- A bored Gomez has tried and succeeded at everything, so he initiates a new venture - to fail at something. This turns out to be harder than he thought.
- Gomez Addams is bored with life: he has successfully accomplished every feat there is, and now demands a new challenge. His wife Morticia suggests that since he has never failed before, he should try failing at something. Gomez, aided by his brother Fester, immediately sets about a series of impossible labors: investing in worthless stock, opening a diet centre that supplies chocolate, and knitting a sweater while being shot from a cannon (according to him he cant knit). Sadly for him, things go right: he completes his sweater, his stock rises in value, and his diet centres customers lose weight (thanks to Fester's chocolate recipe), all of which make him a booming success.
The Addams neighbor, Mr Normanmeyer, wants to be rid of them once and for all, and sees Gomezs latest whim as an opportunity to achieve this goal. He visits Gomez and offers to aid him in his venture: the city is looking for a piece of land on which to finish building a freeway, and if Gomez sells them his land at a scandalously cheap price, he will make a major loss and additionally wind up a laughing-stock. A delighted Gomez sells his land to the city for five dollars, and revels happily in his failure. Later, he learns that the land he sold was the property on which the Addams mansion is built, which means their home is going to be torn down...
Bulldozers converge on the Addams home, flanked by a gleeful Normanmeyer, but Gomez refuses to let them demolish his house. He is truly grateful to Normanmeyer for his help (!), but he feels it wouldnt be honorable to deceive his way to failure - he reveals that his home had been built on swampland, so if the freeway was built on it, it would sink to the swamp. For his truthfulness, Gomez is rewarded ten dollars (double the profit he made on the sale), and the freeway is rerouted to a firmer patch of land Mr Normanmeyer's home...
Gomez is depressed at being a miserable success. But Morticia points out that all his attempts to fail have themselves ended in failure, and with this news, the family hosts one of their family celebration dances.
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