Rocky Horror Picture Show Lets Do the Timewarp Again Once in a While

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The Rocky Horror Moving picture Show is a 1975 musical film written by Richard O'Brien and directed by Jim Sharman. It's near famous for notwithstanding being played in theatres all over the world in one case a calendar week, and for having a fanbase that dresses up, throws stuff at the screen, re-enacts the scenes and generally indulges in Audience Participation. The film is based on the stage musical The Rocky Horror Bear witness, also past Richard O'Brien (who played Riff Raff both in its original staging and this film).

The story: Brad Majors ^note Asshole! and Janet Weiss ^annotation Slut! are two lovely, naive virgins from Denton ^note The Habitation Of Happiness!, U.South.A., who become engaged and drive off to tell Dr. Scott, their former teacher. However, on the mode there, they get a flat tire and find themselves outside a stereotypical Haunted Castle ("It's probably a hunting gild for rich weirdos" ^note Rich weirdos aren't in season, asshole!)... and that's where things get actually, really, reeaaaaaaaaalllly weird.

They run into the servants, handyman Riff-Raff and his "near beautiful ^note If she's cute, I'd detest to see the ugly ones! sister," Magenta the domestic, and groupie Columbia, who live with Dr. Frank-N-Furter... a "Sweet" Transvestite Mad Scientist, to be specific (from Transsexual, Transylvania). Subsequently being stripped downwards to their underwear, they are invited up to Frank-N-Furter's lab where he unveils his creation — the Brainless Dazzler Rocky Horror.

They are interrupted past biker/ex-delivery male child Eddie, Columbia's lover, whom Frank-N-Furter had kept in the deep-freeze. Brad and Janet are then shown to separate rooms, and Frank-N-Furter seduces the two in exactly the same manner; kickoff entering their separate rooms in a Newspaper-Thin Disguise, so using his considerable charm and, well, skills, plus the fact they're both horny. Both victims are horrified afterwards, and Janet wanders the castle till she finds Rocky (cowering from Riff Raff, who's been tormenting him). Realizing she'south been cheated on by Brad, she takes an interest in the monster...

At this betoken, Dr. Scott appears looking for his nephew Eddie, and Janet and Rocky are institute together. Frank-N-Furter invites them all to dinner...

There is a pseudo-sequel, Stupor Treatment (1981), focusing on the baroque turns Brad and Janet's lives take upon their return to Denton subsequently their adventure in Rocky Horror, merely it was non also-received as its predecessor. Its makers also weren't happy with how it turned out, due to many compromises made during its production, such as character recastings and a drastically cutting budget. It also never really took off as an Audience Participation show due to its bigger bandage of characters. Information technology was released in 2006 on DVD, but the quality of the transfer isn't much meliorate than the VHS record or LaserDisc that preceded it.

There accept been several remake attempts, none of which went anywhere, until information technology was announced that Play a trick on was making a ii-60 minutes Goggle box special set for fall of 2016. The special has some pretty skilful names fastened, including Laverne Cox starring every bit Dr. Frank-North-Furter. besides equally Tim Curry himself taking upward the office of the Criminologist. That special, titled The Rocky Horror Moving-picture show Show: Let's Exercise the Time Warp Again, premiered October xx, 2016.

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a different set of tropes

• Accidental Adultery: Both Janet and Brad cheat on one another when they are seduced by Dr. Frank-Northward-Furter, when he gets into bed with each of them, disguised as the other.
• Acme Products: A close up of i of the speakers in Frank'due south lab shows that it has "Superlative Audio" stencilled inside it.
• Adaptation Distillation:
  • Some music from the original show was cut for the film, including a whole song for Brad ("Once in a While") and a verse or two from other songs. Likewise, the original character of Rocky had actual dialogue and personality, and was enlightened that he was created to exist a living sex toy... and hated information technology.
  • The narrator being fabricated into a "criminologist" in the pic, giving a reason for why he knows about the story's events.
• Adaptation Title Change: The Rocky Horror Moving-picture show Show is based on the stage musical called The Rocky Horror Evidence.
• An Aesop: The closest thing the film has to ane is "Some things aren't for everyone", in relation to the outrageous sexual lifestyles introduced to Brad and Janet. During and later on the floor show, Brad shows discomfort and feelings of violation, but Janet is empowered and feels aware by the sexual commotion she'due south been through. Through this, the film offers no judgment, merely seems to abet for exploration regardless of effect.
• Appreciating Parody: Twice over: the film itself spoofs horror/sci-fi, and the audience participation grew from the initial fans being familiar plenty with it — especially all the dramatic pauses — that they saw opportunities for verbal callbacks to tease the characters.
• Aliens in Cardiff: Denton is a fictional town, but the newspaper Janet uses to shield herself from the rain is The Plain Dealer, Cleveland's local newspaper, suggesting that Denton is in Northeast Ohio.
• All At that place in the Script: The original shooting script gives u.s. some information that's not in the movie;
  • The workers in the church actually were Frank and co. in disguise, while the wedding guests and Frank's party guests are different sets of characters played past the same actors.
  • Frank's guests are Transylvanian secret agents stationed all over Earth.
• All Women Are Lustful: During "Affect-A Bear on-A Impact-A Touch Me", Columbia and Magenta fool around with i some other and look on hungrily every bit Janet seduces Rocky.
• Ambiguous Time Period: The stage version plays this straight merely the movie has Brad and Janet listening to Richard Nixon'south resignation on the radio which would set it in 1974, but the badge on Brad's jacket in that same scene proclaims him to be a member of the class of 1962.
• American Gothic Couple: "Riff-Raff" and "Magenta" pose every bit the couple in front of the arched church doors during the song "Dammit Janet", after the wedding of Betty and Ralph. At the end, when they reveal their conflicting identities, the pitchfork has turned into a trident-shaped raygun. The painting tin also be briefly seen on a wall in the castle.
• And I Must Scream: Brad, Janet, Columbia and Rocky existence Medusad past Frank and being forced to sing and dance for him during the floor testify — though one could argue Janet isn't exactly being forced to sing her part.
• And You lot Were In that location: During the Wedding scene, much of the conjugal political party is fabricated up of actors who after become the Transylvanians, of note are: Riff Raff (Richard O'Brien), Magenta (Patricia Quinn), and of course, Doctor Frank North Furter (Tim Curry) in the back, nearest the church building. Tim Curry actually turns away from the camera, patently so he won't be as recognised, but, if yous attend a Shadow Cast, they tend to comment on their appearance, with lines like, "Even a Virgin recognises Dr. Frank," and, "Hey, Frank, Riff's front! Hey, Riff, Frank'due south dorsum!"
  • In an inter-movie And You lot Were There, several cast members from Rocky Horror portray like characters in the non-catechism Shock Treatment.
  • The play starts and ends with a faux cinema worker who's normally played by the same extra as Magenta.
• Art Imitates Fine art: There are enough references to art that it has its ain binder on the Shout Out page.
• Ascended Meme/Ascended Fanon: Many stage revivals non just encourage callouts, but incorporate some, such as mixing in the "2, four, 6, 8, show usa how you masturbate" callout to The Fourth dimension Warp.
• Aside Glance: Frank does it a couple of times during "Sweetness Transvestite", with the lines "You look similar you're both pretty groovy" (he really doesn't think they look like they're both pretty slap-up) and "You got caught with a flat, well.. how 'bout that?" (hey, nobody mentioned anything nearly a flat tire!)
• Audience Participation: The gilt standard. The audience at a showing of Rocky Horror will take some sort of response (mostly yelled comments, sometimes actions to lucifer) to virtually every line or activeness in the motion-picture show; at this signal the cult phenomenon of Rocky Horror is far more about the audience participation than the flick itself. Most theaters will give you a bag of items to exist used during the moving picture (about getting thrown).
  • Inverted audition participation. Where the cast will make callbacks to the audition'southward callbacks. For instance, there's a callback where people poke fun at Dr. Frank-N-Furter standing at attending past depicting him as a Drill Sergeant Nasty. Rocky will exist variously referred to every bit a Marine through the remainder of the film.
  • When they tried to phase the musical in the U.s., of course the audition yelled the callbacks. Apparently, in the offset functioning, they were studiously ignored until Frank Due north Furter got to "antici..." "SAY IT!" The player so snapped back with "bait me, why don't you?", and promptly connected on with the vocal.
  • Furthermore, new callbacks are invented all the time. A Halloween 2010 viewing added "Ten points from Gryffindor!" after Frank admonished Rocky that "That's no way to behave after your first day out!"
    • Also, after Fight Order, a popular call back following the revelation of Eddie's corpse has been, "HIS Name WAS ROBERT PAULSON! HIS NAME WAS ROBERT PAULSON!"
    • Many older callbacks get updated references but otherwise remain the same. For example, when Riff-Raff shows Brad and Janet the skeleton near the start of the motion-picture show, it'due south customary to shout out "Show US" and the proper noun of any celebrity has about recently died. Bonus points if it's someone people actually liked, specially if they had an early on or especially tragic death.
    • Take Thats are mutual, usually involving Magenta's proper noun, or dead things. A few:

