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!
The Addams Family is the creation of American cartoonist Charles Addams. 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.
#1 - Morticia, the Breadwinner
Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/26/1965
The stockmarket has collapsed, and thousands of people are going broke. Fester and Morticia think that the Family has lost all its money, so Morticia rallies the Family to make money without telling Gomez, as it would upset him.
#2 - 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.
#3 - Uncle Fester, Tycoon
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 12/31/1965
Fester gets a letter from another of his pen-pals, Diana the bearded lady. Overcome with emotion, he proposes to her by mail. After being accused of being unable to support her, Fester decides he has to get a job.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - The Winning of Morticia Addams
Season 1 - Episode 34 - Aired 5/21/1965
Fester reads an article that claims that apparently happy marriages are dangerous, because there is sickness hidden within. Since Gomez and Morticia are so happy, Fester thinks he'd better help out and make them have a few fights for their own good.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - Fester's Punctured Romance
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/1964
Uncle Fester puts an ad in the personals column and when he doesn't get an immediate response he's heartbroken. Later, the Addams family mistakes a cosmetics saleswoman as a respondent to the ad.
#14 - Fester Goes on a Diet
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/14/1966
Pugsley has been exercising, much to his parents' disapproval, when Fester gets a letter from his French pen-pal, Yvette, who is coming to visit. So he decides he has to get into shape, with the help of TV fitness guru Jack La Grann.
#15 - Progress and the Addams Family
Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/23/1965
Mr. Henson has now been made city Commissioner, and he condemns the Addams Family house to evict them and build a freeway in its place.
#16 - Morticia and the Psychiatrist
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1964
Gomez and Morticia are shocked when Pugsley joins the boy scouts, begins playing baseball and gets a puppy. Fearing something is wrong, they turn to a psychiatrist.
#17 - 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.
#18 - The Addams Family Tree
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/1964
Pugsley and Wednesday get into a fight over families, with their friend Harold, who says that his family is better than their family. This prompts the Addams family to look back in their family tree.
#19 - 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.
#20 - The Addams Family Meets the Undercover Man
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/8/1965
Hollister is an undercover operative who's been picking up odd radio signals from the Addams house. Convinced they're spies, he recruits the postman, Briggs, to help.
#21 - My Son, the Chimp
Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/9/1965
Fester's working on a new experiment when something goes wrong.
#22 - The New Neighbors Meet the Addams Family
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/13/1964
Hubert and Amanda Peterson are newlyweds, and they have leased the house next door. Their bliss starts to erode immediately when they see the Family washing their pet octopus and Fester testing dynamite caps.
#23 - Uncle Fester's Toupee
Season 1 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/30/1965
Fester's pen-pal Madelyn Cavendish Beauregard Faversham Firestone Smith, from Paris, Illinois, is coming to visit him, and he's told her he's a handsome, romantic type with a lot of hair.
#24 - 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.
#25 - Morticia's Dilemma
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/17/1965
There's a letter for Gomez from Camplona, Spain - an old family friend, Don Xavier Francisco de la Mancha Molines and his daughter is coming to visit.