The WORST episodes of The New Addams Family
Every episode of The New Addams Family ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of The New Addams Family!
Basically an updated-for-the-90's version of the original Addams Family show. The family remains the same: Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday, Pugsley, Uncle Fester, Granmama, Lurch, Thing, and Cousin Itt. They're still spooky, and they still have a lot of neighbors and other outsiders who show up and get freaked out by the family's macabre shenanigans.
#1 - Fester's Punctured Romance
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/1998
Fester broke up with his girl friend Cruella and goes into a state of depression. The family tries to help him out, and everything looks real rosy when it appears that Lucretia, Fester's date by mail order has arrived. Just to make sure, Mama mixes up Love Potions 666 and Wednesday administers it.
#2 - Keeping Up with the Joneses
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 8/21/1999
The Jones family comes for a visit and Gomez and Ramon Jones enter in competition
#3 - Gomez, the Reluctant Lover
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/27/1998
Pugsley comes home with a crush on his teacher. He takes one of the love letters that Gomez sent to Morticia, and sends it to his teacher. When she comes to the Addams family house to inform them about it, she is led to believe that Gomez sent it. She falls for Gomez. Mama and Morticia tell a reluctant Gomez to go right after her and she'll run off.
#4 - Lurch Learns to Dance
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 11/12/1998
We all know that Lurch is a great butler, but can he dance?...NO! When he is invited to the Butler's Costume Ball, Lurch refuses to go because of what happened at the last dance he went to. A dance instructor and then Fester and Gomez give Lurch dance lessons, and finally Lurch is persuaded to go.
#5 - Art and the Addams Family
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 10/30/1998
Wednesday comes back from school after painting a black rainbow and she got an ""F"" on it. Her teacher, Miss Crank, says she may fail art if she doesn't use color. So Gomez tries to hire the world famous artist Leopold DaMinci as an art Tutor, but gets Leo DaMinci, an Italian Pizza delivery man instead. Meanwhile, Mama falls in love with the postman, and Fester helps her try to trap him.
#6 - Thing is Missing
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/2/1998
Its Thing's birthday. Thing opens Fester's mail and Fester and the family yell at him and none of them remember his birthday, so Thing runs away. The stress of fighting with Thing causes Fester to start growing hair on his head.
#7 - My Fair Cousin Itt
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 11/9/1998
Cousin Itt was very disappointed that he didn't get the role of Hamlet at the theatre. So Gomez dusts off an old play he wrote, casts Itt as the lead, and hires a director for it. The director refuses to work with Itt because his voice is not deciferable. So Morticia trys to get Itt to slow and lower his voice. Itt's voice changes, but so does his personality.
#8 - Uncle Fester's Toupee
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 11/11/1998
Ginger, a girl Fester has been e-mailing is coming to meet him. But Fester lied to her about himself, and wonders what he's going to do about his hair, which he told her he has. So a toupee salesman is called. Fester's grand appearance in front of Ginger is stumbling at best!
#9 - Melancholia Finds Romance
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 11/16/1998
Cousin Melancholia and her fiancee Digby Henson arrive at the Addamses house but Fester is suspicious of Digby so spies on him!
#10 - Lurch, Man of Leisure
Season 1 - Episode 50 - Aired 5/21/1999
The girl Lurch met during his Hawaiian vacation is coming to visit him, and he told her he's rich. Gomez and Morticia pretend to be his staff while the rest of the family stay at the Hotel De La Posh.
#11 - Lurch and His Piano
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 5/31/1999
A conniving concert-hall director convinces Uncle Fester to trade Lurch's piano for an electric organ.
#12 - Addams Family Feud
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/10/1999
The feud between the McAddams and the Addams families ends... until Uncle Fester takes Pa McAddams on a hunting trip.
#13 - Morticia and the Psychiatrist
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 11/13/1998
Pugsley joined the Junior Troopers so Morticia called a psychiatrist who suggests that Pugsley just wants their attention.
#14 - Morticia's Romance (1)
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 11/4/1998
Gomez and Morticia are celebrating their 13th Anniversary. Wednesday and Pugsley ask them how they met. So they are told the story. Gomez was pre-ordained to marry Morticia's sister Ophelia for whom he had no affection. But he and Morticia were love at first sight.
#15 - Morticia, the Breadwinner
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 11/23/1998
The Stock Market crashes and Gomez has almost all his money in the Stock Market! From a conversation they hear, they think he's lost everything, but has he?...
#16 - Morticia's Favorite Charity
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 11/17/1998
The Addams are selecting stuff to donate for the charity auction but donate Pugsley's tiger-head clock, much to his annoyance!
#17 - Morticia and the Ladies League
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 11/18/1998
Morticia invites the PTA over to her house for a meeting and Pugsley wants to go to the circus to see Gorgo, the flying monkey.
#18 - Morticia's Dilemma
Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 11/30/1998
Gomez' old friend Senior Don Xavier Malina arrives with his daughter Consuela and her chaperone Maria. When Gomez was 10, he had proposed to Consuela, and now that she is turning 25, Senior Malina is here to see them married.
#19 - Grandpapa Addams
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/26/1998
Grandpapa Addams comes to stay with the family while they rebuild his neighborhood. The family knows he still misses his late wife, and make arrangements to surprise Grandpapa with a a gift to him of two weeks at Club Dead - a swinging resort for singles over 50. Grandpapa finds out but mistakenly thinks he's being sent to a nursing home so then tries to prove his youth to the family and pretends to be 50 years younger.
#20 - Morticia, the Matchmaker
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/28/1998
Cousin Melancholia's fiancee ran out and left her, so she shows up at the Addamses house all despondent. They try to find her another suitor - the mailman who zooms off, Lurch wouldn't agree, Fester only dates criminals, and Thing fingers off. But the unwilling Ralph Harvey, trying to save his Law Firm's account with the Addamses, is coerced into dating and getting engaged to Melancholia.
#21 - Wednesday Leaves Home
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 11/6/1998
Wednesday unleashed 20 starving alligators in the sewers. The police came after her. Gomez and Morticia ground her for a week for cruelty to animals. She would not be allowed to play with her weapons, start any fires, or torture here brother. So Wednesday runs away.
#23 - New Neighbors Meet the Addams Family
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/23/1998
Newlyweds, Hubert and Amanda Peterson move in to the house they leased next door, owned by the Addamses. As they find out about their new neighbors and landlords, they try desperately to get out of the lease
#24 - Cousin Itt Visits the Addams Family
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/30/1998
While Mama gives everyone extremely inappropriate gifts. Cousin Itt's girlfriend Contessa threw him out because she found out about Eudora and Simone and Lucinda, Monica and Cosuma. He came over for a place to stay since he was also broke, having lost his entire fortune at the roulette table. So he tries to get a job - at a Burger joint, then as a receptionist, then a hair stylist, and finally at the zoo.
#25 - Fester Goes on a Diet
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/3/1998
Uncle Fester finds a female friend on the Internet who is coming to visit. He tries to get into shape before his new love arrives.