Gomez Quotes in The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

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Gomez Quotes:

  • Vice President Becker: I don't accept that abandoning half of the country is necessary.

    Gomez: Maybe if you would've listened to him sooner, it wouldn't be.

    Vice President Becker: Bullshit! It's easy for him to suggest this plan. He's safely here in Washington.

    Gomez: His son is in Manhattan. I just thought you should know that before you start questioning his motives.

  • Jack Hall: The government has to start making long term preparations now.

    Gomez: Jack, all you have is a theory.

  • Gomez: Booker! What's going on, here?

    Booker: They just issued a tornado warning in Los Angeles.

  • [deleted scene]

    Gomez: [Gomez calls out Riggs from the boxing ring] "I'm waiting old man"

    Martin Riggs: [to Roger] "Did he say old man?"

    Roger Murtaugh: [to Martin] He said "old man", old man.

    [laughs]

  • Morticia: Gomez.

    Gomez: Querida?

    Morticia: Last night you were unhinged. You were like some desperate, howling demon. You frightened me. Do it again!

  • Gomez: [about Morticia] I would die for her. I would kill for her. Either way, what bliss.

  • Gomez: How long has it been since we've waltzed?

    Morticia: Oh, Gomez... hours.

  • Morticia: When we first met years ago, it was an evening much like this. Magic in the air. A boy.

    Gomez: A girl.

    Morticia: An open grave. It was my first funeral.

    Gomez: You were so beautiful. Pale and mysterious. No one even looked at the corpse.

  • Sally Jessy Raphael: So, you claim that your son was brainwashed by voodoo witch doctors and forced to recruit others? Let's take a call.

    Gomez: Hello, Sally?

    Sally Jessy Raphael: Mr. Addams, *please* stop calling! We do not know where they meet!

  • Gomez: We danced the Mamushka while Nero fiddled, we danced the Mamushka at Waterloo. We danced the Mamushka for Jack the Ripper, and now, Fester Addams, this Mamushka is for you.

  • Gomez: To live without you, only that would be torture.

    Morticia: A day alone, only that would be death.

  • Judge: [at the auction] This magnificent piece is encrusted with rubies and fifteen emerald chips. It was donated by Morticia and Gomez... Addams. Remember, this year, over half our proceeds will benefit the elderly and the mentally disabled.

    [Gomez and Morticia look fondly at Grandmama]

    Judge: I'll open the bidding at five thousand dollars.

    Gomez: Five - , hah! Not good enough. Twenty thousand!

    Margaret: [frantic] What are they *doing*?

    Judge: I have twenty.

    Gomez: Twenty-five!

    [to Morticia]

    Gomez: Cara mia?

    Judge: Twenty-five.

    Morticia: Thirty.

    [to Gomez]

    Morticia: Mon sauvage.

    Gomez: [voice cracks] Thirty-five!

    [to Morticia]

    Gomez: Eres divina.

    Morticia: Mm, fifty!

    Judge: I have fifty thousand dollars.

    Morticia: [to Gomez] Your turn, my ecstasy.

    Judge: Fifty thousand going once, fifty thousand going twice. Sold to Morticia Addams for fifty... thousand... dollars.

    [looks disgusted as Gomez and Morticia do something obscene]

  • Gomez: Look at her. I would die for her. I would kill for her. Either way, what bliss.

    Gomez: [Morticia wakes up] Unhappy, darling?

    Morticia: Oh, yes. Yes completely.

    [Gomez sits]

    Morticia: Gomez... Sun. Il me perce comme un poignard.

    Gomez: Oh, Tish. That's French.

    Morticia: Oui.

    Gomez: Cara mia.

    [kisses Morticia's hand]

    Gomez: En garde, Monsieur Soleil!

    Morticia: Gomez...

    Gomez: Querida?

    Morticia: Last night, you were unhinged. You were like some desperate howling demon. You frightened me. Do it again.

