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Wednesday needs no introduction when it comes to delivering razor-sharp comebacks... Join us as we explore the most savage burns from everyone's favorite gothic queen! From shutting down mean girls to roasting secret societies, Wednesday Addams proves that her tongue is just as deadly as any weapon in her arsenal.
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00:00There she is. Oh, how we miss those accusing eyes and youthful sneer.
00:06Welcome to Ms. Mojo.
00:08And today, we're counting down our picks for the sickest burns delivered by the Addams Family's resident deathtrap.
00:14These Wednesday quotes are taken from the eponymous Netflix series starring Jenna Ortega.
00:19So if you're yet to tune in to the show, beware of spoilers ahead.
00:24Let me show you some of my own handiwork.
00:27Number 20. Nothing special about birthdays.
00:33No self-respecting queen of gloom would celebrate an occasion as trite as a birthday.
00:37I should have known you were behind this.
00:40What part of no party under the penalty of death do you not understand?
00:43When Wednesday's friends throw her a surprise birthday party for her 16th, she's visibly irked.
00:49Later, she shows up at Weathervane, the coffee shop where Tyler works, and is greeted with a drink that says happy birthday.
00:55I know you're usually a quad kind of girl, but I've been working on that all week.
00:59Wednesday is quick to call out the inappropriateness of the happy part, and is unimpressed by the hullabaloo around birthdays.
01:06However, it's not because she doesn't enjoy feeling special.
01:09In fact, she knows she's the main character every day, but can't be bothered to pretend the HBD song is any good.
01:15Come on, don't you like a day that's all about you?
01:17Every day is all about me.
01:19This one just comes with cake and a bad song.
01:21Number 19. Love Thy Haters
01:24Only Wednesday can manage to be sharp-tongued and vulnerable at the same time.
01:28I don't usually find students in here looking for actual books.
01:34Most sneak in to make out.
01:36I accidentally walked in on two vampires fanging.
01:39I can't unsee that.
01:41Is there something I can help you find?
01:42While searching for leads regarding Rowan's mother's prophetic book, she encounters Ms. Thornhill, played by Christina Ricci.
01:49The supposed normie teacher tells Adams about the nightshades before opening up to her in an effort to grow closer.
01:55I know it can't be easy showing up mid-semester.
01:59I've been here a year and a half, and I still feel like an outsider.
02:04She talks about feeling out of place at Nevermore, and the sentiment is not foreign to Wednesday.
02:09However, she handles it differently.
02:11Rather than being apathetic to others' poor opinions of her, she revels in their dislike.
02:17I act as if I don't care if people dislike me.
02:22Deep down, I secretly enjoy it.
02:27It's a sassy remark meant to comfort Thornhill, but also a jab at anyone who thinks they can unnerve her.
02:33Number 18. Saving the World
02:36Leave this to me.
02:38Wednesday?
02:39What are you gonna do?
02:41What I do best.
02:45Nobody likes mean kids, but jumping piranhas into a pool while they're swimming in it might be going a bit too far.
02:51Not for Wednesday, though.
02:53You don't just mess with her brother and get away with it.
02:56So she did what she had to do, and the result was gruesome, to say the least.
03:00Hey, freak.
03:02This is a closed practice.
03:04The only person who gets to torture my brother is me.
03:15After transferring to Nevermore, Wednesday begins therapy with Dr. Kinbot,
03:20who wants to explore her feelings of remorse, or lack thereof.
03:24The teen doesn't even flinch when talking about one of the troublemakers getting injured in his groin.
03:29On the contrary, she is unapologetic and also proud to have ended his bloodline.
03:34I did the world a favor.
03:35People like Dalton shouldn't be allowed to procreate.
03:38I've answered all your questions.
03:40We're not done yet.
03:41Number 17.
03:43One for the Gossipers.
03:44Oh, you know, you should really get on Insta, Snapchat, and TikTok.
03:48I find social media to be a sore-socking void of meaningless affirmation.
03:53Our titular protagonist's reputation precedes her at Nevermore.
03:57Even before she sets foot on school grounds,
03:59people are already spreading rumors about her morbid nature.
04:03The fact that her roommate, Enid, runs a gossip vlog doesn't exactly win her any brownie points either.
04:07Instead, she critiques her authorship, belittles her followers, and establishes literary dominance, all in one breath.
04:16I devote an hour a day to my novel.
04:18Perhaps if you did the same, your blog might be coherent.
04:21I read serial killer diaries with better punctuation.
04:24I write in my voice.
04:26It's my truth.
