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Stagflation hits the vampire's manor, and one of the characters must get voted out.
Mixing vampire humor and 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings), the web series Grave Mood Rings 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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"Everybody around this house is exhausted, including me." From Dark Shadows episode 122.
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Anxiety about the future, from Dark Shadows episodes 1093 and 1092. "There's no point in knowing the future. It's just gonna happen anyway." "I don't wanna find out what's going to happen, ever!"
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Mixing vampire humor and 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings), the web series Grave Mood Rings 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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"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." From Herman Melville's Moby Dick.
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"I'll be uncomfortable in the way I want to be uncomfortable." From I Dream of Jeannie, season 3, episode 9.
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"I don't understand." "Neither do we." From Dark Shadows episode 154.
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From the Duluth Herald, 1902.
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Thanks to Patronus Records for saying, "Totally diggin' the artistic flair and direction of both the song and the video!! Very stylish & original in the approach."
A surrealist, dadaistic, even post-contemplationist spoof of slow-moving Gothic soap operas of the 1970s, from the minds of Jonathan Caws-Elwitt and Prof. Oddfellow: it's Grave Mood Rings, a weird intersection in the universe of Penetralia.
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