The Addams Family (TV Series)

My Fair Cousin Itt (1965)

John Astin: Gomez Addams

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• Gomez Addams : [to Itt]  You most certainly are good for something - we just don't know what it is.

• Morticia Addams : Darling, I'm so happy. I think Cousin Itt has finally found himself.

  Gomez Addams : That isn't easy under all that hair.

• Erich von Bissell : [upon hearing Cousin Itt speak]  Oh, that's impossble! I will not work with such insanity!

  Morticia Addams : Please! Cousin Itt is very sensitive. Where'd he go?

  Gomez Addams : Where any sensitive artist would go when his feelings are wounded - up the chimney.

• Morticia Addams : Gomez, Mr. Von Bissel may have a point. I do think Itt's voice is a bit too fast for the average listener.

  Gomez Addams : We never noticed that.

  Morticia Addams : Yes, I noticed it in that last scene we did. Perhaps we'd best take him down to the playroom and work on his voice, bring out that fine timber.

  Gomez Addams : Great idea, but we'll have to watch out for splinters.

• Morticia Addams : [about Itt]  His voice is much too high. I wish we could lower it.

  Gomez Addams : Maybe we should drop him down a well.

• Sam Derrick : [upon meeting Cousin Itt]  Amazing! Incredible! We leave for Hollywood tonight.

  Gomez Addams : Hollywood?

  Morticia Addams : But I thought Broadway was in New York.

  Sam Derrick : Madam, I am on my way out to Hollywood to do a picture - The Hairy Beast from the Mars Canals - and he'll be perfect in the title roll!

• Gomez Addams : By George, this house is a veritable cesspool of talent.

• Morticia Addams : Oh, it's all my fault, Gomez. When I changed his voice I changed his whole personality.

  Gomez Addams : Oh, it's not your fault. It's just, uh... It's just, well... Come to think of it, it is your fault.

• 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.

• Gomez Addams : [In an aside to Morticia]  Querida, perhaps he would make pear-shaped tones if we gave him a pear-shaped head...

  Morticia Addams : That's a WONDERFUL idea, darling!