Shock Treatment
Created | Updated Jan 28, 2002
Shock Treatment 1 is a movie of exceptionally low quality. It is better-made (in theory at least) than its predecessor, the Rocky Horror Picture Show. This, among other things, is one of the primary reasons why the movie was an instant anti-cult classic. It was not widely accepted or enjoyed by the Rocky Horror crowd, so it is mostly the butt of lots of RHPS jokes. I was introduced to Shock Treatment by a long-time friend of mine, whom I shall call Javis-Trason.
More information can be found on the history of Shock treatment at Shock Treatment Intro by Sal Piro.
If you want to go to the Official ST web site, then click here.
You can call me lazy. I am.
Shock Treatment was an altogether failing phenomenon. I am still obsessed with it, however. It is so phenomenally bad, yet the songs are so great. I appreciate it much.
Here is one of my favourites:
“Little Black Dress”
COSMO: Ever since I was a little boy,
dressing up has always been my greatest joy.
But when it’s time to be discreet,
There’s just one thing you just can’t beat,
And it’s that strapless, backless, classical little black dress.
(chorus)
Well first you go rip rip rip
Then you go snip snip snip
Then you put in a zip zip zip
And split it up to the hip hip hip
And as you strip strip strip,
You quiver -- shiver -- for that soft caress
As you slip slip slip
Into that little black dress
BERT SCHNICK: Ever since I was the eine kleine herren
It is the cordon bleu for which I am most carren
And when it’s time to eat
There’s just one thing you just can’t beat
And it’s that ----------- how you are, caviar, little black dress
JANET: (sings chorus sexily)
NATION AND BERT: Let’s face it, Mac, that basic black is coming back. (x3)
At this point I’m having trouble remembering the rest of the tune.
But I assure you, it’s quite amusing.
I’m writing this to avoid studying for class, so I should probably go. Forgive my slack entry
1 "Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a treatment for severe mental illness in which a brief application of electric stimulus is used to produce a generalized seizure. In the United States in the 1940s and 1950s, the treatment was often administered to the most severely disturbed patients residing in large mental institutions. As often occurs with new therapies, ECT was used for a variety of disorders, frequently in high doses and for long periods. Many of these efforts proved ineffective, and some even harmful. Moreover, its use as a means of managing unruly patients, for whom other treatments were not then available, contributed to the perception of ECT as an abusive instrument of behavioral control for patients in mental institutions for the chronically ill. With the introduction of effective psychopharmacologic medications and the development of judicial and regulatory restrictions, the use of ECT has waned." -- Electroconvulsive Therapy. NIH Consens Statement Online 1985 Jun 10-12 [cited 2001 Sept 24]; 5(11):1-23. This, however, has little to nothing to do with this entry.
