Dark Shadows makes you insane?

[hooked]

I would like to know if anyone else out there has done some strange things over the years because of watching the show.  Lets see, I have sat and recorded shows so that I could act the scenes with my children.  I even waited four weeks to grow Quentins sideburns.  I also sewed a ruffled edge on an old shirts sleeves for the costume.  We have had seances on stormy nights,parties with DS themes.  I keep a decanter of brandy even though I never drink it...well you get the idea.  My question is DOES ANYBODY ELSE DO THINGS LIKE THIS OR DO I NEED HELP OF SOME KIND?/

[jennifer]

No haven't felt the need yet but who knows!

jennifer

[lurkerintheshadows]

Well,i've acted out scenes i liked and made up scenes to act out(mostly from barnabas' perspective with a smattering of the other characters like julia,roger,willie,etc.) in my free time or even during commercial breaks.Me insane?Naw! :PIt's a whole lot of fun to act out scenes being your favorite character! ;DFor me,it's akin to singing in the shower.

[Daphne]

Hehe, I'm not the only one! *rejoices* I play out scenes [in my head and aloud] that have been, and ones that I've made up, like fillers that SHOULD have been seen, and talk 2 myself and ramble 2 myself and mutter 2 myself about the going-ons in Collinwood and Collinsport. I think I even started a plan 2 kill Barnabus after he tried 2 woo Vicki. HEHE And after he bit Carolyn. WOW He was closer than he ever knew to dying....*gets out bloody axe and gloves* The real trick is not letting anyone else know about all this ..... *shifty eyes* I'm very cautious....hehehehe *evil angelique laugh*  

[elizabeth]

Yes,  I say to the cat's, "let's go watch dark shadows", when the show is  on I talk to the cats.  EX.:   "Isn't Batnabas a  bad boy, he doesn't love Julia".   Our favorite character to talk about (that is me and the cats) is Nathan.  and I tell the cats they must save Millicient. LOL.  Am I nuts???         I also dyed my hair a very dark brown to look like Elizabeth.  I ended up looking like a vampire as I have very light skin.  OH yes,  I also tryed to put on lipstic like Elizabeth sort of over the lips.  That time I looked like a fish.   But I had fun.

[ProfStokes]

For a long time, I've worried about my state of mind because it seems that I always relate everything that I do to DS.  I'll quote lines in conversation, compare people that I know to characters, or certain events to various story lines.  My seemingly one-track mind even leads me to create terminology based on DS.  For instance, while watching "Murder, She Wrote" a few weeks ago, I was easily able to guess the identity of the killer because he had "a Matthew Morgan complex."  I see that the show has the power to affect all of us in different ways.  As long as it makes you happy and it's not detrimental to others, I see no problems with any of the behaviors described so far.

ProfStokes

[Dr. Eric Lang]

For a long time, I've worried about my state of mind because it seems that I always relate everything that I do to DS.  I'll quote lines in conversation, compare people that I know to characters, or certain events to various story lines.  My seemingly one-track mind even leads me to create terminology based on DS.  For instance, while watching "Murder, She Wrote" a few weeks ago, I was easily able to guess the identity of the killer because he had "a Matthew Morgan complex."  

LOL! Awhile back our immediate family had a get together and a group photo was taken. My dad was standing in the back row and I commented that "He looks like the Ghost of Quentin Collins." Even though nobody watches DS but me they all knew who that was.

Sometimes I find myself making "Julia" faces at something I find bizarre or curious.

Yeah, I'm nuts too.

[Blue_Whale_Barfly]

Even now, I keep muttering, "A seance has been held in the great house at Collinwood."

[Midnite]

I would like to know if anyone else out there has done some strange things over the years because of watching the show.

Welllllll...

Does it count if everybody else refers to the structure in my backyard as the gazebo but I insist on calling it the gaZAbo?  And my hubby says foy-er but I pronounce it foy-A?  Or when guests are in my home, they're invited not into the family room but the drawing room, and my den is suddenly the study?

Once, while sitting at a large table with friends we all shouted out in unison (doing our best Philip imitations), "I'm - just - plain - scared!"  (You all know who you are!!!)  Of course we also named our homes by filling in the blank in ___wood with our last names.  When one friend had a new home under construction, the one she lived in until the other was completed became known as the Old House (of course!).

But I guess as long as when real life gets me down I don't start looking for a solution by asking myself, "What would Angelique do?" I'm still just teetering on the edge.

[TERRY308]

I to am guilty.  Saying what Roger would say..... my 4 year old grand-daughter hooked on the MPI tapes....I too have a bottle of Brandy....seances.......

[elizabeth]

Sometimes I find myself making "Julia" faces at something I find bizarre or curious.

Yeah, I'm nuts too.

I also make "Julia" faces.  Must say I am getting pretty good.  

[Cassandra]

Sometimes I really feel like using some of Angelique's magic techniques on some of the folks I know! But then of course my whole catholic upbringing comes crashing into my mind and then Im like, "oh no, I can't do that!"  Lol!!  

[Karen_#2]

I would like to know if anyone else out there has done some strange things over the years because of watching the show.  Lets see, I have sat and recorded shows so that I could act the scenes with my children.  I even waited four weeks to grow Quentins sideburns.  I also sewed a ruffled edge on an old shirts sleeves for the costume.  We have had seances on stormy nights,parties with DS themes.  I keep a decanter of brandy even though I never drink it...well you get the idea.  My question is DOES ANYBODY ELSE DO THINGS LIKE THIS OR DO I NEED HELP OF SOME KIND?/

Hmmmmm........
Went on a recent eBay binge to find old brass sconces to hang on my red brick fireplace....and even found neon green and blue candles to put in them, so it looks like Angelique's servant quarters/room in The Old House. Even found a replica 1790's oak rocking chair for the same room. (anyone have a brass bed warmer they don't want anymore??  ?!?)

Never would I find myself (until a year ago) flying across the country, where I've never been, meeting two people I've never met (but who are now two of my best friends), only to drive through 3 states to see Jonathan Frid. All this just weeks after 9-11.

Now we 3 are getting together again for the Fest!  

My brandy decanter, however, is empty   waiting to be refilled. BTW, it is made from "Collins Crystal."  

[A.I.Collins]

Hi guys!...I can't beleive some of you guys are as crazy about the show as I am.When I was in school this past year, DS was all I can think about.It even crosses my mind at work now.I have also found myself copying the mannerisms and gestures of Grayson Hall.I even wanted a portrait painted of myself once!! ::)I haven't gotten up the cash for that yet.When the 1785 storyline was recently showing, i begin to change the way i talked and started using old-fashioned out of date words.I started imagining my relatives as different people and pretended I was in Paralled time.I tried to convince my mother to have a seance, but she wasn't having that.I can still hear it now:"A seance has been held in the great house of Collinwood...a seance which has suspended....." and so on.I always loved the 1795 voiceovers.Does anyone remember the exterior closings with the Tower room and the forest.I thought they were so pretty.-Adra

Good to know I am not the only DS lunatic.

[hooked]

Wow you guys make me feel better! Thanks.  I had to laugh reading about Julia faces.  My daughters do that too. I didnt mention all the candle hoders and candles around my house but lets just say that we will be ok when there is a power outage here. One more thing is my wish to have my ashes thrown out over widows hill...thats nearing the edge isnt it?!