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The Rocky Horror Flick Show: Let'due south Do the Time Warp Again is a 2016 made-for-Telly remake of The Rocky Horror Motion picture Show, which beginning aired October 20, 2016 on Pull a fast one on.

This new take on the 1975 cult picture show (which director Kenny Ortega considers as a tribute to the original rather than a standard remake) features Orange Is the New Black star Laverne Cox as Dr. Frank-N-Furter, Victoria Justice as Janet, Broadway alumnus Ben Vereen every bit Dr. Scott, Adam Lambert as Eddie, and Tim Curry (the original Frank-N-Furter) every bit the Criminologist.

This version stays very true to the original, even including elements from the stage musical (such equally the Usherette), just features a new concept in which the entire moving picture is shown at a picture palace to an In-Universe audition (full of Rocky Horror fans), who would occasionally yell out a few of the moving-picture show's iconic callbacks.

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The Rocky Horror Motion-picture show Show: Allow's Do the Time Warp Once more contains examples of:

• Abominable Auditorium: The Framing Device of fans walking into a Gothic mansion of a picture palace chosen the Castle ^annotation Casa Loma in real life. Merely given the fanbase, it's the kind of matter they'd like. The In-Universe movie is set in the same castle with the at present dilapidated Castle cinema sign still outside.
• Actor Allusion: Riff Raff's hair color may remind some people of Carlos from Descendants, some other Tv movie Kenny Ortega was involved with.
  • During the dinner scene earlier they eat Eddie, Columbia says, "I hope it's not meatloaf over again." as a reference to Meat Loaf playing Eddie in the kickoff film.
  • During Wild and Untamed Thing, the dancer in the long glaze standing next to Ben Vereen, adjusts his bowler hat and strikes a Bob Fosse-esque pose in reference and tribute to Vereen's starring Broadway turns in Pippin and Fosse.
• Adaptational Dye-Job: Several characters undergo this. Janet (as played by Victoria Justice) goes from blonde to brunette, Columbia sports pink hair instead of the traditional red, Riff Raff's hair is now gray instead of blonde, Magenta'southward hair goes from red to magenta, and Frank is at present a Peppery Redhead.
• Adaptational Gender Identity: Frank Northward. Furter, who'south ordinarily portrayed as a transvestite, is portrayed by trans actress Laverne Cox, and has his pronouns changed accordingly. Despite this, she still calls herself a "Sweet Transvestite" in her "I Am" Song.
• Adaptational Modesty: Rocky wears sheer boxer shorts for near of the movie rather than the speedo from the theatrical version. Columbia is fully clothed for her "Rose Tint My World" number.
• Accommodation-Induced Plot Hole: The law statements in Crim's volume are the aforementioned as the original movie, including mentioning Frank being male person.
• Ambiguous Gender Identity: Frank is at present a woman just still calls herself a "Sweet Transvestite" in the titular song.
• And You Were There:
  • Riff Raff and Columbia's actors, Reeve Carney and Annaleigh Ashford play a couple in the movie theatre at the start with Carney being the guy The Usherette makes takes his anxiety off of a seat.
  • Similar in the original, Laverne Cox, Reeve Carney, Christina Millian, Annaleigh Ashford, and the Transylvanian ensemble appear every bit extras during the "Dammit Janet" number. Information technology'southward made very clear towards the terminate of the motion picture that these groundwork characters are actually Frank and the others in disguise (in the original, information technology's but hinted at).
• Artistic License – Geography: Brad proposes to Janet on Mary Shelley's grave outside Denton church. In reality she was buried in Bournemouth, England.
• Ascended Meme: We see some of the Audition Participation that fans shout at the first movie and Columbia saying "I hope it's not meatloaf again." is also based on what fans shout during the dinner scene.
• Audience Participation: In the most epic expansion of the original moving-picture show's version, the Framing Device is a cinema which is showing the remake of Rocky Horror Film Show, complete with the audience using most of the cues that tin can nonetheless apply to the remake.

