Cousin Crimp's family for 400 years. Cassidy made a cameo appearance as Lurch in the Batman episode "The Penguin's Nest". As Batman and Robin are climbing the wall of Penguin's restaurant, the Addams Family theme is heard in the background. Lurch pops his head out of the window, sees Batman and Robin, and comments that they gave him quite a start. Batman tells Lurch that he can return to his harpsichord as Robin states that they are on official business. Lurch appears in The New Addams Family portrayed by John DeSantis. In the 2022 series Wednesday, Lurch appears briefly and is performed by Romanian actor George Burcea. Additionally, the line “you rang?” is referenced by Tyler when Wednesday rings a bell to summon him at the coffee shop. Animated TV series Ted Cassidy, who at the time was a regular voice actor for Hanna-Barbera Productions, reprised his role of Lurch in 1972 for HB's The New Scooby-Doo Movies episode "Wednesday is Missing". He is the one who finds Mystery Inc.'s Mystery Machine stuck in the mud outside the Addams Family house and takes them inside where Gomez and Morticia hire them to be the housekeepers while they are away at the Okefenokee Swamp. By the end of the episode, Lurch helps the Mystery Machine out of the mud. Ted Cassidy later reprised his role of Lurch in the 1973 cartoon adaptation of The Addams Family, which was also produced by Hanna-Barbera. Lurch appears in the 1990s adaptation of The Addams Family voiced by Jim Cummings. In this version he is shown to have blue skin. The episode "Girlfriendstein" gives Lurch's shoe size as 27QQQQ. Films Lurch appears in the 1991 film adaptation of The Addams Family portrayed by Carel Struycken. He never speaks audibly but groans recurrently. He is seen assisting Morticia by going through the wardrobe of the late Uncle Knick-Knack. Lurch was present when Abigail Craven brings her son Gordon disguised as the long-lost Uncle Fester to the Addams Family mansion. When Tully Alford persuades Judge George Womack to grant the ownership of the house to Uncle Fester and have a restraining order that causes the rest of the family to be evicted, Lurch joins the rest of the family in moving in to a hotel. Seven months later after Craven and Alford are defeated, Lurch answers the door on Halloween where he unintentionally scares away the trick