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* MirroringFactions: Despite greatly disliking the Addams-family for their "strangeness," the Normanmeyers themselves aren't nearly as "normal" as they themselves like to think they are. For example:
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** The Normanmeyer's house is littered with various underwear-based decorations and themes.
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* NotSoDifferent: Despite greatly disliking the Addams-family for their "strangeness," the Normanmeyers themselves aren't nearly as "normal" as they themselves like to think they are. For example:
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** The Normanmeyer's house is littered with various underwear-based decorations and themes.
** Norman's weirdly obsessed with underwear, being major manufacturer of it.
** The Normanmeyer's house is littered with various underwear-based decorations and themes.
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* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: The original theme song frequently appeared within this show, where the Addamses would often hum the theme song while doing certain tasks.
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* ThemeTuneCameo: The original theme song frequently appeared within this show, where the Addamses would often hum the theme song while doing certain tasks.
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* DrillSergeantNasty: D.I. Holler, the camp counselor of Camp Holler in "Camp Addams". An unusual variation as Holler is eventually shown to be right AND wrong, as the camp is meant to be to straighten out spoiled rich kids (Mr. Normanmeyer dumped Pugsley and Wednesday there to keep them away from N.J), and when the campers revolt at the end, Wednesday points out that for all of Holler's harshness, she really does teach important lessons of fitness and self-reliance (which the rich kids realize when they apply Hollers lessons without realizing it), then tells Holler that while her training is correct, she'd be easier to understand if she didn't yell so much. Holler ends up calming down.
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* DrillSergeantNasty: D.I. Holler, the camp counselor of Camp Holler in "Camp Addams". An unusual variation as Holler is eventually shown to be right AND wrong, as the camp is meant to be to straighten out spoiled rich kids (Mr. Normanmeyer dumped Pugsley and Wednesday there to keep them away from N.J), and when the campers revolt at the end, Wednesday points out that for all of Holler's harshness, she really does teach important lessons of fitness and self-reliance (which the rich kids realize when they apply Hollers Holler's lessons without realizing it), then tells Holler that while her training is correct, she'd be easier to understand if she didn't yell so much. Holler ends up calming down.
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** In another episode "Itt's Over" Norman manages to get Fester arrested for 'killing' Cousin Itt. However it turns out Cousin Itt is alive and well and his 'disappearance' as it turned out he left for an emergency hair appointment. As a result Norman gets arrested for lying to the police that he 'witnessed' the crime and replies Fester in prison.
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** In another episode "Itt's Over" Over", Norman manages to get Fester arrested for 'killing' Cousin Itt. However However, it turns out Cousin Itt is alive and well well, and his 'disappearance' as it turned out was because he left for an emergency hair appointment. As a result result, Norman gets arrested for lying to the police that he 'witnessed' the crime and replies replaces Fester in prison.
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** In another episode "Itt's Over" Norman manages to get Fester arrested for 'killing' Cousin Itt. However it turns out Cousin Itt is alive and well and his 'disappearance' as it turned out he left for an emergency hair appointment. As a result Norman gets arrested for lying to the police that he 'witnessed' the crime and replies Fester in prison.
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* CouchGag: In the opening of the series, whether Pugsley or Wednesday won at the line "Petite" and what position the family is at the ending.
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* ChromaticArrangement: The Normanmeyers. Norman wears a powder blue suit, Normina wears a bright yellow dress and N.J. wears a pink shirt.
* CouchGag: In the opening of the series, whether Pugsley or Wednesday won at the line "Petite" and what position the family is in at the ending.
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** Cousin Itt has Thundermane, a supervillain with a cybernetic haircut, but he only appears in one episode.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** Whenever Thing's box is opened, what can best be described as a pin-up photo of a disembodied female hand can usually be seen on the underside of the lid.
** "Dead and Breakfast" has Gomez and Morticia request that their children give them some time to be alone after they find themselves in cages hanging from the ceiling.
** In "Camp Addams", Mr. Normanmeyer asks if Gomez and Morticia spent a night in the lion pit. Morticia remarks that they probably kept the neighbors awake with all the snarls, roars and shrieks, with Gomez adding how his wife brings out the animal in him.
** Whenever Thing's box is opened, what can best be described as a pin-up photo of a disembodied female hand can usually be seen on the underside of the lid.
** "Dead and Breakfast" has Gomez and Morticia request that their children give them some time to be alone after they find themselves in cages hanging from the ceiling.
** In "Camp Addams", Mr. Normanmeyer asks if Gomez and Morticia spent a night in the lion pit. Morticia remarks that they probably kept the neighbors awake with all the snarls, roars and shrieks, with Gomez adding how his wife brings out the animal in him.
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** Whenever Thing's box is opened, what can best be described as a pin-up photo of a disembodied female hand can usually be seen on the underside of the lid.
** "DeadGettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and Breakfast" has Gomez and Morticia request that their children give them some time to be alone after they find themselves in cages hanging from the ceiling.
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** Whenever Thing's box is opened, what can best be described as a pin-up photo of a disembodied female hand can usually be seen on the underside of the lid.
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* AmericanGothicCouple: The ''American Gothic'' painting is spoofed briefly in the episode "Hide and Go Lurch", where one of the first hiding places Gomez and Fester try while avoiding Lurch is a similar portrait. Gomez is disguised as the wife while Fester is disguised as the husband.
