Episode 5: “HAH! I’VE SEEN IT! - ALL ABOUT COLUMBIA”

This episode, our minutes are 00:27:50-00:35:00, starting with Brad and Janet being undressed rather expediently by Riff Raff and Magenta, ending with our first looks at Frank-N-Furter's lab and what’s on the slab! We also can’t help but be groupies for the sparkliest human at the Transylvanian Convention Columbia in our profile of Little Nell! 

Nell at Diana Vreeland's 15th Annual Costume Exhibition, with her characteristic approach to a tasteful nip-slip!

Nell doing “the swim” (I wonder if she was inspired by doing the rock a la Tim Curry?)

Riff and Magenta with a choreographed unbelting of their guests. Brad and Janet buckling up for the WILDEST RIIIIDDEEE IN THE WILLLDDDERRNESSSSS!

Audrey is prepared to throw a bunch of clothes on the floor, if only we could get them off first! Hayley and John pulling out the aces with Robin and Willow

HAH! Brad needs help getting undressed! “It’s beyond me, HEEEEELLLPPP me, Magenta!” Here is the Anal Rententive Columbia costume list if you have dreams of recreating this iconic sequined bustier and acquiring the rest of Columbia’s wardrobe, for shadowcasting or Halloween purposes galore!

What is Janet (and what am I) thinking this tiny little purse is going to cover, HUH?

The shadowcast from Down Und’a,  Dynamic Tension in Melbourne in 2014 performing Frank’s iconic whisper monologue. He really gets how to make us *lean in*!

The original advertisement for Nell’s (back when phone numbers were only seven digits long). Notable guests included Andy Warhol and Dionne Warwick, ugh take us back!! To be in that nightclub!

The STUNNING Nell, typically famous for being neon colored, looking stunning in this black and white portrait

Nell on a HILARIOUS game show called Spicks and Specks from 2008! PUT HER ON MORE GAME SHOWS I want a Rocky Horror Family Feud episode guys!

A QUEEN of the nip-slip both in-character and out, Katie and I are absolute STANS over Nell’s body positivity and strive to be so comfortable in our own skins as Nell is in hers! 

A dark shot that, by stark contrast, forces the viewer to observe JUST how tighty and whitey those underclothes are. Also, Magenta and Columbia in the background are giving us totally creepy haunted house clown vibes and eeeeeee creepy!!

A view of Frank behind bars, and the view Rocky has when Frank is murdering the other half of his brain right in front of him! Ooh... have I said too much?

Well SHUCKS Frank is so charming naked AND clothed! Or, are we already endeared to him because we know what’s under the green apron? Emilee flirting with me RIGHT IN FRONT of Ricky’s face! I’m such a slut! @ Midnight Insanity at The Art Theatre in Long Beach, CA

This shadowcast has an AWESOME elevator prop on the left side! With a functioning top-down light for an appropriate elevator scene! I applaud!!!!

A closer look reveals who REALLY wishes to be conducting this presentation and who really wishes to be on a throuple date rn

The LEGENDARY Beth offering Elliot and I “horse brutality” @ KAOS at The Frida Cinema in Santa Ana, CA

Oh, don’t be ungrateful Ricky! Castles don’t have phones anyway, Asshole! 

Now here’s where it gets interesting! Notice right above Riff’s hump... a tiiiiinnnyyyy hint at why this specific castle doesn’t have a telephone... and why it might not be a castle at all! Also, apparently flour, sugar, eggs, and hypodermic needles are on the grocery list by the red arrow above. Those are excellent compliments to celery, so someone better go shopping before our meatloaf dinner! OOPS DID I SAY TOO MUCH

Nell being interviewed at the Rocky Horror Picture Show’s 40th birthday. Nell, you have never looked a day over 22!

Audrey, Hayley, Gina, Emilee, and Ricky, ready to begin the ceremonies at the strangest convention this side of Transylvania @ Midnight Insanity at The Art Theatre in Long Beach, CA

Here is real-life magician Hugh Cecil wearing his real-life monocle! I wonder what tricks he had up his glove while filming. Click here for the Anal Rententive Costume List if you are building your Transylvanian costume and need a place to start!

Arguably everyone’s favorite Transylvanian, the adorable Perry Bedden. Look at his EYEBROWS I want to pet them 😍 😍 😍

Oh Fran, we think of you all the time! We highly encourage y’all to look up Fran’s editorial photo collection, talk about body confidence in the 70s! She is the Ashley Graham of her time!

Peggy Ledger was also the woman who always cries at weddings at Ralph and Betty’s back in Denton! Her opinion of Frank and Rocky’s union seems to be that it’s “a lovely party” though!

Are we off base with this possibly being a reference to a snapped condom? We *are* talking about the creation of human life here people!!!!!!!!

Honestly this scene is so good, I HAD to put as many shadowcast renditions on the blog as I could find!! Here is Full Body Cast from Harvard Square in 2008!

Magenta and Columbia premonition’ing the great fashion accessory of 2020. Click here for a fun list of RHPS facts, like that Magenta and Columbia were originally supposed to be just one character! But also, can we just appreciate this shot for a minute, the framing is gorgeous, Mag’s and Col’s hands are perfectly placed, their eye contact and how they are amping up the announcement with how THEY lean in! Ok ok I’ll sit down now

Not sure who Nell is seducing here, but uh can we blame the guy, I would say we get seduced by Nell WEEKLY

Here is that geodesic dome with the fanciest juice dispenser since the Coca-Cola freestyle machines! Also, this is definitely not the real skylight/dome we saw atop Oakley Court, because they were filming in Bray Studios at this point!

I too would react like Janet if I saw a giant floating tampon in a tank after being asked up to a laboratory after fainting three times after having a bunch of strangers yell in my face and then strip me naked but DAMN that guitar riff right now is so effing cool!!!!! My face is melting