 The Riverside Twin in Austin, Texas, became the second location to run the film as a midnighter.Over time, people began shouting responses to the characters' statements on the screen.Schoolteacher Louis Farese, Jr., Theresa Krakauskas and Amy Lazarus, who attended together at the Waverly, are credited with having started the convention of talking back to the screen, bringing props and making up one-liners, the purpose of which was basically to make one another laugh.