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{{quote|''I see you shiver with antici...''<ref>[[Audience Participation|SAY IT!]]</ref>}}
{{quote|''"I would like,<ref>[[Audience Participation|OH, YOU WOULD, WOULD YOU?]]</ref> if I may,<ref>[[Audience Participation|YOU MAY NOT!]]</ref> to take you<ref>[[Audience Participation|TAKE ME, TAKE ME!]]</ref> on a strange journey..."<ref>[[Audience Participation|HOW STRANGE WAS IT? SO STRANGE THEY MADE A MOVIE OUT OF IT! NOT THE BOOK, THE MOVIE!]]</ref>''
''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]'' is a 1975 musical film by Richard O'Brien. It's most famous for ''still'' being played in theaters all over the world once a 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 Musical]]/Stageshow ''[[The Rocky Horror Show]]'', also by Richard O'Brien (who played Riff Raff both in its original staging and this film).
The story: Brad <ref>[[Audience Participation|ASSHOLE!]]</ref> and Janet <ref>[[Audience Participation|SLUT!]]</ref> are two lovely, naive virgins from Denton, Texas, who get engaged and drive off to tell Dr. Scott
They meet the servants
They are interrupted by biker/ex-delivery boy [[Meat Loaf|Eddie]]
At this point, Dr. Scott appears looking for his nephew Eddie, and Janet and Rocky are found together. Frank
There is a (spiritual) sequel
''The Rocky Horror Picture Show'' was added to the [[National Film Registry]] in 2005.
In 2008, a remake was planned by MTV. Richard O'Brien was not involved and not happy, and perhaps fortunately for everyone involved the project was [http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/09/02/no-rocky-horror-remake-not-yet-anyway/ cancelled]. In 2016, though, spurred by the success of their broadcast of a live production of ''[[Grease]]'', [[FOX]] greenlit [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1267299/ a new remake], which was eventually broadcast on on 18 October 2016. As a nod to the original the cast included [[Tim Curry]] as the Criminologist.▼
▲In 2008, a remake was planned by MTV. Richard O'Brien was not involved and not happy, and perhaps fortunately for everyone involved the project was [https://web.archive.org/web/20100722023749/http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/09/02/no-rocky-horror-remake-not-yet-anyway/ cancelled].
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* [[Accidental Pervert]]: Columbia is supposed to come across this way.
* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: Some music was cut from the original show, including a whole song for Brad and a verse or two from other songs. Also, the original character of Rocky had some actual dialogue and personality, and seemed [[Fridge Horror|to be at least somewhat aware that he was created to be a living sex toy]].
* [[Adorkable]]: Brad.
* [[Alas, Poor Villain]]: "I'm Going Home" {{spoiler|and Frank's death that follows.}}▼
* [[An Aesop]]: Deliberately left ambiguous as whether or not their {{spoiler|new-found sluttiness}} left them worse or better off.▼
* [[Affectionate Parody]]: Twice over: the film itself spoofs horror/sci-fi, and the audience participation grew from the initial fans being familiar enough with it—especially all the dramatic pauses—that they saw opportunities for verbal callbacks to tease the characters.
* [[All Take and No Give]]: Frank's very selfish as Columbia so blatantly points out.
▲* [[An Aesop]]: Deliberately left ambiguous as whether or not their {{spoiler|new-found sluttiness}} left them worse or better off.
* [[Anguished Declaration of Love]]: ''Damn it, Janet!''
* [[Anything That Moves]]: Frank
* [[Artificial Human]]: Rocky.
* [[Aside Glance]]: Often, and always intentional.
** When Frank says "How nice!" in the lab.
** And during "Sweet Transvestite
* [[Attention Whore]]: Frank. To the point where even ''accidentally'' stealing his spotlight causes him to {{spoiler|[[Berserk Button|go into a jealous rage (
* [[Audience Participation]]: The gold standard. The audience at a showing of ''Rocky Horror'' will have some sort of response (mostly yelled comments, sometimes actions to match) to virtually every line or action in the film; at this point the cult phenomenon of ''Rocky Horror'' is far more about the audience participation than the film itself. Most theaters will give you a bag of items to be used during the movie (most getting thrown).
** Inverted audience participation. Where the cast will make callbacks to the audience's callbacks. For example, there's a callback where people poke fun at Dr. Frank N. Furter standing at attention by depicting him as a [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]]. Rocky will be variously referred to as a Marine through the rest of the film.
** Furthermore, new callbacks are invented all the time. A Halloween 2010 viewing added [[Harry Potter (novel)|"Ten points from Gryffindor!"]] after Frank admonished Rocky that "That's no way to behave after your first day out!".
