Shock Treatment

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night only Dale and Chuck are gonna be reviewing the Rocky Horror Picture Show and It's sequel that I did not know about shock treatment.

That's right.

And we are both, are we both Rocky Horror virgins? I mean, as much as one can be a Rocky

We're going to find out how terrifying it actually is.

And if there's actually even really songs in it, who knows? Um,

Yeah, and its sequel, Shock Treatment from 1981, same director and everything.

We got to track that down

I think I'm going to say it doesn't exist because if we didn't have this movie, I don't know if we wouldn't.

I think it's influential in the sense of just being that kind of grittier grounded, even if it's coming off the heels of Rocky Horror 2.

I think you do get a generation of people that watch the second movie that see like, oh, this is more sexualized and this is more kind of loose and fun.

It's not as like, you know, shiny as the first one.

Then, then yeah, then you're going to have this, but I even guarantee those people only have it to have it.

It's not, um, Now I will, so how I wanted to close kind of with this is, well, two things is one, I wanted to direct people to a Grindbin episode that you were on about shock treatment.

Okay.

Which I

I understand.

No one will.

Of the two, the only reason why I would lean towards watching Shock Treatment is because it's not as...

It's not part of...

Dr. Humphries?

I read that he was in Rocky Horror as one of the Transylvanias, uh, Transylvanians, and also he was in Shock Treatment.

So he and Cliff must have been pals.

Must have been buddies.

I probably wasn't aware of Fran then, but I just remember thinking, like a lot of people who watch it, "This is a pretty unique film." And still it still is, I think because it's...

I know Shock Treatment's a sort of sequel, but it's such a one-off kind of movie, and it...

Some films try to be culty and they try to be a little bit kitsch and they try to be camp.

Rocky Horror's just what it is, and it just seems to have this longevity which a lot of films don't.

... at either side.

Uh, so Richard O'Brien also wrote and starred in Shock Treatment, which is gonna come up a lot on this episode because Shock Treatment s- started its life as it was supposed to be a Rocky Horror sequel, and then they couldn't get a lot of the key, uh, figures from Rocky Horror, and so it turned into kind of-

Oh

... a standalone.

But so Shock Treatment will recur throughout this episode.

Um, he's also a voice actor on Phineas and Ferb.

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Yeah, yeah.

I didn't know this until I started researching for this, and I couldn't find it anywhere, so I haven't seen it.

But, yeah, Shock Treatment.

Yeah.

What are your reflections and recollections on Shock Treatment? Shock Treatment's interesting

because we...

The Truman Show, we predated that kind of television where...