Dear Fellow Dark Shadows Fans,
Today's episodes should have been entitled the Thayer David Episodes. He was simply magnificent, in reasoning with the cynical, angst-ridden Tony Peterson and in needling the obviously shocked and usually in-control, comely practitioner of the black arts.
That classic "cat that swallowed the canary" smile, which Prof. Stokes flashed at Cassandra was, perhaps, the greatest one ever flashed on Dark Shadows.
I just loved it, when the all-too courtly and sarcastic Stokes, asked after Cassandra's husband Roger Collins, as if to say, "You remember Roger, he's the poor slob you married several weeks ago."
And, speaking of "poor slobs," did you see how ticked off Joe was after he clocked ol' Willie Loomis (yet, another poor slob) outside of the Evans cottage? Man, the usually "Mr. Nice Guy," Joe was really steamed after his "slight" romantic tiff with his fiancee Maggie.
I'll bet that Joe stormed down to the Blue Whale to commiserate with his future father-in law, Sam, and Collinsport's resident philosopher and all-knowing maven, bartender Bob Rooney, about his "romantic difficulties."
Perhaps, Bob Rooney, that man of the world, tried to assuage Joe's feelings by saying, "Women, can't live with them...and can't live without them!" To which the convivial Mr. Evans would intone in that marvelously rich voice of his: "Yeah, I'll drink to that!"
Sincerely,
Bob the Bartender, just another one of those millions of proud, poor slobs from across the face of this great nation!
