"A hundred hurry to catch up where one hurries to get ahead."  From The Kodak Magazine, 1920.

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.

From The Cheerful Day by Nan Fairbrother, 1960.

From Byways of Ghost-Land by Elliott O'Donnell, 1911.

"Contradictory proverbs: Look before you leap; he who hesitates is lost."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1925.

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.

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.

From Motion Picture Classic, 1929.

"Eyes wide, staring fixedly at something no one can see."  From Dark Shadows episode 159.

"Peter Puck wants to know if a thermometer that falls to Zero breaks the ice."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1925.

"Are you summer tired?"  From the Duluth Herald, 1905.

"The best years of your life were 2000 years ago."  From I Dream of Jeannie, season 4, episode 17.

"Peter Puck wants to know if musicians carry their drums in their ears."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1928.

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.

In this episode, the Viscount fears an uprising of the Village People.

Uncle Sam's profile is the United States turned on its side.  From St. Nicholas, 1893.

"I don't know if anything is all right anymore."

"What do you mean?"

"I don't know exactly."

From Dark Shadows episode 637.

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.

"Peter Puck wants to know if flying men move in high circles."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1928.

From The Aberree, 1955.