Addams Family Values

Corrected entry: After Thing rescues Fester, at one point, Thing disappears while driving. Otherwise, he's on the wheel.

Movie Nut

Correction: We see Thing jump from the steering wheel down to the gas and brake pedals. You'll have to be more specific about when he "disappears."

Corrected entry: Debbie speaks of her first husband, a heart surgeon. Then he couldn't have been attending to the Pope when he had a cold.

Rob245

Correction: For someone with a serious heart disease, or recovering from surgery, a cold can be deadly. If he was his appointed physician he would be attending in case the heart can't handle it and he needs emergency surgery.

lionhead

Heart surgeons never treat people who have a cold and it was never mentioned or implied that the pope had heart surgery at all.

Again, a personal physician would be doing everything health related. Doesn't matter if he is specialised. He is a doctor.

lionhead

Corrected entry: When Debbie comes to be the nanny, obviously it's the beginning of summer as the children go to summer camp and are not in school. While the children are at camp, Fester meets Debbie, marries her and they move away from the family. The children are at still at camp preparing an early Thanksgiving play, meanwhile, Fester and Debbie celebrate their wedding anniversary... We also see the baby's first birthday, and since the baby was already a couple months old when Debbie arrived, it is not possible for Fester and Debbie to have been married an entire year.

Correction: They are celebrating their 3 week anniversary, not a year. That totally fits in the timeline.

Corrected entry: In the guillotine scene, Wednesday says, "Place her on the block." Pubert is a boy, not a girl.

Correction: Wednesday and Pugsley were playing. They were pretending Pubert was Marie Antoinette, and they were the Revolutionary Tribunal about to execute her.

Bishop73

Corrected entry: When the two Native American children are turning the two camp directors over the open fire, they are turning the handle in the opposite direction the camp directors are turning.

Correction: This simply is not true. They are turned counter-clockwise by the kids. Both the kids and the directors are spinning this way. An optical illusion can let you think they are spinning them the other way around.

lionhead

Corrected entry: Gomez and Fester are talking about how Fester should get a wife, and Fester says "For years, I've been watching you with Morticia". He can't have been watching them for years - he ran away before Gomez had even met Morticia, and came back just before Morticia told Gomez she was pregnant with Pubert (who is born shortly before this conversation takes place). Now, Pubert was a bit bigger than most babies at birth, but even so, Morticia couldn't have been pregnant for years. Also, Wednesday and Pugsley haven't aged that much, either.

littlestar

Correction: He is referring from the time he was returned to the Addams family...we do not really know how much time was between movies.

Corrected entry: How can Debbie's hand shoot out of her grave at the end? She was fried to ashes. Even though corpses resurrecting is a possibility in the Addams mythology, ashes reforming into a human body is beyond belief.

Shay

Correction: From what Wednesday says it's implied she set up a sensor and animatronic hand to 'scare him to death' - it could be a remnant of the props from the Shakespeare scene in the first movie.

Correction: I always thought she used Thing to do the trick, although the arm is much longer than Thing's.

Corrected entry: When Debbie is showing the Addamses the slides before she was going to kill them, she only shows two rich husbands and her parents. Yet earlier, Wednesday's friend shows her and Pugsley some trading cards, and he mentions that Debbie had three rich "husbands," all dead. Yes, there's Fester, but the cards aren't that up to date and he's not dead yet.

Correction: So Debbie doesn't show slides of all the people she has murdered, she does a sort of "Best-of-Debbie" slide show.

littlestar

Corrected entry: At the beginning of the film we learn who Debbie is, but the newscaster mentions that she had a different name and disguise each marriage. Yet at the end when the Addamses are in electric chairs, she says that her husbands said, "Sorry, Debbie."

Correction: That was Debbie doing a very dramatic retelling of what happened, to her next victims (The Addams-es). She just wanted to explain to them how her husband's actions made her feel back then - not to tell every little detail the exact way it actually happened. Imagine how the dramatic effect would have gone down the drain if instead, she had said something like: "He said 'Sorry, Roxy.' That was the name I used at the time, by the way." Her main point is that the guy hurt her. What the guy called her wasn't the focus of the story.

littlestar

Corrected entry: In the close-up shot where Wednesday twists off the doll's head, that is Morticia's hands doing the twisting.

Correction: It is Wednesday twisting off the head of the doll. She wears red nail polish like her mother, but her fingernails are short.

Orsi

Corrected entry: At the beginning of the film, it's revealed that Debbie marries men, then kills them on her wedding night. But at the end, when she has the Addams family in the electric chairs, her speech suggests she was with each man a significant amount of time.

Correction: She could well have been dating or living with each of the men for a significant amount of time before getting married.

Corrected entry: When Wednesday, Pugsley and Joel are in the Harmony Hut watching Disney films, you see the hut from outside and there's no-one around. The three of them leave the hut and suddenly there is a group of campers waiting at the gate.

Correction: Obviously the campers are not going to wait outside for hours while the trio watches all the movies. More than likely the councelors knew how much time was needed to watch everything, then gathered all the campers at the appropriate time outside the hut to see the results.

SAZOO1975

Corrected entry: When Joel is showing Wednesday and Pugsley the trading cards, Debbie's card shows her exactly as she looks now. Yet at the beginning of the film, we find she disguised herself and eluded the authorities for years because she is a master of disguise. How could the cards have such a photo?

Correction: Apparently she recycles her disguises.

Phixius

Corrected entry: The hand that pops out of the grave to scare Joel at the end is supposedly Thing, but Thing's length stops near to the wrist. There's a lot more arm on the hand that comes up out of the ground.

Correction: No where does it say that it is Thing.

Correction: Pointing out something that can be determined simply by reading the cast list is not trivia-worthy.

Tailkinker

Corrected entry: If Fester can survive being electrocuted in the bathtub in Hawaii practically unharmed, what makes Debbie think that electrocuting him in the chair at the end will do any better?

Shay

Correction: They are different amounts of voltage.

Corrected entry: Although constantly referred to as a 'he', Pubert is in fact played by twin girls.

Correction: This is an extremely common practice in moviemaking - too common to qualify as trivia.

Plot hole: It seems unlikely that Debbie would have managed to take the photographs of her husbands' murders she shows the Addams family at the end, especially considering the angle of the shot of the surgeon. He's not looking at the cam so she wasn't holding it.

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Trivia: A third film in the series was planned after the previous film became a huge hit with audiences. Unfortunately, this sequel only managed to pull in about half of the original's box-office in domestic markets, and shortly after release co-star Raul Julia became seriously ill and passed away after suffering from a stroke. As a result of these two developments, the third film was cancelled and instead, children's media company Saban later "rebooted" the series with the film "The Addams Family Reunion" and a television series entitled "The New Addams Family." Though "Addams Family Reunion" is often cited as the "third" film in the series, it actually has no connection to the plot of the prior films and was produced and distributed by a different studio.

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Answer: Michael Jackson was slated to record a song and music video for the film. The music video had him living in the Addams family mansion with angry townsfolk trying to drive him out of town for being scary and weird. The scene in the film was suppose to reflect that he scared "normal" kids, it had nothing to do with a scandal. When Evan Chandler started talking about his son being molested by Jackson, the song and music video were pulled and not included with the film. But the poster scene was left in. Later, when the scandal fully broke and more accusation were made, the joke of the scene took on another meaning.

Bishop73

Good thing the accusations were all false! :).

Answer: If memory serves, it's a poster for Heal the World? I think he probably screams because this song was WAY over-played on radio stations at the time! It certainly was in the UK where I am from so I imagine in America it was over-played so much more.

Chosen answer: Not only is it a reference to Jackson's general scary weirdness, but also his alleged pedophilia (child molestation), causing the boy to react in fear.

raywest

Impossible, the first pedophilia accusations were made just a few months before the movie came out.

Those accusations had been an open secret for a long time, though.

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