The Addams Family 2

In the film, there is a scene where Wednesday and Lurch travel through Death Valley, California, on the way to Sausalito. At one point, Wednesday stops in front of a crossroads sign displaying various fictional locations from horror films, including Haddonfield (from Halloween (1978)), Crystal Lake (from Friday the 13th (1980)), the Overlook Hotel (from The Shining (1980)), Amityville (from The Amityville Horror (1979)), Elm Street (from A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)) and The Light House (from The Fog (1980)).

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Finn Wolfhard could not reprise the role of Pugsley Addams in this film because his voice had changed, so Javon 'Wanna' Walton was brought into the cast.

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In a scene where Wednesday (Chloe Grace Moretz) takes part in a child beauty pageant, she is seen pouring buckets of a blood-like liquid over her rivals. This references Carrie (2013), which also starred Moretz, in which Carrie White is infamously struck by a bucket of pig's blood at the high school prom before going on a rage-fueled rampage.

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When Gomez attacks Strange with his sword in hand, he shouts "Mazurka!" This references the first animated film, in which the Addams sword "Mazurka" is an important rite of passage for Pugsley.

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The coconut cups Gomez and Morticia drink from on the beach read "Bermuda Triangle." In The Addams Family (1991), Fester's long absence from the family is explained by his being lost in the Bermuda Triangle.

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One of the stops on the family's journey is Sleepy Hollow, where the famous story of Ichabod Crane takes place. Ichabod is the name of the sentient tree that grows beside the Addams' house.

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The Addams Family house always used to say "Get Out!" In the first film it did, but in this sequel it says "Let's Party!" only when it speaks, and Grandmama says its name is Chuckles.

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Cousin Itt appears to speak an unintelligible language. In fact, it is simply English played backwards.

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When he meets Cousin Itt, Uncle Fester says he still cannot understand what Itt is saying. In several episodes of the original show, for example Cousin Itt Visits the Addams Family (1965), Fester could understand Itt and in fact complained to those who claimed they could not.

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Mr. Mustela's name is based on the family Mustelidae and the genus "Mustela," the Latin word for weasel. Later in the film, Wednesday Addams calls Mr. Mustela a "weasel," which makes more sense.

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Cousin Itt's ringtone is Snoop Dogg's "Drop It Like It's Hot," which provides Itt's "voice."

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Thing wears an eye watch, just as in The Addams Family (2019). This is the first time Thing is shown drinking coffee with one of his fingers (while driving the Addams family car).

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None of the new characters created for the first film, such as Margaux Needler, appear in this sequel. Neither do the Assimilation citizens or the extended Addams Family. However, you can briefly see the weathered advertising sign for Margaux's old TV show "Design Intervention" (at 14:46).

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While trying to hide from the lawyer, the Addams Family car crashes into a billboard for "Progressive Insurance," prominently showing the character Flo. The real company released a commercial in which an animated insurance team appears at the Addams Family Mansion and, to Morticia's displeasure, tells them they are there for them 24/7. The ad first aired on 06 September 2021 on the official "Progressive Insurance" YouTube channel.

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This is the first film in the Addams Family series in which the main villain is a male character, unlike the previous animated film and the two live-action films, in which the main villain was a woman.

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In the first film, Wednesday's pigtails were shaped like nooses. In this film she simply has normal pigtails with eyeball clips.

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In the hospital, if you pause when Uncle Fester starts juggling the babies, you can look at the Addams crib and see the Wednesday doll sleeping there, proving that Wednesday is in fact an Addams.

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In terms of references, Thing is the left hand.

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A famous (and real) tattoo reads "NO REGERTS," misspelled and ornate. A similar tattoo with the same misspelling appears on Uncle Fester's back.

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In the first film, Fester's underwear briefly seen after Gomez and Morticia's wedding was ruined featured yellow rubber ducks; in this sequel, he wears underwear covered in black spiders.

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The cover design indicates that Lurch is still reading the same book he read in the first film, "Little Women." (He is seen with it at the campfire at the 26th minute.)

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This is the first film in the Addams Family series to feature a male villain, unlike the first film and the previous three live-action films, which always featured a female villain.

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"The Alamotel," where the Addams Family stays in Texas, is a reference to the Alamo Mission in San Antonio, Texas, where the Battle of the Alamo took place in 1836. It was part of the 1835/36 Texas Revolution, in which Texas became independent from Mexico.

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This is Bill Hader's fourth animated theatrical film not made by Disney/Pixar, DreamWorks Animation or Sony Animation, after Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009), Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil (2011) and Sausage Party (2016).

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In his statement to Wednesday, Gomez says that after an experiment he conducted several years earlier, he replaced his hair with real Sasquatch fur. Sasquatch is another term for Bigfoot.

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This is Wallace Shawn's fourth theatrically released animated film not distributed or produced by Disney, after All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 (1996), Happily N'Ever After (2006) and Animal Crackers (2017); the first was also produced by Metro Goldwyn Mayer and is a sequel to an already existing film.

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This is Cherami Leigh's first role in a Universal film. She is generally known as an anime voice actress.

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Bill Hader and Nick Kroll had previously worked together on Sausage Party (2016).

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Margaux does not return for the sequel, although in the first film Fester becomes engaged to her and becomes her partner in trying to get rid of the house, notably with her images on the real estate sign, and they dance together at the Addams Family mansion; their relationship does not continue in the sequel because Margaux does not come back for another appearance. In other words, Cyrus Strange alternately takes Margaux Needler's place.

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The vanity plate on Cousin Itt's car reads CUZ for cousin.

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Parker does not appear in this sequel despite being Wednesday's good friend in the first film. Although the reason is clearly that the Addams family goes on a trip, it may also be that, hating living with her mother Margaux Needler, she decided to move in with her father, thus explaining her absence in the sequel.

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At the science fair, Morticia takes a photo and Thing pulls the photo out of the camera and shakes it. The camera was a mid-twentieth-century Polaroid Land camera, and the photo was coated with a finishing fluid that needed to dry. Most people shook the photo to speed up the drying.

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When Pugsley enters Ophelia's room, he says he thinks her room is a mess. This means a room dirty enough to be a pigsty. Ophelia is a pig child.

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