The resplendently-attired David in a moment of inner-dialogue:

"Jeez, does Vicki ever look like 'Second Hand Rose' in that excuse for a dress!"

"No, Julia, I do not think that I look like Thurston Howell III in this stylish robe.  On the contrary, I think that I look infinitely more like Basil Rathbone in 'The Hound of the Baskervilles.'"   

Burke and Vicki, immediately after hearing the awful news that "The Munsters" had been cancelled.

Ode to Maude Browning:

There was a young lass named Maud-ie,

who oft times could be very bawdy.

She said to the gent, "Please help pay for my rent.

I've got a cheap pimp,

that's my story!"

Dark Shadows, circa 1840 Parallel Time - The absolute inspiration for Donald Trump's unique modern day comb-over coiffure.

Hey gang,

I happened to watch the 1945 film, "The Enchanted Cottage," on Turner Classic Movie recently.  In the film, the lovely Dorothy McGuire (uncharacteristically) plays a rather plain young woman named Laura Pennington, a woman who comes to work in a home located in New England.  In fact, the name of the town (or estate) in which she is employed is called "Eastwood" (sort of like Dark Shadows' own Collinwood).

Laura's employer is a stern, practical woman named Mrs. Minnet (sp?), who, as portrayed by veteran character actress Mildred Natwick, looks and sounds a heck of a lot like Mrs. Johnson.

In the film, young Laura falls in love with a returning wounded war veteran, portrayed by Robert Young.  As I saw Ms. McGuire and Mr. Young walking along the rocky shoreline of that unnamed New England state (possibly Maine), I could not not help but think that that scene reminded me of seeing  Barnabas and Vicki walking along the rocky cliff at Widow's Hill.

I wonder if Dark Shadows creator Dan Curtis may have been inspired to create the great Gothic soap opera after seeing Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young in this almost ethereal romantic film classic?

Anyway, Merry Christmamas and Happy Hanukkah to all of my fellow cousins across the vast and wide super information highway!

Bob the Bartender

I would have liked to have seen one of those "missing-time" incidents portrayed on Dark Shadows.

You know, an incident in which Roger and/or Julia is walking back from the Old House to Collinwood along that bumpy path, and they simply can't understand why it took over an hour to make the usually, at most, ten-minute-trek between the two houses on the estate.

Of course, when Roger and/or Julia returns to Collinwood, instead of a bite mark on the throat, they find strange, almost tiny surgical marks on the calf or on the upper-back (odd places for a vampire to bite!).  And, instead of a "Dream Curse," Roger and Julia dream of little, grey-colored guys, floating them up to a bright "star" in the sky over Collinwood.  (Beam me up, Batia Mapes!)

"Hey, Roger, be a really good fellow and drive down to the Blue Whale for a couple more bottles of Johnnie Walker Black, okay?"