<p>Youdon’tsay–we are bad parents. We’d put on the VHS showing every Halloween when the kids got back from trick or treating (not when they were really young). Luckily, it, at least then, was fairly censored.</p>
<p>I only went to midnight showings at different places a few times. The last one, at a rundown theater in Asbury Park, the management made an announcement at the beginning to “please not throw so much stuff, bottles and things, this week, as several people got hurt last week.” I carefully marked where the exits were for that one.</p>
<p>OK - just one more mention before we have to start a new thread, the list of prop MUSTs for any Rocky Horror showing:</p>
<p>Rice or confetti, to be thrown during the two wedding scenes
Water pistols, to simulate the rain of the storm.<br>
Toast, thrown during the dinner scene.<br>
Rubber gloves, to be snapped in time with frank ‘n’ furter during the creation scene.<br>
Flashlight, used during the song ‘there’s a light’.<br>
Newspaper, worn over the head during the rain scene.<br>
Playing cards, thrown during the line ‘cards for sorrow, cards for pain’ </p>
<p>For a short time, we brought hot dogs (“You’re a hot dog, but you’d better not try to hurt her, Frank Furter…”), but that was outlawed quickly here in mega-cockroach country. I paid to see Rocky Horror 32 times in the early 80’s, I own it on VHS (paid a ton of $ for that because VHS had just come out), and DVD, AND the soundtrack on CD! How I love that movie.</p>
<p>My 16yo was laughing at how I knew every word of every song, but I made him go to bed before the various bed scenes.</p>
<p>This morning, I told him I don’t know what my parents were doing letting their freshman dd stay out until 2 a.m. with senior boys watching a movie with so much sexual innuendo. Of course, they had no idea I was often wasted, but c’mom, what else would we be doing besides drinking? And it was funny to watch it through the critical adult eye – just because he was transexual didn’t mean he had to be bisexual! :D</p>
<p>As my mom always said, “Nothing good happens after midnight.”</p>
<p>I am pretty lax with the curfew, at least with Son. I admit that my biggest fear with him being out late is drunk drivers traveling at insane speeds.</p>
<p>The shows were fun when a few people first starting bringing props and acting out the scenes. Quickly it got out of hand when everyone in the theater was in on it and you couldn’t really see or hear anyone. </p>
<p>I saw the show several times in an old theater in Richmond and someone actually drove a motorcycle down the aisle and back when Meatloaf made his appearance.</p>
<p>Yeah, it quit being fun when it got TOO rowdy.</p>
<p>Last night, I was trying to tell ds that he really did know Tim Curry and so went on imdb to find other credits. I didn’t realize that when I was obsessed with RHPS in the fall of '76 that it was a pretty new movie. Funny that the only credit I could find for Tim Curry that ds could relate to was Home Alone 2!</p>