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Shock Treatment

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Shock Treatment	comment	Shock Treatment is a 1981 musical comedy film from the creators of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, starring Cliff DeYoung, Jessica Harper, Patricia Quinn, Richard O'Brien, Charles Gray, Nell Campbell, Ruby Wax, and Barry Humphries. Although Brad and Janet are once again major characters (albeit played by different actors), it isn't a direct sequel and few characters aside from them return.Denton ("The Home of Happiness")note Now in Texas instead of Ohio, the town that the now-married Brad and Janet Majors (DeYoung and Harper) call home, isn't what it used to be. It's now dominated by DTV, a TV station run by fast food mogul Farley Flavors (also DeYoung), and most of its residents serve as a permanent audience for its programming. Indeed, the entire film unfolds within the giant studio. Brad and Janet have lost the passion in their marriage, and when they're chosen to be part of Marriage Maze by kooky host Bert Schnick (Humphries), it doesn't take much convincing for Janet to allow her "emotional cripple" husband to be committed to the asylum/Soap Opera Dentonvale to see if he can't be cured by Doctors (and siblings) Cosmo and Nation McKinley (O'Brien and Quinn), alongside their staff - Nurse Ansalong (Campbell) and Rest Home Ricky (Rik Mayall).Unbeknownst to Brad or Janet, Farley is manipulating these events from behind the scenes - he is interested in molding Janet into his newest star for his new show Faith Factory, and she's easily enticed into forgetting about Brad. The only people who see through the smoke and mirrors of Farley and his crew are Betty Hapschatt (Wax) - freshly divorced from Ralph (Jeremy Newson) after his affair with the vivacious Macy Struthers (Wendy Raebeck) - and her Denton Dossier co-star Judge Oliver Wright (Gray) after the two are taken off the air, and they set out to find out the truth behind DTV and reunite the couple before it's too late...It was both critically and commercially unsuccessful, and the filmmakers were disappointed with how it turned out. It was originally conceived as a direct sequel (Rocky Horror Shows His Heels, which would have involved Dr. Frank-N-Furter being restored to life among other things), but for many, many reasons ranging from Tim Curry not wanting to play Frank again to the 1980 Screen Actors Guild strike, it was gradually transformed into a media spoof that is far removed from the kinky farce of the original. Within the Rocky Horror fanbase, it generates mixed reactions, with many RHPS devotees preferring to not acknowledge it; however, it does have its own fan club, the presidents of which provided an audio commentary on the 2006 DVD release.Not to be confused with the 1964 neo-Noir film of the same title. nor with the 1973 horror-thriller movie from France, Shock Treatment.
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Shock Treatment / int_10a9cdee	type	Once Upon a Time
Shock Treatment / int_10a9cdee	comment	Once Upon a Time: Kicks off the Opening Narration.
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Shock Treatment / int_1257a2d1	type	15 Minutes of Fame
Shock Treatment / int_1257a2d1	comment	15 Minutes of Fame: Janet's lasts from her debut on Good Morning Denton during "Me of Me" until she rejects Farley on the premiere of Faith Factory.
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Shock Treatment / int_12b796e	type	Phoney Call
Shock Treatment / int_12b796e	comment	Phoney Call: Judge Oliver and Betty stand at adjacent pay phones to cover up the fact that they're actually talking to each other while listening in on a conversation between some nearby bad guys.
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Shock Treatment / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Shock Treatment / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Farley Flavors' logo features five F's (standing for Farley, Flavors, Fabulous, Fast and Foods) arranged in a circle, all joined at the tail. It was designed to be reminiscent of a swastika. The song "Breaking Out" plays over scenes of Brad escaping from the asylum. But listen to the words, and it seems to be about another kind of coming out entirely... (This is not surprising, given that it was written when the project was a more direct sequel to Rocky Horror).
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Shock Treatment / int_177a6464	type	Genre Shift
Shock Treatment / int_177a6464	comment	Genre Shift: Doesn't have any of the science fiction or horror elements that its predecessor has. It's more of a straightforward musical comedy with heavy elements of satire.
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Shock Treatment / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Shock Treatment / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Sal Piro, president of the Rocky Horror fan club, appears talking on the phone during the overture.
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Shock Treatment / int_222969af	type	All There in the Script
Shock Treatment / int_222969af	comment	All There in the Script: The shooting script reveals Kirk's last name is "Idle", and that the hippie woman visible in audience closeups during "Breaking Out" and in the Dentonvale office alongside the villains during "Anyhow, Anyhow" is the mother of Oscar and Brenda Drill.
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Shock Treatment / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Shock Treatment / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Janet is too overwhelmed with Brad's commitment to sign his papers immediately, and Nurse Ansalong further advises her to wait because the first night of services will be free if she does. Janet is able to stop the studio from taking Brad back into custody when he's broken out because she remembers she never signed his papers.
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Shock Treatment / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Shock Treatment / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: "Denton, U.S.A." during "Anyhow, Anyhow", showcasing that while the protagonists have escaped, they haven't stopped anything.
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Shock Treatment / int_2482df9c	type	Companion Cube
Shock Treatment / int_2482df9c	comment	Companion Cube: "Bitchin' in the Kitchen" is a song where Brad and Janet ask inanimate household objects being advertised for marriage advice.
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Shock Treatment / int_26b2747	type	Alliterative Title
Shock Treatment / int_26b2747	comment	Alliterative Title: "Duel Duet".
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Shock Treatment / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Shock Treatment / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: Keep a close eye on the audience when Janet makes her big DTV debut ("Me of Me"), and see Bert, the McKinleys, Officer Parker and Kirk all getting really into her act over by Kirk's Korner, while Neely and her camera crew do the same from the giant "DENTON" letters. More of a Funny Foreground Event, Bert just sitting on his bed somehow becomes more absurd throughout the entirety of "Lullaby" as the camera keeps panning over to him still sitting there even as the lights go out. This may be more of an attempt to hold onto Bert's apparent blindness. If you watch the DTV audience during "Breaking Out", you can spot Neely and Officer Parker dancing to the music.
