The gold-digging serial killer Debbie Jellinsky manipulates Uncle Fester into a marriage proposal by feigning innocence, while Fester's family looks on with their signature macabre approval.
DEBBIE: And I dreamed that, when I met him, that we would wait, until our wedding night, to give ourselves to one another. To make the ultimate sacrifice.
FESTER: A goat?
DEBBIE: Until now I thought it was impossible! But Fester Addams -- I love you!
FESTER: I love you! I worship you! I'd do anythin
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