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Wednesday at Camp Chippewa, baby Pubert, and Joan Cusack as the nanny who marries Fester to murder him. The 1993 sequel was darker and funnier than the first Addams Family, made far less money, and is the one everybody quotes now.
Rik Mayall in a green-and-yellow striped suit, taped inside a jack-in-the-box, back to wreck Phoebe Cates's life for her own good. Gene Siskel called it one of the worst films he had ever seen. A generation of kids rented it until the tape wore out.
Junior, the seven-year-old in the red bow tie adopted by John Ritter's hapless Ben Healy, is pen pals with a serial killer and a one-boy demolition crew. Critics loathed it, 70 percent of a test audience walked out, and by its writers' account it became Universal's most profitable film of 1990.
Jim Carrey's dark left turn: an obsessive cable installer who hooks you up and never leaves. Ben Stiller directed, Judd Apatow produced, and Carrey took a then-record $20 million payday to unsettle the exact audience his goofball hits had built. Critics split hard in 1996; the cult came later.
The Grim Reaper, beaten at limbo by a dim kid and his terrifying friend, becomes their best friend forever. Maxwell Atoms' Cartoon Network series ran from 2001 to 2007, first as half of Grim & Evil and then on its own, with Grim's put-upon drawl and Mandy's scowl carrying six seasons.