The Rocky Horror Glee Show "Time Warp". When casting "Glee", series creator Ryan Murphy required that auditioning actors without theatrical experience demonstrate their ability to sing and dance as well as act. Mays, who was cast as guidance counselor Emma Pillsbury, auditioned with the song "Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch Me" from "The Rocky Horror Picture Show". In April 2009, Murphy told the "Los Angeles Times" that he would like to have Mays perform the song on "Glee". In October 2009, cast member Chris Colfer deemed "Time Warp" the song he would most like to perform on the show, and suggested a "Rocky Horror"-themed Halloween episode.
The Rocky Horror Glee Show criticized, with VanDerWerff deeming it a "series lowpoint", and "a muddled, terrible message, particularly in an episode that seems to have an uneasy relationship with "actual" outcasts, transsexuals." Both Reiter and Aly Semigran of MTV questioned the resolution, with Reiter stating that it was unclear what message the creators were attempting to convey, and Semigran finding it disjointed, suggesting "The Rocky Horror Glee Show" to be a "rare "Glee" misstep". Seven "Rocky Horror" songs were covered in the episode. The opening number of "Science Fiction/Double Feature", performed by Rivera and represented by a disembodied pair of red lips, mirrored the