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Official visitors from an unfriendly nation receive the shock of their lives when they decide to exploit the Addams family as an average uncultured American family. The visitors are shaken up by Morticia's carnivorous plants and uncle Fester's penchant for jolts of electricity, among other typical Addams sights.
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well, someone atleast appreciated the Addams's. those VIPs ate their food without complain and didnt frown when hearing it was eyes not eggs, they just figured "oh well... foreign delicacies" and then appriciated Lurch as amazing instead of horrifying.
I agree with that they really wern't as judgemental as others
True
Henbane sauce would be lethal though...
Victor Iancu Not necessarily. There are plenty of foods that are typically poisonous that can be prepared safely. Case and point: puffer fish. For all we know, there could be an old Addams/Frump recipe that safely prepares henbane. Granted, we know that's not possible with henbane, but neither are half of the things we've seen the Addamses do, not to mention what's in their house. Of all the shows to overanalyze, this is not one of them.
well you eat off things thst are normal in other places. I'm American but my families home country eats cow heart.
I like how they actually respected and understood the Addams and were so openminded instead of being freaked out so easily
Music Is Life the ironic thing being is that they thought the Addamses were indicative of the average American family. Still, they were in awe of and utterly intrigued by their peculiarities.
They were unlike mrs. Kravitz in Bewitched.. what's that in Pierce was hilarious with her freak out reactions to something strange after Stephen's house.. so sad to see her gone so soon R.I.P
@@georgeplagianos6487 ABNER!! ABNER!!
I like the addams family. They are unique and true to themselves.
I wouldn't say they understood The Addams Family. They were trying to justify rationalize the things they saw with robotics and genetics.
This series was pretty much perfect. It's a shame none of the reboots ever came close to this level of brilliance.
It's too bad MGM decided to make the viewing experience "UN-PERFECT" on YT.
Yep. The successors had bad writing in that they sometimes made the Addams malicious (oil on carollers example) rather than just weird and kooky.
@@thesmithersy yeah i don't like that
@@thesmithersy it's a bit of a tricky balance to get right.
@@samvanroon5041 It is. What it just has to be is creepy and not conforming to societal norms, but without doing in in a way that leads to intentional harm to people. Take the original, when people got hurt it was never through intent. But thats something they just don't do in reboots.
It’s hard to believe American television was ever this good.
Yup ... hard to believe they went so low ...
The industry is ruled by money, particularly, fast and big money. Nothing creative ever comes out of that.
Underrated Comment! 👍
Perhaps it's a case of when you've seen so much garbage and very little of quality you think a good thing is a great or brilliant thing.
@Trey Stephens It never was except in their own minds.
Morticia feeling the pin on the phonebook as though the Addams name was a Voodoo doll got the biggest laugh out of me.
I got that too! Very clever
I love how naughty Gomez can be with Morticia, and yet still be 100% family friendly.
So true!!
@@Switzer1234 and be PG at its time
Morticia doesn't stop Gomez either lol...she just submits to his love. She softly admonishes him from time to time when its not appropriate yet very infrequently because you can tell by expression she really loves the attention.
@@dunbarf2413 it was the swinging 60s man aqnd wood like to seee the sitcom updated the next gen
@@Switzer1234 m m p]
love how the piranhas are named Trsitan and Isolde lol- this show always had a slight intellectual bend.
You'll notice there were no human likeness of Romulus & Remus.Not under that Wolf's uttters getting mouthfull of luscious gamey milk..
The Addams are pretty intelligent
Since the original airing of these shows, I've been in love with Morticia. No-one and no digital animation will EVER fill that black gown as did Carolyn Jones.
She got me through my puberty. .... If you know what I mean ✊ 😊
@@purpleturkey1792 I wish I wouldn't know what you mean😂
What i would do to Morticia. Wowee!!
Peggy Bundy didn't patent that wiggle after all now did she
How could she even walk in that thing,let alone dance in it? They must have had her cinched up tighter than a Thanksgiving turkey!
I love Jackie Coogans's infectious Smile. He killed it in his role as Uncle fester.
The faces he makes are the best! He is so adorable.
are you aware that their is a bass player in a japanese heavy metal band that could be the reincarnation of Uncle Fester? look up, Ningen Isu / The Colour out of Space
Agreed.
