they manage to bond over their gothy dramatic antics (Lydia lets Wednesday shoot stuff off her head with the crossbow, Wednesday pretends to be dead and poses for Lydia's pictures, they 100% do open mic night poetry readings about the macabre), but each of them both believe the other is #Normal and just interested in this stuff as a concept, and put off explaining their families to each other because they don't wanna scare the other off. But then they get engaged and meeting the family is unavoidable and they are just. Panicking.

Wednesday is losing her mind there's spellbooks everywhere, there's a sentient hand skateboarding around, there's framed pictures of her trying to guillotine her brother, Mom's in the backyard cemetery performing a blood ritual, tango music is blasting, Frankenstein's brother is their butler, her cousin is a ball of fur, there's an alligator- and she's like. This is going to be a disaster. Lydia described her parents as business minded and dorky and normal and boring. They'll have heart attacks if they see this hot mess. Lydia watched One horror movie with her and had nightmares for a month she can't handle this!! How do you explain to your fiance that your brother is probably going to try and kill her because he lowkey gets off when you torture him!! Fuck!!

And the rest of the Addams are like hilariously unhelpful like Gomez is just like 'honey if they can't accept you Fester and I will just kill them, we'll bring our swords to dinner we'll be prepared it's fine', Grandmama is threatening to attend dinner in a bikini and also plans on robbing the Deetz when they aren't looking, Fester has apparently been crushing on his favorite fringe sculpture Delia Deetz for years so THAT'S gonna be a problem, Morticia is like 'you want me to be-🤢 you want me to be norm-🤢 I can't even say it 🤮'. Cousin It is in mating season and no one is safe. Wednesday is STRESSED.

MEANWHILE poor Lydia is like 'how the fuck am I supposed to explain that I have 4 parents but 2 of them are ghosts and also a demon who's technically my ex husband just pops in whenever he gets bored???' Wednesday literally gets in twitter fights with stars from ghost hunting shows about how fake they are she Cannot handle this!! Living people never come over her house!! How is she gonna stop them from accidentally falling into the netherworld or some shit!!

Her dad is just happy she's marrying into a rich, old money type family, he's not too concerned about anything else. Delia keeps consulting cards and crystals and psychics to see how this union will end. Barbara is fully panicking, running around like "Hide the handbook!! Hide the sandworm!! Hide the mirrors!! WE CAN'T LET PEOPLE KNOW WE'RE DEAD!!". Adam is preparing dumb jokes to charm everyone but is also ready to Yell if they don't accept Lydia. Beetlejuice keeps trying to get in on the dinner and Lydia just keeps banishing him lmao.

this is what the addams family musical should have been ANYWAY, absolute chaos at dinner. By the end everyone is completely obsessed with each other. Beetlejuice and Lurch fight over who gets to officiate the ceremony. Happy, creepy ending. Thank you, goodnight,