  "DESCRIBE [widely disliked glory]!" "A weakling / Weighing 98 pounds..."

  "DESCRIBE [said celebrity]'S PERIOD!" "Magenta..."

  "Prove US [recently dead glory]!" [Riff Raff reveals a skeleton.]

  "HEY! Permit'Due south Become Run into [current popular picture show]! "Huh! I'VE seen it!"

  "WHAT DO You lot Call back ABOUT [person in the news/recent flick/show/this audience]?" "I think we tin can practise meliorate than that!"

  [when Rocky finally dies and crashes into the pool] "Wait! IT'Southward THE STEVE IRWIN SCHOOL OF SWIMMING!"

  Some get fired dorsum at the audience: "WHAT THE FUCK IS AN 'UNT'?"

  "3 FOURTHS OF A CUNT!

  ...And that's more than you'll e'er meet!"

  • For this reason, it's a good idea to lookout the movie once by yourself earlier you become to a midnight screening—because at the midnight screening, you may not exist able to hear any of it. The (extremely loud) audition commentary is not funny unless y'all've had the opportunity to actually hear the dialogue and music at some point, and in Shadowcasts, it's much better to see what the alive-action cast is doing when y'all have everything memorized.
  • On the other manus, in a venue where the moving-picture show has been running for long enough to develop a crowd of regulars besides as a live shadowcast, the discipline of the audition tin be astonishing. It truly does seem similar an interactive experience.
• Babies Ever After: Information technology's non obvious unless you await at scans of her police argument but Janet's significant. This was supposed to be explored in potential sequels.
• Backing Away Slowly: An example takes identify as Brad and Janet back away from Riff Raff, Magenta, Columbia, and the other Transylvanians while they sing "The Time Warp."
• Bed Trick: Dr. Frank-North-Further seduces both Brad and Janet while bearded every bit them. His disguises autumn off only he still succeeds.
• Belly Buttonless: Rocky.
• Big Electric Switch: The Medusa Transducer has i that Frank pulls to turn people into statues. There'due south another i on the stage to reverse information technology.
• Big "NO!": Frank equally he is executed by Riff Raff and Magenta for his mistreatment of them.
• Birth/Death Juxtaposition: Eddie is killed shortly after Rocky is born.
• Bittersweet Ending: One manner to interpret the catastrophe (even more then if one ignores the quasi-sequel, Shock Treatment concerning Brad & Janet's spousal relationship). Information technology'southward up to the viewer... Will Brad & Janet recover from this and grow with their newfound lack of naiveite and prudishness or will they be messed up forever? Though the lines of "Super Heroes" and "Scientific discipline Fiction Double Feature (Reprise)" seem grim... their fate isn't written in stone, the villain (Frank) has been defeated (by getting killed) and the three principal "adept guy" figures (Brad, Janet and the Doctor) are still alive (albeit a bit shaken). Autonomously from perhaps an existential crisis and a re-thinking of personal views apropos sexuality, they'll hopefully be fine.
• Blackness One-act Cannibalism: This interchange that leads to Brad, Janet, Columbia, and Dr. Scott refusing to consume anymore.

  Dr. Scott: We came here to hash out Eddie.

  Columbia: Eddie?!?

  Frank North. Furter: (after threatening Columbia with an electric pocketknife) ^note Shut up, bitch, or you'll be breakfast! That's a rather tender subject ^annotation That's a rather tasteless joke!. Some other slice, anyone?

• Black Comedy Rape: The seductions of Brad and Janet are all played completely for laughs.
• Breathy Lies:
  • "Yous await similar you're both.. pretty slap-up."
  • "I'm here. There'south zippo to worry about."
• Bowdlerise: FUSE Network (the so-called "Extreme Network") edits out nigh all instances of male person-on-male innuendo. The Glee version also had some edits (justified In-Universe, because Mr. Schuester had to make it appropriate for a loftier school play).
• Bookends: Both the musical and film open with the song "Science Fiction Double Characteristic" and close with its reprise. The moving-picture show takes this further by beginning with a ready of floating lips singing in a black void, while the pic ends with the Criminologist's globe shining in the darkness when he leaves his room.
  • In the musical, the first deed starts with the wedding of Ralph Hapshatt and Betty Monroe, and ends with the "wedding" of Rocky and Frank.
• Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: The formulas on the wall of Frank's lab end with a shopping list for flour, eggs, bread saccharide and two hypodermic needles. ^note How does he know our recipe for brownies?
• Break the Cutie: Janet and Columbia both fit this trope. Brad may as well.
  • Columbia peculiarly. She starts out equally a perfectly happy, tap-dancing groupie who'due south in love with Frank. Then her boyfriend Eddie comes back from deep freeze on a motorcycle, and she gets to be happy for all of one vocal before Frank attacks and kills Eddie with an water ice pick. She's then forced to attend a dinner hosted by Frank, during which she both accidentally cannibalizes Eddie and gets betrayed by her best friend, who helped cook him. She gets to deliver a "The Reason Y'all Suck" Speech, but is then Taken for Granite. When she realizes that Riff-Raff is going to kill Frank, the reason that she's here in the first place, she screams, getting her killed.
• Briefs Boasting: Frank certainly has a thing for briefs.
• Building of Adventure: Mostly set in a Haunted Castle with a ballroom, swimming pool and Mad Scientist Laboratory. The fact that the castle is as well a spaceship helps.
• Calling Your Orgasms: In variation, after Riff Raff lets Frank know that Rocky has run off while Frank is seducing Brad:

  Frank: Co-ming! ^note Audition Participation: So is Brad!

