ID: 412
Date: 2000 - 2002
Title: The Addams family
Gender: Male and Female 
Classification: Parody 
Rhyme: 

The Addams family started 
When Uncle Festa farted.
He farted through the keyhole
And paralysed the cat.
The cat fell in the hangi (dunny ), 
It wasn't very funny,
It cost a lot of money 
To get the bastard (bugger, damn thing) out.

(Tauranga, 2002; Auckland, 2002)

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Background Info: A parody of the theme song of the television series "The Addams Family" (1990s).

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Turner, 1978:151 records these versions:

The Addams family started
When Uncle Festa farted,
They thought it very funny
When he blew up the dunny
And landed in the sewer,
A drain of raw manure.
The Addams family
[Blurt, blurt].

(Melbourne, 1970s)

The Addams family started 
When Uncle Festa farted,
The children were disgusted,
They stuck their dicks in custard,
The Addams family.
Drop dead.

(Melbourne, 1973)

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Keywords: bawdy, scatological, Maori culture 
Location: Various NZ 
Group size: 4 
Incidence: 2