Continuity mistake: The scarf that Debbie wears while she is driving disappears and reappears throughout the scene.
Addams Family Values (1993)
Plot summary
Directed by: Barry Sonnenfeld
Starring: Christopher Lloyd, Christina Ricci, Joan Cusack, Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia
Pubert is the latest addition to the Addams family and, to prevent sibling rivalry escalating to fratricide, Wednesday and Pugsley are shipped off to summer camp and a nanny is hired. Debbie Jellinsky (Cusack) is great with wrinkling baldies, which makes her the perfect nanny for Pubert and the unlikely wife of Uncle Fester. The question is..."Is she grave-digging or gold-digging?"
More mistakes in Addams Family Values
Debbie: Isn't he a lady killer?
Gomez Addams: Acquitted.
Question: Why does the boy scream like a maniac when he spots the Michael Jackson poster on the wall?
Answer: If memory serves, it's a poster for Heal the World? I think he probably screams because this song was WAY over-played on radio stations at the time! It certainly was in the UK where I am from so I imagine in America it was over-played so much more.
Chosen answer: Not only is it a reference to Jackson's general scary weirdness, but also his alleged pedophilia (child molestation), causing the boy to react in fear.
Impossible, the first pedophilia accusations were made just a few months before the movie came out.
Those accusations had been an open secret for a long time, though.
Answer: Michael Jackson was slated to record a song and music video for the film. The music video had him living in the Addams family mansion with angry townsfolk trying to drive him out of town for being scary and weird. The scene in the film was suppose to reflect that he scared "normal" kids, it had nothing to do with a scandal. When Evan Chandler started talking about his son being molested by Jackson, the song and music video were pulled and not included with the film. But the poster scene was left in. Later, when the scandal fully broke and more accusation were made, the joke of the scene took on another meaning.
Bishop73
Good thing the accusations were all false! :).