There's something sad about about a star hanging around after the audience has left. But we're not into sadness at Friday Fromage, so let's pay tribute to Boris Karloff, who at least had fun on the downslide. We can all learn something from that.

Karloff, of course, was one of movie horror's greatest icons, creating the definitive Frankenstein's monster and the first Mummy in the 1930's. By the 1960s, he kept working in movies spoofing his spooky legacy, such as The Girl in the Invisible Bikini, blatant ripoffs like Frankenstein 1970, and Roger Corman's tongue-through-cheek Edgar Allen Poe adaptations, producing more laughs than gasps as the modern notion of terror passed him by.

But his influence pops up now and then, most recently in Night at the Museum: Battle for the Smithsonian, in which Hank Azaria mimicked Karloff's Brit-lisp. Many critics noted the inspiration in reviews, likely for too many readers who needed to Google "Karloff" to know who they meant.

So, on a morning when the skies are crying for another departed Thriller, check out this cheese: