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Gomez Addams is the father of Wednesday and Pugsley Addams, and the husband of Morticia Addams.
He is portrayed by John Astin and appears in seasons one and two of the 1964 ABC TV series The Addams Family. He appears again in the 1977 TV special Halloween with the New Addams Family.
Biography[]
Background[]
He enjoys cigars and has been smoking them ever since he was five years old (his mother insisted), and is an accomplished juggler and knife thrower. His favorite dance is The Freddy. He has a childlike love for toys and is especially fond of setting up train wrecks with his model trains.
Gomez's investments are guided more by whimsy than strategy, yet luck rarely fails him. "It's not for nothing that they call me 'The Plunger'," he once boasted, an apparent reference to sticking doggedly with a stock despite low fluctuations, although this nickname was in fact bestowed upon him not by Wall Street investors but by the Plumbers' Union. He owns businesses around the world, including a crocodile farm ("Crocodiles Unlimited"), a buzzard farm, a salt mine, a tombstone factory, a uranium mine, and many others. It is not unheard of for him to simply forget that he owns a controlling interest in a business or to draw a check on the wrong bank. Guinness World Records 2008 ranked him as the fifth-richest TV character with a net worth of $8.2 billion.
As a young man, Gomez was a perennially sickly youth, gaining perfect health only after meeting Morticia. He nevertheless studied law and was voted "Most Likely Never to Pass the Bar." It is noted that, while Gomez has never won a case, he has never lost one either ("Perfect record!" boasts Grandmama). Although he rarely practices, he boasts of having put many criminals behind bars while acting as their defense attorney.
He has a strange and unusual mindset about how to woo a lady. He once mentored Pugsley on how to attract a lady the Addams way, which included three steps: raising an eyebrow, giving a smile, and throwing a live wolverine at the lady.
The Original Addams Family series[]
Season One[]
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Season Two[]
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Halloween with the New Addams Family[]
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Description[]
Gomez is of Castilian extraction and almost always dresses in a chalk-striped, dark-colored suit and tie (a bow tie in films), sports slicked-back hair, and sports a pencil-thin mustache.
Personality[]
Though he is the head of the household, he is extremely naive and childish, with a short attention span and endless optimism. Like the rest of the family, Gomez is open and friendly to outsiders, though he finds their "normal" lifestyles befuddling.
Powers / Abilities / Weaknesses[]
Powers[]
- Enhanced Good Fortune: Even when he actively tries to fail, Gomez still finds himself succeeding.[1]
- High Intellect: Uncle Fester said that he is sharp, decisive, and emotionally intelligent.
Abilities[]
- Combat: He is well-versed in all types of combat, or believes himself to be, at any rate, especially sword fighting.
- Athletic: He is athletic, enjoys the trampoline, and has the heart of a twenty-year-old track star; Mama performed the surgery herself.
- Bilingualism: Gomez speaks English and Spanish fluently.
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Relationships[]
Morticia Addams[]
Gomez is passionately in love with his wife Morticia; he affectionately calls her romantic names like Querida ("darling") and Cara Mia ("my beloved") and is driven wild by the slightest of her actions, whether imitating animal noises or speaking French.
Quotes[]
| "Gomez Addams: I'm going to have to have to make a citizen's arrest. Morticia Addams: Wait a minute, darling. What if he isn't a citizen? Mr. Hollister: Oh, now look here! Of course I'm a citizen. Gomez Addams: Good! Then it's legal." -Gomez, Morticia, and Mr. Hollister[src] |
Appearances[]
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TV Series[]
The Original Addams Family series
TV Specials[]
Etymology[]
- Gomez - Means son of man or son of path.
- Florencia - is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany.
- Addams - Means son of Adam or man of the red earth.
Trivia[]
- Gomez' net worth is 2.5 billion dollars, making him the 12th richest fictional character in their 2007 "Fictional 15" list.
- When the 1964 television series The Addams Family was being developed, Charles Addams suggested naming the character either Repelli or Gomez. Addams left the final choice up to actor John Astin, who chose Gomez.
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The Addams Family[]
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Halloween with the New Addams Family[]
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