If you have kids in the Disney Junior demo, you might be aware of the recent addition of Vampirina to the lineup. She's a feisty little girl with some quirky interests, and the premise of the show is that her family recently relocated so she gets to demonstrate lessons about fitting in, making friends, how they do things differently in her new neighborhood than her old one and that's okay, we can all learn from each other.
She and her parents are also 100% vampires! It seems as if the show creators made the "fantasy creature" choice so that they could talk about immigration/assimilation issues in a whimsical way, which is cool, and the only thought they put into vampires specifically was that they could rhyme "Transylvania" with "Pennsylvania" in the opening theme song that summarizes the premise, which is ... weird? It totally glosses over the fact that vampires are unholy monstrosities who feed on the blood of the living, and that Vampirina and her mom and her dad are definitely going to murder everyone on their block eventually.
Surprisingly, our kids hate it when we point this out! They get very agitated when we modify the lyrics to include more references to flesh-eating and terror in the night. You'd think they'd be more appreciative that we've followed things to their logical conclusion. Ingrates.
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