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* MadeOfIron: Uncle Fester and Baby Pubert in ''Addams Family Values''.
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* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: The "Harmony Hut" in the second film. It's a hut filled with posters of kittens, in which the Addams are forced to sit and watch Disney movies.
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* AllPartOfTheShow: When Wednesday goes OffTheRails during the Thanksgiving play in ''Family Addams Values'', the audience doesn't get that she's off-script until well after the set is on fire. The fact that they clearly do intend to burn Amanda alive at least gets her parents moving.
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''The Addams Family'' is a 1991 feature film based on the classic [[TheSixties 1960s]] SitCom (See ''Series/TheAddamsFamily for the original series). Stars RaulJulia as Gomez, ChristopherLloyd as Fester, AnjelicaHuston as Morticia and ChristinaRicci as Wednesday. It was successful enough to have two sequels: ''Addams' Family Values'' in 1993 and ''Addams Family Reunion,'' a 1998 direct-to-video movie with an all-new cast.
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''The Addams Family'' is a 1991 feature film based on the classic [[TheSixties 1960s]] SitCom (See ''Series/TheAddamsFamily ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'' for the original series). Stars RaulJulia as Gomez, ChristopherLloyd as Fester, AnjelicaHuston as Morticia and ChristinaRicci as Wednesday. It was successful enough to have two sequels: ''Addams' Family Values'' in 1993 and ''Addams Family Reunion,'' a 1998 direct-to-video movie with an all-new cast.
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''The Addams Family'' is a 1991 feature film based on the classic [[TheSixties 1960s]] SitCom (See ''Series/TheAddamsFamily for the original series). Stars RaulJulia as Gomez, ChristopherLloyd as Fester, AnjelicaHuston as Morticia and ChristinaRicci as Wednesday.
Wednesday. It was successful enough to have two sequels: ''Addams' Family Values'' in 1993 and ''Addams Family Reunion,'' a 1998 direct-to-video movie with an all-new cast.
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* AllPartOfTheShow: When Wednesday goes OffTheRails during the Thanksgiving play, the audience doesn't get that she's off-script until well after the set is on fire. The fact that they clearly do intend to burn Amanda alive at least gets her parents moving.
* AllThereInTheScript: In the first film, Fester called Gomez a "demented freak", which was the password.
* AlphaBitch: Amanda.
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: InUniverse: in the first movie, when Morticia is working as a kindergarten teacher she reads Hansel & Gretel to her class, depicting Hansel and Gretel as cold-blooded killers and the witch as an innocent victim. The kids are not pleased by this DownerEnding.
* AncientTradition: The movie treats the Mamushka as one of these, taught to them by Cossack cousins so long ago they no longer remember when. And since Gomez explicitly states that they danced the Mamushka while Nero fiddled, that means the Addams family has been around for at least nineteen centuries, and has documented enough of their family history to know exactly what they were doing the night of July 19, 0064. ''That's'' how old that traditional dance is.
* ArsonMurderAndAdmiration:
** In the first movie, Morticia compliments the man stretching her on the rack (who is sweating over the evil deed) as "having done this before". She also believes that she and the female antagonist could have been good friends were it not for the current unpleasantness.
** The second film has the following exchanges between Morticia and Debbie:
-->'''Morticia:''' You have enslaved him. You have placed Fester under some strange sexual spell. I respect that. But please, may we see him?
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In ''Values'' when the family comes to Debbie's house to visit Fester:
-->'''Morticia''': You have gone too far. You have married Fester. You have destroyed his spirit. You have taken him from us. All that I could forgive. But Debbie?
-->'''Debbie''': What?
-->'''Morticia''' ''(reproachfully, eyeing the decor)'': Pastels?
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Parodied with the camp counselor's Thanksgiving pageant. Wednesday decides to make it... a little more accurate.
* AscendedExtra: The girl scout from the first movie plays [[AlphaBitch Amanda]] in the sequel. [[WildMassGuessing It's entirely possible that they're the same character]].
* BarehandedBladeBlock:
** Baby Pubert does this to a guillotine blade one-handed... ''with just his thumb and forefinger''. It must be reiterated that he's a '''baby'''.