• Bookcase Passage: When Riff Raff leads Brad and Janet up to the ballroom, he takes them through a secret passage that emerges from a fireplace.
  • Rocky's gym equipment is hidden in a secret room behind some shelves.
• Bowdlerise: Since this was a prime-time TV-fourteen-rated production, a lot of things are gentled downward (Eddie's death, and the presentation of his corpse; the contents of the ashtrays in the Zen Room; the Medusa device freezing its victims in identify instead of turning them into nude statues). The costumes are somewhat less revealing, and the ready design a fleck less... phallic. Amusingly, the post-coital cigarette shared betwixt Brad and Frank is removed completely, likely due to No Smoking as a result of being scheduled before the Watershed.
  • To be off-white, the "Medusa device freezing its victims in place" part may have been a reference to the original play....that and/or the obvious budget issues.
• By the Hair: Frank pulls Brad by the hair to stop him reaching his glasses when she surprises him in bed.
• The Cameo: President of The Rocky Horror Picture Show Fan Gild, Sal Piro plays the wedding lensman at the start. Likely to brand upward for his blink or you'll miss information technology cameo in Shock Treatment.
• Colorblind Casting: Dr. Scott and Eddie are related merely played by actors of dissimilar races, same goes for siblings Magenta and Riff Raff.
• Cue Bill of fare: Riff Raff reads from cue cards that Magenta holds during the scene where he addresses to Dr. Frank N Furter that Rocky has escaped.
• Decomposite Graphic symbol:
  • Due to Tim Curry'due south poor health, The Criminologist has an banana played by Jayne Eastwood who does all his trip the light fantastic toe moves for him.
  • In the stage play a faux cinema worker chosen The Usherette sings "Science Fiction Double Feature". In the original movie she'due south replaced by a pair of lips on a black background. Hither The Usherette sings information technology at the outset but the Night Reprise is sung at the end by two pairs of lips (The Usherette's and Frank's).
• Foreshadowing: Earlier the car breaks downwardly, the radio mentions that UFOs have recently been sighted.
• Framing Device: Starts and ends with The Usherette in a cinema, watching the moving picture.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: You can pause and read Brad, Janet and Scott's police statements. The writing's as bit blurry only it's easier to read than in the original movie.
• The "Fun" in "Funeral": Brad sings Dammit Janet while a funeral procession is going by in the background.
• Gender Flip: The graphic symbol Frank is now referred to with female person pronouns and played past Laverne Cox.
• Gold Makes Everything Shiny: The costumes for "Rose Tint My World", also as a dusting of aureate makeup on the actors in that number.
• Good Colours, Evil Colours: According to a behind the scenes look run during the commercial break only humans wearable blue, the costume designer even referred to the colour of Janet's wearing apparel as "victim bluish", Transylvanians are more likely to wear cherry colors. Columbia wears multi-color hair and clothes with both.
• Grave Humour: During Dammit Janet, Brad and Janet lean against Frankenstein creator, Mary Shelley'southward gravestone. ^notation Not the real one.
• Greek Chorus: As well as The Criminologist, the flick has The Usherette and a faux-shadowcast Studio Audience.
• Guy-on-Guy Is Hot: Brad and Rocky, and then Brad, Janet, and Rocky, in the puddle scene.
• Handshake Substitute: Brad and Ralph practise a fist bump at the wedding.
• Hibernate Your Lesbians: Averted thanks to the gender-flipped Frank N Furter, as in the original Columbia/Magenta is only teased or hinted at but Frank/Janet and Frank/Columbia are explicit.
• Lightning Tin can Practice Anything: Information technology strikes Rocky and brings him to life.
• Logo Joke: Similar in the first movie, nosotros hear the 20th Century Fox music played on a piano instead of an orchestra simply we encounter this in the picture palace on the screen rather than it being the first thing we see.
  • They didn't bother with a Fox logo or an RKO tower during the floor bear witness and instead had a mock Empire State Edifice and had Frank lying in a replica of King Kong (2005)'s hand.
• Lohengrin and Mendelssohn: Toward the end of "I'yard Gonna Make You a Man, Role II", the pianist plays Felix Mendelssohn'due south "Act Five Prelude" of A Midsummer Dark's Dream as a wedding recessional while Frank and Rocky walk together hand-in-hand as "bride and groom" while flower petals shower on them.
• Magical Security Cam: The Criminologist has photographs of scenes nosotros saw before in Frank's castle.
• Marshmallow Hell: Frank does it to Janet in her bedchamber.
• Mic Drop: Frank does this subsequently announcing that "Eddie has left the castle" subsequently killing him.
• Monochrome to Color: When Dewdrop starts singing "Once In A While", it starts with his face on a black and white monitor but zooms in and fades to colour.
