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Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: A mental mind fuck can be nice.
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The Criminologist - An Expert: I would like, if I may, to take you on a strange journey.
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Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: [singing] Whatever happened to Fay Wray / That delicate satin-draped frame / As it clung to her thigh / How I started to cry / 'Cause I wanted to be dressed just the same.
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Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: Give yourself over to absolute pleasure. Swim the warm waters of sins of the flesh - erotic nightmares beyond any measure, and sensual daydreams to treasure forever. Can't you just see it? Don't dream it, be it.
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[last lines]
The Criminologist - An Expert: And crawling on the planet's face, some insects called the human race. Lost in time, and lost in space... and meaning.
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Riff Raff - A Handyman: Hello.
Brad Majors - A Hero: Hi! My name is Brad Majors, and this is my fiancee, Janet Weiss. I wonder if you'd mind helping us. You see, our car broke down a few miles up the road. Do you have a phone we might use?
Riff Raff - A Handyman: You're wet.
Janet Weiss - A Heroine: Yes, it's raining.
Brad Majors - A Hero: Yes.
Riff Raff - A Handyman: Yes... I think perhaps you better both come inside.
Janet Weiss - A Heroine: You're too kind. Oh, Brad, I'm frightened. What kind of a place is this?
Brad Majors - A Hero: Oh, it's probably some kind of hunting lodge for rich weirdos.
Janet Weiss - A Heroine: Oh.
Riff Raff - A Handyman: This way.
Janet Weiss - A Heroine: Are you having a party?
Riff Raff - A Handyman: You've arrived on a rather special night. It's one of the master's affairs.
Janet Weiss - A Heroine: Oh, lucky him.
Magenta - A Domestic: You're lucky, he's lucky, I'm lucky, we're all lucky! Ha ha ha...
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Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: [singing] I'm just a sweet transvestite, from Transsexual Transylvania.
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Janet Weiss - A Heroine: What have you done to Brad?
Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: Nothing. Why, do you think I should?
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Riff Raff - A Handyman: [singing] Frank-n-Furter it's all over. Your mission is a failure, your lifestyle's too extreme. I'm your new commander. You are now my prisoner. We return to Transylvania. Prepare the transit beam.
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Brad Majors - A Hero: [singing] Dammit, Janet, I love you.
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Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: Do you think I made a mistake splitting his brain between the two of them?
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Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: Oh, I just love success!
Riff Raff - A Handyman: He's a credit to your genius, Master.
Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: Yes!
Magenta - A Domestic: A triumph of your will.
Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: Yes!
Columbia - A Groupie: He's okay!
Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: Okay? Okay? I think we can do better than that! Well, Brad and Janet, what do you think of him?
Janet Weiss - A Heroine: Well, I don't like men with too many muscles.
Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: I didn't make him for you! He carries the Charles Atlas seal of approval!
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Janet Weiss - A Heroine: [singing] Touch-a touch-a touch-a touch me / I wanna be dirty! Chill me, thrill me, fulfill me / Creature of the night!
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Eddie - Ex Delivery Boy: [singing] Hot patootie, bless my soul! I really love that rock n' roll!
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Eddie - Ex Delivery Boy: [singing] Whatever happened to Saturday night?
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Riff Raff - A Handyman: With a bit of a mind flip...
Magenta - A Domestic: You're into a time slip...
Riff Raff - A Handyman: And nothing can ever be the same.
Magenta - A Domestic: You're spaced out on sensation. HAH!
Riff Raff - A Handyman: Like you're under sedation!
All: Let's do the time warp again!
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Brad Majors - A Hero: [after Dr. Scott charges through the wall] Great Scott!
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Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: So come up to the lab and see what's on the slab. I see you shiver with antici... pation.
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Riff Raff - A Handyman: The master is not yet married, nor do I think he ever will be.
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Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: That's a rather tender subject. Another slice, anyone?
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Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: Enchanté. Well! How nice. And what charming underclothes you both have. But here. Put these on. They'll make you feel less... vulnerable. It's not often we receive visitors here, let alone offer them... hospitality.
Brad Majors - A Hero: Hospitality? All we wanted to do was to use your telephone, goddamnit, a reasonable request which you've chosen to ignore!
Janet Weiss - A Heroine: Brad, don't be ungrateful.
Brad Majors - A Hero: Ungrateful?
Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: How forceful you are, Brad. Such a perfect specimen of manhood. So... dominant.
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Riff Raff - A Handyman: It's astounding... Time is... fleeting. Madness... takes its toll. But listen closely...
Magenta - A Domestic: Not for very much longer!
Riff Raff - A Handyman: I've got to... keep... control.