*** It must also be reiterated that he's an '''''Addams'''''.
** Gomez manages to catch a thrown butter knife in his teeth in the same film.
** The first film also had the Mamushka, a traditional dance performed by Gomez and Fester that involves them juggling knives between each other. It ends with Gomez hurling every knife directly at his brother, who catches them with his bare hands, the final one in his mouth like a sword swallower.
* BecomingTheMask: Played with, as the mask that the amnesiac Gordon became was that of his actual real identity of Uncle Fester.
* BerserkButton: A very subtle one with Pugsley in the second film. Pugsley almost never gets angry, but he clearly takes offense when Amanda refers to the Addams' as circus people. (Keep in mind, she's probably thinking "freak show", he's probably thinking "harmless happy clown".)
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Debbie, Uncle Fester's love interest in ''Addams Family Values''.
** Also, the Camp Chippewah counselors, who are also [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Politically Incorrect Villains]] to boot.
* BloodyHilarious: In TheMovie -- Greatest. Elementary. School. Play. '''Ever.'''
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: First movie:
--> '''Morticia:''' ''(straight-faced, taking garment bags out of a wardrobe and looking at tags)'' Uncle Knick-Knack's Winter Wardrobe... Uncle Knick-Knack's Summer Wardrobe... Uncle Knick-Knack...
* BrickJoke: in the first movie we see the family motto, We Gladly Feast on Those Who Would Subdue Us. In the second movie, the school camp counselors try to subdue Wednesday and Pugsley, and are last seen being roasted with Wednesday's accomplices waiting for them being cooked.
* BuriedAlive: In the first film, the two antagonists land in open graves which Wednesday and Pugsley have somehow prepared in advance. The following exchange occurs:
-->'''Pugsley''': Are they dead?
-->'''Wednesday''': Does it matter?
** The second film opening includes Wednesday and Grandmama burying a cat. When it meows, Wednesday shakes the box and shushes it.
* CalvinBall: "Wake The Dead" seems to be some variety of this.
* TheCameo: The Addams relatives in both movies.
* CartwrightCurse: [[spoiler:Debbie doesn't survive ''Addams Family Values''. And it's possible Joel didn't, either.]]
* ChekhovsGun: In TheMovie, the books in the library, which have [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Exactly What It Says On The Spine]].
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: The "Harmony Hut" in the second film. It's a hut filled with posters of kittens, in which the Addams are forced to sit and watch Disney movies.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The films paint the characters as much more macabre than the TV show (although still nicer than in the original magazine cartoons), thanks to more relaxed standards on what is acceptable as humor.
** A good example is Pugsley's name. Originally, most of the Addams clan didn't have first names, but when the TV show was being produced, they went to Charles Addams to name them. His first choice for the boy's name? Pubert! (this name was eventually used for the third son in the second movie)
* DeadpanSnarker: Wednesday in the films.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Debbie provides a slide show of her life to the Addams before she attempts to electrocute them all. She explains how when she was 9 she wanted a ballerina Barbie, when instead, her parents gave her a Malibu Barbie. [[SelfMadeOrphan She then burned down the house with them in it.]]
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: See WhatHappenedToTheMouse, below.
* DullSurprise: Used deliberately with some of the deadpan Wednesday's reactions, specifically because when it goes beyond that to ''actually'' surprised, it's all the more amazing... and ''hilarious''.
* EvilVersusEvil: The movies would become a lot more awkward if anyone (including the villains) seriously protested the Addams' pastimes.
* FaceFramedInShadow: In the films, Morticia's face is constantly shadowed, no matter the ambient lighting, with the only bright spot being around her eyes. It especially stands out when she's with other cast members, who are normally lit.
* TheFilmOfTheSeries: ''The Addams Family'' and ''Addams Family Values''.
* ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself: Wednesday does this in the first movie. When asked where her costume is, she replies;
--> "This is my costume. I'm a homicidal maniac. They look just like everyone else."
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In-Universe example. In ''Family Values'', during the Thanksgiving play, Pugsley is dressed up as a turkey for a musical number. His lines in the song consist of saying "Eat Me" twice. A couple in the audience react slightly, then shrug it off.
