Lurch (The Addams Family) Lurch is a 6 ft 9 in (2.05 m) tall, shambling, gloomy butler who somewhat resembles a cross between Frankenstein's monster (as played by Boris Karloff) and a zombie. In the original "Addams Family" television series, Lurch has a deep and resonant voice unlike that of Herman Munster, a character on the show's main competitor, "The Munsters". Although fully capable of normal speech, Lurch often communicates via simple inarticulate moans, which, much like the dialogue of Cousin Itt, his employers have no trouble understanding. Like any butler, Lurch tries to help around the house, but occasionally his great size and
Fofão (character) toy based on the character. After the end of the original program in 1986, the character won a solo program in the same year, broadcast by Rede Bandeirantes until 1989, called "TV Fofão" (with a return between 1994–1996). The last appearance of the character on television was in 1998 by the channel . In 1989 the character starred in a theatrical movie titled "". The character has also led to several other licensed products and sold numerous albums of children's songs during the 80s and 90s. According to Orival Pessini, Fofão was created at the request of TV Globo director