The WORST episodes of The Addams Family
Every episode of The Addams Family ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. 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, and are never really aware that people find them bizarre or frightening. In fact, they themselves are often terrified by "normal" people. Based on the creation of the American cartoonist Charles Addams' New Yorker single panel comics of the same name.
#1 - Ophelia's Career
Season 2 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/8/1966
Ophelia arrives in tears as usual, as she's been jilted again. Morticia thinks she should take up a career to distract her from her bad track record with men.
#2 - Art and the Addams Family
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/18/1964
Morticia has taken up painting and Gomez has art critic Bosley Swain evaluate her.
#3 - Mother Lurch Visits the Addams Family
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/15/1965
Lurch's mother is coming to visit, and he confesses that she doesn't know he's just the servant.
#4 - Crisis in the Addams Family
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/12/1965
Fester's in trouble for breaking the water mains for the fourth time in a row. Their insurance policy pays for the repair, but is canceled afterward.
#5 - Morticia's Favorite Charity
Season 1 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/16/1965
There's a local charity auction being run by Mr Henson, and the Addams Family hears about it. He doesn't want their help, but they insist on donating items to it after Morticia complains that the attic is too full and needs cleaning out.
#6 - My Fair Cousin Itt
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1965
Gomez has written a play for the Family to celebrate Wednesday's birthday.
#7 - Gomez, the People's Choice
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/1965
Gomez is insulted by his latest tax bill, which is only $84, and complains to Mayor Henson, who misunderstands and offers him a rebate, convincing Gomez and Morticia that he's incompetent.
#8 - Cousin Itt's Problem
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/22/1965
Cousin Itt is shedding hair, and the family is worried that he'll lose his great good looks along with his hair. Fester gets out his chemistry set to produce a batch of hair restorer and prevent a disaster.
#9 - Halloween... Addams Style
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/29/1965
It's Halloween and, despite salamander sandwiches and a fresh porcupine taffy, Wednesday's upset.
#10 - Morticia, the Writer
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/5/1965
Morticia disapproves of the books the children are assigned from school, since they portray giants, goblins, and ghouls, as the bad guys.
#11 - Morticia, the Sculptress
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/12/1965
Morticia wants to do something to add to life artisticaily, so she decides to take up sculpting.
#12 - Gomez, the Reluctant Lover
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/19/1965
Pugsley is all melancholic because he's in love with his teacher, Miss Dunbar.
#13 - Feud in the Addams Family
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/26/1965
Prominent Boston socialite Abigail Addams (cousin by marriage) is in a feud with the Gomez Addams branch of the family, and is threatening to sue Gomez for his millions.
#14 - Gomez, the Cat Burglar
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/3/1965
Gomez sleepwalks thanks to Grandmama's Yak stew, while news of a cat burglar on the loose sets Morticia on the path to finding a cure.
#15 - Portrait of Gomez
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/10/1965
Strife magazine calls to tell Gomez that they're sending a photographer round, and he thinks he's been chosen their Man of the Year.
#16 - Christmas with the Addams Family
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/24/1965
Uncle Fester is chosen to slide down the chimney dressed as Santa Claus to prove the existence of St. Nick to the children. Fester gets stuck in the chimney, so Gomez, Lurch, Cousin Itt, and even Morticia and Grandmama each don a red suit and appear to the children.
#17 - Lurch's Grand Romance
Season 2 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/1/1966
Morticia's old school chum Tiny Trivia arrives for a visit. She's into show-biz and very theatrical. Lurch fails for her, but she has no time for him.
#18 - The Addams Policy
Season 2 - Episode 28 - Aired 3/25/1966
Morticia has a new flame thrower, which Fester tests, setting their polar bear on fire. They make a claim to their insurance company, infuriating Mr. Henson, the manager, because his clerk, Joe Digby, had forgotten to cancel the Family's coverage.
#19 - Lurch's Little Helper
Season 2 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/18/1966
Morticia is afraid that they are overworking Lurch, so Gomez builds him a robot assistant.
#20 - Cat Addams
Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/11/1966
Kitty Cat seems to have a loss of appetite. At first, they suspect that he's just lonely, and try to find him a wife. However, Cousin Itt tells them that Kitty Cat may just have a cold.
#21 - Addams Cum Laude
Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/4/1966
The school principal threatens to expel the children after they've been playing with dynamite caps.
#22 - Ophelia Visits Morticia
Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 2/25/1966
Ophelia is still having problems getting a man. As Gomez observes: 'In the school of romance, I'm afraid she's just a drop-out'. Ophelia's latest beau, Montrose, has left her (the sixth this year), for the Peace Corps.
#23 - Morticia, the Decorator
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/18/1966
Morticia is caught up in the National Beautification Program and decides to become a decorator.
#24 - Happy Birthday, Grandma Frump
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/11/1966
Granny Frump's birthday is coming up and she's been invited over. Gomez and Morticia plan to send her to a beauty spa, but Pugsley thinks she's heading for the retirement home.
#25 - Pugsley's Allowance
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/4/1966
Pugsley wants some money and offers to work for it. This horrifies his parents, Addams don't work! They agree to let him work to teach him a lesson.