Well that was a crazy show. for me in a good way. Just want to address a few things before I get into the performances. First of all, this was the correct way to do a theme night. This show was either going to be really good or really bad. There wasn't going to be an inbetween. This was a tricky show to do correctly. Alot of the songs are well extremely dirty for broadcast television in 2010 so to get past them was going to be difficult. Also there's the Rocky Horror die hards who hate when ANYONE touch-a touch-a touch-a's their favorite show. The one thing that stood out is that it was entirely storyline driven and it also, for I think the first time, addresses guys having issues with their bodies and looks. Finally, even if you didn't like the songs or the show, there was ALOT of eye candy throughout the show for both guys and gals. This was not your typical family friendly Glee, but I think people forget, this is FOX.
Science Ficton, Double Feature
This song is credited on the album to Santana, but on the show it sounded alot like Quinn to me. No matter, this felt like a disclaimer to me. For parents who grew up with Rocky Horror, here's your sign to what we are doing tonight. The lips and all. I did love the credits though, very cool and it fit the evening. There was no hiding what was going on, just straight up, here's what's going on tonight, sit back and enjoy the ride. B
Rachel and Finn-There's A Light (Over at Frankenstein Place)
It's a shame they didn't show more of this song on the show, but damn what a setup for the night. They haven't an opening like this in a while where they cut right in the middle of the action and then Will sets up a flashback to catch us up. They did that ALOT in season one and I really liked that. It was also a good way to setup what Carl has to do with this episode at all. Right off the bat there are questions, we want answers, suddenly it's no longer about Rocky Horror, it's about the show, as it should be. B+
Finn and Rachel-Damnit Janet!
When I was listening to the soundtrack, this song had Finn and Rachel written all over it. I thought they NAILED it. Perfect singing and mannerisms and the background dancing and singing of Quinn, Kurt and Mercedes were also dead on. A
Carl-Hot Patootie (Bless My Soul)
I don't care what this song is called on the Glee youtube page and on EW's review, this is called Hot Patootie, look at the Rocky Horror soundtrack. Onto the song itself. Ladies and gentlemen, let's officially welcome John Stamos to the wonderful world of Glee. This performance kicked major ass. It was great to have him help out with the show by trying out for the role of Eddie and broke into the best rendition of this song I have ever heard. This blew Meatloaf's original out of the water. On a side note, as a Full House fan, it was awesome to see Stamos sing something that wasn't Elvis or the Beach Boys for the first time ever. A+
Mercedes-Sweet Transvestite
What can she not sing amazingly? It was a major risk to actually have a girl play Frankenfurter, it's never been done. This might have been a couple of reasons, #1 they needed to find a place for Amber to shine in the show, not just doing background vocals and #2 no guy can really do Tim Curry justice. So you have this version where Amber looked amazingly hot and she blew me away with her take on the song. It was different and something that would only happen on this show. A+
Emma-Touch-A, Touch-A, Touch-A Me
This was the song that most worried me. It's such a blantly dirty song. There were some clever and not so clever rewrites in the song, but they had to be done to make this song clean enough for the time slot. That aside, WOW. What a performance. First of all, why doesn't she sing more? She has an amazing voice. Second, and this is for my wife, Matthew Morrison shirtless in a tie I think made every girl watching this show want some action themselves. Also having Santana and Britney outside the window just added to the performance. Very well done. A
New Directions-Time Warp
You couldn't do a Rocky Horror episode without the show's biggest song. This was fantastic, dead on and a perfect ending to a crazy hour of television. A+
I will close this out with two hilight lines from last night's show:
“Halloween is fast approaching: The day when parents encourage little boys to dress like little girls and little girls to dress like whores.”-Sue
“I have no idea what’s going on in this script and it’s not in a cool, Inception-kind-of-way.”-Finn (for Mandy)