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* AmericanGothicCouple: The ''American Gothic'' painting is spoofed briefly in the episode "Hide and Go Lurch", where one of the first hiding places Gomez and Fester try while avoiding Lurch is a similar portrait. Gomez is disguised as the wife daughter while Fester is disguised as the husband.father.
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* AmericanGothicCouple: The ''American Gothic'' painting is spoofed briefly in the episode "Hide and Go Lurch", where one of the first hiding places Gomez and Fester try while avoiding Lurch is a similar portrait. Gomez is disguised as the wife while Fester is disguised as the husband.
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* MirrorCrackingUgly: Fester looks into a mirror and makes it crack in the episode "Itt's Over".
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** Fester looks into a mirror and makes it crack in the episode "Itt'sOver".Over".
** In "Little Big Thing", Granny Frump stubbornly refuses to get new glasses, claiming that she looks better without them. She finds her point proven when she takes off one of the pairs she's trying on and the mirror she's looking in promptly shatters.
** Fester looks into a mirror and makes it crack in the episode "Itt's
** In "Little Big Thing", Granny Frump stubbornly refuses to get new glasses, claiming that she looks better without them. She finds her point proven when she takes off one of the pairs she's trying on and the mirror she's looking in promptly shatters.
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* DramaticThunder: The opening of this show starts with a lightning and an OminousPipeOrgan.
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* OminousPipeOrgan: The intro of this show starts with the brief beginning of [[Music/ToccataAndFugueInDMinor Toccata in D minor]] by Music/JohannSebastianBach.
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* OminousPipeOrgan: The intro of this show starts with the very short beginning of [[Music/ToccataAndFugueInDMinor Toccata in D minor]] by Music/JohannSebastianBach.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Wednesday calls her headless doll "Juliet" instead of "Marie" in the pilot episode "Happyester Fester".
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* GooGooGetup: In "Little Doll Lost", after Lurch offers to take the place of Wednesday's lost Marie Antoinette doll, one of their playtime activities involves him clad in this.
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* PinkGirlBlueBoy: Lurch and his girlfriend play this trope straight with their skin colors.
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* HappilyMarried: Gomez and Morticia, per usual, are a happily married couple. There's also the Normanmeyers, recurring semi-antagonists in the 1990s cartoon. Despite their extreme dislike of the Addamses' behavior, they're shown as a very loving couple toward each other.
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* MetaphorIsMyMiddleName: In "Dead and Breakfast", Uncle Fester claims that crime is his middle name when he tries to investigate who robbed the family. Wednesday quips that his middle name was fungus last week.
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* NotSoDifferent: Ironically, the Normanmeyers aren't nearly as "normal" as they like to think they are. For example:
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* StepfordSuburbia: Played with Happydale Heights, the shows setting, puts a lot of weight on being [[StepfordSmiler "happy"]] and normalcy, but the majority of its residents seem to have little problem with the Addams, and only interfere when their antics spill out into the town itself. The only characters who seem to be interested in rigidly enforcing the standards are the teachers of the elementary school, and Mr. and Mrs. Normanmeyer.
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* StepfordSuburbia: Played with Happydale Heights, the shows show's setting, puts a lot of weight on being [[StepfordSmiler "happy"]] and normalcy, but the majority of its residents seem to have little problem with the Addams, and only interfere when their antics spill out into the town itself. The only characters who seem to be interested in rigidly enforcing the standards are the teachers of the elementary school, and Mr. and Mrs. Normanmeyer.
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* NotSoDifferent: Ironically, the Normanmeyers are not nearly as "normal" as they like to think themselves as. Norman is weirdly obsessed with underwear, being a major manufacturer, and their house is littered with various underwear-based decorations and themes.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: While Gomez looks ''slightly'' closer to his comic book appearance than his live action counterparts, his face still looks fairly normal so he can pass as a sophisticated gentleman. Similarly to the live action versions, he also has a more lean and athletic physique than the chubby comic book version.
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** "The Day Gomez Failed" revolves around Gomez feeling he had run out of challenges and figuring that the only thing he hadn't accomplished yet was to ''fail'' at something. He spends the whole episode trying to do (and fail at) ridiculous, impossible things, [[TheFool only to succeed with blinding colors in spite of himself.]] [[spoiler: At the end of the episode, Morticia points out that he actually succeeded at his goal after all, by ''failing at failing.'']] [[MindScrew Don't think too hard about that one.]]
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** "The Day Gomez Failed" revolves around Gomez feeling he had run out of challenges and figuring that the only thing he hadn't accomplished yet was to ''fail'' at something. He spends the whole episode trying to do (and fail at) ridiculous, impossible things, [[TheFool [[SpringtimeForHitler only to succeed with blinding colors in spite of himself.]] [[spoiler: At the end of the episode, Morticia points out that he actually succeeded at his goal after all, by ''failing at failing.'']] [[MindScrew Don't think too hard about that one.]]
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* WentToTheGreatXInTheSky: The episode "Itt's Over", where Uncle Fester is mistaken for having killed Cousin Itt, has Fester lament that his cousin has gone to the big wig-maker in the sky.
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* LicensedGame: ''The Addams Family: Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt'' for the Game Boy, NES and SNES. The Game Boy and NES versions were essentially 8-bit versions of the video game tie-in to [[Film/TheAddamsFamily the first live-action film]] that was released for the SNES and Sega Genesis with the differences of some levels and bosses being omitted as well as Gomez and Pugsley exchanging roles as player character and family member rescued by defeating a boss, while the SNES version had new content while still being a platformer where you played as Pugsley.
