Are a Drag Rocky Horror Picture Show", and "Rainbow Connection"). The album's cover features the members of the band dressed up, in drag, as five characters from the musicals represented in song: a member of "A Chorus Line" ("What I Did For Love"), Annie Mudge from "Annie" ("Tomorrow"), Dorothy Gale from "The Wizard of Oz" ("Over the Rainbow"), Sandy Dumbrowski from "Grease" ("It's Raining on Prom Night"), and Dr. Frank-N-Furter from "The Rocky Horror Show" ("Science Fiction/Double Feature"). Like many other Gimme Gimmes albums, "Are a Drag" contains many elements of mash-up - more specifically, musical allusions to punk or power-pop songs in
The Rocky Horror Picture Show run when lines began to be shouted by the audience. Louis Farese Jr., a normally quiet teacher who, upon seeing the character Janet place a newspaper over her head to protect herself from rain, yelled, "Buy an umbrella, you cheap bitch". Originally Louis and other "Rocky Horror" pioneers, including Amy Lazarus, Theresa Krakauskas, and Bill O'Brian, did this to entertain each other, each week trying to come up with something new to make each other laugh. This quickly caught on with other theater goers and thus began this self-proclaimed "counter point dialogue", which became standard practice and was repeated nearly