I’m planning a first-time RHPS viewing soon. Anyone have tips on how to avoid being marked as a virgin?
Don’t sit in the back row.
Don’t be silly, RHPS devotees are very welcoming to newbies. You can’t get the whole experience if you pretend to be be an old hand. When the emcee asks for those who haven’t been before stand up proudly and let them give you a proper RHPS how do you do.
If you feel you must bring props I’m sure you know what’s required; a newspaper, toilet paper, toast, a squirt gun or bottle (water only please) rice and toast.
Don’t go in costume your first time. It takes a while to identify with your proper character. I’m an Eddy because I fit the type and I dig little Nell.
Hot patootie, bless my soul, I really love that rock and roll.
Which, in the Berkeley edition at least, involved getting water dumped on your head. Actually, when I went with some other virgin friends we just laid low and nobody paid attention to us. The only people who got the baptism treatment had friends (or should I say “friends”) who pointed them out for their own entertainment.
Where are you going to see it? Different theaters have their own deflowering rituals. At the Harvard Square theater in Cambridge, MA (as of 1995 anyway), they would inflate red balloons, place them between the virgins’ legs, and pop them.
Also, they didn’t allow props. No rice, no toast. 
–sublight.
Sxy, Just remember this ( it just a jump to your left and a jump to your right Put your hands on your hips and move your knees in tight).
Thanks Sxy I just had a flashback from the midnight movies
downtown, what a great time.
Don’t tell people to be quiet, you want to hear the movie. That’s a sure sign of a virgin. I’ve gone to Rocky in a couple of different cities, and neither of them dumped water on the virgins’ heads. There WAS a ritual, but it was relatively fun even for the virgin. Go ahead and get formally deflowered.
Well…
We used to have a virgin sacrifice. The following was at least true at our theatre
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[li] If they ask if this is the first time, say yeah right.[/li][li] If they ask any specific details about the movie, either say you were too drunk(if you wanna pretend its your second time), or say “who the hell watches the movie”[/li][li] Don’t sit on the front row. At least at our theatres it was reserved for cast, and sitting there when we didn’t know you was an invitation to be screwed with.[/li][li] Act wasted. Really wasted. Nobody like to get puked on.[/li][li] Don’t go if you are at all homophobic. We had more violence start at our theatre over this.[/li][li] As much as I hate the AP(Audience participation album), get a copy of it and listen to it.(I really don’t recomend doing this, as it will spoil some of the fun, but you asked…[/li][/ul]
For props, we ususally used toliet paper(tons of it), water guns, bic lighters, cans of ether(ok, so I only lit the ether one time, and was asked not to do it again), hot dogs(incredable mess), rice, newspapers, 6 cell mag lights(used as spot lights for the cast, and doubled as weapons for the homophobic problem I mentioned before), and on at least one occasion a 1978 Harley Davidson Superglide.