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It's the Addams Family's favourite holiday, Halloween, so when Morticia (Carolyn Jones) and Gomez (John Astin) find two men hiding in their garden, they're properly delighted and invite them in, taking them for trick-or-treaters. Of course, the duo, Claude (Don Rickles) and Marty (Skip Homeier) are actually bankrobbers on the run, and with the police catching up on them, they're more than willing to accept the invitation, even if everything about the Addams feels creepy right from the start - and of course, neither Uncle Fester (Jackie Coogan) nor the Addams' butler Lurch (Ted Cassidy) do anything to calm their feel of unease. But then Gomez gets his hands on Claude and Marty's bag of loot, and mistaking it for a Halloween basket into which all the neighbours have thrown money, he opens his drawer full of Dollar bills to add some of his own. And that inspires the delinquent duo to make up a plan to get their hands on Gomez's money - and thus they suggest a party game of hide-and-seek, have all the Addams hiding, break open the money drawer, take out as much money as they can carry, and then try to leave - but the Thing has seen through their plot and closed off all the exits, until the children (Lisa Loring, Ken Weatherwax) come home from trick-or-treating and the robbers take this opportunity to slip out of the premises, to run right into an arriving police car ...

The episode starts rather unpromising, with Halloween being just the perfect vehicle for the Addams to show there creepiness and resulting wackiness - but once the actual story sets in, thing begin to work out very well, especially with Gomez and Morticia totally misinterpreting what's going on, but not so much out of naivity but out of their totally different views of the world - going up all the way to the final punchline.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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