The Addams Family (TV Series)

Amnesia in the Addams Family (1965)

John Astin: Gomez Addams

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Quotes 

• Gomez Addams : Right now I'm starved.

  Morticia Addams : Anything your heart desires, how 'bout some of that nice baked iguana?

  Gomez Addams : Capital! An iguana sandwich and a steaming cup of pinecone nectar.

• Gomez Addams : Until you pay for those trains, I am cutting off your allowance.

  Pugsley Addams : But I don't get any allowance.

  Gomez Addams : Starting today, you get an allowance so I can cut it off.

  [to Morticia] 

  Gomez Addams : There's a touch of madness around here...

• Gomez Addams : [gazing around at his home]  Looks like a museum that's been condemned.

• Gomez Addams : What's that?

  Morticia Addams : That's our butler, Lurch.

  Gomez Addams : Is it real or do you wind it up?

• Gomez Addams : I'm going to get you a lovely, golden-haired doll that says "Mama."

  Wednesday Addams : But what have I done?

  Gomez Addams : Nothing.

  Wednesday Addams : Then why are you punishing me?

• Uncle Fester : Why do you keep staring at me?

  Gomez Addams : Doesn't everyone?

• [Morticia hopes Gomez' memory will return through routine activities] 

  Morticia Addams : Let's recapture those mad moments, Gomez. Kiss my arm.

  Gomez Addams : Your arm?

  Morticia Addams : Darling, I'm yours, from shoulder to knuckle.

  Gomez Addams : Isn't that rather unsanitary?

• Gomez Addams : Nothing takes the knots off a man's head like sandpaper.

• Morticia Addams : Perhaps a nice visit with the children would soothe you.

  Gomez Addams : Children, what children?

  Morticia Addams : Our children, dear.

  Gomez Addams : Madam, are you suggesting... that we've been more than friends?

  Morticia Addams : Gomez, we're married.

  Gomez Addams : Oh, I forgot.

• Morticia Addams : Oh, this is dreadful. Has your memory been destroyed?

  Gomez Addams : I don't know. I don't remember.

• Morticia Addams : Surely you recognize your own offspring.

  Gomez Addams : No, but the girl does resemble you.

  Morticia Addams : And Pugsley's the image of you.

  Gomez Addams : [horrified]  He is?

  Morticia Addams : Well, naturally. Look in the mirror.

  Gomez Addams : [shunning away, quickly]  I'm afraid.

• Gomez Addams : [spotting Mama in the stocks]  This is an interesting old wooden carving.

  Grandmama Addams : Me, a wooden carving?

  Gomez Addams : It's alive!

• Gomez Addams : It's not very easy to relax around here.

  Morticia Addams : Well, of course it is. Stand on your head.