• The Cameo: Photographer Koo Stark appears as a bridesmaid.
• Photographic camera Abuse: Dr. Frank North. Furter does a Nutrient Slap past tossing a drink right into the camera during "Sugariness Transvestite".
• Camp: If the film were any campier, midnight screenings would include RV hookups.
• Catchphrase: In the audience participation, "Cheers!", "SAME Matter!", "Fuck (substantive)!", "ASSHOLE!", "SLUT!", and "Where's your fucking neck?"
• Charles Atlas Superpower: But a name drop, when Dr. Frank N. Furter says of his newly-finished creation Rocky that "he carries the Charles Atlas seal of approval". Almost the terminate of the film, it does take quite a number of shots from Riff Raff'southward "anti-matter laser" to bring downward Rocky. In the original musical, the vocal "I Can Make You A Man" and its reprise were both originally chosen "Charles Atlas". However, it bears mentioning that the trope is only dubiously in play, since Rocky did not in fact become strong through exercise. Information technology'southward more than of a Literal Metaphor, since ane of Atlas' slogans is "Let me prove that in just 7 days, I can make You a new man!"
• Captain Obvious: Riff Raff notices Brad and Janet are soaked. Given that it's raining outside.

  Riff Raff: Yous are wet. ^note No shit Sherlock!

  Janet: Yes...information technology's raining. ^note No shit Sherlock'due south sister!

• Christianity Is Catholic: Starts with a wedding at the "Denton Episcopal Church" which was the "Denton Cosmic Church building" in the remake.
• Closed Circumvolve: Heroes driving, flat tire, flat spare tire, rain coming downwards, thundering, spooky castle, Mad Scientist, critical stage of scientific breakthrough, heroes can't get away and then don't want to become away so tin't get away over again, and everything goes horribly wrong. Yup, textbook case... naturally, since it'southward a parody of exactly those kind of stories.
• Cloudcuckooland: The castle. And its inhabitants. And everything that happens in it. Justified since they're extraterrestrials and the castle is actually a spaceship from the planet Transsexual in the galaxy of Transylvania.
• Collapsing Lair: Brad, Janet and Dr Scott take escaped the castle at the stop earlier information technology blasts off into infinite.
• Collectible Card Game: Fantasy Trading Card Co. released a prepare of threescore trading cards in 1980.
• Comic-Book Accommodation: This movie had a condensed three-part comic volume adaptation past KevinVanHook that besides included a section of popular (at the time) callbacks used in Audience Participation screenings.
• Commedia dell'Arte: The cast fit this pretty well, for the most function:
  • Brad and Janet are the Lovers.
  • Eddie makes a passing Arlecchino.
  • Columbia, fittingly, is a Colombina.
  • Frank-N-Furter has elements of both The Captain (obviously "non from around here," interested in Anything That Moves) and Pantalone (abusive of Eddie, his Arlecchino, hints of a relationship with Columbia.)
  • Riff Raff is a dead giveaway as the Pulcinella, hunchback and all.
  • The Criminologist is perfect as the Doc.
  • The others are a bit of a stretch - presumably Rocky as the Pierrot, Magenta as the Brighella, and Dr. Scott as the Tartaglia.
• Contrived Coincidence: What are the odds that Brad and Janet would get out to come across their erstwhile teacher Dr. Scott, but to get stranded in a castle, where Dr. Scott will eventually plow upwardly, searching for his nephew? Lampshaded though, as Frank speedily suspects that Brad and Janet were sent in by Scott to investigate, although Scott denies that.
• Cool Starship: Though dilapidated, you have to admit a spaceship that looks like a gothic castle is pretty cool.
• Embrace Anthology;
  • There was The Rocky Horror Punk Rock Evidence in 2003 with the songs covered past various Punk Stone bands;
    • "Scientific discipline Fiction/Double Feature" past Me First and the Gimme Gimmes.
    • "Dammit, Janet" - Love Equals Death
    • "Over at the Frankenstein Place" by the Alkali metal Trio.
    • "The Time Warp" by The Groovie Ghoulies.
    • "Sweet Transvestite" by Apocalypse Hoboken.
    • "The Sword of Damocles" - The Independents
    • "I Can Brand You a Homo" by Pansy Division.
    • "Hot Patootie (Bless My Soul)" by The Phenomenauts.
    • "I Can Make You A Human being (Reprise)" by The Secretions.
    • "Touch-A, Bear on-A, Touch Me" past The Chubbies.
    • "In one case in a While" by Large D and the Kids Table.
    • "Eddie'due south Teddy" past Swingin' Utters.
    • "Planet, Schmanet, Janet" by Seismic sea wave Bomb.
    • "Rose Tint My Earth/Floor Evidence" by Luckie Strike.
    • "Fanfare/Don't Dream It" past Stunt Monkey.
    • "Wild and Untamed Affair" by Gametime.
    • "I'm Going Home" by The Migranes.
    • "Super Heroes" by Ruth's Hat.
    • "Science Fiction Double Feature (Reprise)" by The Ataris.
  • The Glee episode, "The Rocky Horror Glee Bear witness" covered a lot of the songs and an anthology was released with the same name equally the episode.
• Creepy Monotone: Riff Raff talks with an unsettling, Igor-esque speech pattern. Magenta equally well during much of the Time Warp.
• Cross-Dressing Voice: The lips at the start vest to Patricia Quinn with Richard O'Brien's vocalism dubbed.
• Cultural Translation: The Audience Participation naturally varies from country to country, at least in part, featuring local references, e.g.:

  Janet: Oh! If just nosotros hadn't made this journey... if only the car hadn't broken down... if only nosotros were amongst friends... Or sane persons!

