Wednesday’s 10 Funniest Scenes, Ranked

Warning: This article contains some spoilers for Wednesday season 1.

Tim Burton’s Wednesday TV show shot to popularity in part because of the funniest scenes that demonstrate the morbid sense of humor of the title character. When Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) is shipped off to boarding school, the personalities of her classmates and peers are guaranteed to conflict with hers, resulting in plenty of funny beats throughout the show. However, the funniest scenes are doubtlessly the ones where Wednesday controls the conversation, likely with the other person becoming more off-put as things progress.

Furthermore, because of how Wednesday season 1’s overall plot is structured, more funny moments appear in the earlier episodes as the viewer is re-introduced to the strange world of the Addams Family before the main conflict takes over. Wednesday season 2 will likely have more comedy during adventure-of-the-week episodes at the start, rather than overall plot-heavy ones. However, while fans wait for this, they can revisit the funniest scenes with Wednesday and the rest of the characters in Wednesday season 1.

10
Wednesday Gets Comfortable In A Morgue

Season 1, Episode 4: “Woe What A Night”

Wednesday brings the ghoulish humor that is associated with her personality to the next level during the scene when she infiltrates Jericho’s morgue. When they are interrupted, she hides in one of the mortuary refrigerators. The scene gets its first comedic beat from Wednesday apparently being still and cold enough to convince Dr. Anwar (Nitin Ganatra) that she is dead, and he leaves without suspicion.

When Thing comes to get her, Wednesday responds, completely serious: “Five more minutes. I was just getting comfortable.” It is just one of the amusing scenes that demonstrates how creepy Wednesday is and makes fans adore her. However, the scene is primarily led by the typical tension of Wednesday almost being caught.

9
Wednesday’s Rowing Costume

Season 1, Episode 2: “Woe Is The Loneliest Night”

Wednesday is coerced into wearing a cat-themed uniform after she is recruited to participate in the Poe Cup. Wednesday and Enid’s (Emma Myers) personas conflict with them both using cat puns in completely different ways: Enid comments that Wednesday looks “purr-fect!” and asks about Wednesday’s missing whiskers, prompting Wednesday to respond: “Ask again and you’ll be down to eight lives.” However, it’s hard to consider this scene truly comedic when the costume actually suits her — at least it comes in black.

8
“You Rang?”

Season 1, Episode 3: “Friend Or Woe”

Wednesday’s tribute to Lurch’s most iconic Addams Family line isn’t so funny on its own but is hilarious in the context of the reference. Wednesday is having one of too many exchanges where she is telling a boy she doesn’t care what he thinks at the Weathervane and rings the bell to talk to Tyler (Hunter Doohan). Tyler’s sincere delivery of “You rang?” is partially hilarious because the character, of course, doesn’t understand what he is referencing — although Wednesday might, given her amused reaction to the “snap twice” code in episode 2.

7
Wednesday’s Dance Scene

Season 1, Episode 4: “Woe What A Night”

The Wednesday show’s now-iconic dance scene is funny, but it can’t exactly be called the funniest scene in the show when it has risen to the status of being bizarrely powerful. Wednesday is always unapologetically herself, no matter how spooky or kooky she may seem. Her zombie-like dance moves would seem strange if it were anyone else, but it is just part of her dark charm. However, while viewers might be impressed or mesmerized by Wednesday during the dance scene, they are likely still laughing just a little bit.

6
Wednesday Unleashes Piranhas

Season 1, Episode 1: “Wednesday’s Child Is Full Of Woe”

Wednesday’s outrageous opening scene promises that the show will be able to live up to the Addams Family legacy. Wednesday is already parting crowds and contrasting with everyone due to her signature black attire. However, she endears herself to the audience by being protective of her brother. She then pulls a violent prank by releasing piranhas into the pool where Pugsley’s (Isaac Ordonez) bullies are having practice, while “Non, je ne regrette rien” plays. The hyperbolic incident foreshadows Wednesday pulling more impossible stunts — but might lose some comedy points with people who don’t like blood.

5
Wednesday Decides To Stay At Nevermore

Season 1, Episode 1: “Wednesday’s Child Is Full Of Woe”

Like the dance seen, Wednesday episode 1’s ending also lands somewhere between funny and oddly empowering, in the sense of being perfectly dramatic. When her parents call to eagerly ask how school is going, Wednesday thinks back to all the disastrous events that happened within her first week. She then delivers the comedy-through-contrast line in her characteristic deadpan tone “As much as it pains me to admit, you were right Mother. I think I’m going to love it here,” before smirking while looking directly at the camera. The discordant music is the finishing touch.

4
Enid Shouts At Ajax

Season 1, Episode 3: “Friend Or Woe”

The only character who comes anywhere close to being as funny as Wednesday is her friend and roommate Enid. Enid spends a day of volunteering at a grotesque antique store hinting around for a date, before losing her cool and shouting that’s what she wants at Ajax (Georgie Farmer). The scene has plenty of mildly amusing but cringey moments of Enid awkwardly flirting, so this is a very satisfying conclusion to the sequence. It turns out to be adorably funny when Ajax is only happy to hear the clarification and accepts the invitation to meet up.

3
Wednesday Meets Enid

Season 1, Episode 1: “Wednesday’s Child Is Full Of Woe”

Right away it is clear that now small amount of the show’s humor will come from the contrast between Wednesday and her bubbly roommate, and Morticia informs Enid that Wednesday is “allergic to color.” The scene gets a continuation when Enid comes back later to find that Wednesday has stripped all color from her half of the room, and the girls throw some more hilarious, biting remarks at each other. The scene is extra funny because Enid makes it clear that she will not be pushed around, making their dynamic even more tense.

2
Wednesday Meets Weems

Season 1, Episode 1: “Wednesday’s Child Is Full Of Woe”

Wednesday also gets a lot of deadpan, macabre lines that show off her brand of comedy when Wednesday’s Gomez (Luis Guzmán) and Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones) introduce her to their old classmate Larissa Weems (Gwendoline Christie), now Nevermore Academy’s principal. The highlights include Wednesday’s clarification that she was born on Friday the 13th and her assertion that “they haven’t built [a school] strong enough to hold” her. The scene also gets some laughs out of the obvious tension between Weems and Morticia, with Wednesday only adding fuel to the fire. Overall, it is a well-written moment with many different funny moments.

1
Wednesday Turns Down The Nightshades

Season 1, Episode 3: “Friend Or Woe”

Episode 3’s first scene uses some trope subversion: After the cliffhanger of Wednesday being “kidnapped” at the end of the previous episode, her captors turn out to be some of her classmates forming the secret Nightshade Society. Wednesday piles on with her usual comedic superiority, bluntly turning down any possible invitation to join, freeing herself from her bindings, and critiquing the Nightshades’ kidnapping abilities. The scary-turned-funny sequence is characteristic of Wednesday and one of the show’s best moments — until it is surpassed by something in season 2.