  • Gomez: [playing with his trains and furiously contemplating things] He wore that finger trap for two years. Mother had to teach him to eat with his feet. And the combination, and the password, and my cigar, and he slept so well!

  • [performing abridged "Hamlet" in school play; sword fighting]

    Wednesday: How all occasions do inform against me and spur my dull revenge. O, from this time forth, my thoughts be bloody or nothing worth. If I must strike you dead, I will.

    Pugsley: [slashes Wednesday's left wrist; blood sprays out] A hit! A very palpable hit!

    [Wednesday cuts of Pugsley's arm, Pugsley slashes her throat; there is lots of blood spraying everywhere, getting the front rows]

    Wednesday: O, Proud Death. What feast is toward in thine eternal cell?

    [drops both swords and falls to her knees]

    Wednesday: Sweet Oblivion, open your arms!

    [choking and gasping for breath, collapses, and dies]

    Wednesday: [the audience sits aghast in stunned silence, covered with blood while the Addams give a standing ovation]

    Gomez: Bravo!

    Morticia: Bravo!

    Gomez: Bravo! Bravo!

  • Gomez: [watching home movies] Remember that fateful night?

    Uncle Fester: Of course... Your first cigar!

    Gomez: What? Come on, Old Man, I've smoked since I was five. Mother insisted.

  • Dr. Pinderschloss: Keep the book closed, Gordon. Listen to mother!

    Uncle Fester: I'll never listen to you, never, ever again!

    Dr. Pinderschloss: I had to be strict with you because I cared! Put it down!

    Uncle Fester: You never really loved me!

    Gomez: Fester, this way!

    Dr. Pinderschloss: Stop whining, you little good-for-nothing! Be a man!

    Uncle Fester: You were a terrible mother! There! I said it!

    [Fester opens the book, and a hurricane is unleashed inside the house, causing Tully and Dr. Pinderschloss to launch out the window]

  • Gomez: [playing with his trains and furiously contemplating things] "How do you take it off"? That's absurd! That finger trap was a party favor at his tenth birthday!

  • Gomez: Think of it, Thing. For twenty-five years we've attempted to contact Fester in the great beyond, and for twenty-five years, nothing. I'm beginning to think my brother truly is lost.

  • Judge: [after a golf ball is hit through his window] Damn you, Addams!

    Gomez: Sorry about the window, Judge. Keep the ball, I have a whole bucket full.

    Judge: You moron!

  • Gomez: [as he helps Morticia out of a trap] Leather straps, red-hot pokers!

    Morticia: Later, my dearest.

  • Gomez: [playing with his trains and praying to God] Spirits above me, give me a sign. Shall I be joyous... or shall I be damned?

  • Gomez: [to his family] They say a man who represents himself has a fool for a client. Well, with God as my witness, I am that fool!

  • Gomez: [as they search for Wednesday] Fan out. Pugsley, head for the dung heap. Mama and Morticia, the shallow graves. I'll take the abyss. Lurch, check out the bottomless pit. Fester?

    Uncle Fester: [from a window] Up here!

    Gomez: [shouting up to him] Fester, you take the ravine, and the unmarked, abandoned well!

    Uncle Fester: Somebody should stay behind in case she comes back.

    Gomez: Good man. Good thinking!

    Grandmama: Then who'll take the swamp?

    Gomez: [Thing taps Gomez's shoe] That's the spirit, Thing. Lend a hand. Let's go!

  • Gomez: [he has thrown a sword and pierced the wall not but two inches from Tully's head] Ah, missed!

  • Dr. Pinderschloss: Love/hate, hate/love. Like for mama, no?

    Gomez: But I didn't hate my mother. It was an accident!

  • Margaret: Everyone keeps asking where he bought his costume.

    Gomez: It is a wonderful hat.

  • Gomez: [after landing on a dock] Smell that air, Fester! Like a tomb.

  • [Thing is gesturing wildly]

    Gomez: Mor... Morticia... Morticia? Morticia what? Slow down! It's terrible when you stutter!