• Dance Sensation: "Let's do the Time Warp again!" It's interesting to note that Richard O'Brien has said that he wrote that song every bit a scrap of a parody of a Trip the light fantastic toe Sensation.
• Nighttime Reprise: Of "Science Fiction Double Feature" at the end.
• Dead Man's Chest: Dr. Frank-N-Furter pulls back the tabular array cloths to reveal Eddie'due south decomposing and devoured corpse inside of a glass coffin to the guests.
• Depraved Bisexual: Frank was sexually involved with pretty much everyone in the estate at some bespeak, sometimes killing them when he'due south done.
• Disintegrator Ray: Frank'due south comments in the play imply the Sonic Transducer is a sort of teleporter that disassembles people until he wants to reassemble them afterwards instead of turning them to stone like in the motion picture.
• Dissonant Serenity: Out of context, Frank'due south vocal, "I'm Going Home" is a beautiful and melancholy song. In context? It's really fucking eerie.
• The Dog Bites Dorsum: Magenta betrays Frank afterwards realizing that he has no plans to go back to Transsexual someday soon, while Riff Raff betrays him because he was jealous of Frank for taking all the credit for making Rocky, even though HE did most of the piece of work.
• Downer Catastrophe: Columbia, Frank, and Rocky are expressionless, Janet and Brad are shaken at all-time and traumatized at worst, and by the mode, we're all but a agglomeration of insects adrift in a meaningless void.
  • The sequel, Shock Treatment, implies that Brad and Janet's marriage never quite recovered from the experience.
    • Then again, Shock Treatment isn't necessarily considered a direct sequel and more than an odd quasi-sequel / alternate-continuity affair and is often subject to Fanon Aperture past fans of The Rocky Horror Picture Evidence. Thus, the fate of Brad, Janet and Dr. Scott is cryptic and the kickoff film is more of a Bloodshot Ending... at to the lowest degree they survived while Frank (the villain) gets killed. The worse they get is a flake of inner discombobulation of their personal worldviews.
• Dropped-in Speech Clip: In the opening, Nixon's resignation speech tin can exist heard on the radio while Brad and Janet are driving. This is besides featured in the original play.
• Dull Surprise: During "Dammit Janet", Riff-Raff, Columbia and Magenta deadpan their chorus deliberately. (eg, "Oh, Brad.")
• DVD Bonus Content: Highlighting "Special Features" and pressing left on the 25th anniversary edition will reveal the secret Monochrome to Colour version.
• Early-Bird Cameo:
  • During "Dammit Janet", you can see Richard O'Brien, Patricia Quinn, Tim Back-scratch, and Little Nell in the church. The Criminologist has circled Curry and O'Brien.
  • Most of the wedding guests are clearly recognisable as the Transylvanian party guests at the Frankenstein Place. Peculiarly obvious are Henry Woolf (who plays the official nuptials lensman) and Christopher Biggins (clearly seen running at the front of the pack seeing off Ralph and Betty's machine). While this was fully intended to exist clever, it was also done to reduce costs.
• Easter Egg: The Rocky Horror Picture Testify has several bodily Easter eggs subconscious in the scenery.
  • It'south rumored Rocky Horror actually started the concept of Easter Eggs. And did so by having an Easter egg hunt on the set, and some of those that weren't found made their way into the motion picture. How much truth there is to this rumor is debatable.
• Escape from the Crazy Place: Skillful luck with that plan, Brad and Janet.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • This is ostensibly the reason Riff Raff and Magenta turn on Frank — "Your mission is a failure/Your lifestyle'due south likewise extreme..." ^note And worst of all, you've contracted an STD!
  • Magenta is visibly disturbed after Riff Raff shoots Frank and Rocky.
• Even the Guys Want Him: Dr. Frank-Northward-Furter, who seduces both Janet and her fiancée Brad. And Rocky who attracts both the attention of Janet and his creator Frank.
• Everyone Is Bi: Except for Riff, Dr. Scott, and the Criminologist ^note Seriously, how is your caput attached to your shoulders?! , every major grapheme has at to the lowest degree 1 heterosexual and i homosexual encounter in the film or in the Backstory, though in some cases this is indicated just briefly.
  • Originally, while intoxicated, Richard O'Brien had come up up with the idea that while Frank was out chasing downwards Rocky, Riff would get some activity with Brad. Upon coming to his senses after the filming of this scene, Richard O'Brien demanded it to be cut and never mentioned.
  • And Riff-Raff becomes furious when he remarks that Frank and Rocky didn't similar him, although he seems fairly calm during the remainder of the scene. 1 could reasonably infer that he had feelings for Frank and/or Rocky. Of course, there's that whole Brother–Sister Incest going on with Riff-Raff to begin with...
    • Too equally the subtext from the original play (cut for the motion picture) that the process of creating and animating Rocky was most entirely Riff Raff'southward work, and Frank was stealing both the credit for and the fruits of Riff's labor.
• Everytown, America: Denton ^note The Dwelling of Happiness!.
• Expospeak Gag: A "sonic transducer" is a microphone.
• Extremely Short Timespan: Mostly takes identify in one night apart from opening with a nuptials that afternoon.
• Faint in Shock:
  • Janet Weiss (SLUT!) faints when she sees Frank Northward. Furter for the first fourth dimension.
  • Parodied during "The Time Warp" and "Sweet Transvestite," when Janet Weiss faints three times during the songs. Possibly all the pelvic thrusting was too scandalous for her.
• Fan Disservice: Dr. Scott during the floor show. An old man. In fishnet stockings and heels.
• Fanservice: Depends on your sexuality, just "Rose Tints My Globe" is well-nigh guaranteed to plow someone on. Whether it'south Columbia's cleavage popping out of her corset, Rocky's pelvic thrusts against a feather boa, Brad interim all flustered and stretching his leg while belting his heart out, or Janet's moaning, lip-biting, seductive stare right into the photographic camera.
  • As mentioned in the All-time Known for the Fanservice entry on the YMMV page, "Sugariness Transvestite" stands out as a sexy, Fanservice-y moment.
• Film Comic: An extremely rare, out of print "Movie Novel" by Richard J. Anobile.
• Formal Full Array of Cutlery: The dinner scene gives everyone betwixt four and vii of each utensil for a meal with merely ane dish. ^notation Who ready this table, Helen Keller?
  • Discussion of God says that Jim Sharman did this to show that Frank and Riff Raff are aliens trying to imitate a man dinner party and failing miserably.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: The principal Transylvanians. Frank is Choleric, Riff is Melancholic, Magenta is Phlegmatic, and Columbia is Sanguine.
• Complimentary-Love Future: The planet Transexual seems to be this if Frank's behaviour is annihilation to go by.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: Looking at scans of police statements from The Criminologist's volume gives us more data, similar Janet and Dr Scott's middle names and the fact that Janet is significant.
• Freudian Slip: When Dr. Scott arrives at the castle, Riff Raff lets slip of his extraterrestrial nature before beingness corrected by Dr. Frank-N-Furter.

  Riff Raff: You know this earthling? This person?

• For Want of a Nail: If Brad hadn't forgotten the spare tire, him and Janet wouldn't accept had to stop and shelter themselves from the rain inside the mysterious castle.
• The "Fun" in "Funeral": Brad and Janet sing "Dammit Janet" in a church, completely oblivious to a kid-sized coffin existence carried out in the background.
• Funny Background Effect: Accept a look at Frank's expression as Janet sings "God bless Lili St. Cyr"
  • The deleted song, "One time in a While." While Brad's singing his heart out, Frank'due south conked out in a postcoital snooze behind him, still clad in Janet'due south nightgown.
• Gainax Ending: Information technology'south an understatement to say the moving-picture show is weird from the start, but around the Floor Show things get straight to Eleven, every bit a completely out-of-nowhere (fifty-fifty for Rocky Horror) burlesque cross-dressing number descends into random swimming, and then information technology's revealed Frank-n-Furter, Riff-Raff, and Magenta are all aliens from Planet Transsexual in the Milky way of Transylvania, the latter who impale Frank-n-Furter and leave Brad, Janet, and Dr. Scott in the dust as the mansion takes off into infinite. The Criminologist reaffirms that nosotros're just insects afloat in a meaningless void of fourth dimension and infinite, and the movie ends.
• Genius Cripple: Dr. Scott, who easily outwits Dr. Frank-Due north-Furter and helps rescue Janet and Brad with his knowledge of machinery and electricity (peculiarly spaceships).