* GoodIsNotNice: The most flagrant example being the camp counselors from ''Values'', Gary and Becky. Not for the way they treat Wednesday and Pugsley, but the way they heavily favor the rich, white, blonde kids over the minority campers, even casting them as the "savage" Native Americans in Gary's play. Becky can't even pronounce two of their names, Conseula and Jamal.
** In introductng the play, Gary refers to the two factions as white meat and dark meat.
* {{Goth}}: Of course!
* HelpingHands: "Why, thank you, Thing."
* HeroicBSOD: Gomez ends up in one in the first movie after losing the family fortune. Thing manages to snap him out of it with a three word message: [[spoiler: MORTICIA IN DANGER]].
** He gets one in the second movie (complete with "Take me! Take me!") when informed that his possessed baby [[spoiler: might one day grow up to be president]].
* HeyItsThatGuy: Harmony from BuffyTheVampireSlayer wants to sell Pugsley and Wednesday her Girl Scout Cookies. (So the "MadeFromRealGirlScouts" line becomes HilariousInHindsight.)
* HighPressureBlood: Parodied during the play with Wednesday and Pugsley; when they fight each other as part of the play, blood sprays out whenever they make a cut, covering the audience in it.
* HumiliationConga: The Thanksgiving play in the second film becomes this, and doubles as a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for Wednesday.
* IdentityAmnesia: Both Gomez and Fester, in the first movie.
* JumpingOutOfACake: Gruesome example from the second film. Gomez tries to have this done at Fester's bachelor party.
-->'''Gomez''': ''[peers into cake]'' ...that poor girl. Lurch, was she in there ''before'' you baked?\\
'''Lurch''': ''[growls contritely]''\\
''[{{beat}}]''\\
'''Gomez''': [[CrossesTheLineTwice C'est la vie!]] ''[everyone laughs]''
* KillerRabbit: Wednesday, ''especially'' in the films.
* KnifeOutline: Gomez and Fester dance with knives in the first movie which ends with Fester getting outlined while upside-down.
* LargeHam: ''Raul "[[Film/StreetFighter OF COURSE!]]" Julia.''
--> '''Gomez''': I believe they own -- \\
'''Morticia''': Gomez, no -- !\\
'''Gomez''': -- A '''''BUICK!!!!'''''"
** Wednesday in the school play:
-->"Sweet oblivion, ''open your arms!'' *retch, retch, collapse*
** Joan Cusack as Debbie Jellinsky, during her more AxCrazy moments.
* LookMaNoPlane: In the climax of ''Addams Family Values'', the baby somehow gets catapulted high enough to come eye-to-eye with a commuter plane...specifically, the one that's currently flying the AlphaBitch and her family home from the disaster that was summer camp.
* MurderByCremation: For his brother's wedding Gomez orders a huge cake with a stripper inside. However, when the cake is delivered, it turns out that the unwitting butler put the girl inside before he put it into the oven. Nobody is too upset though.
* NighInvulnerable: Fester is immune to fatal amounts of electricity and mansion-destroying explosions. He does seem worried by bullets, which makes it even weirder that Debbie would decide on the electric chair to finish him off when that method didn't succeed the first time.
** Seems to apply to all the family to some degree. Pusgley and Wednesday spend much of the first movie playing fatal games with each other, involving poison, knives, even electric chairs. Wednesday even explicitly says the latter is supposed to kill Pugsley, and that this particular game is called "Is There a God?"
** Morticia, going through Fester's luggage in the first movie, notes that he brought cyanide and teasingly chides him "As if we'd run out." The delivery insinuates they use it as a ''condiment''.
* NobodyCallsMeChicken: In ''Values'', Amanda goads Wednesday into adding to the ghost story by insinuating she's not up to it. Wednesday's creative spin makes them wish they hadn't.
* ObviouslyEvil: Debbie's successful crime spree tugs at WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief when she gets to Fester. She couldn't look more guilty if she tried. Putting aside that the Addams see this as normal, the authorities would have noticed such oddities as ordering a hearse prior to the victim's death. Wednesday even lampshades this towards the end.
* OedipusComplex: In ''Values'', Gomez pulls out a magazine from Fester's bed, opens to one of the centerfolds, and the two say together "Mom!".
* OneSceneWonder: Cousin Itt in both movies.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The camp counselors in the sequel not so subtly favor the children of wealthy [[WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant WASPs]] over the minority campers (and Wednesday & Pugsley).
