Hank's time in a Rocky Horror Picture Show cast
story · status: told 3× · last event: retold (2020-07-24)
Hank used to be in a Rocky Horror Picture Show cast, a culture he needed before YouTube existed; in 2020 he showed a photo and revealed that he played Rocky.
Parts: Hank asks viewers to guess which role he played in his Rocky Horror cast (2010)
About: The Rocky Horror Picture Show
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-10-25 | told | Hank shows ticket stubs from seeing The Rocky Horror Picture Show many times and says he really did win his high school's best dancer award. (playful) | October 25th: Down Memory Lane 00:02:29 |
| 2010-10-25 | told | Hank says he used to be in a Rocky Horror cast, a culture he was part of and needed because YouTube didn't exist yet. | Rocky Horror + Glee = ? 00:00:29 |
| 2020-07-24 | retold | Asked who he played in his Rocky Horror shows, Hank shows a photo and reveals he played Rocky. | Could I Spare some Change for Gas? 00:01:59 |
What is said about it
12 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2010-10-25 · Rocky Horror + Glee = ? — Hank says he loves Rocky Horror but is very ambivalent about Glee doing Rocky Horror, and that it isn't doing it for him or for a lot of people. — 00:00:00
- 2010-10-25 · Rocky Horror + Glee = ? — Hank likes that Rocky Horror will at least reach a new generation, and that Glee's Artie finally gets something non-awkward to do, since Rocky Horror has a wheelchair user. — 00:00:00
- 2010-10-25 · Rocky Horror + Glee = ? — Hank says the audience became part of the movie for him: he can no longer hear the actual song lines, only the audience callbacks. — video description
- 2010-10-25 · Rocky Horror + Glee = ? — recommendation: Hank urges viewers over 18 to find a Rocky Horror showing in their area: it may be awkward or confusing, but it will be an experience. — video description
- 2010-10-25 · Rocky Horror + Glee = ? — Hank says he used to be in a Rocky Horror cast and really loves the show. — 00:00:29
- 2010-10-25 · Rocky Horror + Glee = ? — Hank admits the Rocky Horror Picture Show is objectively a very bad movie: terrible sets and dialogue, and most of its songs aren't very good, citing a mustard lyric. — 00:00:29
- 2010-10-25 · Rocky Horror + Glee = ? — Hank says Rocky Horror has had the longest theatrical release of any movie, so this terrible movie is in one respect the most successful movie of all time. — 00:00:58
- 2010-10-25 · Rocky Horror + Glee = ? — Hank says Rocky Horror's success can't rest on its good points (absurdity, an amazing Tim Curry); it is a big deal because of the people who watch it. — 00:01:30
- 2010-10-25 · Rocky Horror + Glee = ? — Hank says at midnight screenings the wall between audience and movie fell to user-generated content: props thrown at the screen, lines replaced with funnier, more vulgar ones, spreading virally. — 00:01:59
- 2010-10-25 · Rocky Horror + Glee = ? — Hank says Rocky Horror's cult rise embodies things credited to the internet, two-way content and creating on others' work, a desire strong enough to find outlets decades before the internet. (hedged) — 00:01:59
- 2010-10-25 · Rocky Horror + Glee = ? — Hank says now, especially on YouTube, that experience seems normal, so it is hard to see Rocky Horror for what it is: the seed of a cultural revolution. — 00:02:28
- 2010-10-25 · Rocky Horror + Glee = ? — Hank says the Rocky Horror culture was something he was once part of and once needed, because YouTube didn't exist yet. — 00:03:26