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Shock Treatment / int_26f68115	type	Art Imitates Art
Shock Treatment / int_26f68115	comment	Art Imitates Art: The Brad and Janet Show script showed various families watching TV during "Denton, U.S.A." in the style of Norman Rockwell paintings.
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Shock Treatment / int_28114487	type	Bald of Evil
Shock Treatment / int_28114487	comment	Bald of Evil: Cosmo has no hair and is one of Farley's main minions involved in turning Janet into a star and keeping Brad drugged and complacent.
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Shock Treatment / int_282579b2	type	City in a Bottle
Shock Treatment / int_282579b2	comment	City in a Bottle: The entirety of Denton seems to be inside a TV studio.
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Shock Treatment / int_2924b198	type	Quarreling Song
Shock Treatment / int_2924b198	comment	Quarreling Song: "Duel Duet", where Brad and Farley sing insults and suicide dares back and forth at each other.
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Shock Treatment / int_2b7d29e1	type	Artifact Title
Shock Treatment / int_2b7d29e1	comment	Artifact Title: The title harks back to the Rocky Horror Shows His Heels script where electroshocks are used to clear mold off a resurrected Dr. Frank-N-Furter. Although the Title Theme Tune is still there, the movie doesn't feature any kind of electroshock treatment. It also references a scene in The Brad and Janet Show script where Dr. Scott is administered shock treatments to "cure" his paralyzed legs.
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Shock Treatment / int_2e8441c9	type	The Bad Guy Wins
Shock Treatment / int_2e8441c9	comment	The Bad Guy Wins: Although Farley doesn't get Janet, nobody stops him from brainwashing the town and locking them all in a mental institution!
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Shock Treatment / int_2f62653b	type	Borrowed Catchphrase
Shock Treatment / int_2f62653b	comment	Borrowed Catchphrase: Nation uses Bert's "Hoopla!" when she catches him peeping on Janet in the shower. Janet also uses Bert's "Hoopla!" during her makeover in "Little Black Dress".
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Shock Treatment / int_315a122	type	Hospital Hottie
Shock Treatment / int_315a122	comment	Nurse Ansalong is a Hospital Hottie already but a lot of the other characters dress in these during "Look What I Did to My Id".
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Shock Treatment / int_32c930e8	type	Eccentric Townsfolk
Shock Treatment / int_32c930e8	comment	Eccentric Townsfolk: It seems that if you live in Denton, you either work for DTV or permanently live in the audience stand. By the end of the film, the entire population besides the main characters are singing happily in a mental home while wearing straitjackets.
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Shock Treatment / int_347f24ca	type	Birdcaged
Shock Treatment / int_347f24ca	comment	Birdcaged: When imprisoned in Dentonvale, Brad is left inside a cell resembling a bird cage, all while gagged, restrained by a straitjacket, and left in a wheelchair.
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Shock Treatment / int_34e1ef45	type	Unnamed Parent
Shock Treatment / int_34e1ef45	comment	Unnamed Parent: Though he's called Harry here, Janet's father is only ever referred to as Dad or Mr. Weiss in The Brad And Janet Show script.
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Shock Treatment / int_34f8042a	type	Gratuitous French
Shock Treatment / int_34f8042a	comment	Gratuitous French: Bert refers to Cosmo and Nation as "neuro-specialist par excellence". One of Janet's lines during "Me of Me":
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Shock Treatment / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
Shock Treatment / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Sinitta's natural British accent comes out when Frankie asks Janet how she's feeling after "Looking for Trade". The same happens to Jeremy Newson when Ralph apologizes to the DTV audience for Brad, Betty and Oliver crashing the Faith Factory premiere.
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Shock Treatment / int_364b9be6	type	Flipping the Bird
Shock Treatment / int_364b9be6	comment	Flipping the Bird: Betty does so to Macy during the climax.
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Shock Treatment / int_389b0e	type	Title Theme Tune
Shock Treatment / int_389b0e	comment	Title Theme Tune: "Shock Treatment", of course. Interestingly, it was intended to be the most memorable number, but it was usurped by "Denton, U.S.A.", "Little Black Dress" and "Anyhow, Anyhow".
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Shock Treatment / int_3b79029a	type	Crapsaccharine World
Shock Treatment / int_3b79029a	comment	Crapsaccharine World: Denton puts on an idealized face, despite having a population of mindless, sometimes bigoted slaves to television.
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Shock Treatment / int_3ea462d7	type	Take That, Audience!
Shock Treatment / int_3ea462d7	comment	Take That, Audience!: Shock Treatment parodies the only audience that would ever give it attention - Rocky Horror fans. The TV studio audience shouts in unison at what they're watching, seem hopelessly (and happily) glued to their seats, worship Brad and Janet's every move, and blindly follow the characters, even when they're all led into a mental institution. Subtly, some are also wearing costumes from Rocky Horror.
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Shock Treatment / int_3f3964dd	type	"Gaining Confidence" Song
Shock Treatment / int_3f3964dd	comment	"Gaining Confidence" Song: "Little Black Dress" kicks off Janet's egomania as Cosmo gives her a sleek new look.
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Shock Treatment / int_3fb5ab75	type	The Eleven O'Clock Number
Shock Treatment / int_3fb5ab75	comment	The Eleven O'Clock Number: "Duel Duet", which gives us Brad and Farley's final confrontation during the premiere of Faith Factory.
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Shock Treatment / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Shock Treatment / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: "Denton, U.S.A." specifically mentions "tolerance for the ethnic races". Later on Happy Homes, when Emily tells Janet that her father doesn't like Mexicans, the DTV audience erupts into cheers.
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Shock Treatment / int_4127eb1	type	Shut Up, Hannibal!