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The second animated series based on ''Franchise/TheAddamsFamily'' that was produced by Creator/HannaBarbera, which aired in 1992 on Creator/{{ABC}} in the wake of [[Film/TheAddamsFamily the recent live-action movie]]. It was more similar to the 1960s live-action sitcom, mainly taking place in the Addams' big mansion, and featuring original Gomez Creator/JohnAstin [[RoleReprisal returning to his role]]. Unlike the 1973 series, this iteration also used the classic theme song. The show was later rerun on Creator/CartoonNetwork and Creator/{{Boomerang}}.
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The second animated series based on ''Franchise/TheAddamsFamily'' that was produced by Creator/HannaBarbera, which aired in 1992 on Creator/{{ABC}} in the wake of [[Film/TheAddamsFamily the recent live-action movie]]. It was more similar to the 1960s live-action sitcom, mainly taking place in the Addams' big mansion, and featuring original Gomez Creator/JohnAstin [[RoleReprisal returning to his role]].role. Unlike the 1973 series, this iteration also used the classic theme song. The show was later rerun on Creator/CartoonNetwork and Creator/{{Boomerang}}.
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* AnAesop: One episode revolves around Grandma needing glasses and stubbornly refusing to accept it, which leads to her turning Thing into a giant monstrosity that almost wrecks the town when she enlarges him to make reading his palm easier. At the end, Morticia gives her a lecture about how many people, even ''Lurch'', wear glasses (in Lurch's case, they're reading glasses).
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* AnAesop: One episode "Little Big Thing" revolves around Grandma needing glasses and stubbornly refusing to accept it, which leads to her turning Thing into a giant monstrosity that almost wrecks the town when she enlarges him to make reading his palm easier. At the end, Morticia gives her a lecture about how many people, even ''Lurch'', wear glasses (in Lurch's case, they're reading glasses).
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* GrossUpCloseUp: In "Ask Granny", we see a grotesquely detailed close-up of Granny Frump's puckered-up lips.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Just as creepy and kooky, but much more two-dimensional.[[note]]The Family as they appeared in the 1992 series.[[/note]]]]
The second animated series based on ''Franchise/TheAddamsFamily'' that was produced by Creator/HannaBarbera, which aired in 1992 on Creator/{{ABC}} in the wake of [[Film/TheAddamsFamily the recent live-action movie]]. It was more similar to the 1960s live-action sitcom, mainly taking place in the Addams' big mansion, and featuring original Gomez Creator/JohnAstin [[RoleReprisal returning to his role]]. Unlike the 1973 series, this iteration also used the classic theme song. The show was later rerun on Creator/CartoonNetwork and Creator/{{Boomerang}}.
For the 1973 animated series, see ''WesternAnimation/TheAddamsFamily1973''. If it's the 2019 animated film you're searching for, go to ''WesternAnimation/TheAddamsFamily2019''.
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* TheAce:
** "The Day Gomez Failed" revolves around Gomez feeling he had run out of challenges and figuring that the only thing he hadn't accomplished yet was to ''fail'' at something. He spends the whole episode trying to do (and fail at) ridiculous, impossible things, [[TheFool only to succeed with blinding colors in spite of himself.]] [[spoiler: At the end of the episode, Morticia points out that he actually succeeded at his goal after all, by ''failing at failing.'']] [[MindScrew Don't think too hard about that one.]]
** Thing also has shades of this, easily becoming rich and famous when he sets out to become a Hollywood star, accidentally earning the ire of a mentally unbalanced hand model in the process.
* ActionFigureFileCard: The toy line based on the 1992 cartoon had them.
* AdaptationalDumbass: In spite of being a boy genius in the original live-action series, this continuity portrays Pugsley Addams as a thick-headed numskull.
* AnAesop: One episode revolves around Grandma needing glasses and stubbornly refusing to accept it, which leads to her turning Thing into a giant monstrosity that almost wrecks the town when she enlarges him to make reading his palm easier. At the end, Morticia gives her a lecture about how many people, even ''Lurch'', wear glasses (in Lurch's case, they're reading glasses).
* ArbitrarySkepticism: For some odd reason, Fester absolutely refuses to believe in Grandmama's fortunetelling powers despite the supernatural nature of the Addams, and is very vocal about it. The show is ambivalent whether she can tell the future or not, though she has been shown to have other magic abilities.
* ArchEnemy: One-sided with the Normanmeyers, who hate the Addams and constantly try to ruin them. The Addamses don't consider them enemies at all, and see their abuse as friendly neighborly behavior.
** Thing of all beings manages to get himself an arch enemy in a weird hand model named [[PunnyName Harry Palmer]] who tries to kill him after Thing takes most of his roles. He reappears in a later episode, now living in Happydale Heights as a security guard, who's been kidnapping guard animals to keep him safe after developing paranoia about Thing.
** Cousin Itt has Thundermane, a supervillain with a cybernetic haircut, but he only appears in one episode.
* AuthorFilibuster: If an episode has an aesop, then Wednesday will make sure you learn it.
* BerserkButton:
** Grabbing Wednesday by the braids. Gomez and Morticia refer to the last person to do it in the past tense, and Pugsley even flat-out tells the perpetrator (a robber) YouDoNotWantToKnow what she'll do.
