Addams Family - The Kooky Collection, Vol. 2

Thing disappears from his box. Failing to find a single trace of Thing Gomez conducts an investigation--with all members of the household under suspicion.

Uncle Fester applies for a job as an insurance salesman with the same company which is threatening to cancel the Addams' policy (because Fester keeps blowing things up). Fester convinces the company interviewer that he is qualified for the job.

Lurch becomes inconsolable when Gomez donates the family harpsichord to a collector. Gomez and Morticia offer Lurch a balalaika and a set of drums. When this proves unsatisfactory Gomez and Fester decide to build a new harpsichord.

When Morticia hears the stock market has crashed she assumes that Gomez has been financially wiped out and rallies the family to help make money. Morticia gives fencing and dancing lessons Lurch and Fester run an escort service Grandmama styles hair and the kids run a poison drink stand.

While enjoying a moonlight picnic and snail hunt the Addams Family is mistaken for Martians by uniformed investigators from Mysterious Space Objects Headquarters. In turn Gomez and the clan regard their inquisitors with suspicion.

An organ grinder's fugitive monkey leads Fester to believe that he has turned Pugsley into a monkey. Morticia and Gomez treat the monkey as though he were their son welcoming him to the dinner table and giving him Pugsley's chores.

Moriticia's favorite charity is having an auction--so Morticia persuades her family to part with things to sell. Donations include Wednesday's headless doll the old flogging table a stuffed vulture and Uncle Fester's dynamite.

The Addams Family ignores notices that their house is to be condemned to make way for a freeway. When sudden explosions cannot traced to any member of the family but instead to city workmen Gomez is forced to consider moving the house to another lot and creating new swamps.

Uncle Fester's Midwestern pen pal Madelyn is coming to visit. Fester panics as he has described himself as handsome heroic and romantic. Gomez and Morticia agree that all Fester needs is a toupee they help him make several styles ranging from drew cut to Beatle cut.

Morticia and Gomez are worried about Cousin Itt--because he spends his days sleeping and dreaming in his tiny room. They decide that Itt would make an excellent marriage counselor and pretend to be a couple with a failing marriage.

A recording company's platter of Lurch's gravelly voice brings a screaming mob of teenage fans to the Addams house. Thinking the mob is an invasion Gomez Morticia and Fester take battle stations. To calm the crowd Lurch seats himself at the harpsichord and rewards his fans with a song to end all songs.

Taken in by a psychologist's pronouncement that the only happily married couples are those who fight members of the Addams household devise schemes to start a battle between Gomez and Morticia.

Gomez decides to bolster Cousin Itt's failing ego by making him the star of a production aimed as a birthday surprise for Wednesday. He hires the great director Eric von Bissell who gives Itt elocution lessons of such effectiveness that Itt begins to develop a Hollywood star complex.

While Morticia and Gomez are celebrating their 13th wedding anniversary Morticia tells Wednesday and Pugsley a bedtime story of how she and Gomez first met. In this episode Carolyn Jones plays Morticia as a 22-year-old.

Wednesday and Pugsley refuse to go to bed until they hear the rest of the courtship story. Morticia resumes the tale via flashback including the ceremony beginning with Ophelia Frump Morticia's balmy sister as the bride.

Romance seems close at hand for Thing the Addams' right-hand-in-a-box when Gomez's aunt Princess Millicent arrives for a visit accompanied by Lady Fingers her handmaiden. Thing enjoys the visit most because it gives him a chance to hold hands with one of his own kind.

Morticia and Gomez visit Mayor Henson to complain that their property tax is ridiculously low. After the Mayor proves his incompetence by offering a refund Gomez is persuaded to become a candidate for the office. Aiding the family with the campaign is Whizzo a computer type political machine.

During a welcome home party for Cousin Itt Morticia notices that the diminutive guest of honor seems to be losing his hair. Uncle Fester experiments with his chemistry set to produce a chemical concoction that grows hair on a doorknob Thing's box and his own bald pate. So he agrees to try the remedy on frantic Cousin Itt.

Wednesday and Pugsley return in tears from trick-or-treating because a neighbor has told them there is no such thing as a witch. Morticia and Gomez plan to prove to the children that they do exist--by summoning a witch to a seance.

Determined to correct the dreadful dragon-slaying type literature that Wednesday and Pugsley are exposed to Morticia sets out to create a new literary world for children. Gomez fears that his wife's first manuscript is so good that once the publisher reads it he will lose her forever.

In need of artistic fulfillment Morticia takes up sculpting. Art critic Bosley Swain views her first endeavor--a three-eyed Gomez statue--and clubs it with his cane. Gomez who won't have Morticia's heart broken gets Sam Picasso a seedy art dealer to buy it.