04:27It's what my followers love.
04:29Your followers are clearly imbeciles.
04:31The final blow is how she calls out Enid for misspelling her surname.
04:36After all, Adams couldn't care less if anyone was trash-talking her,
04:39but you'd better put some respect on her name.
04:42Wednesday Adams is here.
04:44It's Adams with two Ds.
04:46Like padded room.
04:47Number 16.
04:48A dark offer.
04:50The level of second-hand embarrassment we felt for the Nightshade members in this episode should have been illegal.
04:55Wednesday is kidnapped by the so-called elite gang,
04:58who don't really have much to offer beyond virgin mojitos and scandalous skinny dips.
05:03How did you get down here?
05:04Rowan showed me.
05:06Left pocket.
05:11I tracked the watermark from the page down to the Poe statue.
05:14Then I solved the riddle.
05:15Wait, there's a riddle?
05:16I thought we just snapped twice.
05:18Well, aren't you the brightest in the bunch?
05:20Bianca's attempt at intimidating Wednesday goes down the drain, too.
05:24Instead, she coldly turns down their offer to join the Nightshades,
05:27frees herself,
05:29and walks out without a sweat.
05:31I'm not interested in joining.
05:33You're seriously turning us down?
05:34Can you believe it?
05:37Untie her.
05:38I freed myself five minutes ago.
05:40When Kent,
05:41who got a black eye from Thing during the Poe cup,
05:43tries to stop her,
05:45she calmly offers to give him a matching bruise on his other eye.
05:48Do you want a matching black eye?
05:52That burn probably took longer to recover from than Thing's punch.
05:56Number 15.
05:58Morticia vs. Wednesday
06:00Look at this.
06:01Something's never changed.
06:05I knew I should have worn my plague mask.
06:07The matriarch of the Addams family and her eldest child don't really get along well.
06:12Their relationship is strained even more after Wednesday is sent to Nevermore Academy,
06:16where she finds out about her father, Gomez Addams' dark past.
06:19As it turns out, he was allegedly involved in the murder of Garrett Gates.
06:24Who was Garrett Gates and why are you accused of murdering him?
06:28Whoa.
06:29Those charges were dropped.
06:31Your father is an innocent man.
06:32Local sheriff doesn't seem too convinced.
06:34Wednesday, stop.
06:36This is neither the time nor the place.
06:39Naturally, such a revelation rattles Wednesday's perception of her parents.
06:43The brunt of that rage falls on Morticia during Parents Week at Nevermore.
06:47Although Mama Addams tries to smooth things over during a feast,
06:51Wednesday can hardly look at her without contempt,
06:53which results in a defiant quip about her hiding the truth.
06:56You're not hungry, darling?
06:59My appetite eludes me, Mother.
07:01The same way the truth eludes you.
07:03It's a perfect representation of how bratty Wednesday can be.
07:06And we love to see it.
07:09Number 14.
07:10You've certainly had a very interesting educational journey.
07:16Eight schools in five years.
07:18They haven't built one strong enough to hold me.
07:20I bet this place won't be any different.
07:22Before joining Nevermore Academy,
07:24our favorite little viper was seen as quite a problem child at her school.
07:29After Dr. Kinbot first meets with Wednesday for their obligatory therapy session,
07:33she brings up her former counselor, Mrs. Bronstein's notes.
07:36Wednesday promptly informs her that Mrs. Bronstein,
07:39bless her heart,
07:40was so traumatized by her that she had a full-blown mental health crisis.
07:44How did you feel about that?
07:46Vindicated.
07:47But someone who crochets for a hobby isn't a worthy adversary.
07:50Unsurprisingly,
07:51Adam shows no empathy for the older lady's breakdown and even feels avenged.
07:56However, as if to add insult to injury,
07:58she admits that her counselor's downfall was not satisfying enough
08:02because she's someone who crochets for fun.
08:05Prayers up for the crochet community catching strays.
08:07You know the old saying,
08:08never bring a knife to a sword fight.
08:11Unless it's concealed.
08:13Number 13.
08:14The Emoji Shade
08:16Enid is a ray of pure sunshine.
08:19So it's no surprise that the one time she tried to outread Wednesday,
08:22she was hit with a clap back so sharp,
08:24we almost couldn't tell if it was actually a real threat.
08:27What the hell did you do to my room?
08:31Dividing our room equally.
08:35Looks like a rainbow vomited on your side.
08:38Silence would be appreciated.
08:40She dismisses Enid's followers by mocking their use of pictures to react to her posts.
