Having gone everywhere else on their vacations, the Addams family plans a trip to the moon. They will need to raise a billion dollars. They propose to their broker a plan to raise money by betting on eight champion racehorses. To pick the winners, they will use Whizzo, a computer built by Gomez and Pugsley.
This episode includes examples of the following tropes:
- The Big Race: The family plans to raise the money for their trip by betting on eight champion racehorses.
- Bittersweet Ending: The episode ends with the family unable to go to the moon, but they're happy, since they earned no money and, according to Gomez, zero is "still a good round number."
- Companion Cube: The family treats Whizzo as a friend.
- Names Given to Computers: The computer is named Whizzo.
- Trip to the Moon Plot: Averted. The vacation ends up being canceled.