@Master Farr Nah he isnt Tubby enough to be Howard.
All those great character actors are long gone.
And if husband's and wives loved each other like the Addams loved and respected each other.....there'd be no divorces!
Amen!😁. God Bless.
That's why I like the Addams family so much. They do the opposite of what society expects and yet they love each other so much and they are always happy.
@@MajorCulturalDivide Amen! I've Always Loved The Chemistry Between Gomez &
Morticia. Especially When She Speaks French. 😂 God Bless. ☮
So true.
@@mad_as_Hat.terish Amen! God Bless. ❤
Find someone who takes you in their arms like Lurch did with Mr. Harris
Problem is, I'm going to be very dissatisfied if that someone isn't ACTUALLY Lurch. (I kid, somewhat. Personality-wise he was darn near the perfect boyfriend.)
Me: Uh oh. *Lurch comes*
Lurch: Foooooloooooowwwwww meeeeeeeeeeeee.
Me: Ok. *Lurch takes me to the Addams house.*
Lurch is cute though
I love how Gomez and Morticia hold hands everytime they go domewhere together is sooo cute
and when she speaks french he absolutely goes insane
Mortica: anything exciting in the mail Dear?
Gomez : lots of bills!
Morticia: Wonderful! 😂😂😂
I wish I can say same here 😕
I can send you a bill. What's your address?
@@Antraeus 911 North Pole
@@Saudyization I'll send a bottle of yú lù with it then. 鱼露
@@Antraeus must be japanigah?
@@Saudyization Spheniscus Japonica :)
You know something's unsettling when an Addams calls it eerie
They only call something eerie when it's the opposite.
Very true,i concur
Gomez: "Bills!"
Morticia: "How Wonderful!"
Me: "Wanna come pay mine"
Be could pay everyone in America and not make a dent in his savings
@@XxstrawmanxX I just wanna know how Gomez has all that money
@@mormor8871 crocodile farming but he ours a lot of companies he bought on a whim like he did with the neighbors
@@mormor8871 Gomez's a Castilian Royalty and British Aristocrat descendant, it was mentioned in the Family Tree episode so he has a lot of inheritance and he was good at investing all of that.
They probably would if you showed up at their doorstep and asked them nicely. That's what I love about the Addams Family they are such genuinely friendly, helpful and accepting people. And all those rude "guests" always only judge them by appearances...
I was hoping they would meet Kitty, their pet lion.😂
I love kitty too tx
You know Kitty can’t stand the taste of people!
I Love Kitty Too.😁.🦁. God Bless.
@@judyledbetter3915 Judy you can come pet my Kitty. sometimes he bites fingers so bring your gloves.
@@thekingsilverado9004 😂God Bless You.
I'm 36, watched this as a kid, didn't remember much about it. After deciding to give it a watch, I'm in love! The quality of the acting & jokes + how sweet Morticia and Gomez are, and I'm absolutely hooked!
It's a shame this only went on for 2 years, because it holds up on many levels, and unlike a lot of shows, there's not stuff that makes you cringe about in retrospect.
Can't say enough good things about this show
I am, 33, Chilean, and I am on the same road as you. I can't believe how good the show and acting was, and how so ahead of his time it is.
I am 35, same for me ! Though I watched it dubbed in the Latvian language, the translators did an amazing job, but now I am rewatching it in English, Addams family tv series really holds up! Amazing cast, amazing chemistry, jokes still funny, etc
@@mikcnmvedmsfonotekaI watched it with a dub in Russian. But it was still good 👍 😌 I think it’s still the best adaptation
Lurch is such a perfect character, and 100% real. The voice, the hair, the makeup, and the size....Unfortunately today it’s all CGI.
Klaus Pallesen Ted Cassidy also played "Thing".
It's also too bad that in the 1990s Addams Family films that Lurch doesn't speak throughout the whole film. They even forgot to give Lurch his most famous line!
Klaus be patient Adam Schiff will be staring in a new wave Adams Family Pilot when he gets out of the Federal Pen...
@@themovieguru1094 Follow me in his best deepest baritone
@@swinetrek I thought his famous line was, "Uhhhh."
I love how polite and elegant Gomez and Morticia are!
Uncle Fester's smile is adorable ☺🥰
“They’ll give me the ax.”
