Episode
The New Addams Family: Gomez, the Reluctant Lover
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- The New Addams Family
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 7
- Air date
- 1998-10-27
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Gomez, the Reluctant Lover is Episode 7 in Season 1 of The New Addams Family. It aired on 1998-10-27. The runtime is 22 min.
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Episode 6: Grandpapa Addams
Grandpapa Addams comes to stay with the family while they rebuild his neighborhood. The family knows he still misses his late wife, and make arrangements to surprise Grandpapa with a a gift to him of two weeks at Club Dead - a swinging resort for singles over 50. Grandpapa finds out but mistakenly thinks he's being sent to a nursing home so then tries to prove his youth to the family and pretends to be 50 years younger.
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.
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Episode 3: The Addams Family Goes to School
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