Shock Treatment / int_4127eb1	comment	Shut Up, Hannibal!: Brad's lines in "Duel Duet" are mostly just him telling Farley that he's wrong and that he's lost his way.
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Shock Treatment / int_434d893c	type	Funny Foreigner
Shock Treatment / int_434d893c	comment	Funny Foreigner: The Viennese Bert Schnick (although he does play it up for the cameras).
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Shock Treatment / int_43c4002a	type	Call-and-Response Song
Shock Treatment / int_43c4002a	comment	Call-and-Response Song: "Duel Duet", between Brad Majors and Farley Flavors.
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Shock Treatment / int_43d612b7	type	Disney Acid Sequence
Shock Treatment / int_43d612b7	comment	Disney Acid Sequence: "Looking for Trade", in which Janet has a drug-induced dream where she wanders aimlessly through Dentonvale. Almost the whole number takes place under extremely garish lighting, the sound is distorted and Brad keeps appearing out of nowhere.
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Shock Treatment / int_453871ec	type	What Could Have Been
Shock Treatment / int_453871ec	comment	An early draft had Dr. Scott from Rocky filling his role. One scene would have had Nation walk in to find him standing in front of his wheelchair, then he would quickly get back into it.
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Shock Treatment / int_47f95750	type	Separated at Birth
Shock Treatment / int_47f95750	comment	Separated at Birth: Farley and Brad; their parents died in a car accident and they were adopted by different families.
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Shock Treatment / int_492cb33a	type	Setting Introduction Song
Shock Treatment / int_492cb33a	comment	Setting Introduction Song: It starts with "Denton, U.S.A." which describes the titular town.
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Shock Treatment / int_4c30f8f0	type	Twitchy Eye
Shock Treatment / int_4c30f8f0	comment	Twitchy Eye: Farley occasionally has one throughout the film, although it's most prominent at the end of "Duel Duet".
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Shock Treatment / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Shock Treatment / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Betty searches up Cosmo and Nation in a DTV database to find out more about them and their medical practices, only to discover...
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Shock Treatment / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Shock Treatment / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: Betty looks at a microfilm of an old newspaper... that reveals that Brad and Farley were twins Seperated At Birth.
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Shock Treatment / int_4ff6f484	type	Trash the Set
Shock Treatment / int_4ff6f484	comment	Trash the Set: In-Universe. Janet goes gung-ho on the set during "Me of Me". It seems to make Farley even more excited.
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Shock Treatment / int_506ffa51	type	Tears of Joy
Shock Treatment / int_506ffa51	comment	Tears of Joy: Nation is moved to tears after Cosmo reveals he's stolen the keys to Janet's luxurious new convertible.
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Shock Treatment / int_50f50a5e	type	Donut Mess with a Cop
Shock Treatment / int_50f50a5e	comment	Donut Mess with a Cop: Implied. Officer Parker is frequently seen standing by the donut case at Kirk's Korner.
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Shock Treatment / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Shock Treatment / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Bert Schnick is Farley's most trusted subordinate and the one who recruits the other villains for the plot.
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Shock Treatment / int_55ca9ef2	type	Film Comic
Shock Treatment / int_55ca9ef2	comment	Film Comic: The fansite has an incomplete one. It's referred to as a Movie Novel after the one Richard Anobile did for the first film.
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Shock Treatment / int_5941d75	type	Beta Couple
Shock Treatment / int_5941d75	comment	Beta Couple: Oliver and Betty end up as one at the conclusion.
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Shock Treatment / int_5b0323a5	type	Spontaneous Choreography
Shock Treatment / int_5b0323a5	comment	Spontaneous Choreography: Most of the musical numbers have little to no choreography, with the exception being "Look What I Did to My Id", which has all the couples working for Farley (Janet's parents, the McKinleys, Ralph and Macy, and Ricky and Ansalong) do a complicated routine with mirrors and lots of twirling.
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Shock Treatment / int_5b2cf07b	type	American Gothic Couple
Shock Treatment / int_5b2cf07b	comment	American Gothic Couple: This portrait can be seen hanging in the prop room as a nod to the first movie.
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Shock Treatment / int_5d513961	type	Medley Overture
Shock Treatment / int_5d513961	comment	Medley Overture: The overture to Shock Treatment is a medley of "Denton, U.S.A." and "Anyhow, Anyhow".
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Shock Treatment / int_5f1999a0	type	Building of Adventure
Shock Treatment / int_5f1999a0	comment	Building of Adventure: Denton is all inside one TV studio, and the Dentonvale asylum hides many of the studio's operations.
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Shock Treatment / int_60fbf41c	type	Old Hero, New Pals
Shock Treatment / int_60fbf41c	comment	Old Hero, New Pals: Brad and Janet (and minor characters Ralph and Betty — and possibly the Criminologist) are the only Rocky characters to appear. In an unusual case, all except Ralph and the Criminologist are played by different performers, while several performers from Rocky appear in different roles.
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Shock Treatment / int_613ecc2d	type	Riding into the Sunset
Shock Treatment / int_613ecc2d	comment	Riding into the Sunset: The lyrics "The sun never sets on those who ride into it..." appear in the final song.
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Shock Treatment / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Shock Treatment / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: Betty and Oliver can be seen pinning name tags on themselves when disguising themselves with Faith Factory costumes, however they are only readable later in the film in Oliver's brief close-up right before "Duel Duet" starts, revealing that they say "INCOGNITO".
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Shock Treatment / int_648a4c38	type	"The Hero Sucks" Song
Shock Treatment / int_648a4c38	comment	"The Hero Sucks" Song/ "The Villain Sucks" Song: "Duel Duet" is a Call-and-Response Song that is both of these between Brad and Farley.
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Shock Treatment / int_64c64cfb	type	Pink Girl, Blue Boy
Shock Treatment / int_64c64cfb	comment	Pink Girl, Blue Boy: How Brad and Janet are dressed in the beginning.
