Episode 8: “LIFE IS AN ILLUSION”

Today we are discussing timestamps 00:48:04-00:56:13 which includes the most controversial segment of the movie so CONTENT TRIGGER WARNING. We are analyzing Brad and Janet’s bedroom scenes (which look identical and that aren’t all too different as far as text/context goes), and hey... Rocky has a pretty good idea of where the front door is located in the castle considering he’s been chained in the laboratory all this time!

Weird Fantasy No.13B with it’s issue contents. We weren’t kidding about the phallic imagery or the vaguely-veiled sexual innuendo in the content

“Well” *shrugs* 

A production of Rocky Horror Show in Vienna, Austria at Museumsquartier in 2009, showing how the musical returns from intermission and their interpretation of B&J quite ...enjoying... their visits from Frank

The movie that is literally the POWERPOINT PRESENTATION of movies with all these mechanical wipes but goossshhhh I adore it so much we are sneaking a peek through a door peephole

Look at allllll the various cloths Janet could use to cover whatever surveillance equipment Riff and Magenta are peering into her bed chamber

Hayley post holy water/bird bath bump (it always burns) @ Midnight Insanity at The Art Theatre in Long Beach

This TV monitor frame prop/set piece is currently in Richard O’Brien’s shed. I wonder if he put the frame on a 12in television/VCR and he watches old VHS tapes on it...

Brad wondering why he doesn’t get the rose-tinted treatment too

Janet’s bedroom scene from production at Colonial Theater in Phoenixville Pennsylvania in 2009

Hayley and Emilee (decked out in Frank’s best Brad) @ Midnight Insanity at The Art Theatre in Long Beach

Hayley saying she was saving herself, and Audrey knowing she ain’t spent quite yet @ Midnight Insanity at The Art Theatre in Long Beach

Brianna and Chris communicating telepathically @ KAOS at The Frida Cinema in Santa Ana. Read this article about why Rocky Horror is for LIFE and not just seasonally for Halloween!

Okay so just remember this frame of Magenta okay and also! Patricia is also so incredible in this film we are just chomping at the bit and can’t wait to talk about her AHH OKAY settle down Hayley 

Muscle twitch, muscle twitch! Also in the frame, we see the Rocky-making-juice dispenser as well as a beheaded figure of Discobulus in the background. Is Rocky unable to fulfill Frank’s sexual needs? Is that figure a previous creation attempt of Frank’s??

A “somber bridal suite” INDEED, this is the darkest and heaviest feeling room ever especially after spending any time in the bubble gum pink laboratory

I .....I just.... had to.... because Peter’s butt.... it’s like.... SO good.......

Xander PERFECTLY portraying poor Rocky getting a rude awakening from Chris, interrupting his post-coital nap! @ KAOS at The Frida Cinema in Santa Ana

RKO Con in 2016 performing Janet, Rocky and Brad’s bedroom scenes!

Prop MAN EXTRAORDINARE James as Rocky about to get HACKED by Cory as Riff Raff @ KAOS at The Frida Cinema in Santa Ana    

“Sorry, where’s the bathroom in this place????”

I will forever be calling this “elbow copulation” from now on, thanks Patricia and THROWBACK PHOTO to 2016 with Ky from Crazed Imaginations and Sammi @ KAOS at The Frida Cinema in Santa Ana

Hayley lamenting in true Janet drama @ Midnight Insanity at The Art Theatre in Long Beach

“What time is it?” Time to dim the lights if you’re going to try getting any kind of shut eye Brad, or if you want us to believe even SLIGHTLY this is the stunning Susan coming into the room

And here is Colonial Theater’s Brad bedroom scene too!

Cory and Beth about to get vverrrryyyyy frriiennndllyyy @ KAOS at The Frida Cinema in Santa Ana

THROWBACK PHOTO to 2014 and Midnight Insanity’s Transylvanian Take-Over Night! Throughout the night, various Transylvanian performers would “murder” the character they would assume for the remainder of the movie! Here we have Willow, CJ, and Brigette in their premiere performances as Brad, Frank and Riff!

“Alsatians” is spelled pretty similarly to “martians” and that’s enough for Katie and I to BUST OUT OUR TIN FOIL! lol

you know, this looks pretty similar to when Frank is having a similar deep freeze door meltdown...

“If only we had stayed and screwed in the backseat of Brad’s car!” My inner monologue every time in this scene @ Midnight Insanity at The Art Theatre in Long Beach

OKAY NOW remember that frame of Magenta I told you to remember??? WHY IS IT A MIRROR IMAGE TO THIS FRAME *inserts x-files theme*

Watch the deleted scene “Once in a While” here and read this blog from a former Brad on why this track is his favorite song of the musical

Ben Forster performing the track in the 2015 Rocky Horror Live production! 

Barry Bostwick singing his grand ballad with the Hoopla! Shadowcast at the Rochester Kodak Theater in 2018 (hey, Uncle Barry? Can you please come to KAOS and serenade us please? Pretty please with tighty whites on top??) 

Thank goodness this video exists so we can all swoon over not just Ryan McCartan’s voice but also just uh swoon over Ryan McCartan in general
(and we can also still continue to pretend the Fox remake doesn’t exist)

Katie heading over to the tank (where she’s certain there are Double Stuf Oreos) @ KAOS at The Frida Cinema in Santa Ana

John giving his Peter Hinwood best with a million-watt smile while Hayley considers her options @ Midnight Insanity at The Art Theatre in Long Beach

BAHAHAHAHA our good friend Walter as Rocky with Katie, both of them knowing they are up to NO GOOD @ KAOS at The Frida Cinema in Santa Ana