** The normally unflappable Gomez goes ''ballistic'' when someone else flirts with Morticia, as experienced by the villainous Thundermane and his goons.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The series plays with this Trope an interesting way. Morticia, wanting to bond with her children, volunteers to help out at the local school, but even before she starts, Wednesday knows she won't be able to fit in. True enough, Morticia's attempt at helping out with lessons and school lunches backfires in a major way (though the schoolchildren are mostly amused), and Morticia doesn't understand why, since she, by her own standards, did a perfectly fine job. Gomez also comments on the faculty being angry at her, since he recalls his own schooling being a lot like what Morticia did. Wednesday and Pugsley are perfectly aware that the Addams type of morality isn't the norm, but Morticia and Gomez, not interacting much with society at large, aren't.
* BringMyBrownPants: Norman Normanmeyer alludes to this trope in the "Puttergeist" episode, where he remarks that the way people reacted to seeing him dressed as the Puttergeist was good for the underwear business.
* BrokenPedestal: Wednesday experiences a mild example when she finds out that her teen idol crush Graveyard Gary is just a normal guy playing a role. He's not a huge dick or anything, but the Addams lifestyle really freaks him out and he can't keep character.
* CaptivityHarmonica: While in jail for allegedly killing Cousin Itt in "Itt's Over", Uncle Fester at one point uses his nostrils to play the Addams Family theme song on the harmonica.
* CementShoes: Pugsley does it to Wednesday, but because they are busy chasing the Puttergeist, he doesn't get to throw her in the water.
* CouchGag: In the opening of the series, whether Pugsley or Wednesday won at the line "Petite" and what position the family is at the ending.
* CreepyFamily: This is an Addams Family cartoon, so of course this is another work involving a family that's bizarre and sinister.
* DrillSergeantNasty: D.I. Holler, the camp counselor of Camp Holler in "Camp Addams". An unusual variation as Holler is eventually shown to be right AND wrong, as the camp is meant to be to straighten out spoiled rich kids (Mr. Normanmeyer dumped Pugsley and Wednesday there to keep them away from N.J), and when the campers revolt at the end, Wednesday points out that for all of Holler's harshness, she really does teach important lessons of fitness and self-reliance (which the rich kids realize when they apply Hollers lessons without realizing it), then tells Holler that while her training is correct, she'd be easier to understand if she didn't yell so much. Holler ends up calming down.
* EnfantTerrible: A RunningGag of the show is that while Wednesday is well behaved, Pugsly is usually chained up or otherwise restrained during school hours to keep him from wreaking havoc.
* EveryEpisodeEnding: The episodes mostly end with one of the family members announcing a ‘family dance’ to celebrate resolving the problem of the week. One member generally thinks of a song which someone else rejects and then comes up with another one which they all agree on and then they dance.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Mr Normanmeyer just can’t get that any harm he does to the Addams, will be welcomed with open arms.
** In one episode he gets Fester thrown in prison and visits to gloat on him… only to find Fester is having the time of his life. When Fester thanks him for putting him in there, he starts beating on the bars weeping tears of frustration.
* FreakyIsCool: N.J. Normanmeyer certainly falls here. Unlike his parents, who despise the Addamses, N.J. thinks the family is pretty cool, enjoys hanging at their house and is best friends with Wednesday and Pugsley. This seems to go for almost all the children of Happydale, who on several occasions join the Addamses in their antics, especially in a notable episode where Morticia arranges a scavenger hunt in the Addams house. Which, let's be honest, if the implements that can kill, maim, hurt or transform someone are kept out of reach, is the most perfect place for a scavenger hunt, EVER.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** Whenever Thing's box is opened, what can best be described as a pin-up photo of a disembodied female hand can usually be seen on the underside of the lid.
** "Dead and Breakfast" has Gomez and Morticia request that their children give them some time to be alone after they find themselves in cages hanging from the ceiling.
** In "Camp Addams", Mr. Normanmeyer asks if Gomez and Morticia spent a night in the lion pit. Morticia remarks that they probably kept the neighbors awake with all the snarls, roars and shrieks, with Gomez adding how his wife brings out the animal in him.
* HalloweenEpisode: In "Puttergeist", Wednesday, Pugsley and their friend N.J. try to determine whether the legend of the Puttergeist ghost, the spirit of a headless golfer who was struck by lightning on the Happydale golf course 40 years ago, is true or not. At first, it seems the Puttergeist was only N.J.'s father, Norman, in a costume. [[spoiler:But then it turned out the Puttergeist was RealAfterAll]].
* HappilyMarried: Gomez and Morticia, per usual, are a happily married couple. There's also the Normanmeyers, recurring semi-antagonists in the 1990s cartoon. Despite their extreme dislike of the Addamses' behavior, they're shown as a very loving couple toward each other.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Cousin Itt is an international secret agent, and we occasionally get a glimpse into his amazing adventures.
* HypocriticalHumor: Fingers called Fester "Baldy" despite that fact that he is also [[BaldOfEvil bald]].
* IAmSong: "The Fester Way" has Uncle Fester sing about his way of life.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: In the "Sweetheart of a Brother " episode, when Pugsley wants to become a normal kid after he gets a crush on a foreign exchange student, and is afraid she wont like his Addams personality. Not only does she not care about it, as she can tell he's a good person, but becoming normal means Pugsley cant scare away the school bully like he usually does. He only snaps out of it after the bully threatens the girl for standing up against him, and reverts to his usual self to protect her.
* IWantMyMommy: Norman Normanmeyer makes a comedic cry for "mommy" when Lurch catches him snooping on the Addamses in "FTV". He does it again in "Itt's Over" when he ends up in jail for lying about Uncle Fester killing Cousin Itt.