08:45The bubblier girl schools her on emojis,
08:47claiming they're a mode of self-expression.
08:50However, Wednesday quickly turns this new knowledge against Enid,
08:53telling her exactly which emojis express her feelings towards her.
08:57Spoiler alert, they're not cute.
08:59When I look at you, the following emojis come to mind.
09:03Rope, shovel, hole.
09:06Number 12.
09:07The Perfect Comeback
09:08Wednesday's fiery hatred for Bianca trumps her mild agitation toward Enid.
09:13So when she finds out that the siren plans to cheat her way to victory at the poke-up,
09:17she joins hands with the werewolf to bring her down.
09:20You're willing to do that?
09:22For me?
09:23I want to humiliate Bianca so badly that the bitter taste of defeat burns in her throat.
09:30Yeah, but mostly you're doing it because we're friends, right?
09:33On the day of the tournament, she joins Enid's team, the Black Cats,
09:40and looks the part too, cat ears and all.
09:43However, when Enid points out the lack of whiskers on her face,
09:46Wednesday delivers a hilarious retort, threatening to take one of her nine cat lives.
09:51Ask again and you'll be down to eight lives.
09:54She says it in a deadpan way, as always,
09:56but there's something so adorable about her making a cat joke disguised as a warning
10:00that we can't help but love her even more.
10:04Number 11.
10:05Getting the Job Done
10:06I'm not sure whose twisted idea it was
10:10to put hundreds of adolescents in underfunded schools
10:14run by people whose dreams were crushed years ago.
10:19The pig-tailed goth princess's piranha stunt at Nancy Reagan High School
10:28almost sent her to jail.
10:30The victim, Dalton, who tormented her brother Pugsley,
10:34got bitten, and his parents nearly got her charged with attempted murder.
10:38However, she's hardly shaken by the prospect of serving time.
10:41Instead, Wednesday is offended by the fact
10:43that her record would show a failed attempt at taking Dalton's life.
10:46That boy's family was going to file attempted murder charges.
10:51How would that have looked on your record?
10:53Terrible.
10:55Everyone would know I failed to get the job done.
10:57With this one line,
10:59the show tells us all we need to know about its protagonist,
11:02prefacing a rollercoaster ride of woe and wonder.
11:05How could we not be obsessed?
11:07As much as it pains me to admit you were right, Mother,
11:10I think I'm going to love it here.
11:16Number 10.
11:18If the buckled shoe fits.
11:20Wednesday Addams knows how to make a first impression
11:23and a lasting one at that.
11:25While sitting at the weather vane,
11:27she's confronted by three normies in pilgrim attire.
11:30It takes a special kind of stupid
11:31to devote an entire theme park to zealots responsible for mass genocide.
11:35My dad owns Pilgrim World.
11:37You're calling stupid.
11:39If the buckled shoe fits.
11:41Of course, she's completely unfazed by their attempted intimidation,
11:45first verbally laying them out with her unrelenting insults,
11:49then doing so literally.
11:51And this is just the first of her run-ins with these Jericho jerks.
11:55At Pilgrim World,
11:56Wednesday teaches them another lesson when they're terrorizing Eugene.
12:00Are you two still here?
12:01I can't get into any more trouble with my dad.
12:03And she also doesn't hold back later
12:05when she sees Lucas at the raven dance with her roomie Enid.
12:09It's one thing to mess with her,
12:10but when it comes to the people she cares about,
12:13you're digging your own grave.
12:14Wednesday, I come in peace.
12:17That's a shame.
12:18I brought my pocket base.
12:20The medieval kind.
12:23Number 9.
12:24Snapping Thornhill's Olive Branch
12:26Before we knew about Miss Thornhill's true identity,
12:29she seemed like a caring professor slash doormother
12:31just trying to be there for her new student.
12:34After Principal Weems puts Wednesday on lockdown,
12:37Thornhill gifts her with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
12:39No man chooses evil because it is evil.
12:42He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
12:45Mary Shelley wrote that line to describe people like Weems,
12:47who do bad things under the guise of protecting the greater good.
12:50Wednesday's having none of that and questions her motives.
12:53She doesn't need anyone trying to comfort or relate to her,
12:56especially when she feels wronged.
12:58I think we're a lot alike.
13:00We aren't.
13:01I don't need your help or your pity.
13:04I already have a mother and a therapist.
13:05That's enough torture, even for me.
13:07Thornhill has seen before that Wednesday's not generally receptive to seemingly kind gestures,
13:12but being on the receiving end is a whole other story.
13:15Keep your claws to yourself and no smothering people in their sleep.