“Take note…if he fails, they’ll chop off head.”
“No. They’ll fire me.”
“And set fire to him to destroy evidence.”
I’m dead! 😂😂😂
Addamses would've appreciated!
Hilarious.
Love how Mr Harris is afraid but still curios
I think he was on the Beverly Hillbillies, and Pearl tried to snag him. Maybe he was the agent for the oil company who would come to visit Jed?
@@Pashasmom1 he was his name in that show was mr. Brewster
@@Pashasmom1 He was.
“it likes privacy!” I like how this was the shock factor for thing 😩😂
Carolyn Jones had the most incredible cheekbones. And those big deep set eyes! No wonder so many men fell in love with her......
Love this show!
Or women, including me hahaha
I like her hair !!!
Not just men.
@@ximenam891 Donna means from attraction.
I love how the parents teach the kids to be well mannered.
I always liked how Pugsley always called his father Sir.
"Well if you'll excuse me; I have to go feed my plants, otherwise they'll get cranky."
"Plants? Plants get hungry? Cranky?"
"Well, after all; they're only human."
You are what you eat...
@@jean-paulaudette9246 NO
Very true
Oh, sweet memories.
My Queen, teach me about life.
so did cleopatra learn to feed herself in the end?
As a young child, I enjoyed watching The Addams Family more than any cartoon, I still enjoy watching now !
I find it interesting how younger fans are discovering things we knew 50 years ago!
Me Too 💜👍
Carolyn’s voice was made for ASMR. So soothing and beautiful.
Even when she sang in jappinesse?
You could still hear the beauty behind it, even though it was a language she’s not fluent in.
Oh yeah. I sleep to reruns all the time XD
I’ll take black bubbling water over cgi piranhas any day.
Same it's called some pumps, food dye and some amazing acting can turn it into an amazing show
For the kids out there, when one of the VIPs gushes, "This is fantastic," most persons under the age of 50 do not understand the ramifications of what he was truly saying. Before the late 1960s, the word "fantastic" did not have the same meaning as the same word used today. In fact, all one has to do is to follow the original Twilight Zone series (late 1950s through the mid 1960s) to hear many examples of the older understanding of the word "fantastic." It means anything which is not possible, being so ridiculously impossible as to be unrealistic or completely untenable. Hence, it was used as the adjective form of "fantasy." It was not until the "hippies" who revolted against everything their parents and the older generation stood for, that they used the word synonymously with "great," "far out," "cool," etc. The word "terrific" (which originally meant "terrible," "horrible") underwent the same evolution in meaning and usage.
It may be cuz English is not my first language but i use those words meaning exactly what old folks did and now i understand why people look at me weird when i speak.
That’s very interesting, thank you.
Didnt know that before. Thanks for taking the trouble to inform us.
I think the Addam's may have prevented ww3
So what you're saying is that they exist outside of fiction?
@@tsriketwm7274 What he's saying between Uncle fester , Gomez and JR. The Russian don't stand a chance
I think so too
I wouldn't be a bit surprised, I totally agree!!!
@@tsriketwm7274 It was a joke.
One of my all-time favorite episodes! I love the rare times they show that Pugsley is a scientific genius. He built a working disintegrator gun in this episode, and built the electronic brain for Smiley, Lurch's short lived robot assistant. Smiley was played beautifully by Forbidden Planet's own Robby the Robot in a guest star role! He also had a nuclear reactor at one point, but grew bored with it and gave it to Wednesday. Again in this episode, Gomez and Morticia fondly remember his anti-gravity machine and how the mailman liked it. It got him off his sore feet!
I love how every time they call Lurch he says "You rang" I know y he said it but it is just so lovable
My sarcastic brain always goes "No, we didn't" xD
I have it set as my notifications and it went off while watching this. It didn't click at first but when Lurch wasn't on the screen and I remembered he hadn't been summoned, I realized it was my phone.
@@Blondie42 Hah! That's brilliant! ☺️
these guys are immortal! they drink posion like we drink water! Henbane i just looked this up is used to calm the digestive tract so moticia is right to use it to calm gomez but they do use posion like belladonna and nightshade in their food. a crazy wonderful show!!!!
I remember once Fester used sulfuric acid as after- shave before a blind date. "I like the way it tingles!"
