep for eighteen hours and doesn’t remember anything that happened the previous night. The newsboy delivers the paper and Fester reads a story about how there’s a cat burglar in the neighborhood. That night after dinner, Gomez dozes off again and Morticia realizes that he’s eaten too much yak stew again. She worries that her husband will go sleepwalking again and stumble across the cat burglar and Fester agrees to stay awake and on watch all night. He quickly doses off outside the bedroom door and even Grandmama setting his ulster on fire fails to wake him up. Or her pouring water on it to put the fire out. Or Lurch walking by and knocking over the chair. The butler props the sleeping Fester back up in his chair and goes back to bed… and Gomez sleepwalks past. The next afternoon, Morticia is happy that she found in bed with her when she woke up, even though his shoes were covered in mud. Fester dismisses it as Grandmama’s poor housekeeping and finds more newspaper stories about the cat burglar. Gomez comes in and says that he had a dream about walking down the street and through a mud puddle and discovers that his shoes are covered in mud. While Thing cleans his shoes, Gomez assures Morticia that he wasn’t out. Morticia takes Fester to the storeroom, figuring that he dozed off and they’re surprised to discover the room is filled with stolen loot. Morticia and Fester tell Grandmama and Lurch what they’ve discovered and figure that Gomez is the cat burglar. Grandmama remembers that Gomez’s father sleepwalked after eating yak stew and they vow to keep Gomez from eating any more stew. Unfortunately, Gomez comes in and says that he ate the rest of the stew in the refrigerator. Once he goes to the library to play with his trains, Morticia suggests that they use hypnosis to delve into Gomez’s mind and find out why he’s robbing people. Morticia convinces Gomez to listen to her play the snake charmer’s flute and manages to put Fester and Grandmama into a trance. Once they snap out of it, Gomez suggests that he try the same thing with a trumpet and manages to hypnotize himself. Morticia shows him pictures from a book and they all remind him of robbing people. Frustrated, she wonders why everything reminds him of cat burglary and Gomez says that Robin Hood is his idol and takes out a book about the bandit. When Morticia explains to a Fester what she’s learned, Fester wonders why Gomez never gives anything to the poor. They check Gomez’s book and realize that he’s only gotten halfway through it. They hide the book and Morticia starts to give Gomez a command to return the stolen items. However, she says “voila” in French and Gomez comes out of his trance to kiss her and before she can finish her command. Lurch and Fester lock Gomez in the storeroom until Morticia can find some chains. However, they discover that Gomez has escaped through the hidden passage. They wait up for him and Gomez comes back at 3 am with more loot and dumps it on the table. Morticia has Lurch dump water on Gomez’s head, waking him up, and they tell him what he’s been doing. Gomez, shocked, wants to return everything he’s stolen but has no memory of who he took it from. As the family tries to come up with a plan, two police officers pull up outside.