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The Worst Episodes of The Addams Family

A satirical inversion of the ideal of the perfect American nuclear family, they are an eccentric wealthy family who delight in everything grotesque and macabre,...

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  1. Background image for The Addams Family Meets a Beatnik
    5.5/10(2 votes)

    #1 - The Addams Family Meets a Beatnik

    S1:E15

    A young biker on the run from his domineering tycoon dad ends up hiding out in the Addams house, and the Addamses couldn't be happier.

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  2. Background image for The Addams Family Meets the Undercover Man
    5.5/10(2 votes)

    #2 - The Addams Family Meets the Undercover Man

    S1:E16

    An undercover operative is convinced that the Addams family are spies.

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  3. Background image for Cousin Itt Visits the Addams Family
    5.5/10(2 votes)

    #3 - Cousin Itt Visits the Addams Family

    S1:E20

    Parks Commissioner Fiske visits the Addams house seeking contributions for expansion of the city zoo. Gomez believes visiting Cousin Itt - all hairy and gibbering four feet tall of him - would be perfect as the zoo's new curator. He has the two meet, but Commissioner Fisk misunderstands the intent and mistakes Itt for a new exotic animal attraction whom he has hauled away in chains when the others aren't looking. When the family finds out what's happened, Uncle Fester is ready to administer retribution the Addams way - with a bullet from behind.

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  4. Background image for The Addams Family in Court
    5.5/10(2 votes)

    #4 - The Addams Family in Court

    S1:E21

    Grandmama is arrested for telling fortunes and soon the whole family is being held in contempt of court.

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  5. Background image for Amnesia in the Addams Family
    5.5/10(2 votes)

    #5 - Amnesia in the Addams Family

    S1:E22

    Gomez suffers from amnesia after being hit in the head with Indian clubs, and his personality changes dramatically.

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  6. Background image for Thing is Missing
    5.5/10(2 votes)

    #6 - Thing is Missing

    S1:E23

    When Thing goes missing, the family discovers he's been "thing-napped."

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  8. Background image for Lurch and His Harpsichord
    5.5/10(2 votes)

    #7 - Lurch and His Harpsichord

    S1:E25

    Lurch feels betrayed when Gomez and Morticia give their antique harpsichord to a museum.

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  9. Background image for Morticia, the Breadwinner
    5.5/10(2 votes)

    #8 - Morticia, the Breadwinner

    S1:E26

    When Morticia believes the family to be bankrupt, she sells her railroad shares to a mystery buyer to raise money.

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  10. Background image for Cousin Itt and the Vocational Counselor
    5.5/10(2 votes)

    #9 - Cousin Itt and the Vocational Counselor

    S1:E32

    Morticia and Gomez call an expert to find Cousin Itt a job after he fails at being a marriage counselor, almost splitting up Gomez and Morticia in the process.

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  11. Background image for Lurch, the Teenage Idol
    5.5/10(2 votes)

    #10 - Lurch, the Teenage Idol

    S1:E33

    Low grunts and grumbles while at the harpsichord constitute Lurch's manner of singing. Gomez has a record company record him and soon the Addams house is surrounded by excited teenyboppers, fawning and fainting over Lurch when he becomes the newest hit sensation. All that blind adoration goes to Lurch's head, and the Addames quickly find they have a self-centered butler who won't "buttle" any longer. Could it be they've created a monster?

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  12. Background image for The Winning of Morticia Addams
    5.5/10(2 votes)

    #11 - The Winning of Morticia Addams

    S1:E34

    Members of the Addams household devise schemes to start a battle between Gomez and Morticia.

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    5.5/10(2 votes)

    #12 - Gomez, the People's Choice

    S2:E5

    Morticia and Gomez visit Mayor Henson to complain that their property tax is ridiculously low. After the Mayor proves his incompetence by offering a refund Gomez is persuaded to become a candidate for the office.

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  14. Background image for Halloween - Addams Style
    5.5/10(2 votes)

    #13 - Halloween - Addams Style

    S2:E7

    Morticia and Gomez can't produce immediate proof to the contrary when the neighbour tells the children there are no witches and goblins.