*** Likewise, after ''[[Fight Club (film)|Fight Club]]'', 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 film, it's customary to shout out "SHOW US" and the name of whatever celebrity has most recently died. [[Too Soon|Bonus points if it's someone people really liked
** For this reason, it's a good idea to watch the movie once by yourself before you go to a midnight
** On the other hand, in a venue where the film has been running for long enough to develop a crowd of regulars as well as a live cast of reenactors, the discipline of the audience can be astonishing. It truly does seem like an interactive experience.
* [[Ax Crazy]]: Frank.
* [[Bad Boss]]: Frank is sometimes shown yelling hysterically at his servants when they make mistakes (especially towards Riff Raff
* [[Bed Trick]]
* [[Berserk Button]]: Though slightly more subtle than most other examples, it is a very, ''very'', ''VERY'' bad idea to make Frank jealous. Just seeing Rocky with {{spoiler|Janet}} was enough to drive Frank into a blind fury and chase {{spoiler|Janet}} around the castle.
* [[Big Entrance]]: Dr. Frank
* [[Black Comedy Rape]]
* [[Non Sequitur Episode|BLAM Movie]]
* [[Blank Slate]]: Rocky.
* [[Bowdlerise]]: FUSE Network (the so-called [[Totally Radical|"Extreme Network"]]) edits out almost all instances of male-on-male innuendo. The ''[[Glee]]'' version also had some edits (even justified [[In-Universe]]
* [[Brainless Beauty]]: Rocky's only got half of a brain.
* [[Break the Cutie]]: Janet and Columbia both fit this trope. Brad may as well.
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* [[BSOD Song]]: Frank gets "I'm Going Home". Most of the floor show also seems to count.
* [[Cheshire Cat Grin]]: Considering that "Cheshire Cat" is one of [[Tim Curry]]'s nicknames, take a wild guess ''who'' uses this.
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl|Clingy Jealous Boy]]: Frank
* [[Closed Circle]]: Heroes driving, flat tire, flat spare tire, rain coming down, thundering, spooky castle, [[Mad Scientist]], critical phase of scientific breakthrough, heroes can't get away and then don't want to get away and then can't get away again, and everything goes horribly wrong. Yup, textbook case
* [[Cloudcuckooland]]: The castle.
* [[Commedia Dell'Arte]]: Although it's not a direct example of this genre, it uses stock Commedia dell'Arte characters.{{context}}
* [[Corrupt the Cutie]]: Janet. <ref>Slut!</ref>
* [[Covert Pervert]]: All of Columbia's nipple-slips were done intentionally by Nell Campbell.
* [[Creating Life]]: Duh.
* [[Creepy Monotone]]: Riff Raff, especially in
* [[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 as a bit of a parody of a [[Dance Sensation]].
* [[Dark Reprise]]: Of
* [[Dead Man's Chest]]
* [[Depraved Bisexual]]: Frank.
* [[Dissonant Serenity]]: Out of context, Frank's song
* [[Distracted by the Sexy]]: Brad, hilariously, early in the film.
{{quote|Brad: This is my fiancee.
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Brad: Janet Veiss.<ref>Slut!</ref>
Janet: Weiss.
Brad: *clears throat.* Weiss.<ref>Asshole!</ref>
* [[The Dog Bites Back]]: Magenta betrays Frank after realizing that he has no plans to go back to Transsexual anytime soon, while Riff Raff betrays him because {{spoiler|he was jealous of Frank for taking all the credit for making Rocky, even though ''he'' did most of the work
* [[Dumb Blonde]]: Rocky, thanks to only having half a brain.
* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]:
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* [[The Eleven O'Clock Number]]: [[Complete Monster|Frank]] [[Refuge in Audacity|sings about how well-meaning and misunderstood he is]].
* [[Escape From the Crazy Place]]: Good luck with that plan, Brad and Janet.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: This is ostensibly the reason Riff Raff and Magenta turn on Frank
* [[Even the Guys Want Him]] Frank and Rocky.
* [[Everyone Is Bi]]: Except for Riff, Dr. Scott
** Originally, while intoxicated, Richard O'Brien had come up with the idea that while Frank was out chasing down Rocky, Riff would get some action 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 [[Woman Scorned|furious]] when he remarks that Rocky didn't like him, although he seems fairly calm during the rest of the scene. One 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...
* [[Failure Hero]]: Brad and Janet. If the opening credits hadn't told you they were "a hero" and "a heroine," you'd never guess.▼
*** As well as the subtext from the original play (cut for the movie) that the process of creating and animating Rocky was almost entirely Riff Raff's work, and Frank was stealing both the credit for and the fruits of Riff's labor.