* PortalBook: The books in the Addams' library are an inversion: people can't go in (as far as we know), but the stories in the book manifest in the real world when opened (e.g. ''[[Creator/ErnestHemingway The Sun Also Rises]]'' creates sunlight).
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Both played with and averted in ''Family Values''. Fester treated his AxeCrazy wife with nothing but love and respect, but she's so insane she simply keeps going with her plan to kill him, not realizing she actually has someone who cares. Fester is perfectly willing to die for whatever perceived crimes he's committed. Then, when she actually dies, she's just... [[NoBodyLeftBehind a pile of dust]]. No redemption there.
* RichBitch: Debbie and Amanda in the sequel.
* SarcasmMode: You could think that the entire Addams Family had gone into this hardcore when they're seeming to humor the ranting Debbie. Actually, considering their previous behavior, they're probably ''sincerely empathizing with her''.
* ScreamingBirth: Averted during Pubert's birth in ''Addams Family Values''; all Morticia emits are a few barely audible grunts. Totally justified, however, when you consider their [[TooKinkyToTorture sex life]].
** Seriously, who didn't burst out laughing at Morticia's first line in that movie?
--> '''Morticia:''' Marvelous news. I'm going to have a baby. ''({{Beat}})'' Right now. ''(Cut to Morticia being rushed through the hospital.)''
** Then there's the bit during labor when Gomez asks Morticia if she's in unbearable, inhuman pain. She smiles coyly nad says "Oui", bringing on Gomez's usual kissing response. The doctor has to remind them that there's a baby to deliver.
* SomethingElseAlsoRises: A pretty hilarious version occurs in the movie. Gomez and Morticia are sitting in the graveyard and, as per usual, things get romantic between them. Cut to shots of the various, elaborate gravestones of deceased Addamses that manage to become this trope.
** And in ''Family Values'', the tango scene culminates in the floor catching fire beneath Morticia's feet and [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything every champagne bottle in the room popping its cork off and gushing.]]
* SpotlightStealingSquad: Fester and Wednesday in the movies. Poor Pugsley barely features in the second one.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Pubert, in ''Addams Family Values'', has a ''mustache''.
** Also parodied:
-->'''Gomez''': He has my father's eyes.
-->'''Morticia''': Gomez, take those out of his mouth.
* SuppressedMammaries: Christina Ricci had her breasts tied down when she played Wednesday in the movies. Puberty did not miss her. In what was almost assuredly a reference to this fact, her first scene in ''NowAndThen'' has her duct taping her breasts down after complaining about them getting bigger.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: From ''Values'': "I can show you all my references so you know I'm not a homicidal maniac."
* TerribleIntervieweesMontage: Inverted in the second movie; it's not the nanny interviewees who are terrible, it's the children. And while the one who gets the job ''seems'' perfect, she's really the worst.
* TooKinkyToTorture: Morticia, demonstrated when Tully tries to stretch her on the rack:
-->'''Morticia''': You've done this before.
* TheUnsmile: Wednesday in the second movie. One of the most horrific examples of this trope ever.
-->'''Amanda''': She's scaring me!
* VillainousBreakdown: Debbie's failed attempts to murder Fester has put her over the edge.
* TheVoiceless: In this version, Lurch never talks, only growls and grunts. For the record, the character was intended to be mute in the show as well, but the actor ad-libbed the classic "You rang?" line and it was too funny to not capitalize.
* WallpaperCamouflage: Wednesday in the second movie.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous: From ''Values'', after Pubert becomes blonde and rosy cheeked. Grandmama is explaining that this change can become permanent. Of course, this IS the Addams we're talking about, so it's a subversion.
-->'''Grandmama''': We're talking dimples!
-->'''Gomez''': NOT in this house!
** Also, Wednesday's contribution to the horror story at camp.
-->'''Wednesday''': And so, the next night, the ghost returned to the haunted cabin, and he said to the campers - "None of you ''really'' believe in me, so I'll have to prove my power." And the next morning, when the campers woke up... all of their old noses had grown back. ''*Cue screams and a smirking Wednesday*''
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the movie, Tully and Margaret Alford's son, who appears in one scene (and in the credits as "Tully Jr.") but despite the fact that his mother [[spoiler:runs off with Cousin Itt]] and that his father [[spoiler:is buried, [[BuriedAlive possibly alive]], in the Addams' graveyard]], he's never spoken of again, not even in the {{sequel}} ''Addams Family Values''.