13:19Number 8.
13:20Throwing Stones
13:21Wednesday hands out sick burns to anyone and everyone,
13:26but we'd say Xavier Thorpe gets it pretty bad.
13:28If I am the monster, why haven't I killed you?
13:36Because for some reason I cannot fathom or indulge, you seem to like me.
13:40She's not impressed by his smugness and continues to rebuff his attempts at being her friend,
13:45or something more.
13:46Wednesday doesn't seem to have much desire for either kind of relationship,
13:50but Xavier keeps trying anyway, even offering her unsolicited advice.
13:55You're creating a story in your head and using visions to back it up.
13:58They're telling you what you want to see.
13:59Are you mansplaining my power?
14:01She takes even less kindly to his intervention in her other relationships,
14:05especially when it comes to Tyler Galpin.
14:08When Xavier tries to warn her about the normie, she shuts him down real quick.
14:12Tyler and his friends are a bunch of jerks.
14:15They can't stand the fact that this school is the only thing dropping up their podunk town.
14:18Says the boy whose life was served to him on a silver platter.
14:20And when he tries his own hand at a comeback, she doesn't even let him finish,
14:24countering with another deep cut.
14:26Ouch, indeed.
14:28Girls in glass houses.
14:29To throw bigger stones.
14:32At least I'm not an elitist snob.
14:39Ouch.
14:40Number 7. The Killing Type
14:42Nevermore Academy alumni Gomez and Morticia Adams have kept a dark secret buried for decades.
14:48But when their inquisitive daughter attends their alma mater,
14:52she learns a few things from their past that make her suspicious.
14:55I think it's hard time my parents face the music.
14:59It seems they've been lying to me.
15:02Keeping secrets.
15:03Murderous secrets that need to be addressed.
15:07Being the brilliant detective she is,
15:10Wednesday uncovers the truth about the death of Garrett Gates,
15:13clearing her father of any wrongdoing.
15:15And in the subsequent exchange between Wednesday and Gomez,
15:18we're reminded how unconventional the Adams family sense of perception is.
15:22I knew you didn't have what it takes to be a murderer.
15:25As much as that stings.
15:29Gracias, my little death trap.
15:31Wednesday not believing in her father's ability to kill someone seriously hurts his feelings.
15:36He knows better than to show too much emotion in front of her, though.
15:39I know they make you feel uncomfortable.
15:41Number 6. Solving Crimes and Sharpening Hatchets
15:46From the beginning, Sheriff Galpin had a problem with Wednesday Adams,
15:50partly due to a decades-long hatred of her father.
15:53And it doesn't take long for Wednesday to start her own feud with him.
15:56Guessing the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
16:01I'm gonna keep my eye on you.
16:02After witnessing the Hyde kill Nevermore student Rowan,
16:05she's thrown into a murder mystery
16:07and takes it upon herself to lead the investigation.
16:11She criticizes Galpin's every decision and non-decision from the get-go,
16:15and rightfully so.
16:16I figured since you no longer have an old vendetta to obsess over,
16:19you're free to solve some real crime.
16:21Wednesday doesn't care that he's an authority figure.
16:23He wasted time trying to find Gomez Adams guilty of a crime he didn't actually commit,
16:28and completely lost sight of the case at hand.
16:30You could say he deserves every cutting remark or sharpened hatchet thrown his way.
16:36I don't bury hatchets.
16:38I sharpen them.
16:39Number 5. A stinger for the Queen Bee
16:42Remember what we said about Wednesday in First Impressions?
16:45Well, here we have another example, this time with a fellow outcast.
16:50Seriously, coach, when am I gonna get some real competition?
16:53Anyone else wanna challenge me?
16:55I do.
16:56Nevermore's resident mean girl and apparent fencing champion,
16:59Bianca Barclay seems to irritate Wednesday even more than other people,
17:03and the feeling quickly becomes mutual.
17:06Their combative relationship kicks off with an exchange of barbs.
17:10You must be the psychopath they let in.
17:11And you must be the self-appointed Queen Bee.
17:14Interesting thing about bees, pull out their stingers and they drop dead.
17:17Without missing a beat, Wednesday knocks Bianca off her pedestal and challenges her to a duel.
17:23Wednesday's a skilled fencer, but she's even better when it comes to verbal sparring.
17:27This should have been Bianca's warning not to mess with the new girl.
17:30Little did she know that she'd be on the receiving end of several of Wednesday Adams' stinging retorts.
17:36I see you finally made a friend.
17:38Even if it is a plant.
