The Addams Family (TV Series)

Mother Lurch Visits the Addams Family (1965)

Ted Cassidy: Lurch

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• Gomez Addams : [snaps his fingers]  Lurch, that picture of the house that you sent to your mother, you told her it was your house, right?

  [Lurch nods shamefully] 

  Morticia Addams : Well, we always think of you as one of the family, Lurch.

  Lurch : A servant...

  Morticia Addams : A very good servant!

  Lurch : I'm a liar.

  Gomez Addams : And a very good liar!

  Morticia Addams : Gomez!

  Gomez Addams : Oh sorry, I got carried away.

• [Training Lurch to behave like master of the house, Morticia presents him the newspaper] 

  Morticia Addams : No, no, Lurch. Not the funnies - the financial page. Wealthy men always turn to the financial page first.

  Lurch : [resolutely]  I like the funnies!

• Gomez Addams : You rang?

  Mother Lurch : I don't trust you Gomez, you've got shifty eyes! And no good butler wears a mustache!

  Gomez Addams : Sorry madam, I was born with it.

  Mother Lurch : Where have you been off to, some dark corner with that hussy of a maid?

  Gomez Addams : [to Lurch]  Sir, I appeal to you!

  Mother Lurch : You don't appeal to him and you don't appeal to me! My son is just too sweet and gentle. People take advantage of him. You're sloppy and inefficient!

  Gomez Addams : Sir, please tell her...

  Lurch : You're sloppy and inefficient!