Addams Family Values (1993)

Carol Kane: Granny

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Quotes 

• Morticia : Children, do you think we love the baby more than we love you?

  Wednesday , Pugsley : Yes.

  Morticia : Do you think that when a new baby arrives, one of the other children has to die?

  Wednesday , Pugsley : Yes.

  Grandma : Well, that's just not true.

  [sighs wistfully] 

  Grandma : Not anymore.

• Grandma : Unless Fester comes back, we're talking *dimples*.

  Gomez : Not in this house!

  Grandma : He could stay this way for years! Forever! He could become... a lawyer.

  Gomez : I won't listen!

  Grandma : An orthodontist!

  Morticia : Mama! Stop!

  Grandma : President!

  Gomez : [looking up above]  Please! I beg you! Take me!

  [sobs openly] 

• Morticia : My baby is ill, and my husband is dying. Oh, Mama, what shall I do?

  Grandma : Well, you have a black dress.

• Grandma : [Grandmama waves a skull at Debbie] 

  Grandma : Luxor, nexor, burst, and BURN!

  Debbie Jellinsky : What is she doing?

  Grandma : Just a curse. Have a nice day.

  [air kiss] 

• Pugsley : It's a boy.

  Wednesday : It's a girl.

  Uncle Fester : Gomez!

  Grandma : What news?

  Wednesday : Father, what is it?

  Gomez : [rushing from the hospital room, bursting]  It's an Addams!

• Debbie Jellinsky : My first husband, the heart surgeon. All day long, coronaries, transplants.

  Grandma : What about your needs?

  Debbie Jellinsky : "Sorry about dinner, Deb. The Pope has a cold."

  [the next slide shows a shadow of an axe on the wall heading towards the Surgeon] 

  Grandma : An axe! That takes me back.

• Debbie Jellinsky : Husband number two. The senator. He loved his state, he loved his country!

  Grandma : What about Debbie?

  Debbie Jellinsky : "Sorry, Debbie, no Mercedes this year. We have to set an example." Oh yeah? Set this!

  [the next slide shows the Senator, panicking as car headlights approach him] 

• [at Debbie's house] 

  Morticia : Where are we?

  Grandma : It looks familiar... Of course! The gates of hell.

• Grandma : [in Pubert's now lighthearted nursery]  Stay back! He's very sick!

  Morticia : [Morticia and Gomez look over into his cradle to see a blond, rosy-cheeked, smiling baby]  My baby!

  [Gomez faints] 

• [first lines] 

  Wednesday : [giving a funeral to a cat in a shoe-box]  Come, sorrow; we welcome thee. Let us join in grief, rejoice in despair, and honor the fortunate dead.

  Grandma : Dearly beloved...

  Wednesday : [the cat mews and Wednesday shakes the box]  Shh! Quiet!

  Grandma : [starts piling dirt on the box]