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Shock Treatment / int_67a7cd88	type	Battle in the Center of the Mind
Shock Treatment / int_67a7cd88	comment	Battle in the Center of the Mind: "Duel Duet". (Possibly.)
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Shock Treatment / int_67b65531	type	"Double, Double" Title
Shock Treatment / int_67b65531	comment	"Double, Double" Title: "Anyhow, Anyhow".
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Shock Treatment / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Shock Treatment / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: It turns out that Brad and Farley are identical twins separated as infants after the deaths of their parents.
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Shock Treatment / int_6ba2b94f	type	Trapped in TV Land
Shock Treatment / int_6ba2b94f	comment	Trapped in TV Land: The back of the DVD case implies this to be the plot by saying "[Brad and Janet] find themselves stuck in a weird television-world".
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Shock Treatment / int_6bccf2ba	type	Supreme Chef
Shock Treatment / int_6bccf2ba	comment	Supreme Chef: Bert is mentioned to be a gourmet chef several times.
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Shock Treatment / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
Shock Treatment / int_6ec4232f	comment	Casting Gag: Most of the Expy characters are played by their RHPS equivalents. Cosmo and Nation not only share actors with Rocky Horror's Riff Raff and Magenta, but both sets of characters are incestuous siblings in the employ of the villain. Though Cosmo and Nation aren't really siblings at all, but rather actors playing them who have a bad habit of letting their real-life relationship intrude creepily on their phony medic personas.
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Shock Treatment / int_70bdac19	type	Honest John's Dealership
Shock Treatment / int_70bdac19	comment	Honest John's Dealership: Irwin Lapsey, president of Lapsey Autos, gives Janet a car when she's crowned Miss Mental Health.
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Shock Treatment / int_72543efb	type	Artist and the Band
Shock Treatment / int_72543efb	comment	Artist and the Band: Oscar Drill and the Bits, a "suburban-garage" band that befriends Janet during her ascent at DTV.
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Shock Treatment / int_735e71c2	type	Recursive Canon
Shock Treatment / int_735e71c2	comment	Recursive Canon: A copy of TIME Magazine can be seen on Betty's desk with a picture of the Rocky Horror lips and "Cult Films" written on the cover.
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Shock Treatment / int_751d892c	type	PaintingTheFourthWall
Shock Treatment / int_751d892c	comment	Painting the Fourth Wall: One of Janet's final lines in "Bitchin' in the Kitchen" is delivered directly into the camera, addressing the "spectator". She technically means the studio audience in the film but is certainly aimed at the viewer as well. Bonus points for doing this while keeping up the rhyme scheme of the song.
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Shock Treatment / int_77b009ea	type	Phrase Catcher
Shock Treatment / int_77b009ea	comment	Phrase Catcher: Bert gets an enthusiastic "Hoopla, Bert!" in response to his Catchphrase.
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Shock Treatment / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
Shock Treatment / int_786bf97f	comment	Real Life Writes the Plot: The Brad and Janet Show script was set all around Denton, and even used "In My Own Way" to establish the town by having Janet sing it as she drove past various important locations, but an inability to film in America had Richard O'Brien set the entire film inside the studio.
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Shock Treatment / int_78e8eba5	type	"I Am" Song
Shock Treatment / int_78e8eba5	comment	"I Am" Song: "Thank God I'm a Man" for Janet's dad is all about his manly man philosophy.
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Shock Treatment / int_7a265daa	type	Eagleland
Shock Treatment / int_7a265daa	comment	Eagleland: Denton is striving to be a commercialized embodiment of Type 1. Their anthem ("Denton, U.S.A.") preaches how "You'll find happy hearts and smiling faces, and tolerance for the ethnic races, in Denton". In reality, it is more Type 2 since the citizens of Denton are presented as bigoted and easily manipulated.
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Shock Treatment / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Shock Treatment / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: "Duel Duet" is two of them at the same time, directed at each other.
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Shock Treatment / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Shock Treatment / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Brad is unable to clap in time with the rest of the town during "Denton, U.S.A.", estblishing how at-odds he is with the rest of Denton and his role as an uncorruptible character.
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Shock Treatment / int_80d875bd	type	Naughty Nurse Outfit
Shock Treatment / int_80d875bd	comment	Naughty Nurse Outfit: Nurse Ansalong is a Hospital Hottie already but a lot of the other characters dress in these during "Look What I Did to My Id". Neely Pritt dons one for the premiere of Faith Factory, much to the delight of the DTV audience.
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Shock Treatment / int_82accf22	type	Gainax Ending
Shock Treatment / int_82accf22	comment	Gainax Ending: Bordering on Happy Ending: Brad, Janet, Betty and Oliver happily sing and dance away, stealing the convertible. All of the citizens of Denton are committed to Dentonvale, but they seem happy about it, and they were assholes anyway.
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Shock Treatment / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
Shock Treatment / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler: Played for Laughs. Denton is a hybrid of a TV station and a town, so naturally it encourages its residents to be shallow, cheerful consumers.
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Shock Treatment / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Shock Treatment / int_8409a385	comment	Exactly What It Says on the Tin: "Duel Duet" is just that, a duet with two characters in a verbal duel.
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Shock Treatment / int_84249fbc	type	Nerd Glasses
Shock Treatment / int_84249fbc	comment	Nerd Glasses: Brad wears these for two reasons: To show how boring he is, and to help stop the audience from seeing the similarities between him and Farley.
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Shock Treatment / int_8426d2ac	type	Inherently Funny Words
Shock Treatment / int_8426d2ac	comment	Inherently Funny Words: "Hoopla" is used throughout the entire film.
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Shock Treatment / int_8486c7e5	type	Repeating Ad
Shock Treatment / int_8486c7e5	comment	Repeating Ad: In-universe example, we first see the Farley Flavors Fast Food commercial when a show on DTV takes a break, and if you listen closely, we can hear the commercial play again when Janet is at her parents' house.
