The Addams Family (TV Series)

Wednesday Leaves Home (1964)

Carolyn Jones: Morticia Addams

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Quotes 

• Morticia : [about Wednesday]  That tricky little minx...

  Uncle Fester : I wonder which side of the family she got that from?

  Gomez : Both sides!

• Morticia : Gomez, we've got to call the... P.O.L.I.C.E.

  Pugsley Addams : You mean the Fuzz?

  Morticia : What is the Fuzz?

  Pugsley Addams : The Bulls!

  Gomez : Thought you had him there, did't ya?

• Morticia : Oh, by the way dear, Wednesday's celebrating the loss of her front tooth.

  Gomez : Ah, she looks much prettier without it.

  Morticia : I think so too.

• Pugsley : Mother! Father! Wednesday's flown the coop!

  Gomez : Talk sense boy.

  Pugsley : She's run away from home.

  Gomez : Really? Very adventurous spirit. I didn't run away from home until I was eight.

  Morticia : That's ridiculous.

  Pugsley : She even left a note. I helped her write it.

  [Hands note to Morticia] 

  Morticia : [reading]  "Dear Mother and Father, I hate you. Love, Wednesday. P.S. Don't bother looking for me because I'm not anywhere. Goodbye, W."

• Morticia : My name is Mrs. Addams and I want you to find my little girl, Wednesday.

  Sgt. Haley : Look, I'll find her Tuesday, if I can, but don't give me no deadlines, will you please?

  Morticia : Wednesday's her name.

  Sgt. Haley : Oh, and I suppose you're gonna tell me her middle name is Thursday, huh?

  Morticia : Friday.

• Gomez : Well, I guess Wednesday's really gone.

  Morticia : Someday, when she's slaving away in a tuna cannery, she may remember the life of ease she had in this lovely home.

  Gomez : Raggéd, penniless, her little fingers bleeding from the tuna cans, she may return and say she's sorry.

  Morticia : And when that happens, we'll take her back - if we have room.

  Wednesday Addams : [hiding and listening]  If they have room?

  Gomez : Come, my dear, let's go down and remove her pictures from the family album.

• Uncle Fester : She's been shooting off all of my dynamite caps.

  Morticia : [to Wednesday]  Darling, you have dynamite caps of your own.

  Wednesday Addams : But they're not any fun. They just go "poop."

  Gomez : At your age, a little "poop" ought to be enough.

• Morticia : Uncle Fester, this is not a fun matter. That child has got to be taught to play with her own explosives.