** Also in ''Family Values'', it's mentioned that the "Black Widow" has killed at least three husbands, but we only ever learn the fates of two of them.
*** One of Debbie's previous identities (as shown by the headshots kept on her wall) is ''Kathie Lee Gifford'' - so perhaps Monday Night Football has a different announcer in the Addams Family universe...
* WhoEvenNeedsABrain: In ''Addams Family Values'' Gomez and Fester are cheerfully reminiscing about all the (violent) pranks they pulled on each other as kids. Fester casually mentions that one time he waited til Gomez was asleep, then opened his his head and removed his brains. Gomez is surprised and sort of impressed by this revelation.
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* AllPartOfTheShow: When Wednesday goes OffTheRails during the Thanksgiving play, the audience doesn't get that she's off-script until well after the set is on fire. The fact that they clearly do intend to burn Amanda alive at least gets her parents moving.
* AllThereInTheScript: In the first film, Fester called Gomez a "demented freak", which was the password.
* AlphaBitch: Amanda.
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: InUniverse: in the first movie, when Morticia is working as a kindergarten teacher she reads Hansel & Gretel to her class, depicting Hansel and Gretel as cold-blooded killers and the witch as an innocent victim. The kids are not pleased by this DownerEnding.
* AncientTradition: The movie treats the Mamushka as one of these, taught to them by Cossack cousins so long ago they no longer remember when. And since Gomez explicitly states that they danced the Mamushka while Nero fiddled, that means the Addams family has been around for at least nineteen centuries, and has documented enough of their family history to know exactly what they were doing the night of July 19, 0064. ''That's'' how old that traditional dance is.
* ArsonMurderAndAdmiration:
** In the first movie, Morticia compliments the man stretching her on the rack (who is sweating over the evil deed) as "having done this before". She also believes that she and the female antagonist could have been good friends were it not for the current unpleasantness.
** The second film has the following exchanges between Morticia and Debbie:
-->'''Morticia:''' You have enslaved him. You have placed Fester under some strange sexual spell. I respect that. But please, may we see him?
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In ''Values'' when the family comes to Debbie's house to visit Fester:
-->'''Morticia''': You have gone too far. You have married Fester. You have destroyed his spirit. You have taken him from us. All that I could forgive. But Debbie?
-->'''Debbie''': What?
-->'''Morticia''' ''(reproachfully, eyeing the decor)'': Pastels?
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Parodied with the camp counselor's Thanksgiving pageant. Wednesday decides to make it... a little more accurate.
* AscendedExtra: The girl scout from the first movie plays [[AlphaBitch Amanda]] in the sequel. [[WildMassGuessing It's entirely possible that they're the same character]].
* BarehandedBladeBlock:
** Baby Pubert does this to a guillotine blade one-handed... ''with just his thumb and forefinger''. It must be reiterated that he's a '''baby'''.
*** It must also be reiterated that he's an '''''Addams'''''.
** Gomez manages to catch a thrown butter knife in his teeth in the same film.
** The first film also had the Mamushka, a traditional dance performed by Gomez and Fester that involves them juggling knives between each other. It ends with Gomez hurling every knife directly at his brother, who catches them with his bare hands, the final one in his mouth like a sword swallower.
* BecomingTheMask: Played with, as the mask that the amnesiac Gordon became was that of his actual real identity of Uncle Fester.
* BerserkButton: A very subtle one with Pugsley in the second film. Pugsley almost never gets angry, but he clearly takes offense when Amanda refers to the Addams' as circus people. (Keep in mind, she's probably thinking "freak show", he's probably thinking "harmless happy clown".)
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Debbie, Uncle Fester's love interest in ''Addams Family Values''.
** Also, the Camp Chippewah counselors, who are also [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Politically Incorrect Villains]] to boot.
* BloodyHilarious: In TheMovie -- Greatest. Elementary. School. Play. '''Ever.'''
