The Addams Family (TV Series)

Morticia's Favorite Charity (1965)

John Astin: Gomez Addams

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• Gomez Addams : Morticia, let's forget the bazaar. They haven't even asked us to donate this year anyway.

  Morticia Addams : Yes, and I can't understand that. Our old insurance man, Mr. Henson, is in charge this year, and he's been to our home. He knows what lovely things we have.

  Gomez Addams : Behaved very strangely the last time he was here. Perhaps he's one of those people with no taste.

  Morticia Addams : Last year they auctioned off my stuffed vulture for thirty-five cents.

  Gomez Addams : Your live one would've gotten much more.

• Gomez Addams : Pugsley! Pugsley! Thank Heaven you were indigestible!

• Gomez Addams : Have you seen the clock I'm giving you folks?

  Mr. Henson : Does it explode?

  Gomez Addams : Certainly not. I wouldn't tamper with a valuable old timepiece like that. Come here. How 'bout that?

  Mr. Henson : How 'bout that? Well, it looks like... th-the rear end of a moose?

  Gomez Addams : You have a very discerning eye, Henson.

• Morticia Addams : [to Gomez, as Pugsley hides up the chimney]  Darling, this may be a traumatic experience for him. Perhaps we'd better try and get the clock back.

  Gomez Addams : Nonsense. Some of the finest men in the Addams family have been shaped by childhood traumas.

• Morticia Addams : [entering the basement]  Oh, I love coming down to this old room - such charming mustiness.

  Gomez Addams : In many ways the most attractive room in the house.

• Gomez Addams : The lad should learn that, if you give till it hurts, it's fun.

• [after a mix-up at the charity auction, Lurch returns to the Addams mansion with Pugsley's wolf-headed clock] 

  Morticia Addams : And how in the world did you ever get it away from Mr. Clayton?

  Gomez Addams : Did he sell it back to you?

  Lurch : Gave me five dollars to take it.