History Trivia / ShockTreatment

* RealLifeRelative: The children appearing with Macy Struthers in the commercial for Farley Flavors' Fabulous Fast Foods are played by the actual children of Creator/RicardOBrien and Creator/PatriciaQuinn.

*** "Breaking Out" was supposed to be sung by Rocky who'd been in a Convenient OMA since the last movie. It matches the tone of his only song, "Sword of Damocles".

* CreatorBacklash: Zig-zagged. While O'Brien dislikes this film due to its confusing plot as a result of its many rewrites (going as far to refer to it as "an abortion"), he does praise the music and the fact it foretold reality TV by two decades.

* PlayingTheirOwnTwin: [[spoiler: Creator/CliffDeYoung playing both Farley and Brad]]

** The major returning cast members from ''Rocky Horror'' (O'Brien, Creator/PatriciaQuinn, Creator/NellCampbell and Creator/CharlesGray) all play new characters here. Ralph Hapschatt is played by the same actor -- he had a minor role in the first one, though.
** Perry Bedden, Imogen Clare and Rufus Collins (who were Transylvanians in the first film) play members of the audience.

** All the members of Oscar Drill and the Bits (Creator/GaryShail, Creator/ClaireToeman, Creator/DonaldWaugh, Creator/DavidJohn, Gary Martin, and Sinitta) were Brits.

** All the members of Oscar Drill and the Bits (Creator/GaryShail, Creator/ClaireToeman, Creator/DonaldWaugh, David John, Gary Martin, and Sinitta) were Brits.

** All the members of Oscar Drill and the Bits (Creator/GaryShail, Creator/ClaireToeman, Donald Waugh, David John, Gary Martin, and Sinitta) were Brits.

** British Creator/GaryShail as Oscar Drill.

* TheOtherDarrin:
** Of the four returning characters from ''Rocky Horror'' (Brad, Janet, Betty and Ralph), only Ralph is played by his original actor.
** During "Looking for Trade", Brenda Drill is played by a different actress than Claire Toeman, who portrays her in all scenes before and after the song.

* FakeAmerican: Australian-born Creator/DarleneJohnson played Janet's mother, Emily Weiss.

** Vance Parker's actor, Chris Malcolm and Raynor Bourton who played one of the soldiers in "Thank God I'm A Man" had played Brad and Rocky respectfully in the original stage show.

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* FakeNationality: The Viennese Bert Schnick was played by the Australian Barry Humphries.

* CreatorBacklash:

* CreatorBacklash: Creator/RichardOBrien quickly dismissed it as "an abortion".

* FakeNationality: The German Bert Schnick was played by the Australian Barry Humphries.

* OldShame: Zig-zagged. While O'Brien dislikes this film due to its confusing plot as a result of its many rewrites, he does praise the music and the fact it foretold reality TV by two decades.
* OrphanedReference;
** During the 'Little Black Dress' number, Cosmo's plans for the dress read ''The Brad and Janet Show'', which was the movie's WorkingTitle.
** Some songs seem random and out of place until you learn who was meant to sing them in the early scripts;
*** ''Breaking Out'' was supposed to be sung by Rocky who'd been in a Convenient OMA since the last movie. It matches the tone of his only song, ''Sword Of Damocles''.
*** ''Shock Treatment'' was about using electroshock to clean mold off the resurrected Frank.
*** Cosmo seems to be heterosexual but sings in ''Little Black Dress'' that his greatest joy has always been making dresses. This song was written to be sung by Frank.
*** ''Looking For Trade'' was sung by Janet in a BigLippedAlligatorMoment dream sequence. It was originally to be sung by Frank or Brad looking for male virgins who's blood Frank needs to stay alive.

* PropRecycling: The throne Janet sits on is Frank's after being upholstered red. The AmericanGothicCouple painting seen hanging in the dressing room is presumably the one from the first movie.

* WrittenByCastMember: The script was co-written by O'Brien, who played Cosmo.

* SimilarlyNamedWorks: According to [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} the Other Wiki]] there are at least four other films, a reality [=TV=] show and three albums also called ''Shock Treatment''.

** When it comes to actors, Creator/TimCurry was worried he couldn't pull off the required accents for [[spoiler: Brad and Farley]][[note]]That didn't stop him from taking on the role of Rooster for ''Film/{{Annie}}'', however[[/note]], Creator/SusanSarandon (Janet) wanted a prohibitively-large amount of money to reprise her role, and Creator/BarryBostwick (Brad) was unavailable. (Creator/CliffDeYoung was the one they originally wanted to play Brad Majors in ''RHPS''.)

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Mostly averted, due to anticipating reality televsion by a couple of decades, but the VideoGame/SpaceInvaders machines hit this pretty hard in "Looking for Trade".

* ActingForTwo: Cliff [=DeYoung=] plays both Farley Flavors and Brad Majors.

* PlayingTheirOwnTwin: [[spoiler: Cliff [=DeYoung=] playing both Farley and Brad]]

** When it comes to actors, Creator/TimCurry was worried he couldn't pull off the required accents for [[spoiler: Brad and Farley]][[note]]That didn't stop him from taking on the role of Rooster for ''Film/{{Annie}}'', however[[/note]], Creator/SusanSarandon (Janet) wanted a prohibitively-large amount of money to reprise her role, and Creator/BarryBostwick (Brad) was unavailable. (Cliff [=DeYoung=] was the one they originally wanted to play Brad Majors in ''RHPS''.)

* FanNickname: "[[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow Shocky]]"
** Some shadowcasts affectionately refer to this movie as a "thing" and an "abortion".
* ImageSource: For StudioAudience.

* TheOtherDarrin: Of the four returning characters from ''Rocky Horror'' (Brad, Janet, Betty and Ralph), only Ralph is played by his original actor.

* YouLookFamiliar: The major returning cast members from ''Rocky Horror'' (O'Brien, Creator/PatriciaQuinn, Creator/NellCampbell and Creator/CharlesGray) all play new characters here. Ralph Hapschatt is played by the same actor -- he had a minor role in the first one, though.

* MidDevelopmentGenreShift: Was originally meant to be a parody of horror films like it's predecessor.

* RoleReprise:
** Ignoring fan theories that Cosmo is Riff Raff in disguise etc., Jeremy Newson is the only actor to play the same character (Ralph) in both this and ''Rocky Horror''.
** Jessica Harper reprised the role of Janet for the stage production.

** Jessica Harper reprised the role of Janet in the stage production.