    [Thing gropes around, finds a pen, and starts to write, but it's out of ink. Groping around again, Thing overturns a bowl of cereal, grabs the spoon, and starts tapping in Morse Code]

    Gomez: Morticia... in... danger... stop. Send... help... at once... STOP!

    [Gomez stands and runs out. Thing collapses]

  • Gomez: [to Fester] A-ha! Showtime!

  • Gomez: Cara mia.

    Morticia: Mon sauvage.

  • Gomez: Cara mia.

    Morticia: Mon cher.

  • Gomez: Is it painful?

    Morticia: Extremely.

  • Gomez: Cara mia, is it true?

    Morticia: Oui, mon amour.

  • Gomez: [to Fester] Two, ten, eleven. Eyes, fingers, toes!

  • Gomez: [Playing with the train set, ranting about Fester's finger-trap] How do you take it off? That's absurd! That finger trap was a party favor at his tenth birthday!

    Morticia: [In the room below, Morticia is reading a bedtime story to Wednesday and Pugsley. She looks up at the noise] Oh, no.

    Pugsley: Father's playing with his trains.

    Gomez: He wore that finger-trap for two years! Mother had to teach him to eat with his feet! And the combination! AND the password! And my cigar! And he slept so well!

    [Thing bangs his fist as Gomez speeds up the trains]

    Pugsley: He's using the diesel!

    Wednesday: [Looking horrified, as the train approaches a bridge] The covered bridge!

    Morticia: [Horrified, as the train runs through a ravine] Dead Man's Curve!

    [Grandmama looks up exasperatedly then continues read Gray's Anatomy. Lurch looks up as he darns his socks. A man on the train looks up as Gomez laughs maniacally]

    Wednesday: It's all about Uncle Fester, isn't it?

    Morticia: [Looks up as Fester passes through a pipe. Her eyes narrow]

    [as the trains approach each other]

    Gomez: Spirits above me... Give me a sign! Shall I be joyous? Or shall I be damned?

    [Trains collide and explode in front of Gomez's face]

  • Morticia: Gomez, why don't we go for a drive? The whole family.

    Gomez: A drive? And miss Gilligan?

  • Gomez: [to Morticia] You bewitched me. I proposed that very night.

  • Gomez: [sees Flora and Fauna] I'm blinded by such beauty.

  • Morticia: Why don't you speak to Fester, darling? He's right outside the door.

    Gomez: I would speak with Fester if that *were* Fester. But that is *not*! That is an *impostor*! An *impostor*!

  • Uncle Fester: What is this?

    Morticia: Mama's spécialité de la maison.

    Gomez: Oh, Tish.

    Grandmama: [to Fester] Start with the eyes.

  • Pugsley: ...Because we're Addams'.

    Gomez: We're Addams'.

  • Gomez: [to Fester] Good show, old man.

  • Grandmama: Aah! Aaaaaaah!

    Morticia: Mama?

    Grandmama: [lifting something from her cooking pot] Who put this in here?

    Grandmama: [Pugsley and Fester laugh] That's for company.

    Gomez: Little rascals.

  • [about Pubert]

    Gomez: He has my father's eyes.

    Morticia: Gomez, take those out of his mouth.

  • Debbie Jellinsky: I don't wanna hurt anybody. I don't enjoy hurting anybody. I don't like guns, or bombs, or electric chairs. But sometimes people just won't listen. And so, I have to use persuasion. And slides.

    [Showing slide pictures]

    Debbie Jellinsky: My parents, Sharon and Dave. Generous, doting, or *were they*? All I ever wanted was a Ballerina Barbie. In her pretty pink tutu. My birthday.

    [the slide shows her as a child, smiling and opening a gift]

    Debbie Jellinsky: I was 10, and do you know what they got me? *Malibu* Barbie.

    Morticia: Malibu Barbie.

    Gomez: The nightmare.

    Morticia: The nerve.

