Pearl Shear

Although Marie has always cooked the traditional turkey for Thanksgiving, Debra decides it's her turn to prepare the holiday meal. However, not wanting to compete with Marie's turkey, she chooses to serve fish - which upsets the apple cart. Marie, feeling threatened when her family thinks Debra's fish idea is perfectly acceptable, decides to bring her own turkey to the dinner party.

Gorgo an escaped circus gorilla is accepted as one of the family which shocks the Ladies League members Morticia's invited to tea. Gomez is pleased as Pugsley makes a friend of Gorgo but Lurch is unhappy when Pugsley teaches Gorgo to do housework.

With the elections coming up, Al convinces his family to register and vote for the first time in an effort to stop a proposed tax on beer.

John-Boy becomes the object of public indignation when he insists on printing excerpts from Hitler's Mein Kampf.

A flash fire demolishes the second floor of the Walton's house and begins a series of events that threatens to destroy the family.