• Gory Mortiferous Overkill Championship of Fatal Death: Parodied.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Whomever sent him from Planet Transsexual of the Transylvania Galaxy by default. Co-ordinate to the unmade sequel, information technology was his mother.
• Pilus-Trigger Sound Effect: despite a number of common group shout outs, nada approaches this trope quite like Brad ^notation ASSHOLE! and Janet ^notation SLUT!.
• Haunted Castle: The picture show's generally ready in one that turns out to be a spaceship.
• Hibernate Your Lesbians: In a castle where Everyone Is Bi and take been sexually intimate with ane another, Magenta and Columbia have a moment together while spying on Janet through the cameras, though unlike the others they don't buss or have sex on-screen. Although whether or not they really had sex is ambiguous.
• Homesickness Hymn: "I'm Going Home" has Dr. Frank-North-Furter attempt to explain his actions earlier in the story and proceeds some sympathy past singing nearly his desire to return to his dwelling planet of Transsexual, and stay forever. Even so, it'south never fully articulate if he'southward being sincere or is just hamming information technology up as per usual.
• Human Aliens: Frank, Magenta, Riff Raff, and all the other Transylvanians look like human beings.
• I'm a Humanitarian: The Reveal of Eddie's fate, thank you to Frank. ^note Meat Loaf again?
• Hypocrite:
  • Brad and Janet are both outraged at each other'due south infidelity.
  • Frank goes berserk and tries to kill Janet after she sleeps with Rocky. This after he's tricked both Brad and Janet into sleeping with him. He even brags most information technology and feels Janet up while threatening her in "Planet Schmanet Janet".
  • Riff-Raff deems Frank's lifestyle "likewise extreme" and uses this as reason to execute him. Exercise retrieve that Riff-Raff is in an incestuous human relationship with his sis.
• I Ate WHAT?!: The Reveal of Eddie'south corpse, showing the grouping had been snacking on him the unabridged fourth dimension. Frank does drib a hint when he tells Dr. Scott that Eddie'due south whereabouts are "a rather tender subject." Columbia seems to exist the only one who picks up on this right away and quietly excuses herself to get to the side by side room and shriek in despair (although you exercise briefly run across Brad throwing his fork down in confused disgust before the reveal).
• I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin!: "Let'southward Do the Time Warp Again!" is filled with drug and addiction metaphors, despite merely being almost a Dance Sensation.

  Riff-Raff: I recall doing the Fourth dimension Warp / Drinking those moments when / The blackness would hit me. / And the void would be calling.
  Chorus: Let'due south do the Time Warp over again!

• I Never Said It Was Poisonous substance: Subsequently Brad asks if he tin can use the phone, Frank smirks into the camera and comments on Brad and Jane getting a flat tire, even though Brad never mentioned information technology. Though Brad doesn't pick upward on this.
• Insignificant Little Blue Planet: The Criminologist sums it upward at the terminate.

  And crawling ^annotation where?, on the planet's face

  ^notation What did you have for breakfast?Some insects, ^note what were they called?called the Human Race

  ^note Where'southward your neck?Lost in fourth dimension ^note What's your favorite Tv set prove?and lost in space ^note Starring June Lockhart

  Chorus: Meaning...

• Instrumentals: An instrumental version of "Time Warp" plays over the cease credits.
• Intermission: Being a musical, almost productions of the stage bear witness are 2 acts with a short intermission. (Meet Bookends above.)
• Karma Houdini: Riff-Raff and Magenta.
• Jealous Romantic Witness: Janet is an emotional wreck when she sees mail service-coitus footage of Brad and Frank, devastated that Brad would betray her like that. Brad is, in plow, horrified when he finds her naked with Rocky, and their relationship is unsaid to be unstable for the rest of the movie. Brad'south reaction is nil compared to Frank's, though, who flies into a jealous rage when he realizes that Janet and Rocky are into each-other.
• But for Pun: The majority of the callbacks.
• Large Ham: Several, with a lot of Curry.
  • Magenta hamming it upwardly to an uncomfortable Brad and Janet just every bit "Allow's Exercise The Time Warp Again". "You lot're lucky, he'due south lucky, I'm lucky, WE'RE ALL LUCKY!!!" ^note THE BANNISTER'S LUCKY!
  • Columbia calling out for her lover Eddie during his performance of "Hot Patootie". "EDDIE!!!"
  • Riff-Raff shouting his words as he prepares to impale Dr. Frank-N-Furter. "A laser made of pure antimatter!" ^note DOES THAT MEAN IT DOESN'T Affair?

• The Last of These Is Not Like the Others: The minions' reactions to Rocky later on his unveiling.

  Riff Raff: He's a credit to your genius, main.
  Magenta: A triumph of your will.
  Columbia: He'south okay.

• Late-Arrival Spoiler: The music that plays during the main carte du jour of the Blu-ray is the reprise of "Science Fiction/Double Characteristic", where the lyrics describe the ending. There are besides several fake moving-picture show posters that give away several of the plot points. For instance, there is 1 poster entitled They Came from Outer Space, which not simply spoils the plot twist that Frank, Riff and Magenta are aliens, but the poster too shows a film of Rocky carrying Frank's expressionless torso in his arms.
• Left It In: Nosotros hear a solitary beep when Frank runs his finger downward Rocky'due south breast during "I Tin Make You A Man", this was caused by somebody accidentally hitting a synthesizer and wasn't edited out.
• A Low-cal in the Distance: "At that place'southward a calorie-free... over at the Frankenstein identify."
• Lightning Reveal: When Brad and Janet are on the castle's doorstep, a flash of lightning reveals a row of parked motorcycles. Implied to be the ones they saw emerge from a dead end a few minutes earlier.
• Logo Joke: The 20th Century Fox fanfare is played on a piano rather than by a full orchestra. According to Richard O'Brien in the DVD commentary, the sequence originally was going to exist normal, and the piano version of the fanfare was to be played at the pic's climax, only before Frankie started singing "Wild & Untamed Thing".
  • They originally wanted to put a giant 20th Century Fox logo on the phase at the end with Magenta and Columbia using wires to motion paper-thin searchlights just Fox wouldn't let them use it which led to them using the at present famous RKO belfry instead.
  • The stuffed eagle in the hall is a reference to the Republic Pictures logo.
  • The Transylvanian lightning bolt symbol is based on the lightning bolts from the RKO logo.
  • The stained glass image of the Atlas Pose in the window of the conjugal sweet is a nod to the Anglo-Amalgamted Productions logo.
  • The stuffed snarling cat in the hall is a reference to the MGM lion.
  • Magenta banging the gong to denote dinner is a reference to the man banging a gong in The Rank System logo.
  • The lighted globe in The Criminologist'southward office at the end is based on the Universal logo.
• Lohengrin and Mendelssohn: Also at the scene where Ralph and Betty Hapschatt are walking out of their wedding together, a portion of Mendelssohn is played at the end of "I Tin can Make You A Human being (Reprise)" during the scene when Dr. Frank N. Furter walks downward the aisle to his "bridal chamber" with his creation/spouse Rocky every bit the Transylvanians shower the "newlywed" couple with confetti.
• "London, England" Syndrome: A lot of characters sing about existence from Transylvania, but this turns out to exist the name of the milky way they come from rather than the Romanian region.
• Long Runner: It entered the midnight excursion in 1976 and has never been officially withdrawn from theaters, making it the longest theatrical release in film history.
• Lost Aesop: The film deliberately leaves it ambiguous as whether or not Brad and Janet'due south new-found sexualities have left them worse or better off. Stage shows frequently flop either way, ordinarily by having Brad and Janet turning away from each other (in shame or acrimony) during the final vocal.
  • Notably, in the 2022 broadcast of the stage play, Brad and Janet initially turn abroad from each other, but ultimately run dorsum into each others' arms and leave the stage together, hinting at a more hopeful future for them.

