Lurch tells his pen pal Bonnie Jo that he is a famous rock-star and is chastised for fibbing. But in the original Addams Family series Lurch, the Teenage Idol (1965) Lurch did indeed become a famous rock star.
Gomez paraphrases William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Act III, scene II "I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him." when he says "We come, my friend, not to bury Vaudeville, but to praise it."