In the series, the very strange and somewhat macabre Addams family, headed by Gomez Addams and his wife Morticia, live in an otherwise normal suburb of the town of Happy Dale Heights. Their next door neighbors, Norman Normameyer, the owner of an underwear company, and his wife Normina, hate the Addamses and are constantly either trying to persuade them or force them to leave the neighborhood. The Normameyer's son NJ, however, is a close friend of the Addams children, Wednesday and Pugsley. As a result, there is often friction not only between the Addams and Normameyer families but also between NJ and his parents.