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Columbia - A Groupie: [singing] I said hey listen to me. Stay sane inside insanity, but he locked the door and threw away the key.
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Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: How do you do? I see you've met my faithful handyman.
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Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: Don't dream it, be it.
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Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: One from the vaults... Don't be upset. It was a mercy killing. He had a certain naive charm, but no muscle.
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Columbia - A Groupie: Ha! I've seen it.
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Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: Give yourself over to absolute pleasure.
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Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: Because I've seen blue skies, through the tears in my eyes. And I realize, I'm going home.
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Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: It's not easy having a good time! Even smiling makes my face ache!
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Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: In just seven days, I can make you a man. Dig it if you can.
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Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: He'll do press-ups, and chin-ups. Do the snatch, clean and jerk. He thinks dynamic tension must be hard work. Such strenuous living I just don't understand. When in just seven days, oh baby, I can make you a man.
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Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: He'll eat nutritious, high protein and swallow raw eggs... Tried to build up his shoulders, his chest, arms and legs. Such an effort, if he only knew of my plan. In just seven days I can make you a man.
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Magenta - A Domestic: How sentimental.
Riff Raff - A Handyman: And also presumptuous of you. You see, when I said that 'we' were to return to Transylvania, I referred only to Magenta and myself. I'm sorry, however, if you found my words misleading, but you see, you are to remain here, in spirit, anyway.
Dr. Everett V. Scott - A Rival Scientist: Great heavens! That's a laser!
Riff Raff - A Handyman: Yes, Dr. Scott. A laser capable of emitting a beam of pure anti-matter.
Brad Majors - A Hero: You mean, you're going to kill him? What's his crime?
Dr. Everett V. Scott - A Rival Scientist: You saw what became of Eddie. Society must be protected.
Riff Raff - A Handyman: Exactly, Dr. Scott. And now, Frank N. Furter, your time has come. Say good-bye to all of this... and hello to oblivion.
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Dr. Everett V. Scott - A Rival Scientist: Janet!
Janet Weiss - A Heroine: Dr. Scott!
Brad Majors - A Hero: Janet!
Janet Weiss - A Heroine: Brad!
Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: Rocky!
[Rocky grunts]
Dr. Everett V. Scott - A Rival Scientist: Janet!
Janet Weiss - A Heroine: Dr. Scott!
Brad Majors - A Hero: Janet!
Janet Weiss - A Heroine: Brad!
Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: Rocky!
[Rocky grunts]
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Dr. Everett V. Scott - A Rival Scientist: This sonic transducer, it is I suppose some kind of audio-vibratory-physio-molecular transport device?
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Janet Weiss - A Heroine: You killed them!
Magenta - A Domestic: But I thought you liked them. They liked you.
Riff Raff - A Handyman: THEY DIDN'T LIKE ME! THEY NEVER LIKED ME!
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Richard M. Nixon: [On the car radio] I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. But as president, I must put the interests of America first. America needs a full time president, and a full time Congress...
[fades with dialog]
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Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: It was strange the way it happened. Suddenly... you get a break! All of the pieces seem to fit into place. What a sucker you've been, what a fool. The answer was there all the time. It took a small accident to make it happen. AN ACCIDENT! And that is how I discovered the secret. That elusive ingredient, that... spark that is the breath of life... yes I have that knowledge! I hold the key to life... ITSELF!
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Janet Weiss - A Heroine: If only we were amongst friends... or sane persons!
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Riff Raff - A Handyman: Master, Rocky has broken his chain and vanished. Your new playmate is loose and somewhere in the castle grounds. Magenta has just released the dogs.
Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: Hmmm? Coming.
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Columbia - A Groupie: You're very lucky to be invited up to Frank's laboratory. Some people would give their right arm for the privilege.
Brad Majors - A Hero: Some people like you, maybe?
Columbia - A Groupie: Ha! I've seen it.
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Columbia - A Groupie: My God! I can't stand any more of this! First you spurn me for Eddie, and then you throw him off like an old overcoat for Rocky! You chew people up and then you spit them out again... I loved you... do you hear me? I loved you! And what did it get me? Yeah, I'll tell you: a big nothing. You're like a sponge. You take, take, take, and drain others of their love and emotion. Yeah, well, I've had enough You're gonna choose between me and Rocky, so named after the rocks in his head!
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Columbia - A Groupie: Oh, slowly, slowly! It's too nice a job to rush.
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Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: Well, really, that's no way to behave on your first day out. But, uhm, since you're such an exceptional beauty, I'm prepared to forgive you.
