The Addams step out of Charles Addams' cartoons. They live with all of the trappings of the macabre and are quite wealthy. Added to this mix is a crooked accountant and his loan shark and a plot to slip in a false lost Uncle Fester.
The Passing Zone, Jon Wee and Owen Morse, were stand-ins for Fester and Gomez passing six unweighted prop knives in the Mamushka dance.