* [[Fan Girl]]: Columbia, for Frank, then for Eddie then for Frank again...I think.▼
▲* [[Failure Hero]]: Brad and Janet. If the opening credits hadn't told you they were "a hero" and "a heroine
▲* [[Fan Girl]]: Columbia, for Frank, then for Eddie then for Frank again... I think.
** "EDDIE!!!"
* [[Florence Nightingale Effect]]: Janet bandages Rocky's wounds with strips from her own slip. Afterward, they {{spoiler|do more than just kiss
* [[Gainax Ending]]: It's an understatement to say the film is weird from the start, but around the Floor Show, things go [[Up to Eleven|straight to Eleven]].
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Within ''moments'' of being brought to life, Rocky is already singing about how he suspects his story will end. {{spoiler|He's right
* [[Give My Regards in the Next World]]: Riff Raff's line:
{{quote|''Say good-bye to all of this.''<ref>'''Audience:''' Good-bye, all of this!</ref> ''And say hello... to oblivion.''<ref>'''Audience:''' Hello, Oblivion! How's the wife and kids?</ref>}}
* [[Glove Snap]]
* [[Hair of Gold]]: Rocky.
* [[The Hedonist]]: Guess who! Brad and Janet, after their {{spoiler|sexcapades}} with Dr. Frank
* [[Herr Doctor]]: Dr. Scott.
** "Go on, Dr. Scott. Or, should I say, [[The Von Trope Family|Dr. Von Scott!"]]
** Interestingly enough, Dr. Frank-N-Furter himself originally had a German accent in the early days of the stage show. For reasons unknown, the idea was quickly dropped.
* [[Historical In-Joke]]: Almost immediately after Goebbels surrendered to the Russian Army, the US and Soviet governments began smuggling Nazi scientists out of the country. Werner von Braun is one of the most famous examples. In exchange for a pardon, they would work for them now. It was called {{
* [[Human Aliens]]: Frank, Magenta, Riff Raff
* [["I Am" Song]]
* [[I Can Explain]]: Frank says this right before singing his final song. Too bad Riff Raff and Magenta aren't convinced of his story. {{spoiler|They shoot him anyway
** And "I'm Going Home" doesn't explain a damn thing.
* [[If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...]]: ''FRAAAANK-FURT-EEEEER!''. A rare use of this line by a man who is clearly ''not'' in any position to be making threats.
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** ''"HE'S STILL GOOD!"''
** His name is Robert Paulson!
** {{spoiler|You can't refreeze meatloaf, it just goes bad
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: The majority of the callbacks.
* [[Intermission]]: Being a musical, most productions of the stage show are two acts with a short intermission (see [[Book Ends]] above).
* [["It's Not Rape If You Enjoyed It"]]: Frank, sleeping with {{spoiler|Brad and Janet}}.
* [[Large Ham]]: Several, with a lot of [[Tim Curry|Curry]].
** "EDDIE!!!"
** There's also [[I'm a Humanitarian|Long Pig]], but that's another story...
* [[A Light in the Distance]]: [[Ear Worm|"There's a light.... over at the Frankenstein place."]]
* [[Long Runner]]: It entered the midnight circuit in 1976 and hasn't looked back since.
* [[Love Triangle]]: It's implied that one of these may have happened involving Frank, Eddie and Columbia.
* [[Lyrical Dissonance]]: "The Sword of Damocles" and "Eddie's Teddy" are pretty upbeat.
* [[Mad Love]]: Columbia is hopelessly devoted to Frank despite the fact that he considers her to be nothing more than his "groupie".
** Of course, this is later [[Subverted Trope]] when Columbia ({{spoiler|after witnessing Frank brutally murder Eddie, another man she loved deeply}}) realizes that Frank doesn't love her back at all and berates him for being such a heartless jerk.
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* [[Mad Scientist]]
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Frank's ''very'' good at convincing people to sleep with him...
* [[Modesty Bedsheet]]: {{spoiler|Janet and Rocky}} upon Frank
* [[The Musical]]: One of the more famous ones.
* [[Music, Dance Instructions Included]]: The Time Warp.
* [[Mysterious Middle Initial]]: The "N" in Frank
* [[Not So Different]]: [[Word of God|Richard O'Brien]] has stated that Riff Raff and Frank are ''very'' similar to one another. 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
* [[No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine]]: Let's just say who's coming to dinner is more than expected.