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  15. Background image for Morticia, the Sculptress
    5.5/10(2 votes)

    #14 - Morticia, the Sculptress

    S2:E9

    Morticia takes up sculpting, and Gomez, wanting her to believe she's good at it, pays an art collector to buy them.

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  16. Background image for Uncle Fester, Tycoon
    5.5/10(2 votes)

    #15 - Uncle Fester, Tycoon

    S2:E16

    Fester takes a correspondence course and boldly storms the gates of the business world. Roy Roberts appears as business executive Thaddeus Logan.

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  17. Background image for Morticia and Gomez vs. Fester and Grandmama
    5.5/10(2 votes)

    #16 - Morticia and Gomez vs. Fester and Grandmama

    S2:E17

    The Addams mansion becomes a battlefield when Gomez and Morticia tell Grandmama and Uncle Fester that they think they are spoiling Pugsley and Wednesday.

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  18. Background image for Fester Goes on a Diet
    5.5/10(2 votes)

    #17 - Fester Goes on a Diet

    S2:E18

    For his impending visit from pen pal Yvette of the Folies Bregeré, Uncle Fester is secretly trying to whip himself into shape, even recruiting guidance from fitness guru Jack LaLanne himself. With all the sudden dieting and exercise going on, Morticia and Gomez know something's up but think Fester's trying to join the space program.

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  19. Background image for The Great Treasure Hunt
    5.5/10(2 votes)

    #18 - The Great Treasure Hunt

    S2:E19

    Discovering a treasure map in the sea chest of Great-Great-Grandfather Peg-Leg Addams the pirate, Gomez and Morticia decide to hire a boat to go look for it.

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  20. Background image for Ophelia Finds Romance
    5.5/10(2 votes)

    #19 - Ophelia Finds Romance

    S2:E20

    Ophelia brings a new beau to show off, but the Addams believe him to be a fraud.

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  21. Background image for Morticia, the Decorator
    5.5/10(2 votes)

    #20 - Morticia, the Decorator

    S2:E23

    To sell the neighboring Addams Family an insurance policy, agent Joe Digby allows Morticia to redecorate his home.

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  22. Background image for Addams Cum Laude
    5.5/10(2 votes)

    #21 - Addams Cum Laude

    S2:E25

    A former truant officer named Sam Hilliard heads a private school where Wednesday and Pugsley are enrolled. When Hilliard breaks under the strain of dealing with the Addams children, Gomez buys the school.

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  23. Background image for Cat Addams
    5.5/10(2 votes)

    #22 - Cat Addams

    S2:E26

    A doctor is summoned to examine Kitty Kat, the ailing lion pet of the Addams Family. Morticia soon decides that it is the cringing doctor who needs help, so human members of the family feign illnesses to build his confidence.

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  24. Background image for Lurch's Grand Romance
    5.5/10(2 votes)

    #23 - Lurch's Grand Romance

    S2:E29

    Morticia's school chum Trivia visits. Lurch is obviously smitten by her, but Trivia's interest is entirely in show business. Moticia decides to change Trivia's mind by making Lurch more exciting than show biz. She enlists others in the family to help, including Grandmama, whose love potion makes the biggest and wildest impact of all.

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  25. Background image for Ophelia's Career
    5.5/10(2 votes)

    #24 - Ophelia's Career

    S2:E30

    Ophelia visits, upset as usual. He latest boyfriend has left her, as usual, and the family tries to find something she's good at.

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  26. Background image for The New Neighbors Meet the Addams Family
    6.0/10(3 votes)

    #25 - The New Neighbors Meet the Addams Family

    S1:E9

    A young couple, simple, naive, and very much in love, move into the house next to the Addams'.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Addams Family Meets a Beatnik" is the worst rated episode of "The Addams Family". It scored 5.5/10 based on 2 votes. Directed by Sidney Lanfield and written by Sloan Nibley, Henry Sharp, it aired on 1/1/1965. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Addams Family Meets the Undercover Man".