The Addams Family (TV Series)

Progress and the Addams Family (1965)

Jackie Coogan: Uncle Fester

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• Uncle Fester : Gomez, I wish you'd stop making that racket. You got my new crocodile so nervous he started chasing his tail and he rolled right out the window.

• Uncle Fester : I'll shoot him in the back. Would you mind turning around, please?

• [Fester suggests they move their house] 

  Gomez Addams : I know just the spot. That lot Hornsby has up for sale.

  Morticia Addams : That's right next door to the Commissioner's house.

  Gomez Addams : My dear, at a time like this we can't afford to be choosy.

  Uncle Fester : Oh, it's... it's not that, but... That lot doesn't have any caves, and then no quicksand, no swamp...

  Gomez Addams : Fester... What's a swamp? A bunch of mud, slime and stench. We'll build our own!

• Uncle Fester : That ex-insurance man of ours...

  Gomez Addams : Commissioner Henson?

  Uncle Fester : Yeah. Well, he's ruining our city. He's puttin' fresh paint on all the public buildings.

  Morticia Addams : Whatever for?

  Uncle Fester : To hide the soot.

  Morticia Addams : Cover up... But the soot's the only thing that's giving those buildings character.