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Shock Treatment / int_8504b817	type	Where the Hell Is Springfield?
Shock Treatment / int_8504b817	comment	Where The Hell Is Denton?: The Opening Monologue refers to it as being set in a town "not far from yours", it was originally supposed to be filmed in Denton, Texas but the Screen Actors Guild going on strike put a halt to that, meaning it had to be filmed in England.
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Shock Treatment / int_860b267a	type	Kinky Spanking
Shock Treatment / int_860b267a	comment	Kinky Spanking: Although hard to see due to the camera angle, Macy Struthers is bent over a table getting spanked at the end of the "Denton, U.S.A." reprise in the middle of "Anyhow, Anyhow".
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Shock Treatment / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Shock Treatment / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: At one point, Oliver asks Betty if she's interested in doing a "masquerade", to which she happily obliges. The two have been flirting throughout the film, so it seems like they're about to go do something romantic. The next time we see them they're undressing. Then it's revealed they're just getting doctor disguises on so they can infiltrate and get info on Farley and the McKinleys. During Faith Factory, Ralph announces the president is in the DTV studio. Dramatic music plays, the audience stands to attention, Neely and her crew get a good angle all ready for the arrival of... Irwin Lapsey, president of Lapsey Autos. Cue everyone sitting down in annoyance.
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Shock Treatment / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
Shock Treatment / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: Farley Flavors wins over the TV audience of Denton in order to impose cultlike dictatorial control over them.
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Shock Treatment / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
Shock Treatment / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: An "almost brand-new" car from Lapsey Autos. It was supposed to be awarded to Janet, but she rejected it. Later, Brad, Janet & co. use this car to drive out of the Denton TV studio, and presumably away from Denton itself.
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Shock Treatment / int_8adccc77	type	Hero vs. Villain Duet
Shock Treatment / int_8adccc77	comment	Hero vs. Villain Duet: "Duel Duet", where Farley insults Brad for being a complete wuss and Brad snaps back that Farley is a plutocrat devoid of compassion and humanity.
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Shock Treatment / int_916e610	type	Rhyming with Itself
Shock Treatment / int_916e610	comment	Rhyming with Itself: Most of the lines in "Me of Me" end with the word "Me".
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Shock Treatment / int_93300169	type	MinionShipping
Shock Treatment / int_93300169	comment	Minion Shipping: Cosmo and Nation McKinley, who are depicted as a married couple (though they still pretend to be siblings), and Rest Home Ricky and Nurse Ansalong are also revealed to be paired off. note Actually, quite a few of the characters with much screen time in the film, good or bad, are paired off throughout the film, except for Neely Pritt, Bert Schnick, Officer Parker, Kirk, all of Oscar Drill and the Bits, and in the end, Ralph (who, amusingly enough, was seen getting married at the beginning of the first film)
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Shock Treatment / int_93a82bd2	type	Not Named in Opening Credits
Shock Treatment / int_93a82bd2	comment	Not Named in Opening Credits: The narrator is uncredited but voiced by Christopher Malcolm who plays Officer Vance Parker onscreen (Malcolm was also the first actor to play Brad in the original London staging of The Rocky Horror Show).
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Shock Treatment / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Shock Treatment / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Farley comes close at the end of "Duel Duet", but manages to compose himself and win back the audience.
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Shock Treatment / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Shock Treatment / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: The McKinleys, Bert, and the rest of the Dentonvale staff. Whenever Janet is around they're almost nothing but cordial, polite, and supportive towards her (if a bit patronizing, in a faux-concerned "We only want what's best for you" sort of way), but of course this is only so they can manipulate her and everyone around her into following Farley's agenda, and they have no problem shoving drugs down her throat and keeping Brad locked up in a cage (and shoving drugs down his throat as well) to keep things running smoothly. The McKinleys in particular are prone to letting the facade slip ever so slightly every once in a while when they get annoyed with someone. And as soon as Farley orders the heroes out of his sight, they don't hesitate in turning on her and joining in with the crowd's repeated screams of "OUT!". Nurse Ansalong is a bit of an exception; although she happily goes along with the big scheme, her perpetually cheerful attitude seems to be genuine.
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Shock Treatment / int_999d9288	type	Perky Female Minion
Shock Treatment / int_999d9288	comment	Perky Female Minion: Nurse Ansalong, just like Columbia in the first film.
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Shock Treatment / int_9cb5e4bb	type	Evil Costume Switch
Shock Treatment / int_9cb5e4bb	comment	Evil Costume Switch: See The Little Black Dress below.
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Shock Treatment / int_9cbf01d6	type	Stay in the Kitchen
Shock Treatment / int_9cbf01d6	comment	Stay in the Kitchen: Harry Weiss' stance in "Thank God I'm A Man" where he sing that men should be the "masters of their sisters".
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Shock Treatment / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Shock Treatment / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: At the end of "Bitchin' in the Kitchen", as Brad is being wheeled off to meet his fate, Bert gleefully says to the audience "The subject is committed!". He then turns to the Floor Manager and murmurs "As are we all". At the end of the movie, the entire town (minus Brad, Janet, Betty, Oliver, and Oscar Drill and the Bits) is effectively committed to a mental institution. During "Looking for Trade", an imaginary Brad tells Janet, "I've just come to tell you how fabulous I am!", hinting he and "Fabulous" Farley have a connection.
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Shock Treatment / int_9e1b9a0e	type	Camera Fiend
Shock Treatment / int_9e1b9a0e	comment	Camera Fiend: Rest Home Ricky is constantly taking Polaroid photos, most notably during "Lullaby" and "Shock Treatment".
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Shock Treatment / int_9edfdf1f	type	Studio Audience
Shock Treatment / int_9edfdf1f	comment	Studio Audience: Implied to be the entire population of Denton.
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Shock Treatment / int_a1575551	type	Living Prop
Shock Treatment / int_a1575551	comment	Living Prop: The make-up woman gets no lines and does nothing except for follow around the Wardrobe Mistress, who herself was a Bit Character. Neely's camera crew similarly only follow Neely around and film her, but at least they got a spot in the credits.
