I Found a Penny Today, So Here’s a Thought
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It turns out that every wrong number is actually for you. From Film Daily, 1944.
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Parody analog horror meets 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings) in the web series Grave Mood Rings. It pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise. In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask. Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.
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"To fuss is one of life's sternest duties." From Indiana University's 1934 yearbook.
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"There's nothing for us here but despair and death." From Dark Shadows episode 818.
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The funny thing is that no one ever mentions Dark Shadows' identity crisis: is it a Gothic melodrama or is it a comedy? Don't ask the characters — they have no idea! From episodes 3, 10, 12, 14, 24, 29, 31, 40, 46, 244, 657, 846, 1049, 1074, 1199.
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"Peter Puck wants to know why the rainfall is higher the more rain falls." From The Children's Newspaper, 1924.
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Parody analog horror meets 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings) in the web series Grave Mood Rings. It pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise. In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask. Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.
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"Few hauntings occur on sandy insulating soil which absorbs cosmic waves." From Fate Magazine, no. 52.
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