  The Criminologist: And crawling on the planet's face up, some insects chosen the human race. Lost in time, and lost in space... and meaning.

• Honey Triangle: It'due south implied that one of these may have happened involving Frank, Eddie and Columbia.
• Lyrical Racket: "The Sword of Damocles" and "Eddie's Teddy" are pretty upbeat, for a song about Rocky having an immediate existential crunch under a domineering psychopath and a rebellious youth getting abducted and gruesomely killed, respectively.
• Lyric Swap: Not present on most prints, just "Science Fiction - Double Feature Reprise" at the stop of the pic swaps the archetype SF movie lyrics from the title sequence tune for lyrics that summarize the movie.
• Mad Scientist Laboratory: Frank'southward lab is full of large electric switches and octagonal monitors. The tank that Rocky is born in is the aforementioned one from The Revenge of Frankenstein. The device that Frank ultimately manipulates to bring Rocky to life is actually a pigment mixer.
• Mass Teleportation: At the end of the movie Brad, Janet and Dr Scott take to leave the castle before Riff Raff teleports it back to the planet Transexual.
• The Master: Dr. Frank-N-Furter who runs the mysterious castle and all his servants and guests are loyal to him. Brad and Janet are both amazed and frightened when they meet him.
• Metaphorical Spousal relationship: Dr. Frank Due north. Furter's escorting his creation/spouse Rocky to their "conjugal chamber" at the end of "I Tin Make You A Homo (Reprise)" is played out every bit a hymeneals, every bit a portion of Mendelssohn is played at the end of the song while the Transylvanians shower the "newlywed" couple with confetti during their walk down the aisle together.
• Mind Screw: Everything that happens inside the castle once Brad and Janet enter, and Up to Xi after the reveal that Dr.Frank-N-Furter and his guests are extraterrestrials from the planet Transsexual in the galaxy of Transylvania.
• Minion Shipping: Riff Raff and Magenta. It's implied that Columbia and Eddie were together too.
• Mind Screwdriver: The original play, The Rocky Horror Show, paces out its exposition a piffling more neatly, by making it clear that everyone merely Brad and Janet are otherworldy.
• Mirror Graphic symbol: Richard O'Brien has stated that Riff Raff and Frank are very like to one some other. In fact, the only real differences between the two is that Frank is more outgoing and flamboyant while Riff is more reserved and introverted. That...and Riff is less likely to seduce people. But, both are intelligent, scheming, easily jealous, and willing to kill others in blind rage.
• Mood Whiplash: Several. I fun performance of "Hot Patootie" ends with Eddie being murdered by Frank.
• Mocking Sing-Song:
  • In the Audience Participation album for this film, a member of the audience goes "nya nya nya nya nya" later Frank N. Furter uses the "sonic transducer" to freeze Brad, Janet, and Dr. Scott so that they couldn't motility their feet (or wheels) ^annotation My socks! I tin't motion my socks! in the laboratory.
  • It'southward besides common to poorly warble 'MEOW MEOW MEOW' during 'I'thousand Going Abode' or poorly mimic doo-wop "ooh wee ooh"s during "Time Warp" and "Hot Patootie".
• Monochrome to Colour: An early on script starts off in black and white equally a nod to The Wizard of Oz. The showtime thing we'd see in colour would exist Frank's lips with everything else would change after "Sweet Transvestite" and go back to black and white during "Superheroes". The 25th anniversary DVD has the Oz recut which starts in blackness and white and switches to color when Riff Raff opens the ballroom door during the Time Warp.
• MST: The Audience Participation for which the show is famous started off when an audience member did this and the residue joined in.
• The Musical: 1 of the more famous ones.
• No, Mr. Bond, I Await You to Dine: Allow's just say who'southward coming to dinner is more than expected.
• Non-Heteronormative Society: The planet Transsexual is unsaid to exist this with Frank seducing Anything That Moves and heavy Incest Subtext between Riff Raff and his sister, Magenta. The script for the unmade sequel Revenge of the Quondam Queen confirms this with casual sex being mutual, including Parental Incest.
• No OSHA Compliance: The castle was extremely dilapidated during filming. Susan Sarandon caught the flu due to rain getting in and the room that Riff Raff was singing from in Over at The Frankenstein Identify had no floor.
• "Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization: Frank, sleeping with Brad and Janet. Janet actually does bask it immensely; Brad's a tad more guilty, merely notwithstanding asks Frank-n-Furter to not tell Janet...
• Not of This Earth: In the play, Md Scott tries to distract Brad from realizing that Frank has outed him as Nazi by pointing out that a nearby machine is fabricated of a metal that is not of this Globe and probably from another planet.
• The Nudifier: Frank's Medusa Transducer Machine non just turns people to stone, but causes any clothes they're wearing at the moment to autumn off their (at present-marble) bodies. Presumably this is because Greco-Roman statues wearing clothes would look ridiculous, even though Frank does redress them in the same wearing apparel that he wears, with the exception of Dr. Scott, who is redressed in much of his old clothes, with only his pants and shoes replaced by fishnets and heels.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • When Brad and Janet first see Frank-N-Furter.
  • When Eddie sees Frank coming at him with an ax to murder him.
  • When Janet and Rocky are discovered by Frank, Brad and Dr. Scott post-coital.
  • When Brad, Janet, Dr. Scott and Columbia realize they're unwittingly being served Eddie'south corpse for dinner.
  • When Dr. Scott reveals that he has Eddie'southward message of help and that he knows that Frank and the inhabitants of the castle are really extra-terrestrials.
  • When Frank pulls the switch and Janet, Brad and Dr. Scott cannot motion their feet/wheels to escape.
• Off-Model: The drawings in the comic book adaption look very poor, and due to this, the characters await off model at some points.
• One Crazy Night: Brad and Janet's car breaks downwardly on their style to see the professor who introduced them. They go to a nearby castle to apply the telephone ^notation Castles don't have phones, asshole! and...things...happen.
• Opening Chorus:"Science Fiction\Double Feature" both opens and closes the musical.
• Out of the Frying Pan: When their auto breaks downwardly, Brad and Janet stop at a castle and enquire to use the telephone. The castle is inhabited past an insane conflicting scientist who seduces, turns to stone and encephalon washes them.
• The Peeping Tom: Riff Raff and Magenta spy on Brad and Janet while she's inbound their guest rooms for the nighttime. Later, Later, Magenta and Columbia spy on Janet as she seduces Rocky during "Touch-A Touch-A Impact-A Touch Me".
• Perilous Play: During the climax , Frank North. Furter forces Brad, Janet, Rocky, and Columbia to perform in a floor show with him.
• Pietà Plagiarism: Rocky and Frank-Northward-Furter, earlier Rocky goes into rage way. ^note You bankrupt my transvestite!
• Pink Girl, Blueish Boy; Brad and Janet'south bedrooms are lit with blue and pink lights respectively. ^note Aforementioned room, different filter, cheap motility!
• Plot-Inciting Adultery: Much of Brad and Janet'south graphic symbol development and subsequent descent into Translyvanian-induced insanity happens later Frank-Due north-Furter sleeps with both Brad and Janet.
• Plot-Sensitive Button: When the lever to the Medusa machine is pulled, whoever Frank happens to nod at volition turn to stone.
• Portal Cutting: In the shooting script when the castle teleports away, parts of it are left backside in a crater. Such equally broken objects from the lab and parts of Eddie's coffin.
  • An unused idea for a sequel was to have the swimming puddle left behind as a pigsty in the ground with Frank's and Rocky's bodies floating in it.
• Ability Crystal: In the play, before he and Magenta teleport the castle home Riff Raff says "Actuate the transit crystal!".
• The Power of Lust: Frank uses people's want for pleasure — usually honing in on their sexuality — to corrupt them into doing what he wants, so as to fulfil his own lusts. The Power of Lust, withal, ultimately causes his downfall in the ending where his subordinates mutiny against him for being "too farthermost" and impale him. Meanwhile, the two characters who were virgins at the kickoff of the story are traumatized, changed forever.
• Protective Amuse: Humorously implied at the very offset of the moving-picture show, when the disembodied lips singing "Science Fiction Double Feature" are seemingly driven away by a cross, which turns out to be atop the steeple of the church where the nuptials is taking place. ^note Crucify those lips!/These lips died for your sins!
• Pun: The Sweet Transvestite from the planet Transsexual in the galaxy Transylvania. ^notation In the state of New Jersey
• Punny Name:
  • Dr. Frank-N-Furter, especially considering the pre-Time Warp appetizers. Lampshaded with a bad Pun when the characters call him a "hot dog" during "Planet Schmanet Janet".
  • Janet sings that the Dr.'southward lust is "sincere" during the flooring show, then sings nearly Lili St. Cyr as the last line of "Don't Dream It".
  • Janet Weiss'due south proper noun is a double Stealth Pun, since it's a German name which is pronounced much like the English "vice" and ways "white" no less, a traditional virgin color. She's a virgin, and spends near of the movie wandering around in white underwear.
• Pygmalion Plot: Frank makes Rocky and takes him to bed almost straight away.
• Quirky Town: Richard O'Brien's experiences as a teenager in 1950s Hamilton and Tauranga in New Zealand were the inspiration for him to write this.
• Raised Lighter Tribute: Done during Audience Participation in the song "Over At The Frankenstein Place", with the cue existence "There'southward a calorie-free..."
  • Most shadowcasts performing today request that you lot keep actual lighters safely in your pocket, in favor of glowsticks or turning up the lite on your cellphone, equally they're far less likely to cause an actual theater burn down.
• "The Reason Yous Suck" Speech: Columbia gives i to Frank N. Furter later in the movie, pointing out how he just uses people for pleasance and and so abandons them with nothing in return.