• Mythology Gag: Numerous. Not surprisingly, Tim Curry gets the first 1 in the bear witness - a subtle throwing up of ii fingers when the audience at home is surely cheering. At ane bespeak during "Science Fiction Double Feature", we get a brief shut upwards of the Usherette's lips as she sings, a nod to the famous red lips that opened the 1975 film. The lips, now framed in black, sing the reprise of said song during the closing credits.
  • Also, we take this line during the dinner scene:
  • Rocky beingness born in a soda fridge is a nod to the original stage bear witness, in particular where Frank kept Eddie later on he took function of his brain to use on Rocky (with some productions also using the height of said fridge as the slab Rocky is laying on when he is created).
  • Combined with Brick Joke: During "Planet, Schmanet, Janet", while Frank chastises Janet, she crawls to some telephone booths... with actual telephones! This may pb the audition to wonder, "Wait, I thought castles didn't accept telephones!"
  • The in-universe screening of Rocky Horror starts with the logo from the original film, complete with the distinctive piano-based version of the 20th Century Fox fanfare.
  • The fanfare that plays before the "Don't Dream It, Be Information technology" portion of the Flooring Testify is the exact same fanfare from the original moving picture.
• Non Even Bothering with the Emphasis: Ben Vereen as Dr. Scott.
  • Though this might be deliberate every bit Richard O'Brien prefers Dr. Scott to speak in an American accent because he'southward pretending to be American. Information technology was Jim Sharman who insisted that he have a german language accent in the kickoff film.
• Plot-Sensitive Button: Without any apparent fine tuning or calibration, the Medusa Transducer tin freeze and unfreeze whoever Frank wants, only past pulling the lever. Rocky, especially, gets frozen within pretty much no time to calibrate the auto.
• Race Lift: The new Frank, Dr. Scott, and Magenta are black; Rocky is played by Russian-Indian role player Staz Nair. At that place are also rather more not-white actors playing the Transylvanians.
• Raised Lighter Tribute: The audience exercise this during the chorus of Over At The Frankenstein Place.
• Remake Cameo: The Criminologist is none other than Tim Curry himself!
• Screaming Adult female: The Criminologist's assistant unleashes a long scream after she hears a clap of thunder. Columbia and Janet as well take their moments.
• Shot-for-Shot Remake: Information technology's pretty similar to the first movie autonomously from the lips singing Science Fiction Double Feature being replaced with the Usherette from the original play.
• Show Within a Evidence: The whole affair is existence watched by an audition in a cinema.
• Sistine Steal;
  • The stained glass window in Rocky'southward weight room shows the two hands about to touch fingers with a lightning bolt between them.
  • When Frank and Rocky are killed, their bodies are positioned to resemble Michelangelo'southward famous painting, "The Creation of Adam" (with Rocky in Adam's position and Frank in God'southward).
• Sliding Scale of Fourth Wall Hardness: Goes a degree softer than the original motion picture by having a in-universe audition who are as well watching the movie, consummate with the usher graphic symbol from the play who looks directly at the photographic camera while singing.
• Stock Audio Effect: Believe information technology or non, the "Chimes" audio outcome found on iPhones is used every bit the church bells, and some people have actually called the film out for using this.
• Studio Audition: It occasionally cuts to people in a cinema shouting abuse at the screen only like the fans in real life.
• Taxidermy Terror: Some stuffed animals in the archway hall on the way in, most notably a huge acquit.
• Telefrag: When Riff Raff and Magenta axle off to the Planet Transsexual in the Galaxy of Trasylvania, they demolish one of the castle'southward towers on the manner out.
• Teleportation: Riff Raff and Magenta turn into energy and beam off into the sky (demolishing i of the towers in the process) a few minutes before the castle beams off to the planet Transexual.
• Truer to the Text: "Science Fiction Double Feature" being sung past an usherette happens in the original play. The first movie uses a pair of lips due to Richard O'Brien and Patricia Quinn arguing over who would sing it.
• Visual Pun: When a preview of the new "Dammit, Janet" sequence (which is mostly set up in a cemetery) was put on the Cyberspace, fans couldn't resist to pointing out in comments sections that Brad and Janet are literally dancing on graves.
  • When Brad talks about "pulling our aces" when he and Janet are getting undressed, a few ace cards are seen when his pants get pulled down.
• The Voiceless: The Criminologist's assistant never talks.

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