The Rocky Horror Glee Show

"The Rocky Horror Glee Show"
Glee episode
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 5
Directed by	Adam Shankman
Story by	Ryan Murphy Tim Wollaston
Teleplay by	Ryan Murphy
Featured music	"Science Fiction/Double Feature" "Over at the Frankenstein Place" "Dammit Janet" "Hot Patootie" "Sweet Transvestite" "Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch Me" "Time Warp"
Production code	2ARC05
Original air date	October 26, 2010 (2010-10-26)
Guest appearance(s)
John Stamos as Dr. Carl Howell Meat Loaf Aday as Barry Jeffries Barry Bostwick as Tim Stanwick Iqbal Theba as Principal Figgins Harry Shum, Jr. as Mike Chang Chord Overstreet as Sam Evans Max Adler as Dave Karofsky James Earl as Azimio Bill A. Jones as Rod Remington Earlene Davis as Andrea Carmichael Lauren Potter as Becky Jackson
Episode chronology
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List of Glee episodes

"The Rocky Horror Glee Show" is the fifth episode of the second season of the American television series Glee, and the twenty-seventh episode overall. It was written by Ryan Murphy, from a story by Murphy and Tim Wollaston, directed by Adam Shankman, and premiered on Fox on October 26, 2010. The episode features the glee club paying tribute to the 1973 musical The Rocky Horror Show, with elements of its 1975 film adaptation The Rocky Horror Picture Show, by staging it as a school musical. While cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) attempts to sabotage the production, glee club director Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) dwells on his feelings for guidance counselor Emma Pillsbury (Jayma Mays), and club members Finn (Cory Monteith) and Sam (Chord Overstreet) deal with body image issues. Barry Bostwick and Meat Loaf who star in the original film appear in cameo roles in this episode.

Elements of Rocky Horror were sanitized for the episode, including the costumes and lyrics. Creator Richard O'Brien expressed disappointment in the dilution of the musical's themes, and a spokesperson for the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation criticized the episode for its use of the term "tranny". Watched by 11.76 million US viewers, "The Rocky Horror Glee Show" was the fifth consecutive episode of Glee to become the top-rated program on the night of broadcast in the 18–49 demographic. It received a mixed response from critics, was alternatively deemed the series' best ever themed-episode by Rolling Stone's Erica Futterman, and was described as the worst hour in the show's history by Todd VanDerWerff of The A.V. Club.

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