Sooner or later, however, my friend and I got bored of the whole "Rocky Horror-Hollow Row" scene, and started on a new one (which, incidentally was about a family whose mother made her son and daughter undress in front of each other. DON'T ASK!), and RHPS was left wayyyy behind.
One thing, which I think was monumentale in my obsession with RHPS now is that I first became obsessed with this little-known Canadian television show, Student Bodies. I even made a webpage for it, whose address I won't give out. The webpage included capsules for each episode, including a sort of "details you might have missed section" for each one. Of course, the series had the steryotypical Halloween episode. I took it upon myself to find out what costume every single character wore in that episode, even if they were onscreen for a total of half a second. Some weren't so hard: Obviously, a guy named Cody, who was wearing a blue Star Trek shirt and pointed ears was Spock. The boy named Romeo dressed in skins, and who declared repeatedly that he was Tarzan, was Tarzan. A red-head named Mags who sported braids that stuck out at 90° angles as well as bizarre clothes was Pippi Longstocking. Flash, another girl, in a black dress with a white apron and a duster was obviously a French maid...Or was she...
My mom was watching me catalogue each character's costume. She agreed with most of them, but, when it came to Flash's costume, she was certain that it wasn't a French maid she was trying to dress as, but rather, the maid from the RHPS, whose name she couldn't remember. All she remembered was that it was a weird name.
I prompty ran upstairs to my computer and surfed into the Internet Movie Database. I found the page for RHPS and scanned the names of the characters. There were only two character played by female actresses with truly unusual names.
"Is it Columbia?" I called to my mom.
"No, that's not it," she replied.
"How about Magenta?" I asked.
"That's it!" she crowed.
Once it was established that my mom though that Flash was dressed as someone named Magenta, I raced around the internet trying to find pictures of the latter. When my dad came home, he also said that Flash's costume looked like Magenta's, and since I couldn't seem to find any good pictures on the 'net, I had to accept what they said. I didn't agree really. I didn't see what the difference could be between Magenta and any French maid anyway, even if Flash was dressed as Magenta. Little did I know...
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