@@jean-paulaudette9246 plus eats cactus with the spines still on it.
Fester ate a thermometer once, too -- mercury poisoning!!
Comnarehellarios the show outrageous
Some use belladonna as medicine, a really scary medicine.
The fact that Carolyn loved this character so much she kept everything. Her dress, wig, her wicker chair… I was always kept in her room until the day she died. I wish her and John could have been together outside the show, but she died knowing how he really felt all long and he found that out too. I love that they got their backstage kisses when the 60’s era shows wouldnt allow people to kiss on the lips in television. Doesn't sense since they allowed John to kiss hey whole body… but a peck on the lips is out of the question. They were too sweet and their affection on camera was groundbreaking during this time period.
This was one of my favorite episodes. Morticia was so beautiful.
this is my favorite episode...its so funny
This show is probably one of the first black and white shows I've ever watched, and It still remains as one of my favorites!
It would have been awsome to see The working-class Munsters spend the day with the so-called upper-class Addams Family :)
The Munsters would not approve and the Addams family would be generous and open, for they are far more forgiving.
Upper class? my foot!...or should I say my hand?...the thing was a hand and no one said that.... was hand a taboo word on the series?.... LOL....
JoJo C, A TV Series cross over. What a brilliant idea. Let’s do it.
@@MissMarinaCapri Someone needs to do a mashup.
Boo
Does anyone else think uncle Fester is the most sweet, wholesome and cute person ever
16:34 Aaah the charm of imperfect practical effects, you can still see the fish in the tank after the skeleton came out of the water. I really miss the old days when most if not all special effects were practical unlike today where almost everything is CGI
12:30 Man I *LOVE* that split second shot of Gomez’s demented stare while cranking the lever. That stare and smile alone really adds to the creepiness of the Addams'
There was also a significant amount of Groucho in his performance. We're probably agreed that he was perfect for the role.
I love how Lurch played thing as well. Well except when they were in the scene together.
UK Medic Did he really??? Wow, I never knew that. Thank you for sharing that. You would never know from just how big Lurch is. Is really is a huge guy.
@@Angel_Billy4-30-23 You're welcome. Yes Lurch was 6'9 just massive. I love this show so much! Take care ❤
You notice how Mr Harris was almost as tall as Lurch?
yep he did, Ted Cassidy actually had a seperate contract for thing
I’m 70 years old I never missed an episode in the sixties, best gags and brilliant humor love them all . Glad there honoring the show ,Jenna Ortega is so good but nobody beats the original cast 😂they had genius writers back then .
"Is strong bell"😂
Dont forget Vitto Scotti he was a great character on Gilligan's island ss the little Japanese sailor and the mad scientist- very funny many who could fit the rolls well
Oh Boy It’s Another Episode Of My Favorite Show
I think u misspelled something. But don't worry I corrected it
Correction:
OH MY GOD!!! THERES A NOTHER EPISODE OF THE BEST SHOW EVER!!!!
As u can see you had a lack of expretion, but it's not a big deal
Thanks For The Correction
@@negativenancy5695 'Another' is a single word.
'Expression'.
'You'.
You're welcome.
@@tsopmocful1958 Thank you.
I always liked this series. I suppose that with a beauty like Carolyne Jones like Morticia, it would not be difficult for John Astin to act that he loved in such a romantic way and devoted to his wife. Moreover, I love how he shows that he loves her. This is how spouses should treat each other.
Back when talent and innocence was rewarded with fame.
Wife:what’s in the mail
Gomez:bills!
Wife:wonderful
Me:pay mine please!
This sitcom is simply awesome: -D.... They are really environmentally conscious, I have to say. If they have anything left during their meal, they simply give it to the piranhas in the aquarium. It's a nice idea: -D: -D
the guys who played the VIPs in this were just brilliant
They actually captured those bumbling soviet bureaucrats pretty well.
Mafon2 They did a pretty good job with the American variety as well.
How do you know? Did you meet any in your life?
@@Samar3n I was too young to experience the genuine soviet functionaries, but it's very accurate to the portrail of the low to mid civil servants in the old soviet films.
@@Mafon2 Are you from any post-Soviet state? I wonder where you got that hostile depiction of soviet civil servants from. I had never seen anything like that in old soviet films. I'm russian, by the way.