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Shock Treatment / int_a1b74f5d	type	And That's Terrible
Shock Treatment / int_a1b74f5d	comment	And That's Terrible: The back of the DVD case says "Brad, on the other hand, has been imprisoned in a mental hospital and is not enjoying himself."
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Shock Treatment / int_a32334b4	type	Canon Discontinuity
Shock Treatment / int_a32334b4	comment	Canon Discontinuity: It helps that no attempt appears to be made at all to tie this plot in with The Rocky Horror Picture Show. To be fair, it's presented as a Spiritual Sequel rather than a direct sequel, albeit with some of the same characters from the previous film. Nothing that happened in Frank's castle has any bearing on this film's plot. O'Brien disowned Shock Treatment as "an abortion" not long after release, and future attempted sequels like Revenge of the Old Queen and Rocky Horror: The Second Coming seem to ignore it.
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Shock Treatment / int_a58802b7	type	Happiness in Slavery
Shock Treatment / int_a58802b7	comment	Happiness in Slavery: The people in Denton sure enjoy being locked up and in straitjackets at the end.
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Shock Treatment / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Shock Treatment / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Ralph and Betty Hapschatt make the transition from very minor characters, mostly meant to establish where Brad and Janet were going before winding up at Frank's place, to a secondary villain and one of the main heroes, respectively.
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Shock Treatment / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Shock Treatment / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Farley and all of his staff. Sure, they don't succeed at corrupting Janet and the main characters escape, but they to manage to get the entire population of Denton to commit itself to the loony bin and make a mint off it. They're last seen having a dance party in the asylum as money literally rains from the sky around them.
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Shock Treatment / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Shock Treatment / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Bert plays his kookiness up for the audiences which helps to hide his position as Farley's second-in-command.
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Shock Treatment / int_aa07ca54	type	Obfuscating Disability
Shock Treatment / int_aa07ca54	comment	Obfuscating Disability: Bert isn't actually blind. An early draft had Dr. Scott from Rocky filling his role. One scene would have had Nation walk in to find him standing in front of his wheelchair, then he would quickly get back into it.
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Shock Treatment / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Shock Treatment / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: Despite proclaiming tolerance, Denton has prejudices, with the audience cheering on Janet's father's racism toward Mexicans and him getting a song about rigid masculine standards that disparages women and gay people.
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Shock Treatment / int_abb9ebaa	type	Dramatic Pause
Shock Treatment / int_abb9ebaa	comment	Dramatic Pause: Used to allow for Audience Participation. For example:
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Shock Treatment / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Shock Treatment / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Betty sure is handy at picking locks with a hairpin.
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Shock Treatment / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Shock Treatment / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Nurse Ansalong tells Janet to leave signing Brad's commitment papers or a day so she can get a day's treatment free. At the end Brad goes free because Janet hasn't signed the papers yet.
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Shock Treatment / int_ae1c0901	type	The Blind Leading the Blind
Shock Treatment / int_ae1c0901	comment	The Blind Leading the Blind: Oliver quotes this when it's revealed that Bert's only pretending to be blind.
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Shock Treatment / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Shock Treatment / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Bert Schnick uses an enthusiastic "Hoopla, Denton!" to greet the DTV audience.
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Shock Treatment / int_b02f21f	type	Digital Destruction
Shock Treatment / int_b02f21f	comment	Digital Destruction: In the original theatrical cut, the end credits are underscored by a reprise of the overture, and once they've rolled the screen goes to black for several additional minutes while the single version of "Shock Treatment" plays (inspiring a stretch of jokes about the void in Audience Participation showings). This was preserved for the original VHS release through Key Video, though they stuck in the standard FBI warning image before going to black, while Fox Movie Channel airings just cut the music-only stretch. The 20th Century Fox DVD release's soundtrack jumps ahead to the second half of the overture when the credits start, so the single version of the song starts up midway through them and fades out as they end, meaning that neither is heard at their original length. Making matters worse, the end credits — particularly the photos of the actors — are clearly timed to the overture in the original cut, so an amusing touch is lost on the DVD. Synching/transferring issues with the original music causes a brief but very noticeable audio drop towards the end of "Denton, U.S.A." on the DVD.
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Shock Treatment / int_b18aeb20	type	Oddly Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo
Shock Treatment / int_b18aeb20	comment	Oddly Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo: Proposed titles Rocky Horror Shows His Heels and The Brad And Janet Show would have averted this trope.
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Shock Treatment / int_b3f7ba4	type	Modeling Poses
Shock Treatment / int_b3f7ba4	comment	Modeling Poses: Janet shows some off during "Little Black Dress" to show her new look to Nation and Bert.
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Shock Treatment / int_b5049d76	type	Added Alliterative Appeal
Shock Treatment / int_b5049d76	comment	Farley Flavors' logo features five F's (standing for Farley, Flavors, Fabulous, Fast and Foods) arranged in a circle, all joined at the tail. It was designed to be reminiscent of a swastika.
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Shock Treatment / int_b7010108	type	Villain in a White Suit
Shock Treatment / int_b7010108	comment	Villain in a White Suit: Farley dons a white suit for the Faith Factory premiere.
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Shock Treatment / int_b70b1e3b	type	Institutional Apparel
Shock Treatment / int_b70b1e3b	comment	Institutional Apparel: Brad spends most of the film in a straitjacket after being sent to Dentonvale.
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Shock Treatment / int_b7a18b59	type	Opening Chorus
Shock Treatment / int_b7a18b59	comment	Opening Chorus: "Denton, U.S.A.", where the DTV audience all sing about how great their town is.
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Shock Treatment / int_b9c5251a	type	XtremelyKoolLetterz
Shock Treatment / int_b9c5251a	comment	Xtremely Kool Letterz: Kirk's Korner, the coffee stand for the stars of DTV.