* InvisibleStreaker: Gomez and Fester consumed an invisibility formula that didn't affect their clothes in the episode "Hide and Go Lurch".
* MadBomber: Uncle Fester is a very rare heroic example, as he's mostly interested in blowing up ''himself'' and doesn't cause much collateral damage in the process.
* MetaphorIsMyMiddleName: In "Dead and Breakfast", Uncle Fester claims that crime is his middle name when he tries to investigate who robbed the family. Wednesday quips that his middle name was fungus last week.
* MirrorCrackingUgly: Fester looks into a mirror and makes it crack in the episode "Itt's Over".
* MythologyGag:
** Overall, this cartoon, as was done with the [[WesternAnimation/TheAddamsFamily1973 1973 cartoon]], uses character designs based on Charles Addams' original ''New Yorker'' cartoons, though this time a more stylized appearance is used.
** In the "Little Big Thing" episode, we see a glasses shop called Coogan's, as in Jackie Coogan, the actor who played Uncle Fester in the original live-action show.
** Cousin Itt is portrayed as a secret agent, which may be a nod to an episode of the original '60s show where Cousin Itt was looking for a job and one of Gomez's suggestions was for Cousin Itt to be a government spy.
* OnceAnEpisode: Episodes ended with some traditional family dance. [[NoodleIncident None of the dances are ever actually shown (They just showed the house shaking from the outside), and some have very strange prerequisites, such as only being performed on certain days of the week or if you are no more than a certain distance from the airport.]]
* OnceASeason: Both seasons had one episode involving Uncle Fester's comic book superhero Festerman. Season one's episode was simply titled "Festerman", while season two's episode was titled "Festerman Returns".
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In "N.J Addams", Morticia realizes Gomez really ''is'' feeling sad when he doesn't respond to her speaking French.
* NotSoDifferent: Ironically, the Normanmeyers are not nearly as "normal" as they like to think themselves as. Norman is weirdly obsessed with underwear, being a major manufacturer, and their house is littered with various underwear-based decorations and themes.
* PetTheDog: The Normanmeyers, neighbors of the Addams Family, hated the Addamses and frequently plotted to get rid of them, but the episode "N.J. Addams" showed that they actually cared about and loved their son N.J. (who did not inherit their hatred; instead, he was close friends with Wednesday).
* PrisonEpisode: "Itt's Over" has Uncle Fester go to prison for allegedly murdering Cousin Itt. Cousin Itt eventually returns to prove that he's still alive. This results in Norman Normanmeyer, who reported Fester murdering Itt in the first place, being put behind bars for lying about the crime.
* RealityEnsues: In "The Day Gomez Failed," one of Gomez's many attempts to fail at something involves buying tons of stock in the worst company he can find. Unfortunately, he apparently doesn't understand how Wall Street works--when other investors hear that one of the richest people in the world is purchasing stakes in a business, they all rush to get in on the action, which in turn makes the company's shares skyrocket. This is common practice in actual stock markets.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The Mayor of Happydale Heights and Principal [=MacNamara=]. Neither has any personal issue with the Addams, and are only forced to interfere when they're worried that the Addams' behavior may be harmful to the other citizens. Both of them even join the Addams family dance when offered.
* RunningGag: Whenever Morticia says something in a different language, Gomez immediately pops up by her side, exclaims "Tish! That's [insert language]" and attempts to kiss her arm before Morticia tells him now isn't an appropriate time. Gomez even did this when ''Fester'' said something in a different language, at which point he tells Gomez to "do that with your wife".
* SpringtimeForHitler: {{Parodied}} in the episode "The Day Gomez Failed", where Gomez is trying to live up to the [[EpicFail Addams Family tradition of being a failure]] - however, every time he tries to embark on some ZanyScheme that would clearly ruin him, [[CursedWithAwesome it always backfires, making him even more of a success]]. [[spoiler: However, as Morticia points out, that simply makes him [[UpToEleven an even bigger failure]], because he failed '''''[[InsaneTrollLogic at failing]]'''''. This immediately cheers him up.]]
* StepfordSuburbia: Played with Happydale Heights, the shows setting, puts a lot of weight on being [[StepfordSmiler "happy"]] and normalcy, but the majority of its residents seem to have little problem with the Addams, and only interfere when their antics spill out into the town itself. The only characters who seem to be interested in rigidly enforcing the standards are the teachers of the elementary school, and Mr. and Mrs. Normanmeyer.
* SuperheroEpisode: "Festerman" and "Festerman Returns", which follows the fictional adventures of a comic book Fester has made.
* SweetAndSourGrapes: Humorously inverted in "The Day Gomez Failed." When Norman Normanmeyer tricks Gomez into signing over the deed to the Addams's property and then tells the city that they can build a freeway on it, the construction workers discover that the land is too swampy to use, and reward Gomez for saving them millions. Ordinarily, that would be the "sweet" to the sour of nearly losing the land...but Gomez is more depressed than ever, because it just means that he's ''yet again'' succeeded when he wanted to fail!
* ThemeTuneCameo: The original theme song frequently appeared within this show, where the Addamses would often hum the theme song while doing certain tasks.
* {{Unishment}}: A key example happens where Norman frames Fester for Itt's supposed death. He finds jail delightful and when Itt turns up fine, he even pulls some strings so Fester can stay as long he wants without the need to commit crimes. To add insult to injury, Norman is arrested for making false accusations.
* VictoryIsBoring: This happens a lot with Gomez. In "The Day Gomez Failed", he has achieved so much he decides to try his hand at failure, and in another episode he wins a long-standing feud only to find it’s awful being a winner.
