The gold-digging serial killer Debbie Jellinsky manipulates Fester Addams by feigning her 'purity' and innocence. Fester, completely oblivious to her true nature, reciprocates her affection with his signature macabre charm.
DEBBIE: I've always dreamed of meeting someone... untouched. Someone pure. Someone just like you.
FESTER: You'll meet him.
DEBBIE: And I dreamed that, when I met him, that we would wait, until our wedding night, to give ourselves to one another. To make the ultimate sacrifice.
FESTER: A goat?
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