The unsuccessful US presidential candidates that the Addams Family backed include Stephen Douglas in 1860, Al Smith in 1928, Alf Landon in 1936, Wendell Willkie in 1940, Thomas E. Dewey in 1944 and 1948 and Adlai Stevenson in 1952 and 1956.
Footage of Gomez sharpening the fence posts appears in the opening credits.
Second of three appearances of petty bureaucrat Sam L. Hilliard.