They’re so nice! Anyway who genuinely compliments Morticia and pulls out her chair for her is okay in my book.
(Also, I realize that tadpole eyes and alligator is supposed to be weird, but I can’t see tadpole eyes tasting that different from some kinds of caviar if they actually exist. And alligator IS quite good.)
Random aside - that jump cut from the Newspaper front page into the shot near the start was excellently filmed, whoever did that...
I know!
Especially since this is in 1965
Thanks #MGM I recall #TheAdamsFamily as a kid when BBC2 rebroadcasted them in the early 90’s and it really helped my recovery as a brain tumour survivor as I learned to laugh again.
I did see the reruns too from black and white TV set we still had, I am glad you survived :)
Carolyn Jones, the Godmother of Gothic! Such a beautiful talented actress and sadly missed. It's hard to believe she passed away from cancer in 1983, the year I was born. I maybe young, but I was brought up on all the good old classics before the 80's, the same goes for music, I'm a massive Elvis Presley Fan!! Aw, those were the days, I wish I was born before the 80's!!!!! 🏰🦇✨🌙🦉🍁🍂🔥🕸️🕷️👻⚡
@Jax You're absolutely beautiful. I'd like to get know you if at all possible. 🌹
Comeback here from Addams 2022. Nothing can replace this classical version.
The Addams Family.. The sixties, seventies and eighties was a time where creative and entertaining TV shows was just that.. A time where the whole family could sit by the TV and enjoy good television..
It's 40 years later so things change
It’s more likely that that was a time in your life you associate with that. People still enjoy good television, with or without you.
@@Kirsten_is_cursed10 eh… it’s way different though. This coming from someone who wasn’t alive for these shows. Yes, I enjoy modern television, but sometimes it’s quite absurd compared to this stuff haha
@@Kirsten_is_cursed10 unfortunately modern day entertainment is objectively bad, but that's what we are stuck with, so some try to find something to enjoy from it. At least we have reruns of classics like this.
There were many great shows in the 90s and 2000s as well. It's just personal preference which decade you enjoy the most, I don't think the overall quality has dipped. For every Addams Family, there were a dozen unfunny 60s sitcoms.
this is one of the funniest episodes, it's in the top 5 with me, thanks for posting this.
You can't beat the original Addams Family. I enjoy this series very much!
I just loved when uncle Fester smiled at the end of the intro.
Uncle Fester was a genius. A pioneer of Sound Therapy Frequency
Adams Family- Never a dull moment.
Bruuhhhhhh I’m obsessed with morticia she’s so finee😍😍
You had better learn to speak French...
David Peters For her, I’d be fluent. 😍
Yessss she put me in a trance no cap
Can we just appreciate how it has a good sharp quality even it's from 1964 in monochrome???
I mean it's not blurry
thank you, MGM for posting these episodes.
Some of my fondest memories are of plopping down on the couch to this masterpiece of a show with my late grandfather. It almost makes me cry, love ya Pa
Enjoyed this show so much more than it's "rival" series at the time: THE MUNSTERS
There should have been a crossover.
@@shiningkingghidora There's some fanart. Some a bit more... Lets say spicy.
I am a young girl and honestly I just love this show ! I wish my generation know more about old show and not just all the remake 😔 Anyway love when Carolyn say “C’est la guerre” 😂
"Tishi, you spoke French!"
‘’Darling you have such a way with trains’’
Yep,so did Beeching!
Clever
I like how they are confused yet intrigued not Frightened
This is one of my top five favorite episodes!
I came here after watching the new Wednesday show, which I thoroughly enjoyed. It ranks second to the 1960 original in viewership. I'm 30 so I didn't grow up watching TV in black and white but I certainly appreciate the creativity, humor and overall greatness of this show (and many other movies from this era). Very different from what we watch on TV now, that's for sure.
I absolutely love The addams Familty Tv series. When I first saw an epsode, I thought Fester was a kind of electric monk !
Cousin Creep! I love it! That ending scene makes we want to dance the Mamushka!
It's the "Trouble With Tribbles" guy playing the Ruskie..
I like how they're the "VIPs", not "Russians" or "Soviets". Was this common on TV at the time? I don't watch any black and white shows other than this one.
