Fivel & JohnPaul discuss the changing role of occupational counselors today, Chumbawamba, dancing as a movement, Rorschach tests, Richard Deacon, when to give up, Cousin Itt, the role of shame, and much more!

Episode description below:

Morticia thinks marriage counseling would be the perfect career choice for Cousin Itt. To prove it to him, she and Gomez pretend to be a couple in trouble. But things go awry when she starts believing in parts of Gomez's fanciful play-acting. Now Morticia and Gomez really are a couple in trouble, and Itt won't do as a marriage counselor at all. Morticia and Gomez call professional vocation advisor Mortimer Phelps (Richard Deacon) to find Cousin Itt a job. Phelps evaluates Itt and decides he should be a marriage counselor.

Uncle Fester is going to meet his pen pal, and he needs to live up to the fibs he has been writing. The family helps out by buying him toupees for the big meet up. Hilarity ensues. Fivel Fox & JohnPaul also talk about the cultural why of Saturday Morning Cartoons, 3rd spaces, Cary Grant, tokusatsu, parallel play, weird Aunts and Uncles, and so much more!

The city is planning to put a freeway through the Addams' neighborhood. In fact, the Addams' house is slated for demolition. Gomez and Morticia must find a solution, or else the house will be destroyed. Arthur J. Henson, city commissioner, visits to underscore the point that the Addams must move out. Unwilling to leave their precious home, Gomez and Morticia arrive at the idea to have the house moved to another location. Gomez buys the vacant lot next to Arthur Henson's home, and he pays to have their house moved there. Henson convinces the city council to reroute the highway so the house won't have to be moved.

Fivel and JohnPaul also talk about the power of memory to places and plants, and Fivel gives a mini history lesson!

Morticia's favorite charitable organization, run by Arthur Henson (Parley Baer), is holding their annual charity bazaar. Morticia persuades her family to part with their most precious (and, of course, bizarre) items in order to donate them to the charity auction. But the giving goes too far when Gomez hands over Pugsley's beloved wolf's-head clock without first asking. The boy sulks up the chimney, threatening never to come down, so Gomez and Morticia independently head back to the bazaar to get his clock back. Gomez and Morticia wind up bidding against each other. When the price starts to climb, a Mr. Clayton (Donald Foster) bids as well and wins the clock. Lurch manages to get the clock back for Pugsley.

Fivel and JohnPaul also chat about a fictional Addams Family newscast, J-Horror, Grief, Mortality, and importance of boundaries in giving.

Uncle Fester thinks his conjuring mishap has turned Pugsley into a chimpanzee. The family is unaware that Fester's explosion merely knocked Pugsley into a secret room, where he's trapped. The chimpanzee is a real chimpanzee that escaped from an organ grinder and climbed into Pugsley's window. Pugsley befriended the animal outside anyone's notice and the chimpanzee dressed itself in a duplicate set of his clothes. Fester keeps trying but can't seem to turn the chimpanzee back into Pugsley. In the end, Fester accidentally frees Pugsley and gets himself trapped in the secret room. Fivel and JohnPaul also chat about comic books, Trash Pack toys, Detectives, New York City movies, and how bad JohnPaul is at primates.

Fivel Fox & JohnPaul talk about the Addams midnight picnic as well as give a lost sock theory, discuss Fabio and the Goose, debunk old west mythology, ogle John Astin's swimsuit, and much more!

Fivel Fox & JohnPaul get back to the original series and talk about the silliness of money with the Addams, Fivel's JASON X kink, hitting 1 million subscribers, show off tattoos (in the videocast), and Fivel shares how JURASSIC PARK got her to finish college.

A museum owner named Mr. Belmont (Byron Foulger) takes an interest in Lurch's Krupnik harpsichord, so Morticia and Gomez plan to donate it to the museum. They don't stop till later to think how this might affect Lurch. Lurch is devastated. The family tries to interest him in other pastimes, but to no avail. Gomez and Fester finally decide they must build him a duplicate harpsichord. Once built, the family tell Lurch that they changed their minds and decided not to give the harpsichord away. Two delivery men arrive a day early, while Lurch is home alone, to take the harpsichord away. Lurch now feels betrayed, but lets the men take the harpsichord. It turns out Mr. Belmont was a crook and tried to sell the harpsichord to the museum. When the museum realized the harpsichord was a fake, they have Belmont arrested. Lurch gets his original harpsichord back.

Fivel Fox & JohnPaul talk about more horny Addams, museums, indie artists, Charlie Brown, Freeing the nipple, school lunches, Stan Winston, and much more!