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 able to talk distributors into midnight screenings, starting in New York City on April Fools' Day of 1976. The cult following started shortly after the film began its midnight run at the Waverly Theater in New York City., then spread to other counties in NYC, and to Uniondale, L.I. "Rocky Horror" was not only found in the larger cities but throughout the United States where many attendees would get in free if they arrived in costume. The western division of the film's release included the U.A. Cinemas in Fresno and Merced, the Cinema J. in Sacramento, California, and the