    Debbie Jellinsky: [flicks to the next slide of her throwing a bared-teeth temper tantrum] That's not what I wanted! That's not who I was. I was a *ballerina*, graceful, delicate! They had to go.

    [the next slide shot shows a burning house]

  • Gomez: [to Fester] You'll meet someone. Someone very special. Someone who won't press charges.

  • [the dancer in the cake doesn't pop out]

    Gomez: That poor girl. Lurch, was she in there before you baked?

    [Lurch hangs his head]

    Gomez: C'est la vie!

  • Gomez: [shouting] I demand justice! Someone has married my brother!

    Desk sergeant: [sarcastically] No!

    Gomez: She took him to Hawaii!

    Desk sergeant: [cynically] Get outta here!

    Gomez: They have moved into a large, expensive home, where they make love *constantly*!

    Desk sergeant: I hate when that happens.

    Gomez: Arrest her at once, without delay!

    Desk sergeant: Who?

    Gomez: Debbie. My brother's wife, the temptress of Waikiki!

    Desk sergeant: Who are you? What are you? Who moved the rock?

    Gomez: Officer, you must issue a subpoena. I believe they own...

    Morticia: Gomez, NO!

    Gomez: [shouting] A Buick!

  • Gomez: Children, why do you hate the baby?

    Pugsley: We don't hate him. We just wanna play with him.

    Wednesday: Especially his head.

  • [at the police station after asking to arrest Debbie]

    Gomez: [shouting] Has the planet gone mad? My brother, passion's hostage. I seek justice - denied! I shall not submit! I shall conquer! I shall rise! My name is Gomez Addams, and I have seen evil!

    [Grandma waves Pubert in the air]

    Gomez: I have seen horror!

    [Lurch waves]

    Gomez: I have seen the unholy maggots which feast in the dark recesses of the human soul!

    Morticia: They're at camp.

    Gomez: I have seen all this, officer. But until today, I had never seen... *you*!

    Desk sergeant: Hook him, book him, cook him. *Now*!

  • Don Buckman: Our Amanda's already skipped two grades. How 'bout your boy?

    Gomez: [beaming] Probation!

  • Gomez: Cara mia.

    Morticia: Mon cher.

  • Gomez: [to Fester] I hope that someday you'll know the indescribable joy of having children, and of paying someone else to raise them.

  • Pugsley: It's a boy.

    Wednesday: It's a girl.

    Uncle Fester: Gomez!

    Grandma: What news?

    Wednesday: Father, what is it?

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

  • Gomez: [to his family] To mirth, to merriment... to manslaughter.

  • Debbie Jellinsky: My latest husband, my late husband, Fester.

    Uncle Fester: The fool.

    Debbie Jellinsky: The corpse. And his adorable family. You took me in, you accepted me, but did any of you love me? Really love me?

    Gomez: Hands!

    [the Addams family, all strapped into their electric chairs, are unable to raise their hands]

  • Gomez: [visibly disgusted] Fresh air. The scent of pine.

    [hands Pugsley a cigar]

    Morticia: Wednesday, look at all of the other children, their freckles, their bright little eyes, their eager, friendly smiles. Help them.

  • Gomez: At his request, I would rip out my eyes. At his command, I would crawl on my belly through hot coals and broken glass.

    Morticia: Why wait?

  • 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]

  • Uncle Fester: [talking to Gomez about wanting a relationship with a woman] I... I have *needs*!

    Gomez: ...There's Thing!

    [Thing shudders]

  • Debbie Jellinsky: [meeting Gomez] Isn't he a lady killer!

    Gomez: Acquitted.

  • [driving to Camp Chippewa]

    Pugsley: What's a Chippewa?

    Gomez: It's an old Indian word.

    Wednesday: It means "orphan."

  • Uncle Fester: It's me, Gomez! I've tried to be someone I'm not. I live in shame... and the suburbs!

    Gomez: But you belong to Debbie! You're Debbie's love toy! You are *Mr. Debbie*!

