The Addams Family (TV Series)

My Fair Cousin Itt (1965)

Jackie Coogan: Uncle Fester

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Quotes 

• [as if he's a circus performer, Gomez balances a chair, an 18" rubber ball, a dinner plate and a vase with flowers midair on his chin] 

  Uncle Fester : I wish that doctor could see him now.

  Morticia Addams : Doctor?

  Uncle Fester : You know, the one that said our family was unbalanced. Gomez has got plenty of balance.

• Uncle Fester : [seeing Itt rehearse the part of Claude]  Are you sure this part doesn't call for a taller man, someone like me?

  Morticia Addams : No, Cousin Itt is perfection, but, Uncle Fester, you could be the understudy.

  Uncle Fester : You mean if, uh, something happens to him, like if he gets clobbered, uh, I could play Claude?

  Morticia Addams : Of course.

  Uncle Fester : [grinning]  Uh-huh...

  Uncle Fester : [fetching a mace]  Itt, let's go down to the playroom. We can rehearse together.

• Morticia Addams : Hello, Wednesday, darling. Welcome home. Did you enjoy school?

  Wednesday Addams : Pugsley flunked spelling again.

  Uncle Fester : A real Addams!

• Gomez Addams : [having written another play]  You should hear the big scene: This character, Charlie, can't pay back the twenty dollars he owes; this other fellow, Pete, demands a pound of flesh.

  Gomez Addams , Morticia Addams : Twenty dollars for a pound of flesh?

  Uncle Fester : Sounds fine to me.

  Morticia Addams : It does?

  Uncle Fester : Yeah. You should go in a butcher shop and see the prices they're getting.