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Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: A weakling, weighing 98 pounds, will get sand in his face when kicked to the ground. And soon in the gym, with a determined chin. The sweat from his pores as he works for his cause. Will make him glisten and gleam. And with massage and just a little bit of steeeeeam... He'll be pink and quite clean. He'll be a strong man... Oh honey, but the wrong man.
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Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: But a deltoid and a bicep. A hot groin and a tricep makes me... ooo... shake! Makes me wanna take Charles Atlas by the hand.
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Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: I don't want no dissension. Just dynamic tension.
Janet Weiss - A Heroine: I'm a muscle fan.
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Janet Weiss - A Heroine: Brad, please, let's get out of here.
Brad Majors - A Hero: For God's sake, keep a grip on it, Janet.
Janet Weiss - A Heroine: But it seems so unhealthy here.
Brad Majors - A Hero: It's just a party, Janet.
Janet Weiss - A Heroine: Well, I wanna go!
Brad Majors - A Hero: Well we can't go back to the car unless we get to a phone.
Janet Weiss - A Heroine: Well, ask the butler or someone!
Brad Majors - A Hero: Just a moment, Janet. We don't want to interfere with their celebration.
Janet Weiss - A Heroine: This isn't the Junior Chamber of Commerce, Brad!
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Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: Do you have any tattoos?
Brad Majors - A Hero: [offended] Certainly not!
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Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: I hope you're adaptable, Dr. Scott. I know Brad is.
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The Criminologist - An Expert: It's just a jump to the left.
All: And then a step to the right!
The Criminologist - An Expert: With your hands on your hips...
All: You bring your knees in tight! But it's the pelvic thrust / That really drives you insane / Let's do the time warp again!
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Janet Weiss - A Heroine: [singing] There's a light, over at the Frankenstein place.
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Magenta - A Domestic: Come along. The Master doesn't like to be kept waiting.
[pause]
Magenta - A Domestic: Shift it!
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Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: Oo, I know he has a certain naïve charm... but NO MUSCLE!
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Lips: [singing] Science fiction... double feature/Dr. X... will build a creature/See androids fighting... Brad and Janet... Anne Francis stars in..."Forbidden Planet"/Whoa-oh-oh-ohh/At the late-night double feature picture show
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Dr. Everett V. Scott - A Rival Scientist: We've got to get out of this trap! Before this... decadence... saps our wills. I've got to be strong, und try to... hang on! Or else, my mind may well *snap*! Und my life... will be lived...
[singing]
Dr. Everett V. Scott - A Rival Scientist: for ze *thrills*...
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Lips: [last lines; in song] Science fiction... double feature/Frank has built and... lost his creature/Darkness has conquered... Brad and Janet/The servants gone to... a distant planet/Whoa-oh-oh-ohh/At the late-night... double feature... picture show/I wanna go/Ah-ohh/To the late-night... double feature... picture show.
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Lips: [singing] I knew Leo G. Carroll / Was over a barrel when "Tarantula" took to the hills / And I really got hot / When I saw Janette Scott / Fight a triffid that spits poison and kills / Dana Andrews said prunes / Gave him the runes / And passing them used lots of skills / But when worlds collide / Said George Pal to his bride / I'm gonna give you some terrible thrills / Like a...
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Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: [punishing Riff Raff for letting Rocky get away] How did it happen? I understood you were to be watching!
Riff Raff - A Handyman: I was only away for a minute... master.
Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: Well... see if you can find him, on the MONITOR!
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Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: [singing] I'll tell you once, I won't tell you twice, you better wise up, Janet Weiss. Your apple pie don't taste too nice. You better wise up, Janet Weiss.
[Janet knees him in the balls and runs away]
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Janet Weiss - A Heroine: [whispering] Say something!
Brad Majors - A Hero: Say! Any of you guys know how to Madison?
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The Criminologist - An Expert: [reading from dictionary] "Emotion: Agitation or disturbance of mind; vehement or excited mental state." It is also a powerful and irrational master. And from what Magenta and Columbia eagerly viewed on their television monitor, there seemed little doubt that Janet was indeed... its slave.
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Dr. Everett V. Scott - A Rival Scientist: My vheels! My god, I can't move my vheels!
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Magenta - A Domestic: I'm lucky, he's lucky, we're all lucky!
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Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: Magenta. Columbia. Go and assist Riff Raff. I will entertain... err...
[chortles, extending hand to Brad]
Brad Majors - A Hero: Brad Majors.
[Shakes hands firmly]
Brad Majors - A Hero: This is my fiancee, Janet Vice.
Janet Weiss - A Heroine: Weiss!
Brad Majors - A Hero: Weiss.
[Clears throat]
Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: Enchanté.
[Janet giggles]
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Lips: [first lines; in song] Michael Rennie was ill The Day the Earth Stood Still / But he told us where we stand / And Flash Gordon was there in silver underwear / Claude Rains was The Invisible Man...