* VillainSong: "The Polycotton Blues" by Mr. Normanmeyer about how much he dislikes living next door to the Addams and how he wants to get rid of them (with Mrs Normanmeyer and even N.J. joining in).
* VitriolicBestBuds: A weird example with Mr. Normanmeyer and Uncle Fester from the 1990s cartoon. Normanmeyer despises Fester and does everything he can to treat him like crap. Fester, being an Addams and TooKinkyToTorture, loves it and interprets Norman's abuse as friendly affection.
* WaifFu: Wednesday is fencing enthusiast like her father.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Wednesday has an uncontrollable urge to dance when she hears music, which Pugsley uses to beat her in the family's annual [[MotorcycleJousting joust]] for the first time ever in "Sir Pugsley". The same episode had Gomez and Morticia's joust end because Gomez predictably got distracted by Moritica saying "en garde".
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[[caption-width-right:350:Just as creepy and kooky, but much more two-dimensional.[[note]]The Family as they appeared in the 1992 series.[[/note]]]]
The second animated series based on ''Franchise/TheAddamsFamily'' that was produced by Creator/HannaBarbera, which aired in 1992 on Creator/{{ABC}} in the wake of [[Film/TheAddamsFamily the recent live-action movie]]. It was more similar to the 1960s live-action sitcom, mainly taking place in the Addams' big mansion, and featuring original Gomez Creator/JohnAstin [[RoleReprisal returning to his role]]. Unlike the 1973 series, this iteration also used the classic theme song. The show was later rerun on Creator/CartoonNetwork and Creator/{{Boomerang}}.
For the 1973 animated series, see ''WesternAnimation/TheAddamsFamily1973''. If it's the 2019 animated film you're searching for, go to ''WesternAnimation/TheAddamsFamily2019''.
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!!Tropes:
* TheAce:
** "The Day Gomez Failed" revolves around Gomez feeling he had run out of challenges and figuring that the only thing he hadn't accomplished yet was to ''fail'' at something. He spends the whole episode trying to do (and fail at) ridiculous, impossible things, [[TheFool only to succeed with blinding colors in spite of himself.]] [[spoiler: At the end of the episode, Morticia points out that he actually succeeded at his goal after all, by ''failing at failing.'']] [[MindScrew Don't think too hard about that one.]]
** Thing also has shades of this, easily becoming rich and famous when he sets out to become a Hollywood star, accidentally earning the ire of a mentally unbalanced hand model in the process.
* ActionFigureFileCard: The toy line based on the 1992 cartoon had them.
* AdaptationalDumbass: In spite of being a boy genius in the original live-action series, this continuity portrays Pugsley Addams as a thick-headed numskull.
* AnAesop: One episode revolves around Grandma needing glasses and stubbornly refusing to accept it, which leads to her turning Thing into a giant monstrosity that almost wrecks the town when she enlarges him to make reading his palm easier. At the end, Morticia gives her a lecture about how many people, even ''Lurch'', wear glasses (in Lurch's case, they're reading glasses).
* ArbitrarySkepticism: For some odd reason, Fester absolutely refuses to believe in Grandmama's fortunetelling powers despite the supernatural nature of the Addams, and is very vocal about it. The show is ambivalent whether she can tell the future or not, though she has been shown to have other magic abilities.
* ArchEnemy: One-sided with the Normanmeyers, who hate the Addams and constantly try to ruin them. The Addamses don't consider them enemies at all, and see their abuse as friendly neighborly behavior.
** Thing of all beings manages to get himself an arch enemy in a weird hand model named [[PunnyName Harry Palmer]] who tries to kill him after Thing takes most of his roles. He reappears in a later episode, now living in Happydale Heights as a security guard, who's been kidnapping guard animals to keep him safe after developing paranoia about Thing.
** Cousin Itt has Thundermane, a supervillain with a cybernetic haircut, but he only appears in one episode.
* AuthorFilibuster: If an episode has an aesop, then Wednesday will make sure you learn it.
* BerserkButton:
** Grabbing Wednesday by the braids. Gomez and Morticia refer to the last person to do it in the past tense, and Pugsley even flat-out tells the perpetrator (a robber) YouDoNotWantToKnow what she'll do.
** The normally unflappable Gomez goes ''ballistic'' when someone else flirts with Morticia, as experienced by the villainous Thundermane and his goons.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The series plays with this Trope an interesting way. Morticia, wanting to bond with her children, volunteers to help out at the local school, but even before she starts, Wednesday knows she won't be able to fit in. True enough, Morticia's attempt at helping out with lessons and school lunches backfires in a major way (though the schoolchildren are mostly amused), and Morticia doesn't understand why, since she, by her own standards, did a perfectly fine job. Gomez also comments on the faculty being angry at her, since he recalls his own schooling being a lot like what Morticia did. Wednesday and Pugsley are perfectly aware that the Addams type of morality isn't the norm, but Morticia and Gomez, not interacting much with society at large, aren't.
* BringMyBrownPants: Norman Normanmeyer alludes to this trope in the "Puttergeist" episode, where he remarks that the way people reacted to seeing him dressed as the Puttergeist was good for the underwear business.
* BrokenPedestal: Wednesday experiences a mild example when she finds out that her teen idol crush Graveyard Gary is just a normal guy playing a role. He's not a huge dick or anything, but the Addams lifestyle really freaks him out and he can't keep character.
