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''[[Return to the Forbidden Planet]]'' is a [[Jukebox Musical]] by Bob Carlton, based on the 1956 film ''[[
In this case the jukebox is full of '50s rock, including songs such as "Good Vibrations", "Great Balls of Fire", "Shake, Rattle, & Roll", plus of course "The Monster Mash".
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* [[Applied Phlebotinum]]: The X Factor drug, which creates planets and monsters when necessary but not consciously.
* [[Audience Participation]]: The audience is required to help out when the [[Reverse Polarity|polarity is reversed]].
* [[Be a Whore
* [[Gratuitous Iambic Pentameter]]: ''Every spoken line in the musical'' is iambic pentameter, with many passages lifted (with modifications) from Shakespeare's plays.
** Referenced in the play itself, with the lines "''Iambic's functioning; Pentameters locked in''"
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* [[Reverse Polarity]]: Naturally.
* [[Sensor Suspense]]: During the third visit from the invisible monster. Radar showed ''something'' approaching, but no one can see it...
* [[Smite Me,
* [[Thermal Dissonance]]: The Krell's machine room doors.
* [[Your Mind Makes It Real]]: Doctor Prospero's masterpiece, the X Factor drug, can make matter out of thoughts - unfortunately, this includes the Id, the repressed base desires of every human being. In an extension of this, it is revealed at the end that the entire ''planet'' of D'Illyria was generated from Doctor Prospero's Super-Ego, thus the planet destroys itself when he does.
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