Episode 10: “UND I DID - ALL ABOUT DR. SCOTT”

We are discussing timestamps 01:03:34-01:09:48, so we are finding out who’s being served/who’s being eaten in this strange and bizarre dinner scene! Also, who in the HECK is Dr. Scott? What tf kind of coincidence is it that he arrives the same night of Brad and Janet’s seduction?? And HOW. DID HE. GET. THAT. NOTE? We profile Jonathan Adams, Denton’s premiere high school science teacher turned UFO enthusiast, and his song “Eddie’s Teddy” to see if we can determine the answers to any of these questions, or if Dr. Scott is doomed to be the most confusing character in the Rocky Horror universe. 

Let’s just crack this open SHALL WE 

Serious, foreboding Crim warning us that we are viewing /someone’s/ last meal at this dinner table

“Crazed imaginations” Crim realizing it will be /MANY/ of their last meal’s at this dinner table

Jovial, get-a-drink-with-Crim remembering how tasty Meatloaf is. Also... can anyone reason why Crim has framed portraits of Ronald Reagan and FDR on his desk?

Watch this Today Show segment that boils down the plot to “boy meets girl, boy loses girl to alien in corset and fishnet stockings, girl loses boy to alien in corset and fishnet stockings” and if that’s not accurate af I think we can stop now

Frank is more than pleased to force everyone to sleep in the beds they’ve made. Or unmade. Notice too the very strange flatware arrangement that is consistently inconsistent and is Word of God’d by Jim Sharman to be a major indicator the hosts of this party are ALIEN DUN DUN DUNNNNN

These doors may be Richard O’Brien’s favorite part of the entire production per his commentary track LOL

Do yourself a favor and IMMEDIATELY watch this video of Queen Patricia recounting her experience on the set filming dinner scene (gosh wow I love this woman)

It’s delicious, it’s nutritious, it’s STEAM

A silk-tie’d bust with a CANDLE atop it’s head in the background, as Magenta shows her level of interest in holding kitchen appliances is roughly the same as using feather dusters. So much for being a domestic!

THROWBACK KAOS PHOTO of Rachael carving into a hilarious meat prop (with slats premade for an easy sight gag) with prop master James as Rocky!

If you are near San Diego, I cannot more highly recommend the Museum of Man in Balboa Park. Watch this profile on the cannibal exhibit I mention on this week’s episode, where “corpse medicine” is examined, as is the once social acceptability of killing a member of one’s group for sustenance in order to survive

Brad, pouting, while Janet reconsiders apologizing ...aaaanndddd everything else about their relationship 

Lol Rocky has sex hair and tbh I think that’s really why Frank’s mad. “He didn’t mess up his hair for ME like that!”

Ricky, Edgar, Hayley, Emilee, Lillith, Audrey, and John rounding out the house and enjoying a dinner scene snack @ Midnight Insanity at The Art Theater in Long Beach, CA

A BREAD. A MUFFIN.

Little party hats sit on the back of their chairs... aaaannnddd Frank gives them zero preparation to properly participate in celebrating. He didn’t make him for them anyway! 

Mags already knows what was papaya’d for dinner, so she’s been in on the joke the whole time

Edgar, Ricky, Hayley, Willow WOAH WOAH double take! Audrey and Emilee switching spots, Amy, and John wondering which absent friends are we toasting to? Looks like the gang’s all here! @ Midnight Insanity at The Art Theater in Long Beach, CA

Oh, poor Columbia :( like literally she looks so small and timid like a little mouse this entire scene and I know it’s not just the Mickey ears!

Tim Bob, Katie, Sammi, Cory, Ray, Terry, and James trying to properly wish Rocky a happy birthday to shall we @ KAOS at The Frida Cinema in Santa Ana, CA

Magenta’s like “shut up bitch, he will eat ANYONE at this table”

Frank’s like “was it something I said?”

WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING TO??? Why does Dr. Scott break the fourth wall unless he knows there is a fourth wall to break???

And okay. If Rocky has half of Eddie’s brain, and is having THIS reaction, I’m guessing Eddie didn’t know Frank & Co. were aliens either

This hilarious shadowcast Full Body Cast from Boston in 2014 with some excellent callbacks as well!

Frank being like “ugh do I HAVE to do dinner scene”

Whistler’s Meatloaf? Meatloaf’s Mother Whistling? An Arrangement in Black and Meat? Idk all I know is it belongs in a MUSEUM

Magenta, casually getting turned on by this song about the meal she made 

OMG ICONS Beth as Janet and Diego as Frank with Tim Bob, Katie, and Mike in early KAOS days approx INSERT YEAR in this THROWBACK!

Why does Crim hate Eddie, huh? What did he ever do to him? What did Eddie do to anyone? It seems like as far as everyone present goes, he was a pretty good guy

You say cheap little punks and to that we say OY OY OY @ Midnight Insanity at The Art Theater in Long Beach, CA

If you know EXACTLY what Dr. Scott is doing here and would like to shadowcast/cosplay him, click here for Dr. Scott’s Anal Retentive Costume List (don’t forget, like, eight or nine pens in your breast pocket btw)(and then change how many throughout the night, kthxbye)

Here’s Ben Forster performing Eddie’s Teddy during the Rocky Horror Live Screening in London at the Playhouse Theatre in 2015!

ANOTHA THROWBACK KAOS with Cory, Sammi, Paco, Ray, and Katie 

Looking at all the stuff that IS Columbia’s scattered around this room, like the signed Heddy King photo here and her records and photos pinned to the walls...

...I’m starting to believe that this obviously permanent, giant wallpaper of Eddie (and other memorabilia) was Frank’s design... 

...since it appears Columbia is residing here on a much more temporary basis. Heck, they didn’t even give her a bed!

Pictured here: three chismosas with zero stake in the contents of the note demanding to be told the contents of the note

Watch this video from the Broadway revival of the Rocky Horror Show in 2001, with some well-timed lines that are excised from the film that lean more into Brad’s more than coincidental happening upon Frankenstein Place

FINALLY something gets Riff’s attention! He’s like “wait wait this is getting interesting now”, thriving on  all chaotic energy

OKAY. EXPLAIN THIS. TO ME. HOW. DID. DR. SCOTT. GET. THIS NOTE? Whheennnn???? Did he get this note? Did Eddie give it to him? But how long before he was put in the deep freeze? And what “evil deeds” is he implying? OR Did Rocky find it on his run outside of the castle to deliver it to Dr. Scott’s doorstep? DOES DR. SCOTT LIVE MERELY A SHORT WALK AWAY?

John, Ricky, Edgar and Hayley demanding to know “what’s it say? And is it possibly written in ketchup??” as Gina looks on @ Midnight Insanity at The Art Theater in Long Beach, CA

“Well, guess you didn’t plan for THAT, HUH?”

Chris, Ray, and Terry enjoying the musical number like any good Transylvanian would @ KAOS at The Frida Cinema in Santa Ana, CA

Composer Richard O’Brien enjoying Eddie’s Teddy so much, he can’t help snapping along, while it’s clearly /paining/ Frank to resist participating 

And this shall be known as the calm before the shit hits the fan

So what is this teddy bear? Where did it come from and was Dr. Scott concealing a weapon intentionally the entire time? 

For the last time, FRANK. HATES. CELERY

Insert brain melting guitar solo here timed perfectly for the exact moment the entire narrative of the movie goes absolutely BATSHIT and everyone everywhere goes “wait a second WHAT??”