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 - Saving Private Addams
Season 1 - Episode 41 - Aired 3/15/1999
Having been expelled from every public and most of the private schools in the city, Wednesday and Pugsley enroll in Warbridge Military Academy. Lurch looks after Thing who's recuperating after Lurch inadvertently stepped on it.
#2 - Morticia, the Playwright
Season 1 - Episode 49 - Aired 5/14/1999
Disturbed by the fairy tales her children are about to perform at school, Morticia decides to write her own play. It's Gotcha week, so Fester and Gomez are competitively pulling practical jokes on each other.
#3 - Cousin Itt's Problem
Season 1 - Episode 48 - Aired 5/7/1999
Cousin Itt is in danger of losing his job as a shampoo spokesman when he starts to lose hair.
#4 - Addams Family in Court
Season 1 - Episode 47 - Aired 4/19/1999
Next door neighbors the Fletchers threaten to sue the Addamses the next time Fester's explosives damage their house. Fester takes them up on it, insisting the case comes before Judge Debbie, whom he has fell in love with the moment he saw her holding court on her TV show. Meanwhile, Wednesday fears she's losing the gift of torturing Pugsley.
#5 - Catastrophia's Career
Season 1 - Episode 46 - Aired 4/12/1999
Clumsey Cousin Catastrophia comes to visit and causes disasters everywhere she goes. The Addams family decides to help her acquire her dream job.
#6 - Fester Joins the Global Mercenaries
Season 1 - Episode 45 - Aired 4/9/1999
Feeling neglected, Fester joins the Global Mercenaries. Meanwhile Wednesday is being stalked by a black cat, but none of her relatives ever catch sight of the feline.
#7 - Lurch's Grand Romance
Season 1 - Episode 44 - Aired 4/5/1999
Lurch falls head of heels for Elsa, the Peterson's new housekeeper. Grandmama has to take a test to renew her witchcraft license.
#8 - Horseplay
Season 1 - Episode 43 - Aired 3/29/1999
Pugsley brings home a horse named National Valeur and grows very attached to it. Uncle Fester is dismayed that he's having a streak of good luck.
#9 - My Son, the Chimp
Season 1 - Episode 42 - Aired 3/22/1999
Cousin Itt is summoned to take a new family portrait. Pugsley befriends a runaway chimp, then gets lost in a hidden passage while the rest of the family thinks Grandmama's spell has turned him into a chimp.
#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 - Fester and Granny vs. Grandpapa Addams
Season 1 - Episode 40 - Aired 3/8/1999
Gomez and Morticia feel that Fester and Grandmama have been spoiling the children. So they ask Grandpapa Addams to look after the kids during their holiday.
#12 - Lurch, the Teen-Age Idol
Season 1 - Episode 39 - Aired 3/1/1999
Lurch inadvertently becomes a pop-music star and takes a six-month tour in a Ghoulapalooza. Jeeves replaces him as an official butler to the Addams. Everyone pleases Jeeves except Thing.
#14 - Morticia, the Sculptress
Season 1 - Episode 37 - Aired 2/15/1999
In need of artistic fulfillment, Morticia takes up sculpting. Gomez, who won't have Morticia's heart broken, gets Sandy Warhol, a seedy art dealer, to buy it with Gomez's own money. When Warhol commissions more sculptures, Morticia spends all of her time chiseling away and completely neglects her family.
#15 - Wednesday's Crush
Season 1 - Episode 36 - Aired 2/8/1999
An explosion caused by Fester and Pugsley causes Sam to crash his motorcycle. Wednesday insists they nurse him back to health while Fester fixes the teen's bike.
#16 - Amnesia in the Addams Family
Season 1 - Episode 35 - Aired 2/1/1999
Gomez gets amnesia after being hit in the head with a croquet ball and develops the personality of a New York construction worker.
#17 - Close Encounters of the Addams Kind
Season 1 - Episode 34 - Aired 1/25/1999
Aliens looking for a power source trace it to be at the Addams house. After researching TV shows from the seventies to learn Earth culture, they come posed as Greg and Marsha Brady. At the Addams house, they discover that the power source they need is Uncle Fester, and they have a dance contest with Morticia and Gomez to win him. However Greg and Marsha lose, but after explaining their case, Gomez comes up with a solution.
#18 - Morticia, the Decorator
Season 1 - Episode 33 - Aired 1/22/1999
Morticia is encouraged to take up home decorating and gets her first job from Mrs. Drysdale. The rest of the family helps with the total make-over while Drysdale is away on business for two weeks. Mrs. D has even invited a reporter from Superior Interiors magazine for the unveiling.
#19 - Progress in the Addams Family
Season 1 - Episode 51 - Aired 5/28/1999
The city plans to demolish their house to build a new highway, but the Addams Family fights back.
#20 - Undercover Man
Season 1 - Episode 52 - Aired 5/29/1999
The family is organizing a surprise birthday party for Morticia. An under cover man overhears Gomez ordering a large amount of explosives, becomes suspicious and infiltrates the house.
#21 - 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.
#22 - Fester, Marriage Counselor
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/4/1999
Uncle Fester becomes a marriage counselor, but he gets his clients to "duel" to resolve their differences. Meanwhile, Pugsley learns that his girlfriend is just using him to make an old boyfriend jealous.
#23 - Cleopatra, Green of the Nile
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/11/1999
Morticia's prize carnivorous plant "Cleopatra" loses its appetite only days before the plant show
#24 - Granny, the Happy Medium
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/18/1999
Granny conjures up the ghost of her brother Jester, who was a habitual practical joker.
#25 - Lurch's Little Helper
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/25/1999
Gomez acquires a robot butler and Lurch gets worried that he might lose his job