    Uncle Fester: I am an Addams!

    Gomez: Fester!

    [they embrace]

  • Morticia: [Thing hops on Debbie's shoulder] Thing, stop that.

    Gomez: He likes you.

    Debbie Jellinsky: [Debbie sucks on Thing's index finger; he shudders and falls off] I'm good with my hands.

  • Uncle Fester: Gomez! Morticia! Great news! Something impossible... a miracle!

    Gomez: The rash?

    Morticia: It's gone?

    Uncle Fester: I'm engaged!

    [Debbie shows them the ring]

    Morticia: That ring!

    Gomez: It was our mother's. She was buried with it.

    [Debbie holds up a shovel]

  • Delivery Room Doctor: Nurse, how close are the contractions?

    Delivery Nurse: Every fifteen seconds, doctor.

    Gomez: Are you in unbearable pain? Is it inhuman? My darling, is it torture?

    Morticia: Oui.

  • Uncle Fester: [Referring to Thing relieving Fester's "desires"] It's not the same thing, I want legs, a body... a head.

    Gomez: TWO legs?

  • Morticia: Adieu, mon cher.

    Gomez: Adios, cara mia.

  • Morticia: So... you still desire me after all these years? The old ball and chain?

    Gomez: Forever!

    Morticia: I'll get them!

  • Morticia: Gomez.

    Gomez: Cara mia?

    Morticia: Marvelous news. I'm going to have a baby. Right now.

  • Uncle Fester: Gomez, do you remember what we were like? I hated you!

    Gomez: I despised you!

    Uncle Fester: I choked him until he lost consciousness and had to be put on a respirator!

    Gomez: I tied him to a tree and pulled out four of his permanent teeth!

    Uncle Fester: When he was asleep, I opened his skull, and removed his brains!

    Gomez: You did?

    Uncle Fester: [laughs hysterically] Ah, brother!

    Gomez: Brother!

    [Gomez flings him into the opposite wall, then grabs up about twenty knives conveniently lying on the table, flinging them all around Fester, with several right next to his head. Fester laughs hysterically through it all, although the last four are done with Gomez's back to him]

    Uncle Fester: Children, you see?

  • Gomez: [to Thing] Good show, old man.

  • Morticia: [walking into Pubert's nursery] Oh, Gomez. It's dark, it's depressing, it's desolate.

    Gomez: It says, "Toddler".

    Morticia: It's a dream.

    Gomez: Come, cara mia.

  • MorticiaGomez: [to each other] Summer camp?

  • Gomez: [opens the window to enjoy the night air, and catches Pubert as he falls from the roof] Cara mia!

    Morticia: Oh, dear.

  • Uncle Fester: [about Debbie] She makes me think of... volatile chemicals.

    Gomez: Truly Fester, has it finally happened at long last?

    Uncle Fester: I don't know! I think so!

  • Uncle Fester: I'm making such a mess of things. Gomez! How do you do it? How can I be like you? How can I be... suave?

    Gomez: Woo her. Admire her. Make her feel like she's the most sublime creature on Earth.

  • Gomez: Perfection achieved. We are the luckiest brothers on Earth. We are unworthy of such splendor, undeserving of such radiance.

    Uncle Fester: Uh... that's right! We should have... ugly girls!

  • Cardinal: No!

    Gomez: No!

    Cardinal: No, I tell you, I havea de seal of de Pope!

    Gomez: Oh! He hasa de seal of de Pope!

    Cardinal: NO! Help me!

    Gomez: Help me!

    Cardinal: Someone help me!

    Gomez: Someone help me!

    Cardinal: No! No, I tell you! No, Help me! Help me someone!

  • Cardinal: [about to be killed] No!

    Gomez: Yes!

  • Dr. Heusos: You idiots, why did you tear out her tongue?

    Gomez: We didn't. We don't do tongues.

    Francisco: Of course not. How can they confess if they don't have tongues?

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