  Columbia: My God! I tin can't stand up whatsoever more than of this! ^note (So sit down!) First yous spurn me for Eddie, and so yous throw him off like an old overcoat for Rocky! Yous chew people upward and then you spit them out once again! I loved you... ^note (What?) Do you lot hear me? I loved yous! And what did information technology get me? Yeah, I'll tell you: a large zero! ^notation (At to the lowest degree it was big!) You're like a sponge, you accept, take, take, and drain others of their love and emotion! Yep, well, I've had enough! ^notation (Peek-a-boo!) You're gonna cull between me and Rocky, so named 'cause of the rocks in his caput! ^note (Holy shit, what a bowwow! Quick, Magenta, throw the switch!)

• Rebuilt Set: The "Fourth dimension Warp" was filmed in the bodily ballroom in the Oakley Courtroom castle they filmed in but the ballroom from the floorshow at the end was built in the studio then they could put in a swimming puddle.
• Revised Ending: The United states cut omits the songs "Super Heroes" and the Dark Reprise of "Science Fiction Double Feature" due to 20th Century Fox thinking they were too depressing. Nosotros still run across Brad, Janet and Dr. Scott crawling around singing "Super Heroes" just we hear The Criminologist'southward closing Fauxlosophic Narration dubbed over it.
• Rocky Curl Telephone call: The Trope Namer. Janet, Dr. Scott, Brad, Rocky and Frank cross paths through some manner or other, resulting in them just saying each other's names.

  "Janet!" "Dr. Scott!" "Janet!" "Brad!" "Rocky!" ^annotation "Ugh!" Three times. Audiences like to scream "BULLWINKLE!" or "Audience!" ^notation How-do-you-do! after. ^note All present and deemed for, sir!