▲* [[Not So Different]]: [[Word of God|Richard O'Brien]] has stated that Riff Raff and Frank are ''very'' similar to one another. 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.
* [[Paid Harem]]
* [[Pietà Plagiarism]]/[[Touch of the Monster]]: Rocky and Frank
* [[Pinball Protagonist]]: The only thing of note that the protagonists do is get laid and survive the evening.
* [[Punny Name]]:
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* [[Puny Earthlings]]: Frank views himself as superior to the human protagonists.
* [[Pygmalion Plot]]: Frank and Rocky.
* [[Refuge in Audacity]].
* [[Rule 34]]: If you're surprised by this one, you ''really'' need to watch the movie.
* [[Say My Name]]: "Janet!" "Dr. Scott!" "Janet!" "Brad!" "Rocky!"
* [[Seemingly-Wholesome Fifties Girl]]: Janet, oh, poor Janet. Columbia may have been this before she met Frank and Eddie.
* [[Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains]]: Brad and Janet are dressed in reasonable attire when they first arrive, Brad in a coat, sweater and slacks, and Janet in a dress. On the other side of the spectrum, there's Frank N. Furter, who's best known for being in a corset, fishnets and heels.
* [[Shout-Out]]: To various Hammer Horror films as well as film companies and 1930s-50s sci-fi/horror efforts; in fact, the opening song "Science Fiction
* [[Slasher Smile]]: Again, Frank. Been nice knowing ya, {{spoiler|Eddie}}.
* [[Slouch of Villainy]]: Dr. Frank
* [[Smoking Hot Sex]]: {{spoiler|Brad}} and Frank.
* [[Sound-Only Death]]: We don't see what happens to {{spoiler|Eddie}}... but we sure do hear his screams and Frank's {{spoiler|pick-axe hacking him to pieces
* [[Stealth Pun]]: What's for dinner? {{spoiler|Meat Loaf}}, again.
* [[Stockholm Syndrome]]: Columbia and possibly Rocky, although Rocky especially might instead be [[Too Dumb to Live]]. Even after Frank discards her for Eddy and then Rocky, kills her boyfriend and {{spoiler|serves him for dinner}}, Columbia is still devoted to Frank. The final scenes reveal that Rocky cares deeply for Frank, even though ([[Bastard Boyfriend|or maybe because]]) he chains him up in their [[Rape Is Love|'bridal suite']] and {{spoiler|he has half of Eddy's brain}}.
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{{quote|'''Frank''': Go on, Dr. Scott. Or should I say... Doctor ''Von'' Scott!
'''Brad:''' What are you implying?<ref>THAT HE'S A NAZI, ASSHOLE!</ref>}}
** Oddly enough, in the original stage show, Frank himself had a stereotypical German accent (
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Brad and Janet make some ''really'' stupid mistakes throughout the film. There's a reason why their call-and-response names are "Asshole" and "Slut"...
* [[Too Funny to Be Evil]]: The source of Frank-N-Furter's [[Misaimed Fandom]].
* [[Twenty-Four-Hour Party People]]: How do those party guests know Frank, anyway? [[Fan Convention|They're unconventional
** He's a well-known scientist back on Transsexual, Transylvania. Plus, one of the scrapped sequels (''Revenge Of The Old Queen'') revealed that he's {{spoiler|the ''prince'' of Transsexual
* [[Up to Eleven]]: Riff declares Frank's lifestyle "too extreme", suggesting that he's a bit of a weirdo even by Transylvanian standards.
* [[Villainous Crossdresser]]: ''Guess
* [[Villainous Lament]]: Frank {{spoiler|right before Riff-Raff zaps him
* [[Villain Song]]: "Sweet Transvestite".
* [[Villains Want Mercy]]: Frank
* [[We Have Been Researching Phlebotinum for Years]]:
{{quote|'''Dr. Scott:''' This sonic transducer... it is, I suppose, some kind of audio-vibratory-physio-molecular transport device?]
'''Brad:''' You mean...?!<ref>A vibrator!</ref>
'''Dr. Scott:''' Yes, Brad, it's something we ourselves have been working on for quite some time. But it seems our friend here has found a means of perfecting it.<ref>A PERFECT vibrator!</ref> A device which is capable of breaking down solid matter and projecting it<ref>Through space?</ref> through space...<ref>And time?</ref> and who knows, perhaps even time<ref>Itself?</ref> itself!}}
* [[Word Salad Lyrics]]: The song "Science fiction
* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]: The Sweet Transvestite from the planet Transsexual in the galaxy Transylvania.<ref>In the state of New Jersey.</ref>
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