TV Quote of the Day (‘The Addams Family,’ As Uncle Fester Offers To Teach Lurch About Women)

[The family decides to make over Lurch.]

Uncle Fester [played by Jackie Coogan]: “And after a couple hours with me, why, he'll know all there is to know about women.”

Gomez Addams [played by John Astin]: “What do YOU know about women, Fester?”

Uncle Fester [a little affronted]: “Well, I had a mother, didn't I?”— The Addams Family, Season 2, Episode 29, “Lurch's Grand Romance,” original air date Apr. 1, 1966, teleplay by Gene Thompson and Arthur Weingarten, directed by Sidney Lanfield