* CaptivityHarmonica: While in jail for allegedly killing Cousin Itt in "Itt's Over", Uncle Fester at one point uses his nostrils to play the Addams Family theme song on the harmonica.
* CementShoes: Pugsley does it to Wednesday, but because they are busy chasing the Puttergeist, he doesn't get to throw her in the water.
* CouchGag: In the opening of the series, whether Pugsley or Wednesday won at the line "Petite" and what position the family is at the ending.
* CreepyFamily: This is an Addams Family cartoon, so of course this is another work involving a family that's bizarre and sinister.
* DrillSergeantNasty: D.I. Holler, the camp counselor of Camp Holler in "Camp Addams". An unusual variation as Holler is eventually shown to be right AND wrong, as the camp is meant to be to straighten out spoiled rich kids (Mr. Normanmeyer dumped Pugsley and Wednesday there to keep them away from N.J), and when the campers revolt at the end, Wednesday points out that for all of Holler's harshness, she really does teach important lessons of fitness and self-reliance (which the rich kids realize when they apply Hollers lessons without realizing it), then tells Holler that while her training is correct, she'd be easier to understand if she didn't yell so much. Holler ends up calming down.
* EnfantTerrible: A RunningGag of the show is that while Wednesday is well behaved, Pugsly is usually chained up or otherwise restrained during school hours to keep him from wreaking havoc.
* EveryEpisodeEnding: The episodes mostly end with one of the family members announcing a ‘family dance’ to celebrate resolving the problem of the week. One member generally thinks of a song which someone else rejects and then comes up with another one which they all agree on and then they dance.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Mr Normanmeyer just can’t get that any harm he does to the Addams, will be welcomed with open arms.
** In one episode he gets Fester thrown in prison and visits to gloat on him… only to find Fester is having the time of his life. When Fester thanks him for putting him in there, he starts beating on the bars weeping tears of frustration.
* FreakyIsCool: N.J. Normanmeyer certainly falls here. Unlike his parents, who despise the Addamses, N.J. thinks the family is pretty cool, enjoys hanging at their house and is best friends with Wednesday and Pugsley. This seems to go for almost all the children of Happydale, who on several occasions join the Addamses in their antics, especially in a notable episode where Morticia arranges a scavenger hunt in the Addams house. Which, let's be honest, if the implements that can kill, maim, hurt or transform someone are kept out of reach, is the most perfect place for a scavenger hunt, EVER.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** Whenever Thing's box is opened, what can best be described as a pin-up photo of a disembodied female hand can usually be seen on the underside of the lid.
** "Dead and Breakfast" has Gomez and Morticia request that their children give them some time to be alone after they find themselves in cages hanging from the ceiling.
** In "Camp Addams", Mr. Normanmeyer asks if Gomez and Morticia spent a night in the lion pit. Morticia remarks that they probably kept the neighbors awake with all the snarls, roars and shrieks, with Gomez adding how his wife brings out the animal in him.
* HalloweenEpisode: In "Puttergeist", Wednesday, Pugsley and their friend N.J. try to determine whether the legend of the Puttergeist ghost, the spirit of a headless golfer who was struck by lightning on the Happydale golf course 40 years ago, is true or not. At first, it seems the Puttergeist was only N.J.'s father, Norman, in a costume. [[spoiler:But then it turned out the Puttergeist was RealAfterAll]].
* HappilyMarried: Gomez and Morticia, per usual, are a happily married couple. There's also the Normanmeyers, recurring semi-antagonists in the 1990s cartoon. Despite their extreme dislike of the Addamses' behavior, they're shown as a very loving couple toward each other.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Cousin Itt is an international secret agent, and we occasionally get a glimpse into his amazing adventures.
* HypocriticalHumor: Fingers called Fester "Baldy" despite that fact that he is also [[BaldOfEvil bald]].
* IAmSong: "The Fester Way" has Uncle Fester sing about his way of life.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: In the "Sweetheart of a Brother " episode, when Pugsley wants to become a normal kid after he gets a crush on a foreign exchange student, and is afraid she wont like his Addams personality. Not only does she not care about it, as she can tell he's a good person, but becoming normal means Pugsley cant scare away the school bully like he usually does. He only snaps out of it after the bully threatens the girl for standing up against him, and reverts to his usual self to protect her.
* IWantMyMommy: Norman Normanmeyer makes a comedic cry for "mommy" when Lurch catches him snooping on the Addamses in "FTV". He does it again in "Itt's Over" when he ends up in jail for lying about Uncle Fester killing Cousin Itt.
* InvisibleStreaker: Gomez and Fester consumed an invisibility formula that didn't affect their clothes in the episode "Hide and Go Lurch".
* MadBomber: Uncle Fester is a very rare heroic example, as he's mostly interested in blowing up ''himself'' and doesn't cause much collateral damage in the process.
* MetaphorIsMyMiddleName: In "Dead and Breakfast", Uncle Fester claims that crime is his middle name when he tries to investigate who robbed the family. Wednesday quips that his middle name was fungus last week.
* MirrorCrackingUgly: Fester looks into a mirror and makes it crack in the episode "Itt's Over".
* MythologyGag:
** Overall, this cartoon, as was done with the [[WesternAnimation/TheAddamsFamily1973 1973 cartoon]], uses character designs based on Charles Addams' original ''New Yorker'' cartoons, though this time a more stylized appearance is used.
** In the "Little Big Thing" episode, we see a glasses shop called Coogan's, as in Jackie Coogan, the actor who played Uncle Fester in the original live-action show.