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Shock Treatment / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Shock Treatment / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: The whole point of "Me of Me" is to show Janet's transformation into a fame addict as she performs for the audience the first time. She gets worse and worse until "Looking for Trade" brings her back down to Earth.
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Shock Treatment / int_bbb150a8	type	Celebrity Is Overrated
Shock Treatment / int_bbb150a8	comment	Celebrity Is Overrated: In the climax, Janet turns down the rich and famous Farley and sticks with her good old Brad.
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Shock Treatment / int_bcba27a1	type	Putting on the Reich
Shock Treatment / int_bcba27a1	comment	Putting on the Reich: Farley Flavors' logo resembles a swastika made from letter Fs, and Bert, his right-hand-man, evokes Hitler in his appearance and some of his behavior.
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Shock Treatment / int_bcf1bb32	type	Ominous Multiple Screens
Shock Treatment / int_bcf1bb32	comment	Ominous Multiple Screens: Farley's office includes a wall of monitors that he uses to watch Brad suffer in Dentonvale with, while he cackles in the shadows.
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Shock Treatment / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
Shock Treatment / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: The main villain's name is Farley Flavors. Most of DTV's shows have names like this; Denton Dossier, Faith Factory, Happy Homes and Marriage Maze. Also, Kirk's Korner, the coffee stand. One of Cosmo's fake names is Cosmo Coolidge.
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Shock Treatment / int_bf64a255	type	Rock Me, Asmodeus!
Shock Treatment / int_bf64a255	comment	Rock Me, Asmodeus!: Invoked in "Look What I Did to My Id":
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Shock Treatment / int_bf67c13e	type	Opening Monologue
Shock Treatment / int_bf67c13e	comment	Opening Monologue: At the start of the film one gives an explanation to Farley's goals for Denton as a whole, and sets up his desire for Janet.
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Shock Treatment / int_bf9f3b9	type	Suicide Dare
Shock Treatment / int_bf9f3b9	comment	Suicide Dare: Both Brad and Farley sing to each other that "the best thing you could ever do is die" during "Duel Duet".
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Shock Treatment / int_c10da874	type	The '80s
Shock Treatment / int_c10da874	comment	The '80s: Very early Eighties, most obviously in the new wave and punk stylings of the songs.
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Shock Treatment / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
Shock Treatment / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: All of DTV's programming, with Marriage Maze and Dentonvale being the most relevant to the plot.
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Shock Treatment / int_c3448a6f	type	Informed Attribute
Shock Treatment / int_c3448a6f	comment	Informed Attribute: Bert is mentioned to be a gourmet several times throughout the film, yet is never shown cooking anything.
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Shock Treatment / int_c6c5ce4	type	Bedlam House
Shock Treatment / int_c6c5ce4	comment	Bedlam House: Dentonvale, the TV hospital show, houses hallways of rooms and cells for patients kept under false pretenses.
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Shock Treatment / int_c6ebec3	type	Soap Opera
Shock Treatment / int_c6ebec3	comment	Soap Opera: Dentonvale is DTV's most popular soap opera, and based on one Cosmo and Nation had previously been on in Europe.
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Shock Treatment / int_c8db76f6	type	And You Were There
Shock Treatment / int_c8db76f6	comment	And You Were There: Oscar Drill and The Bits appear as the pool and arcade game players in Janet's dream.
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Shock Treatment / int_c914e68d	type	Cigar Chomper
Shock Treatment / int_c914e68d	comment	Cigar Chomper: Farley spends most of his screentime in his office with a cigar either in his hand or mouth. He even has one during the Battle in the Center of the Mind in "Duel Duet".
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Shock Treatment / int_ca5eda76	type	Heteronormative Crusader
Shock Treatment / int_ca5eda76	comment	Heteronormative Crusader: Janet's father. "Thank God I'm a Man" is one giant "I hate" song, despite being rife with what is, arguably, Hard Gay imagery!
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Shock Treatment / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Shock Treatment / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: For the Floor Manager, the Wardrobe Mistress, or the drummer and guitarist of Oscar Drill and the Bits.
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Shock Treatment / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
Shock Treatment / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: Farley Flavors, who wishes to dominate the airwaves and the people consuming them.
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Shock Treatment / int_ce515bc3	type	MusicalWorldHypothesis
Shock Treatment / int_ce515bc3	comment	Musical World Hypothesis: Mostly diegetic because nearly everything in Denton is a series of reality TV shows, but "Looking for Trade" is a Dream Sequence that Janet has while unconscious due to drug use, "Duel Duet" might be a Battle in the Center of the Mind, and "Anyhow, Anyhow" is a conventional finale for the heroes while everyone else is busy with the Dark Reprise of "Denton, U.S.A."
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Shock Treatment / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
Shock Treatment / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: At least compared to its predecessor. It isn't a horror film; Nobody gets murdered or cannibalized in this movie! It went out with a PG certificate, though, due to some of its more bizarre moments, it would probably warrant a PG-13 now (the film was released three years prior to the creation of the PG-13 rating).
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Shock Treatment / int_ceb854cb	type	The Door Slams You
Shock Treatment / int_ceb854cb	comment	The Door Slams You: Cosmo gets a door to the face when he tries chasing down Janet in an attempt to get her to sign the Dentonvale contract.
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Shock Treatment / int_d1934b7e	type	Glove Snap
Shock Treatment / int_d1934b7e	comment	Glove Snap: Nation does one as Farley's subordinates dress up for Faith Factory during "Look What I Did to My Id".
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Shock Treatment / int_d24c0700	type	The Foreign Subtitle
Shock Treatment / int_d24c0700	comment	The Foreign Subtitle: In Italy, the film was released as Shock Treatment - Amazing Treatment!.
