"Do not color the house.  It is white."  From Manual for Teaching the Primer The Little White House by Russell & Ousley, 1948.  Related: The Minimalist Coloring Book.

"Don't force me to lift my veil.  Don't force me to show you what I am in death."  From Dark Shadows episode 430.

A collage of stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.

"Peter Puck wants to know if rubber shares will rebound."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1932.

Impostor Oddfellow does the standup shtick?  

The new birthstones, on Grave Mood Rings (courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr).

A collage of stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.

From Improvement Era, 1932.

"Why do we never learn to leave the past alone?"  From Dark Shadows episode 431.

A demonic clown puppet invades Vitchmik Hall.  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. 

From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1963.

From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1942.

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.  

"And the world becomes an empty void."  Today's moment of existential angst is from Dark Shadows.  In parts one, two, three, and four, we saw how Dark Shadows beat Seinfeld to be the first show about nothing. 

A still from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.

Stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.

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.

"I am that which has been, which is, which will be, and no one has yet lifted the veil that covers me."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1934.  

"No one's out there."  Today's moment of existential angst is from Dark Shadows.  In parts one, two, three, and four, we saw how Dark Shadows beat Seifeld to be the first show about nothing.