The taller Russian VIP, think original Star Trek series episode "The Trouble with Tribbles"
The character's name was Cyrano Jones. Intergalactic bar tender on a space station.
I love the Addams Family it's very light hearted and happy with comedy stuff too.
Yes!! Very different from the "psychopath - cold blooded Wednesday" modern tv show!
I have been watching the addams family for so many times and i am not near to stopping. This is too nice to watch 😍
I love this show! This is downright hilarious!
I laugh until I am literally crying.
(0:36) Oh, if only I had my own Morticia looking at me like that...
Clever
One of my favorite episodes. Its funny, clever and features guest stars who appeared on Star Trek and Gilligan's Island.
Is it ever explained whether the Addams Family are dead or alive? Are they just eccentric individuals or they're living corpses? Or is it a mysterious thing that it's up to us to decide?
They're just very sturdy people.
Thing? Did you say Thing?
they're alive. they're just real eccentric people
They were the invention of cartoonist Charles Addams. An eccentric family living in an old house.
I think Lurch is a living dead, but yeah, they seem like they are normal people. Or would they be immortal? Hmmm...
Our family looked forward to this show every week.
These were days of no internet,cell phones,computers,video,or DVD players.If you missed your favorite show at its designated time slot tough luck ,you had to wait 6 months for the summer re-run season.The TV Guide was carefully studied (magazine only)in those days.
used to be the same with radio broadcasts.
Please show us one with cousin It
Why didn’t they meet Wednesday? She’s my favorite character. Bummer
She was very young she hadnt even learned how to read yet my guess they giving her a break:)
Wednesday was only good in the movies. My favourite character in this show is Gomez he's just so delightfully crazy.
I would`ve loved them to meet Kitty :) wonder what impression that would`ve made. OMG Americans keep lions as pets
@@avivastudios2311 Disagree. Wedensday is a great character in the TV show. Very underused.
@@dilungmoveityafool777 They probably didn't want to overwork the actor. Similar to why they rarely featured kitty kat.
The 90s Addams family movies where good but this version of Addams family is still the best.
When Morticia Saids Back to our own beautiful World and it sure is the life of The Addams Family😄
If every family were like the Addams, life would be so much more interesting.
Thank you for sharing MGM!
The knife scene in the end is better than many tiktoks
MGM has the Lion in the Addam’s house is a museum. 😃❤️
Sometimes i wish the addams were my family
Can anyone get tired of looking at Carolyn Jones?
She was the perfect, the best Morticia.
Not so far, but I may be getting a little eye-strain!
She was A-list.
Nope.
Can't look away.
Thank you for the full episodes, I grew up watching this show and I still love it. Likely always will~
Wish today’s world would be polite like the Addams family. I’ve never seen such rude people in real life . The 60s were definitely a different time than 2023! Can definitely see it in this tv show how polite people were back then.
You know watching this makes me think, why does modern Gomez have an accent?
he states he is of european spanish stock.
hes _supposed to_ have an accent, he's a spaniard. it's simply that in the 60s they didnt want to hire anyone latin/spanish, so they just. got someone without an accent. and had him say spanish words occasionally.
@@SethHisoka Ricky Ricardo.
@@SethHisoka It works. Astin played the role perfectly.
No, the comics Gomez was never intended to be Spanish. His name wasn’t even Gomez (or anything) in the comics, he was just Addams before this show which gave him a name. According to the internet, the first time it was mentioned anywhere that Gomez Addams was Spanish was in this TV show, and it was because he had been given the stereotypical traits of a 'Latin lover'-which was way different from how the comics portrayed him, as a small, grotesque looking, quiet man. I assume that Raul Julia was cast in the movies because of the 'Latin lover' idea, and he just had an accent, so if going forward Gomez had an accent it was because of the movie portrayal.
This episode explained a lot of things in the real world!
Vito Scotti was always a favorite character actor.
Mr Picasso! That was my favorite role of his on The Addams Family. I also like the episode where he played a crazy scientist that invented a martian language. Vito Scotti was also in a whole lot of episodes of Columbo.
I love this episode because it is a satire on prejudice. People always throw around "Americans are like this" and "Russians are like this", but if you ever got to know one family or another from either place, you'd see that people--even of the same culture or family--are really their own with their own beliefs, practices, etc.