Episode
The Addams Family: A Thing Is Born
Overview
Thing is bored and unhappy and wants to become a star. He goes to Hollywood, accompanied by Granny, in search of fame and fortune.
Details
- Series
- The Addams Family
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 8
- Air date
- 1992-10-17
- Runtime
- 10 min
Episode context
A Thing Is Born is Episode 8 in Season 1 of The Addams Family. It aired on 1992-10-17. The runtime is 10 min.
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Episode 7: N.J. Addams
N.J. feels embarrassed by his parents' weekly speeches at school about underwear and gets scolded by his father for accidentally ruining an Egyptian underwear made from mummy wrappings. He is too afraid to admit that he does not want to take over his father's business one day. Instead of confronting his parents, he runs away from home.
Episode 9: Choke and Dagger
Wednesday and Pugsley plan to go with Cousin Itt on his latest missions. Meanwhile the Spy Twins make various attempts to capture Cousin Itt.
More episodes from this season
Episode 6: Beware of Thing
The Spy Twins take a break from spying and try to break into the Addams safe which is guarded by Thing. They dress up as a giant hand to seduce and distract Thing, and thereby catch him.
Episode 10: Fester's Diary
Uncle Fester writes in his diary about his day.
Episode 5: Pugsley by the Numbers
Wednesday is fed up with her brother continuously ruining her paintings that Lurch is posing for. She decides to create an improved Pugsley with her mother's living paint.
Episode 11: Sir Pugsley
The Addams Family's Annual Family Joust has arrived and every year, Wednesday always beats Pugsley in the joust. Gomez and Uncle Fester give Pugsley some pointers in order to beat Wednesday in the joust.
Episode 4: Girlfriendstein
The family notices that Lurch has been somewhere else with his attention lately. Wednesday, Pugsley and Thing dig through his room and find out he has recently been dumped by his girlfriend. The Addams family tries to solve Lurch's problem.
Episode 12: Festerman
Uncle Fester reads his comic book called "Festerman" to Wednesday. Festerman's experiment to get more power results in his former partner Underman emerging from another dimension and wanting revenge on Festerman.
Episode 3: The Day Gomez Failed
Feeling that he has done everything once, Gomez goes through his days uninspired. Morticia reminds him that everything in his life has been a success, and encourages him to fail at something. Mr. Normanmeyer offers Gomez his ticket to failure, announcing his plans on using his land to complete a new freeway.
Episode 13: Art to Art
Morticia has lost her artistic touch. So Lurch and Thing try to help Morticia get her artistic touch back.
Episode 2: Dead and Breakfast
Wednesday and Pugsley's bad mood over the sunny weather is worsened when they are assigned a school project called 'creative problem solving through junior career exploration'. Through the enthusiasm of Gomez, it is decided that they turn the Addams home into a "dead and breakfast".
Episode 14: Puttergeist
Gomez and Morticia are delighted by Granny's Halloween tale. Grandmama talks about a man who went golfing on Halloween night, and was struck by lightning, only to re-appear as the Puttergeist. But is the Puttergeist real or not?