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.

The Priest song we spoof is here: https://priestofficial.bandcamp.com/t...

Get wound up with our clockwork music on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3B39x...

Check out the Penetralia goodies! Threadless: https://oddfellow.threadless.com/ and Zazzle: https://www.zazzle.com/collections/pe...

Neons Gone Mad on Bandcamp: https://profoddfellow.bandcamp.com/