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Shock Treatment / int_d27b7c1a	type	Duet of Differences
Shock Treatment / int_d27b7c1a	comment	Duet of Differences: Brad and Janet's marriage troubles are introduced in the song "Bitchin' in the Kitchen", in which Brad whines and Janet rages. Later in the film, Brad squares off against Farley in the song "Duel Duet".
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Shock Treatment / int_d3f33049	type	Blasphemous Boast
Shock Treatment / int_d3f33049	comment	Blasphemous Boast: "Denton, U.S.A." compares the town to holy sites like Mecca and Bethlehem.
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Shock Treatment / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Shock Treatment / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: The studio audience cheers a racist remark towards Mexicans, despite Denton's supposed "tolerance for the ethnic races" as mentioned in "Denton, U.S.A."
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Shock Treatment / int_d93c5989	type	Stepford Suburbia
Shock Treatment / int_d93c5989	comment	Stepford Suburbia: As a hybrid of a TV station and a town, Denton encourages its residents to be shallow, smiling consumers, or as "Denton, U.S.A." puts it, "The acceptable face of the human race".
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Shock Treatment / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Shock Treatment / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After seeing the DTV audience get violent, Oscar Drill and the Bits make a quick exit and hide out in Janet's convertible until "Anyhow, Anyhow".
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Shock Treatment / int_dc93d08b	type	Blind Shoulder Toss
Shock Treatment / int_dc93d08b	comment	Blind Shoulder Toss: Oliver throws the ring of keys he stole behind him when it turns out Betty's hairpin opens Brad's cell in seconds.
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Shock Treatment / int_dcb9c541	type	Ship Tease
Shock Treatment / int_dcb9c541	comment	Ship Tease: Between her gleefully telling Janet that Farley's the closet thing to a successful man in Denton, her insistence to get an interview with him and her absolute misery at seeing him choose Macy Struthers as the new Miss Mental Health, it seems Neely Pritt (the reporter) has a thing for Farley Flavors.
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Shock Treatment / int_dd91f8d8	type	Audience Participation
Shock Treatment / int_dd91f8d8	comment	In the original theatrical cut, the end credits are underscored by a reprise of the overture, and once they've rolled the screen goes to black for several additional minutes while the single version of "Shock Treatment" plays (inspiring a stretch of jokes about the void in Audience Participation showings). This was preserved for the original VHS release through Key Video, though they stuck in the standard FBI warning image before going to black, while Fox Movie Channel airings just cut the music-only stretch. The 20th Century Fox DVD release's soundtrack jumps ahead to the second half of the overture when the credits start, so the single version of the song starts up midway through them and fades out as they end, meaning that neither is heard at their original length. Making matters worse, the end credits — particularly the photos of the actors — are clearly timed to the overture in the original cut, so an amusing touch is lost on the DVD.
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Shock Treatment / int_e016e53f	type	Throwing Off the Disability
Shock Treatment / int_e016e53f	comment	Throwing Off the Disability: Bert fakes his blindness so he can invoke this for the Denton audience, pretending Janet's presence cured him to give credence to the Dentonvale program.
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Shock Treatment / int_e1fa333c	type	Hannibal Lecture
Shock Treatment / int_e1fa333c	comment	Hannibal Lecture: Farley Flavors tries this on Brad in "Duel Duet". Brad doesn't go along with it.
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Shock Treatment / int_e256a235	type	Creepy Gas-Station Attendant
Shock Treatment / int_e256a235	comment	Creepy Gas-Station Attendant: Kirk was a mild version of this in an early script, making perverted remarks about Janet while serving her father. In the final product, he works at a coffee stand but still makes the same comments.
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Shock Treatment / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Shock Treatment / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: With regards to the Rocky Horror characters, we have... Doctors Cosmo and Nation McKinley for Riff Raff and Magenta (who were supposed to impersonate doctors in the Rocky Horror Shows His Heels draft). Nurse Ansalong for Columbia. Judge Oliver Wright for the Criminologist. note Although it is not unreasonable to assume that they are in fact the same character. "Criminologist" and "Judge" are hardly mutually exclusive vocations. Farley Flavors for Dr. Frank-N-Furter. Bert Schnick for Dr. Scott (Bert was Dr. Scott in the Brad and Janet Show draft).
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Shock Treatment / int_e54b7b17	type	Zonk
Shock Treatment / int_e54b7b17	comment	Zonk: "Bitchin' in the Kitchen" shows off many of the prizes to be won on Marriage Maze, although some are less than desirable, such as a trash can, a shower curtain and a tube of toothpaste.
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Shock Treatment / int_e624f0e8	type	Suspiciously Specific Denial
Shock Treatment / int_e624f0e8	comment	Suspiciously Specific Denial: Denton's theme song makes a point of highlighting their "tolerance for the ethnic races", and states that they've got no pretension.
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Shock Treatment / int_e7e558	type	The Oner
Shock Treatment / int_e7e558	comment	The Oner: "Lullaby" has the camera move back and forth across the windows of Dentonvale for several minutes without a cut.
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Shock Treatment / int_e963adf1	type	Bad Girl Song
Shock Treatment / int_e963adf1	comment	Bad Girl Song: "Looking for Trade" seemingly is one with Janet's lyrics of looking for "young blood" and at one point comparing herself to a dog in heat.
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Shock Treatment / int_ea8ba51d	type	No Full Name Given
Shock Treatment / int_ea8ba51d	comment	No Full Name Given: Although most characters get full names, we never find out Rest Home Ricky or Frankie the cheerleader's last names, or Nurse Ansalong's first name.
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Shock Treatment / int_eb251937	type	Dirty Cop
Shock Treatment / int_eb251937	comment	Dirty Cop: Officer Vance Parker, who willingly works for the Big Bad Farley Flavors and has no problem locking up anyone who gets in Farley's way.
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Shock Treatment / int_eb8856	type	The X of Y
Shock Treatment / int_eb8856	comment	The X of Y: In "Denton, U.S.A.", the titular town is referred to as the Mecca of America and the Bethlehem of the west.
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