17:40I go for quality over quantity.
17:42Number 4. Emotional Morse Code
17:44Wednesday Adams is notoriously terrible at expressing emotion of any kind,
17:49but that doesn't stop her from calling out someone else's inability to be upfront about theirs.
17:54She's caught up in a love triangle that she doesn't need to be a part of.
17:58And when Tyler is frustrated that Wednesday can't interpret his feelings,
18:02she bluntly responds by criticizing his indirectness and unfair expectations.
18:06You call me crazy, Wednesday, but you keep giving me these signals.
18:09It's not my fault I can't interpret your emotional Morse Code.
18:12In spite of these crossed wires, Tyler eventually proposes a serious relationship.
18:17He gets more harsh truths in response.
18:19I'm not friend material, let alone more than friend material.
18:24I will ignore you, stomp on your heart, and always put my needs and interests first.
18:29Hey, Wednesday's self-aware, honest, and possibly emotionally unavailable,
18:33but he can't say she didn't warn him.
18:36You're making a mistake.
18:38Probably.
18:41Definitely.
18:42Number 3. The Amateur Society
18:44Upon discovering the secret library at Nevermore,
18:47Wednesday is captured by the Nightshade Society.
18:50If they expected her to be even remotely scared, they were sorely mistaken.
18:55And just like that, my hopes were dashed against the rocks of bitter disappointment.
18:59My foe was no psychotic killer.
19:01More like a bunch of high school clowns.
19:04She's a pro at one-on-one verbal brawls,
19:06but here she manages to roast a whole group at once.
19:09She immediately clocks the true identities of the masked figures
19:13and hilariously mocks them when they start rattling off their allegedly elite activities.
19:18We have roof parties, campouts, the occasional midnight skinny dip.
19:21And Yoko's an amateur mixologist.
19:23She makes a killer virgin mojito.
19:26You can get pretty wild.
19:27Wow, do you guys even have a bedtime?
19:29They debate whether or not she's worthy of joining,
19:31but she rejects them before they even offer,
19:34revealing she's been free of their ineffective restraints for some time.
19:38She's genuinely insulted by their incompetence
19:40and gets in one last dig before exiting.
19:43It's amateurs like you who give kidnapping a bad name.
19:46If anything, Wednesday should be running the nightshades.
19:50Number 2.
19:51Savage Until the End
19:53Wednesday goes through it in the season 1 finale.
19:56Slow down!
19:57What happened?
19:58She's notably arrested by Sheriff Galpin,
20:00expelled by Principal Weems,
20:02knocked out and taken by Miss Thornhill slash Laurel Gates,
20:05and stabbed by a zombie Joseph Crackstone.
20:08To say she's in no mood at this point is an understatement.
20:12Her ancestor, Goody, appears to her in what she thinks are her final moments,
20:16and instructs her once more to kill Crackstone.
20:19But even at death's door, Wednesday has time for a snarky one-liner.
20:23It's the only way he will be vanquished now and forever.
20:26Is your spectral vision impaired?
20:28I'm dying.
20:28Goody quickly explains that she's able to heal Wednesday,
20:31and thankfully our protagonist lives to fight another day.
20:34What can we say?
20:36No one's safe from her sharp words.
20:38Not even a ghostly family member coming to, you know, save her life.
20:42Laurel said you were dead.
20:44I'm feeling much better now.
20:46You're like a cockroach.
20:48Please, flattery will get you nowhere.
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21:06Number 1. Better Than You
21:08I want to humiliate Bianca so badly that the bitter taste of defeat burns in her throat.
21:13With someone as ruthless as Wednesday Adams, choosing a top-savage moment is tough.
21:19But this quick and biting exchange really had us cheering, laughing, and taking notes.
21:24Before she annihilates Bianca's team in the poke-up race,
21:27Wednesday responds to her weak insult with an instantly iconic comeback,
21:32referencing something the siren had told Xavier earlier.
21:34For the record, I don't believe I'm better than everyone else.
21:39Just that I'm better than you.
21:40Between that and wondering how she could have heard the private conversation,
21:44Bianca must have been shook.
21:46Wednesday's unwavering confidence really hits hard, putting her foe in her place.
21:51And to follow it up with sabotage and a victory,
21:55Wednesday Adams is an absolute savage.
21:58Admit it, you kind of got to the worst of the spirit thing.
22:04You didn't tell me it was a dark, vengeful spirit.
22:07Would you use any of these comebacks?
22:09Tell us in the comments down below.
22:12I just asked myself, WWWD.
22:15What would Wednesday do?
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