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: First movie:
--> '''Morticia:''' ''(straight-faced, taking garment bags out of a wardrobe and looking at tags)'' Uncle Knick-Knack's Winter Wardrobe... Uncle Knick-Knack's Summer Wardrobe... Uncle Knick-Knack...
* BrickJoke: in the first movie we see the family motto, We Gladly Feast on Those Who Would Subdue Us. In the second movie, the school camp counselors try to subdue Wednesday and Pugsley, and are last seen being roasted with Wednesday's accomplices waiting for them being cooked.
* BuriedAlive: In the first film, the two antagonists land in open graves which Wednesday and Pugsley have somehow prepared in advance. The following exchange occurs:
-->'''Pugsley''': Are they dead?
-->'''Wednesday''': Does it matter?
** The second film opening includes Wednesday and Grandmama burying a cat. When it meows, Wednesday shakes the box and shushes it.
* CalvinBall: "Wake The Dead" seems to be some variety of this.
* TheCameo: The Addams relatives in both movies.
* CartwrightCurse: [[spoiler:Debbie doesn't survive ''Addams Family Values''. And it's possible Joel didn't, either.]]
* ChekhovsGun: In TheMovie, the books in the library, which have [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Exactly What It Says On The Spine]].
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: The "Harmony Hut" in the second film. It's a hut filled with posters of kittens, in which the Addams are forced to sit and watch Disney movies.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The films paint the characters as much more macabre than the TV show (although still nicer than in the original magazine cartoons), thanks to more relaxed standards on what is acceptable as humor.
** A good example is Pugsley's name. Originally, most of the Addams clan didn't have first names, but when the TV show was being produced, they went to Charles Addams to name them. His first choice for the boy's name? Pubert! (this name was eventually used for the third son in the second movie)
* DeadpanSnarker: Wednesday in the films.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Debbie provides a slide show of her life to the Addams before she attempts to electrocute them all. She explains how when she was 9 she wanted a ballerina Barbie, when instead, her parents gave her a Malibu Barbie. [[SelfMadeOrphan She then burned down the house with them in it.]]
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: See WhatHappenedToTheMouse, below.
* DullSurprise: Used deliberately with some of the deadpan Wednesday's reactions, specifically because when it goes beyond that to ''actually'' surprised, it's all the more amazing... and ''hilarious''.
* EvilVersusEvil: The movies would become a lot more awkward if anyone (including the villains) seriously protested the Addams' pastimes.
* FaceFramedInShadow: In the films, Morticia's face is constantly shadowed, no matter the ambient lighting, with the only bright spot being around her eyes. It especially stands out when she's with other cast members, who are normally lit.
* TheFilmOfTheSeries: ''The Addams Family'' and ''Addams Family Values''.
* ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself: Wednesday does this in the first movie. When asked where her costume is, she replies;
--> "This is my costume. I'm a homicidal maniac. They look just like everyone else."
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In-Universe example. In ''Family Values'', during the Thanksgiving play, Pugsley is dressed up as a turkey for a musical number. His lines in the song consist of saying "Eat Me" twice. A couple in the audience react slightly, then shrug it off.
* GoodIsNotNice: The most flagrant example being the camp counselors from ''Values'', Gary and Becky. Not for the way they treat Wednesday and Pugsley, but the way they heavily favor the rich, white, blonde kids over the minority campers, even casting them as the "savage" Native Americans in Gary's play. Becky can't even pronounce two of their names, Conseula and Jamal.
** In introductng the play, Gary refers to the two factions as white meat and dark meat.
* {{Goth}}: Of course!
* HelpingHands: "Why, thank you, Thing."
* HeroicBSOD: Gomez ends up in one in the first movie after losing the family fortune. Thing manages to snap him out of it with a three word message: [[spoiler: MORTICIA IN DANGER]].
** He gets one in the second movie (complete with "Take me! Take me!") when informed that his possessed baby [[spoiler: might one day grow up to be president]].
* HeyItsThatGuy: Harmony from BuffyTheVampireSlayer wants to sell Pugsley and Wednesday her Girl Scout Cookies. (So the "MadeFromRealGirlScouts" line becomes HilariousInHindsight.)
