History TearJerker / TheAddamsFamily

-->'''Gomez''': "Don't try to cheer me up; it's hopeless! I'm nothing more than a pathetic success of an Addams!"

-->'''Wednesday (in tears)''': "He killed the dragon"\\
'''Gomez''': "Who did?"\\
'''Wednesday (still tearful)''': "A knight in shining armour!"
* And later, when she's sad in "Wednesday Leaves Home"

-->'''Lurch''': "Nobody cares about me"

-->'''Ophelia''': "I'm the most miserable person in the world"
* Fester being sad in "Fester Goes on a Diet"
** His reaction to accidentally spoiling a family trip in "Uncle Fester's Illness"
-->'''Fester''': "I'm an outing pooper"

** The whole scene with Gomez attempting to commit suicide in the belief that Morticia is straying with Lionel. Can double as NightmareFuel.

-->'''Morticia''': (after Thing [[AccidentalPun hands]] her a hankie and she wipes her eyes, this whole quote is said in a tearful voice) "Thank you, Thing...I'm sorry to make a spectacle of myself, Thing, but my world has come down around my ears."

** And also Morticia. She is Gomez's wife and is head-over-heels for him and then he gets amnesia and not only doesn't know who she is, he's outright rude, accusing her and the others of trying to kill him, wanting to chop down Cleopatra (which the whole family considers murder), and wanting her to stop wearing black (which is a major offence if you're Morticia.)

* Gomez prior to meeting Morticia. He's cynical and a {{hypochondria}}c. Thankfully, that went away pretty quick.
* In "Cousin Itt and the Vocational Counsellor", Morticia and Gomez are pretending that they are a bickering couple and Cousin Itt is their counsellor. This is funny up until [[MoodWhiplash Morticia thinks Gomez really meant one of his lines and starts crying.]] Even worse is that that night, she won't even let him sleep in his own bed so he sleeps on the couch instead.

* Wednesday and Pugsley begging Fester to come to their play and Fester, in tears, saying "I'm busy". Lessened when he decides to go anyway against his "mother's" wishes.
* The Addamses being forced to move out of their home. Each member looks absolutely ''dejected'' as they are seen packing up their belongs into the family car. Even Gomez, who played the AFoolForAClient card in court to fight the restraining order, suffers a HeroicBSOD that he takes a good while to recover from as a result of the loss (quite jarring when you remember the Gomez of the series happily shrugging off such losses). Further, as the car pulls away from the house, you can hear Fester -- who's been watching them from a window this whole time -- crying in the distance.
** After they're forced from their home in the first movie and Gomez slips into a lethargic depression, the normally humorous BaitAndSwitch gag formula that's proven itself for laughs so far is used to heartbreaking effect.

* The family's entire situation in ''Values'', culminating in Morticia shedding a SingleTear at Gomez's bedside - possibly her equivalent of uncontrollable sobbing. Their youngest son is ill with a disease that they don't understand. Gomez and Morticia try to make him happy, because they're GoodParents, despite their own distaste. Their long-lost brother was found, only to be driven away from the family again. The grief causes Gomez to start dying. Luckily, the TraumaCongaLine ends rather quickly after that moment.