** Cousin Itt is portrayed as a secret agent, which may be a nod to an episode of the original '60s show where Cousin Itt was looking for a job and one of Gomez's suggestions was for Cousin Itt to be a government spy.
* OnceAnEpisode: Episodes ended with some traditional family dance. [[NoodleIncident None of the dances are ever actually shown (They just showed the house shaking from the outside), and some have very strange prerequisites, such as only being performed on certain days of the week or if you are no more than a certain distance from the airport.]]
* OnceASeason: Both seasons had one episode involving Uncle Fester's comic book superhero Festerman. Season one's episode was simply titled "Festerman", while season two's episode was titled "Festerman Returns".
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In "N.J Addams", Morticia realizes Gomez really ''is'' feeling sad when he doesn't respond to her speaking French.
* NotSoDifferent: Ironically, the Normanmeyers are not nearly as "normal" as they like to think themselves as. Norman is weirdly obsessed with underwear, being a major manufacturer, and their house is littered with various underwear-based decorations and themes.
* PetTheDog: The Normanmeyers, neighbors of the Addams Family, hated the Addamses and frequently plotted to get rid of them, but the episode "N.J. Addams" showed that they actually cared about and loved their son N.J. (who did not inherit their hatred; instead, he was close friends with Wednesday).
* PrisonEpisode: "Itt's Over" has Uncle Fester go to prison for allegedly murdering Cousin Itt. Cousin Itt eventually returns to prove that he's still alive. This results in Norman Normanmeyer, who reported Fester murdering Itt in the first place, being put behind bars for lying about the crime.
* RealityEnsues: In "The Day Gomez Failed," one of Gomez's many attempts to fail at something involves buying tons of stock in the worst company he can find. Unfortunately, he apparently doesn't understand how Wall Street works--when other investors hear that one of the richest people in the world is purchasing stakes in a business, they all rush to get in on the action, which in turn makes the company's shares skyrocket. This is common practice in actual stock markets.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The Mayor of Happydale Heights and Principal [=MacNamara=]. Neither has any personal issue with the Addams, and are only forced to interfere when they're worried that the Addams' behavior may be harmful to the other citizens. Both of them even join the Addams family dance when offered.
* RunningGag: Whenever Morticia says something in a different language, Gomez immediately pops up by her side, exclaims "Tish! That's [insert language]" and attempts to kiss her arm before Morticia tells him now isn't an appropriate time. Gomez even did this when ''Fester'' said something in a different language, at which point he tells Gomez to "do that with your wife".
* SpringtimeForHitler: {{Parodied}} in the episode "The Day Gomez Failed", where Gomez is trying to live up to the [[EpicFail Addams Family tradition of being a failure]] - however, every time he tries to embark on some ZanyScheme that would clearly ruin him, [[CursedWithAwesome it always backfires, making him even more of a success]]. [[spoiler: However, as Morticia points out, that simply makes him [[UpToEleven an even bigger failure]], because he failed '''''[[InsaneTrollLogic at failing]]'''''. This immediately cheers him up.]]
* StepfordSuburbia: Played with Happydale Heights, the shows setting, puts a lot of weight on being [[StepfordSmiler "happy"]] and normalcy, but the majority of its residents seem to have little problem with the Addams, and only interfere when their antics spill out into the town itself. The only characters who seem to be interested in rigidly enforcing the standards are the teachers of the elementary school, and Mr. and Mrs. Normanmeyer.
* SuperheroEpisode: "Festerman" and "Festerman Returns", which follows the fictional adventures of a comic book Fester has made.
* SweetAndSourGrapes: Humorously inverted in "The Day Gomez Failed." When Norman Normanmeyer tricks Gomez into signing over the deed to the Addams's property and then tells the city that they can build a freeway on it, the construction workers discover that the land is too swampy to use, and reward Gomez for saving them millions. Ordinarily, that would be the "sweet" to the sour of nearly losing the land...but Gomez is more depressed than ever, because it just means that he's ''yet again'' succeeded when he wanted to fail!
* ThemeTuneCameo: The original theme song frequently appeared within this show, where the Addamses would often hum the theme song while doing certain tasks.
* {{Unishment}}: A key example happens where Norman frames Fester for Itt's supposed death. He finds jail delightful and when Itt turns up fine, he even pulls some strings so Fester can stay as long he wants without the need to commit crimes. To add insult to injury, Norman is arrested for making false accusations.
* VictoryIsBoring: This happens a lot with Gomez. In "The Day Gomez Failed", he has achieved so much he decides to try his hand at failure, and in another episode he wins a long-standing feud only to find it’s awful being a winner.
* VillainSong: "The Polycotton Blues" by Mr. Normanmeyer about how much he dislikes living next door to the Addams and how he wants to get rid of them (with Mrs Normanmeyer and even N.J. joining in).
* VitriolicBestBuds: A weird example with Mr. Normanmeyer and Uncle Fester from the 1990s cartoon. Normanmeyer despises Fester and does everything he can to treat him like crap. Fester, being an Addams and TooKinkyToTorture, loves it and interprets Norman's abuse as friendly affection.
* WaifFu: Wednesday is fencing enthusiast like her father.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Wednesday has an uncontrollable urge to dance when she hears music, which Pugsley uses to beat her in the family's annual [[MotorcycleJousting joust]] for the first time ever in "Sir Pugsley". The same episode had Gomez and Morticia's joust end because Gomez predictably got distracted by Moritica saying "en garde".
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