The Rocky Horror Glee Show The Rocky Horror Glee Show "The Rocky Horror Glee Show" is the fifth episode of the second season of the American television series "Glee", and the twenty-seventh episode overall. It was written by Ryan Murphy, from a story by Murphy and Tim Wollaston, directed by Adam Shankman, and premiered on Fox on October 26, 2010. The episode features the glee club paying tribute to the 1973 musical "The Rocky Horror Show", with elements of its 1975 film adaptation "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", by staging it as a school musical. While cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) attempts to sabotage
The Rocky Horror Picture Show was living as an unemployed actor in London during the early 1970s. He wrote most of "The Rocky Horror Show" during one winter just to occupy himself. Since his youth, O'Brien had loved science fiction and B horror movies. He wanted to combine elements of the unintentional humour of B horror movies, portentous dialogue of schlock-horror, Steve Reeves muscle flicks, and fifties rock and roll into his musical. O'Brien conceived and wrote the play set against the backdrop of the glam era that had manifested itself throughout British popular culture in the 1970s. Allowing his concept to come into being,