Episode
The New Addams Family: Fester Goes on a Diet
Overview
Uncle Fester finds a female friend on the Internet who is coming to visit. He tries to get into shape before his new love arrives.
Details
- Series
- The New Addams Family
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 13
- Air date
- 1998-11-03
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Fester Goes on a Diet is Episode 13 in Season 1 of The New Addams Family. It aired on 1998-11-03. The runtime is 22 min.
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Episode 12: Thing is Missing
Its Thing's birthday. Thing opens Fester's mail and Fester and the family yell at him and none of them remember his birthday, so Thing runs away. The stress of fighting with Thing causes Fester to start growing hair on his head.
Episode 14: Morticia's Romance (1)
Gomez and Morticia are celebrating their 13th Anniversary. Wednesday and Pugsley ask them how they met. So they are told the story. Gomez was pre-ordained to marry Morticia's sister Ophelia for whom he had no affection. But he and Morticia were love at first sight.
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Episode 11: Art and the Addams Family
Wednesday comes back from school after painting a black rainbow and she got an ""F"" on it. Her teacher, Miss Crank, says she may fail art if she doesn't use color. So Gomez tries to hire the world famous artist Leopold DaMinci as an art Tutor, but gets Leo DaMinci, an Italian Pizza delivery man instead. Meanwhile, Mama falls in love with the postman, and Fester helps her try to trap him.
Episode 15: Morticia's Romance (2)
Wednesday and Pugsley ask to hear the rest of the story about how Gomez and Morticia met. The story continues with the complications that arose when Cousin Itt and Cousin Vlad became involved.
Episode 10: Cousin Itt Visits the Addams Family
While Mama gives everyone extremely inappropriate gifts. Cousin Itt's girlfriend Contessa threw him out because she found out about Eudora and Simone and Lucinda, Monica and Cosuma. He came over for a place to stay since he was also broke, having lost his entire fortune at the roulette table. So he tries to get a job - at a Burger joint, then as a receptionist, then a hair stylist, and finally at the zoo.
Episode 16: Wednesday Leaves Home
Wednesday unleashed 20 starving alligators in the sewers. The police came after her. Gomez and Morticia ground her for a week for cruelty to animals. She would not be allowed to play with her weapons, start any fires, or torture here brother. So Wednesday runs away.
Episode 9: The Addams Family Tree
Wednesday gave Harold Pomeroy a black eye at school after he said his family was better than hers. His smug father, Cecil Pomeroy comes to the Addams family house for an apology. Cecil and Harold get to ""enjoy"" the family Addams. But with their interest now aroused in their own genealogy, the family hires professor Sims to do some research for them.
Episode 17: My Fair Cousin Itt
Cousin Itt was very disappointed that he didn't get the role of Hamlet at the theatre. So Gomez dusts off an old play he wrote, casts Itt as the lead, and hires a director for it. The director refuses to work with Itt because his voice is not deciferable. So Morticia trys to get Itt to slow and lower his voice. Itt's voice changes, but so does his personality.
Episode 8: Morticia, the Matchmaker
Cousin Melancholia's fiancee ran out and left her, so she shows up at the Addamses house all despondent. They try to find her another suitor - the mailman who zooms off, Lurch wouldn't agree, Fester only dates criminals, and Thing fingers off. But the unwilling Ralph Harvey, trying to save his Law Firm's account with the Addamses, is coerced into dating and getting engaged to Melancholia.
Episode 18: The Winning of Morticia Addams
Fester reading an article by Dr. Pierre LeBlanc titled ""The Dangers of a Happy Marriage"", gets the family to try to help make Gomez and Morticia fight with each other. When he fails, he calls up Dr. LeBlanc who comes over and tries to steal Morticia from Gomez. So, Gomez challenges Dr. LeBlanc to a duel.
Episode 7: Gomez, the Reluctant Lover
Pugsley comes home with a crush on his teacher. He takes one of the love letters that Gomez sent to Morticia, and sends it to his teacher. When she comes to the Addams family house to inform them about it, she is led to believe that Gomez sent it. She falls for Gomez. Mama and Morticia tell a reluctant Gomez to go right after her and she'll run off.
Episode 19: Uncle Fester's Toupee
Ginger, a girl Fester has been e-mailing is coming to meet him. But Fester lied to her about himself, and wonders what he's going to do about his hair, which he told her he has. So a toupee salesman is called. Fester's grand appearance in front of Ginger is stumbling at best!