The Addams Family (TV Series)

Morticia, the Decorator (1966)

John Astin: Gomez Addams

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Quotes 

• Gomez Addams : Ah, when Mrs. Digby sees all this... I'll have the smelling salts ready.

• Morticia Addams : The poor darlings... they were even too proud to accept our lovely gift.

  [pets Delilah the stuffed vulture] 

  Gomez Addams : That must really have broken their hearts.

  [snaps his fingers] 

  Gomez Addams : Lets send it over to their home, we'll have Lurch deliver it.

  Uncle Fester : [Uncle Fester overhears as he walks up to them]  Hey, wait a minute! Why don't you ask me?

  Gomez Addams : Excellent idea, Fester, you deliver it!

  Uncle Fester : No, I meant: ask me wether I happen to want it.

  Morticia Addams : Why of course you do.

  Uncle Fester : Hm-hm!

  [Fester extends his hand to grab Delilah, but Morticia stops him] 

  Morticia Addams : But that's the only kind of gift that's worth giving: something that means something to you.

• Gomez Addams : Morticia, you have impeccable taste.

  Morticia Addams : Well, of course. I married you, didn't I?

• [door bell rings] 

  Morticia Addams : Oh, that must be the Digbys.

  Gomez Addams : I'm almost afraid to let them see the house. It might discourage them.

  Morticia Addams : Darling, they're just going to have to be realistic. After all, when we first moved in here, this house was bleak and gloomy. Not everyone can start with that advantage.

• Gomez Addams : [showing off his artworks]  And speaking of originals, feast your eyes on this.

  Joe Digby : A Stradivarius?

  Gomez Addams : If it isn't, I'm out twelve and a half dollars.

• Morticia Addams : Gomez, darling, I've had a new inspiration for the Digby house.

  Gomez Addams : Ah, those lucky devils! What is it this time?

  Morticia Addams : I want to bring the garden right into the living room.

  Gomez Addams : Glass walls, eh?

  Morticia Addams : No, dirt floor.

• Morticia Addams : Does it strike you as odd that nobody has been inside my model home? They just glance in the door and walk on.

  Gomez Addams : Ah, the house is obviously too far ahead of its time. Frank Lloyd Wright had the same problem.