* HighPressureBlood: Parodied during the play with Wednesday and Pugsley; when they fight each other as part of the play, blood sprays out whenever they make a cut, covering the audience in it.
* HumiliationConga: The Thanksgiving play in the second film becomes this, and doubles as a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for Wednesday.
* IdentityAmnesia: Both Gomez and Fester, in the first movie.
* JumpingOutOfACake: Gruesome example from the second film. Gomez tries to have this done at Fester's bachelor party.
-->'''Gomez''': ''[peers into cake]'' ...that poor girl. Lurch, was she in there ''before'' you baked?\\
'''Lurch''': ''[growls contritely]''\\
''[{{beat}}]''\\
'''Gomez''': [[CrossesTheLineTwice C'est la vie!]] ''[everyone laughs]''
* KillerRabbit: Wednesday, ''especially'' in the films.
* KnifeOutline: Gomez and Fester dance with knives in the first movie which ends with Fester getting outlined while upside-down.
* LargeHam: ''Raul "[[Film/StreetFighter OF COURSE!]]" Julia.''
--> '''Gomez''': I believe they own -- \\
'''Morticia''': Gomez, no -- !\\
'''Gomez''': -- A '''''BUICK!!!!'''''"
** Wednesday in the school play:
-->"Sweet oblivion, ''open your arms!'' *retch, retch, collapse*
** Joan Cusack as Debbie Jellinsky, during her more AxCrazy moments.
* LookMaNoPlane: In the climax of ''Addams Family Values'', the baby somehow gets catapulted high enough to come eye-to-eye with a commuter plane...specifically, the one that's currently flying the AlphaBitch and her family home from the disaster that was summer camp.
* MurderByCremation: For his brother's wedding Gomez orders a huge cake with a stripper inside. However, when the cake is delivered, it turns out that the unwitting butler put the girl inside before he put it into the oven. Nobody is too upset though.
* NighInvulnerable: Fester is immune to fatal amounts of electricity and mansion-destroying explosions. He does seem worried by bullets, which makes it even weirder that Debbie would decide on the electric chair to finish him off when that method didn't succeed the first time.
** Seems to apply to all the family to some degree. Pusgley and Wednesday spend much of the first movie playing fatal games with each other, involving poison, knives, even electric chairs. Wednesday even explicitly says the latter is supposed to kill Pugsley, and that this particular game is called "Is There a God?"
** Morticia, going through Fester's luggage in the first movie, notes that he brought cyanide and teasingly chides him "As if we'd run out." The delivery insinuates they use it as a ''condiment''.
* NobodyCallsMeChicken: In ''Values'', Amanda goads Wednesday into adding to the ghost story by insinuating she's not up to it. Wednesday's creative spin makes them wish they hadn't.
* ObviouslyEvil: Debbie's successful crime spree tugs at WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief when she gets to Fester. She couldn't look more guilty if she tried. Putting aside that the Addams see this as normal, the authorities would have noticed such oddities as ordering a hearse prior to the victim's death. Wednesday even lampshades this towards the end.
* OedipusComplex: In ''Values'', Gomez pulls out a magazine from Fester's bed, opens to one of the centerfolds, and the two say together "Mom!".
* OneSceneWonder: Cousin Itt in both movies.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The camp counselors in the sequel not so subtly favor the children of wealthy [[WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant WASPs]] over the minority campers (and Wednesday & Pugsley).
* PortalBook: The books in the Addams' library are an inversion: people can't go in (as far as we know), but the stories in the book manifest in the real world when opened (e.g. ''[[Creator/ErnestHemingway The Sun Also Rises]]'' creates sunlight).
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Both played with and averted in ''Family Values''. Fester treated his AxeCrazy wife with nothing but love and respect, but she's so insane she simply keeps going with her plan to kill him, not realizing she actually has someone who cares. Fester is perfectly willing to die for whatever perceived crimes he's committed. Then, when she actually dies, she's just... [[NoBodyLeftBehind a pile of dust]]. No redemption there.
* RichBitch: Debbie and Amanda in the sequel.
* SarcasmMode: You could think that the entire Addams Family had gone into this hardcore when they're seeming to humor the ranting Debbie. Actually, considering their previous behavior, they're probably ''sincerely empathizing with her''.
