In the TV series "What We Do in the Shadows," Colin Robinson, an energy vampire, faces the Council of Energy Vampires in season 5, episode 4. The council is a group of energy vampires who are responsible for maintaining the bureaucracy that sustains energy vampires everywhere. They inform Colin that he must win an election to preserve the health of the bureaucracy, subjecting him and his partner, Evie Russell, to their insufferable dynamic. The council members are played by a group of comedians and comic actors, including Jo Firestone, Gregg Turkington, Hannibal Buress, Aparna Nancherla, and Martha Kelly.