The spooky-ooky-kooky family lives happily together in their macabre gothic mansion much to the chagrin and confusion of outsiders and neighbors.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