* ScreamingBirth: Averted during Pubert's birth in ''Addams Family Values''; all Morticia emits are a few barely audible grunts. Totally justified, however, when you consider their [[TooKinkyToTorture sex life]].
** Seriously, who didn't burst out laughing at Morticia's first line in that movie?
--> '''Morticia:''' Marvelous news. I'm going to have a baby. ''({{Beat}})'' Right now. ''(Cut to Morticia being rushed through the hospital.)''
** Then there's the bit during labor when Gomez asks Morticia if she's in unbearable, inhuman pain. She smiles coyly nad says "Oui", bringing on Gomez's usual kissing response. The doctor has to remind them that there's a baby to deliver.
* SomethingElseAlsoRises: A pretty hilarious version occurs in the movie. Gomez and Morticia are sitting in the graveyard and, as per usual, things get romantic between them. Cut to shots of the various, elaborate gravestones of deceased Addamses that manage to become this trope.
** And in ''Family Values'', the tango scene culminates in the floor catching fire beneath Morticia's feet and [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything every champagne bottle in the room popping its cork off and gushing.]]
* SpotlightStealingSquad: Fester and Wednesday in the movies. Poor Pugsley barely features in the second one.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Pubert, in ''Addams Family Values'', has a ''mustache''.
** Also parodied:
-->'''Gomez''': He has my father's eyes.
-->'''Morticia''': Gomez, take those out of his mouth.
* SuppressedMammaries: Christina Ricci had her breasts tied down when she played Wednesday in the movies. Puberty did not miss her. In what was almost assuredly a reference to this fact, her first scene in ''NowAndThen'' has her duct taping her breasts down after complaining about them getting bigger.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: From ''Values'': "I can show you all my references so you know I'm not a homicidal maniac."
* TerribleIntervieweesMontage: Inverted in the second movie; it's not the nanny interviewees who are terrible, it's the children. And while the one who gets the job ''seems'' perfect, she's really the worst.
* TooKinkyToTorture: Morticia, demonstrated when Tully tries to stretch her on the rack:
-->'''Morticia''': You've done this before.
* TheUnsmile: Wednesday in the second movie. One of the most horrific examples of this trope ever.
-->'''Amanda''': She's scaring me!
* VillainousBreakdown: Debbie's failed attempts to murder Fester has put her over the edge.
* TheVoiceless: In this version, Lurch never talks, only growls and grunts. For the record, the character was intended to be mute in the show as well, but the actor ad-libbed the classic "You rang?" line and it was too funny to not capitalize.
* WallpaperCamouflage: Wednesday in the second movie.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous: From ''Values'', after Pubert becomes blonde and rosy cheeked. Grandmama is explaining that this change can become permanent. Of course, this IS the Addams we're talking about, so it's a subversion.
-->'''Grandmama''': We're talking dimples!
-->'''Gomez''': NOT in this house!
** Also, Wednesday's contribution to the horror story at camp.
-->'''Wednesday''': And so, the next night, the ghost returned to the haunted cabin, and he said to the campers - "None of you ''really'' believe in me, so I'll have to prove my power." And the next morning, when the campers woke up... all of their old noses had grown back. ''*Cue screams and a smirking Wednesday*''
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the movie, Tully and Margaret Alford's son, who appears in one scene (and in the credits as "Tully Jr.") but despite the fact that his mother [[spoiler:runs off with Cousin Itt]] and that his father [[spoiler:is buried, [[BuriedAlive possibly alive]], in the Addams' graveyard]], he's never spoken of again, not even in the {{sequel}} ''Addams Family Values''.
** Also in ''Family Values'', it's mentioned that the "Black Widow" has killed at least three husbands, but we only ever learn the fates of two of them.
*** One of Debbie's previous identities (as shown by the headshots kept on her wall) is ''Kathie Lee Gifford'' - so perhaps Monday Night Football has a different announcer in the Addams Family universe...
* WhoEvenNeedsABrain: In ''Addams Family Values'' Gomez and Fester are cheerfully reminiscing about all the (violent) pranks they pulled on each other as kids. Fester casually mentions that one time he waited til Gomez was asleep, then opened his his head and removed his brains. Gomez is surprised and sort of impressed by this revelation.
