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Cousin Itt

Cousin Itt, as so named by the television series producer, (spelled as "Cousin It" in the movies and the pinball game), who frequently visited the family, was short-statured and had long hair that covered his entire body from scalp to floor. Cousin Itt drove a 3-wheeled car: a Messerschmitt KR175. Although in the series he was shown wearing opera gloves, it is unclear what, if anything, is beneath the hair. In episode 34 of season 1 of the original television series, when Gomez asked Cousin Itt what is underneath all the hair, Cousin Itt replies, "Roots." He was known to speak in a high-pitched nonsensical gibberish, that only the family seemed to understand; in the "My Fair Cousin Itt" episode of the sitcom, Morticia and Gomez, although still failing to realize that Cousin Itt's is utterly incomprehensible to most people (Morticia went so far as to admit that Itt sometimes speaks "a bit too rapidly for the average listener," while Gomez had failed to notice even that much), taught Cousin Itt to speak in an understandable baritone voice for acting purposes to suit a theatrical director's tastes. In the second animated series, Itt was a super-spy for the U.S. government. In the movies he fell in love with a human woman, Margaret, and married her after her first husband, Tully the lawyer, is disposed of by the Addams children. He and Margaret (whose child with Tully was missing since the school recital in the first film) go on to have a child in Addams Family Values, named "What" (from the obstetrician's reaction). In Addams Family Values, Cousin Itt performs the wedding of Fester, demonstrating he had some sort of title and legal power that is not explained in the movie.