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Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: Oh, come on Brad, admit it, you liked it didn't you? There's no crime in giving yourself over to pleasure. Oh, Brad, you've wasted so much time already. Janet needn't know - I won't tell her!
Brad Majors - A Hero: Well, you promise you won't tell?
Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: On my mother's gra...
[voice trails off into gurgles as mouth becomes otherwise occupied!]
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Magenta - A Domestic: I grow weary of this world! When shall we return to Transylvania, huh?
Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: Magenta, I am indeed grateful to you and your brother Riff Raff. You have both served me well. You will discover that when the mood takes me... I can be quite generous.
Magenta - A Domestic: I ask for nothing, master.
Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: And you shall receive it. IN ABUNDANCE!
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Brad Majors - A Hero: I'm glad we caught you at home. Could we use your phone? We're both in a bit of a hurry. We'll just say where were are and go back to the car. We don't want to be any worry.
Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: [singing] Well, you got caught with a flat/well, how about that? Well babies, don't you panic. By the light of the night/it'll all seem all right. I'll get you a satanic mechanic! I'm just a sweet transvestite/from Transexual, Transylvania. Why don't you stay for the night? Or maybe a bite? I could show you my favorite obsession. I've been making a man/with blond hair and a tan. And he's good for relieving my tension. I'm just a sweet transvestite from Transexual, Trasylvania.
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Magenta - A Domestic, Columbia - A Groupie: Tell us about it, Janet!
[they laughing]
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Janet Weiss - A Heroine: You're a hotdog!
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Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: Treat the cause, not the symptom!
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Riff Raff - A Handyman: You'd better leave while it is still possible. Go. Now.
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[after Frank discovers Janet and Rocky's lovemaking]
Magenta - A Domestic: Master, dinner is prepared!
Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: Excellent. Under the circumstances, formal dress... is to be optional.
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The Criminologist - An Expert: And so, by some extraordinary coincidence, fate, it seemed, had decided that Brad and Janet should keep that appointment with their friend, Dr. Everett Scott. But it was to be in a situation which none of them would have possibly foreseen. And just a few hours after announcing their engagement, Brad and Janet had both tasted... forbidden fruit. This in itself was proof that their host was a man of little morals, and some persuasion. What further indignities were they to be subjected to? And what of the floor show that is spoken of? In an empty house? In the middle of the night? What diabolical plan had been shaped by Frank's crazed imagination? What indeed? From what had gone before, it was clear that this was to be no picnic.
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Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: sining, i told you once i wont tell you twice, you better wise up janet weiss.
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Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: [when Magenta and Columbia takes of his mummified head and gasps] Oh! Rocky!
[lets out a guttural grunt]
Riff Raff - A Handyman: [cackling hen turning the wheel]
Rocky Horror - A Creation: [singing] The sword of Damocles Is hanging over my head.
[then grunts]
Rocky Horror - A Creation: And I've got the feeling someone's gonna be cutting the THREAD!
Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: You IDIOT!
[kicks Riff Raff in his butt]
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Brad Majors - A Hero: I don't think there's any doubt about that. You and Betty have been almost inseparable since you met in Dr. Scott's refresher courses.
Ralph Hapschatt: Well to tell you the truth, Brad, that's the only reason I showed up in the first place.
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Brad Majors - A Hero: Oh, no, darling, there's no sense in both of us getting wet.
Janet Weiss - A Heroine: I'm coming with you! Besides darling, the owner of that phone might be a beautiful woman, and you might never come back again.
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Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: Throw open the switches on the sonic oscillator... and step the reactor power input three more points!
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Janet Weiss - A Heroine: Stop! I mean, help! Brad. Oh, Brad!
Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist: Shhh. Brad's probably asleep by now. Do you want him to see you like this?
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Riff Raff - A Handyman: Master, master... we have a visitor.
Brad Majors - A Hero: Hey, Scotty!... Dr. Everett Scott.
Riff Raff - A Handyman: You know this earthling... this person?
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Columbia - A Groupie: [after they medusa-ed Brad, Janet and Dr. Scott] My God! I can't stand any more of this! First you spurn me for Eddie, and then you throw him off like an old overcoat for Rocky! You chew people up and then you spit them out again! I loved you. Do you hear me? I loved you! And what did it get me? Yeah, I'll tell you: a big nothing. You're like a sponge. You take, take, take, and drain others of their love and emotion. Yeah, well, I've had enough! You're gonna choose between me and Rocky, so named 'cause of the rocks in his head!
The Rocky Horror Picture Show Quotes
Extended Reading