• Round Table Shot: The shooting script would take done this between Brad, Janet and Dr. Scott during "Super-Heroes" and having it speed up until it blurred into The Criminologist's globe but the finished movie had the camera movement away while the whole image spun.
• Dominion of Symbolism: A number of things follow this rule. For example, it's no coincidence that Dr. Scott, who opposes the overly sexual Frank-N-Furter, is paralyzed from the legs down, or that the bulk of the bandage is reborn in Frank'southward paradigm for the floor show.
• Sanity Slippage Song;
  • "Rose Tint My World" is the characters admitting that Frank has cleaved them and they're now just living for sexual pleasance.
  • "I'one thousand Going Home", Richard O'Brien says in the commentary that Frank hallucinates the audience that fades in.
• Say My Name:
  • The aforementioned Rocky Curlicue Call.
  • "YOU'D BETTER Not Attempt TO HURT HERRRR, FRANK FURTER!" Connected somewhat by Riff-Raff in the catastrophe, where he dramatically belts out Frank'due south name as he comes to kill him.
• Screwball One-act: Played with in that it features a straightlaced couple being seduced by a transsexual man.
• Script-Reading Doors: The freezer that Eddie's trapped in opens for no reason so that he tin ride out on his motorcycle and sing "Hot Patootie". Richard O'Brien notes this in the commentary and regrets not having Frank accidentally hitting a button or something.
  • In the original phase play, Columbia is shown accidentally opening the freezer door, and discovering Eddie.
• Secondary Character Championship: Extra points for sounding similar a Discussion Salad Title, rather than annihilation to do with the characters at all, to people who aren't very familiar with the fact that Rocky's last name actually is "Horror". This isn't helped past the stop credits being the only place to refer to information technology equally his surname (the original play referred to information technology in dialogue).
• Surreptitious Handshake: Riff Raff and Magenta'southward "elbow sex" gesture.
• Undercover Passage: In the shooting script, Riff and Magenta leave Frank's lab through i before the Flooring Prove.
• Seduction Lyric: There's a lot of indirect or direct seduction all over the place, of course, but special mention has to go to "Touch-a, Touch-a, Affect Me", in which the newly deflowered Janet simply declares her enthusiasm for sex to Rocky — who, in truth, probably wouldn't sympathise anything more complicated.
• Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains: Brad and Janet are dressed in reasonable attire when they get-go go far, Brad in a coat, sweater and slacks and Janet in a dress. On the other side of the spectrum, there'south Frank-Due north-Furter, who's all-time known for existence in a corset, fishnets and heels.
• Sexual activity Is Liberation: Played with. It is unclear if being freed from their inhibitions has helped or hurt the human characters.
• Sigil Spam: The Transylvanian lightning bolt symbol appears on their clothes, flags and some of Frank's equipment. Seems to be based on the RKO Pictures logo and the aliens from Programme 9 from Outer Space having lightning bolt emblems on their uniforms.
• Silliness Switch: The DVD release has an audience participation mode that tells you when to interact with the movie and how.
• Sistine Steal: Frank has a version of the Creation Of Adam at the bottom of his swimming pool. ^note Michaelangelo, I said the ceiling, non the pool! Final time I ask a Ninja Turtle to pigment my firm!
• Slasher Smile: Dr. Frank North Furter sports 1 before he kills Eddie with a choice axe.
• Small Universe After All: The Transylvanians don't come from the Romanaian province, they're from the galaxy of Transylvania.
• Smoking Hot Sex:
  • Brad, after getting laid by Frank in the movie. ^note Yep, Janet, your Asshole does smoke after sexual activity! Simply only Once in A While!
  • Janet and Rocky.
  • And fifty-fifty Magenta and Columbia, although whether or not they actually had sexual practice is ambiguous. (Although audiences seem to agree that they did. ^note Ring around the lesbians! ^note Fucking tourists! ^annotation Fucking lesbians!)
• Speculative Fiction LGBT: It's the story of a straight couple being seduced by a crossdressing conflicting scientist.
• Stealth Pun: What's for dinner? Meatloaf, again. ^note Oh no, not Meatloaf again!
  • The transducer turns the cast into nude, stone statues - which of class can't talk. What else has Frank made that has its body on display and tin can't talk? Rocky.
• Stockholm Syndrome: Columbia and possibly Rocky, although Rocky especially might instead be Too Dumb to Live. Even after Frank discards her for Eddie and and so Rocky, kills her swain and serves him for dinner, Columbia is even so devoted to Frank. The concluding scenes reveal that Rocky cares deeply for Frank, even though (or perchance considering) he bondage him up in their 'bridal suite' and he has half of Eddy's brain.
• A Storm Is Coming: There's thunder in the background during "Dammit, Janet", and and then the Criminologist invokes the trope directly: "It'southward true, there were nighttime storm clouds - ^notation Tell us well-nigh your balls! heavy, black, and pendulous - towards which they were driving..."
• Stuka Scream: Heard twice. When the electromagnet pulls Dr. Scott's wheelchair downwards the ramp and again when the RKO tower falls into the swimming pool.
• Stylistic Suck: Set designer Brian Thompson based the pink tiles in Frank'south lab on ones from a sleazy hotel bath in Amsterdam. He idea they looked awful, but were the kind of affair Frank would like.
• Tag Line: From the trailer: "Allow there be... LIPS."
• Taken for Granite: The "Medusa" switch that's conveniently installed on Rocky's life-bringer car thing turns people into statues (classical naked marble statues, at that). It also has a reversal switch, so.
• Taxidermy Terror: There'southward a few stuffed animals around the castle, the commentary says that Frank doesn't know what else to practise with Earth animals.
• Tempting Fate: "Information technology's all right, Janet. Everything'southward going to be all right". Then Frank appears and Janet faints.
• Those Wacky Nazis: Unsaid with Dr. Scott.

  Frank: Go on, Dr. Scott. Or should I say... Doctor Von Scott! ^note SIEG HEIL!
  Brad: Merely what exactly are you lot implying?! ^note THAT HE'S A NAZI, ASSHOLE!

  • Oddly enough, in the original stage show, Frank himself had a stereotypical German accent (Virtually likely to go with the classic Mad Scientist genre). However, this was quickly dropped and Frank concluded upward with the shine British emphasis we all know and dearest today.
  • Frank'southward laboratory costume references the Nazis with a pink triangle symbol, which Nazis used as a label on the clothing of imprisoned homosexuals (and those accused of being such).
• Teleportation: The Sonic Transducer. Information technology'south unsaid to be able to ship people to other planets and through time.
• Theme Song Reveal: The Blu-ray menu plays the Dark Reprise of "Science Fiction/Double Characteristic" from the moving picture's end credits and gives major spoilers.
• Tick Tock Terror: Parodied during the intro for the vocal "The Fourth dimension Warp." As the large, coffin-shaped clock in the Frankenstein Place's foyer begins to chime the hour, the ghoulish retainer Riff-Raff opens the embrace to reveal a dusty man skeleton inside. Brad and Janet recoil in horror every bit Riff-Raff sings that "time is fleeting..."
• Tired Afterward the Song: At the stop of the "Time Warp" number, anybody collapses to the floor.
• Triang Relations: Frank/Rocky/Janet are a type 9. Janet/Brad/Frank are a blazon 6. Riff-Raff/Magenta/Columbia are blazon 12. And Columbia/Eddie/Frank are type 12.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Brad lampshades in his police statement that information technology's strange that he and Janet didn't discover a coffin existence carried out during "Dammit Janet".
• Villains Want Mercy: Frank-N-Furter tries to desperately to go Riff Raff and Magenta to take compassion on him in the ending. It doesn't work, and Riff Raff kills him. ^note YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW HIM UP! AH, DAMN YOU! GODDAMN You lot ALL TO HELL!!
  • Riff even asks for it verbatim when Frank is whipping him in the lift. ^note Hitting him! Hit him once more! Hit him harder! WHERE'Southward THE MONEY, LEBOWSKI?!
• Visible Boom Mic;
  • A reflection of one appears in the car windshield when Ralph and Betty drive off subsequently their hymeneals.
  • After Betty and Ralph leave and Brad and Janet are talking, we see the tip of information technology and information technology's shadow circulate on the church building wall.
• Song Development: In the original phase shows, Curry originally played Frank with a German accent. He quit afterwards a few shows, equally he decided it was easier to just use his normal emphasis. Besides, compare the original phase version of "Time Warp" to the more well-known movie version. Can you believe that's O'Brien and Quinn in both versions?
• "What Now?" Ending: ends with Brad, Janet and Dr. Scott crawling around in the mud, feeling empty now that Frank has sexually awakened them and and then died. It then fades to The Criminologist'due south role where he gives a Fauxlosophic Narration about humanity being lost in meaning.
• Where the Hell Is Springfield?: The movie doesn't outright say which of the 18 Dentons in America Brad and Janet live in, just Janet is seen reading the Plain Dealer (a Cleveland newspaper) with a headline almost Ohio utilities, and the Rocky Horror Scrapbook includes a clipped questionnaire that shows Janet'due south address every bit ten Principal Street, Denton, Ohio.
  • The sequel was originally supposed to exist filmed in Denton, Texas, just the Screen Actor's Guild going on strike put a halt to that.
• Who's Your Daddy?: According to the scans of the police statements, Janet is pregnant. And it's unknown if Brad, Frank or Rocky is the father.
• Incorrect Turn at Albuquerque: Brad takes a incorrect turn at a fork in the road leading him and Janet to a expressionless end, getting a flat tire, and having to seek shelter in Frank N. Furter's castle.
• X Meets Y: In a 2022 interview with the Daily Express, Richard O'Brien said The Rocky Horror Evidence was like a combination of Conduct On and Hammer Horror.

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...pation.

^notation But whatever shall become of Brad and Janet? Be with usa adjacent time for Daze Treatment or Revenge of the Onetime Queen!

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Permit's Do The Time Warp Once more!

The famous Time Warp, a catchy song with piece of cake to follow dance steps.

Example of:
Dance Sensation

Alternative Championship(south): Rocky Horror Picture show Prove, The Rocky Horror Evidence

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