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2005 opera past R. Kelly

Trapped in the Closet
The Large Package DVD cover
Directed past	R. Kelly Jim Swaffield
Written by	R. Kelly
Based on	Trapped in the Closet by R. Kelly
Produced by	R. Kelly Ann Carli Barry Weiss Elliot Lewis Rosenblatt Rick Johnson Scott Eicher
Starring	R. Kelly Cat Wilson Rolando A. Boyce LeShay Tomlinson Malik Middleton Eric Lane
Cinematography	David Hennings
Edited by	Victor Mignatti Jim Swaffield
Music by	R. Kelly
Production companies	Fuzzy Bunny Productions Relevant
Distributed past	Jive/SBMG (2005–2008) RCA/SME (2009–present)
Release dates	October 1, 2005 (2005-10-01) (Affiliate 1–12) Baronial 21, 2007 (2007-08-21) (Chapters thirteen–22) December 2007 (2007-12) (The BIG Parcel) Nov 23, 2012 (2012-eleven-23) (The Next Installment)
Running time	91 minutes (The Big Bundle) Chapters i–12: 43 minutes Chapters 13–22: 48 minutes 42 minutes (The Next Installment) Chapters 23–33: 42 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English language
Budget	$3 million (22 capacity) $750,000 (The Next Installment)

Trapped in the Closet is an opera by American R&B singer, songwriter & producer R. Kelly, with 33 "chapters" released from 2005 to 2012. Written, produced, and directed by Kelly, the series tells a story of a one-night stand that sets off a chain of events, gradually revealing a greater web of lies, sex and deceit. The music follows a distinct Due east major pattern,^[1] ^[ii] and almost capacity feature the same melodic theme.

Groundwork [edit]

The first 5 chapters of Trapped in the Closet originally appeared as the final tracks on Kelly'south anthology TP.3 Reloaded. R. Kelly wrote and produced all v chapters, and they were recorded by Andy Gallas. The first chapter was released equally the lead single from the album in 2005 by Jive Records. Kelly and Jive Records promoted the songs by releasing each of the first five chapters to radio stations i at a fourth dimension.

R. Kelly (pictured in 2007) is the director, producer, writer and role player of Trapped in the Closet.

Following the success and popularity of the Trapped in the Cupboard song series, R. Kelly lip synched a "new chapter" at an appearance at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards. In November 2005, Jive Records released a DVD titled Trapped in the Closet, which included 7 new chapters in add-on to the first five from TP.3 Reloaded, bringing the total number of chapters to twelve. The material previewed by Kelly at the MTV Video Music Awards revealed an early version of some parts of the 12th chapter in the series.

Nearly ii years later on, in August 2007, Kelly and Jive released ten more than chapters on another Trapped in the Closet DVD. These 10 capacity were also shown on the Independent Picture show Channel (IFC) and were too streamed on IFC's website.^{[ citation needed ]}

In December 2007, the kickoff 22 chapters were released in a DVD entitled The Big Package, which included a "commentary remix" with a preview of affiliate 23. On December 21, 2011, Kelly told TMZ that he had written thirty-two more than chapters, and was seeking investors in order to continue the saga.^[3] IFC announced in October 2012 that it would bear witness new chapters of Trapped in the Closet on November 23, 2012.^[iv]

Kelly has described the entire series equally a "hip hopera".^{[ citation needed ]} When asked about the writing of the vocal, Kelly said: "I don't know how to explicate how I wrote information technology. It just keeps rhyming and rhyming."^[v] He stated that Trapped in the Cupboard had taken on "a life, heed and body of its own", and chosen the serial an "alien",^[5] crediting "the aliens" with its cosmos.^{[half dozen]}

Plot [edit]

Each chapter follows a storyline that continues throughout the series. Kelly voices the role of the song's protagonist, Sylvester (Kelly'due south middle name), who wakes upward after a one-night stand with a woman. As he prepares to leave, still, the woman's husband returns and Sylvester is forced to hide in a cupboard. This sets off an escalating series of events.

Video synopsis: Chapters 1–12 [edit]

Encompass of the Trapped in the Closet DVD, containing the videos for the first twelve chapters of the series.

Chapter ane

Sylvester wakes up in bed with a woman who is non his married woman. As he prepares to leave, the adult female tells him her husband is coming up the stairs and tells Sylvester to hibernate in the cupboard. The couple begins making beloved when Sylvester's prison cell phone rings, prompting the husband to investigate. After searching elsewhere, he slowly approaches the closet. Sylvester, prepared for a confrontation, takes out his Beretta pistol.

Ending cliffhanger line: "Now he's opening the closet...."

Chapter 2

Having discovered Sylvester in his wife'south closet, the married man virtually attacks him simply stops because Sylvester is armed. He tells Sylvester that he is a pastor and not decumbent to violence. When Sylvester tries to leave, the hubby tells him to stay because he wants to reveal a "undercover". He so calls someone he calls "babe" and says to "turn the car around". Sylvester is broken-hearted well-nigh what the husband is virtually to reveal and becomes threatening, merely then someone knocks on the door. The husband opens the door and the person turns out to be some other man—revealing the married man (Rufus) to be bisexual.

Ending cliffhanger line: "I can't believe it'south a man....."

Affiliate 3

A shocked and dislocated Sylvester prepares to go out but the wife asks him to stay. She so argues with her husband, Rufus, over his own infidelity. When Sylvester demands more explanation, the other man, Chuck, begins explaining how their affair came about. Rufus calls his wife Cathy, which shocks Sylvester, who thought her name was Mary. Rufus, Cathy, and Chuck all begin yelling at each other, prompting Sylvester to shoot his gun in the air to repose them. Sylvester and so calls home just is stunned when another man answers the phone. He quickly bolts out of the flat.

Ending cliffhanger line: "Recall my habitation and a man picks up the phone...."

Graphic symbol relationship map
Sylvester	↔	Cathy
↓↑	Roxanne	↓↑
Gwendolyn	↓↑	Rufus
↓↑	Tina	↓↑
James	↓↑	Chuck
↓↑	Twan
Bridget	↔	Big Man
Who has sex with whom in the Trapped in the Closet cinematic universe^[7]

Chapter iv

Sylvester is seen rushing home, angered and belligerent, only is pulled over by a police officer, who gives him a ticket for speeding. He breaks in his ain dorsum door and surprises his wife in the shower only to detect her alone. She reminds Sylvester that her brother Twan was coming dwelling that day, and he answered the phone. Sylvester apologizes, and they begin making love. In the center of it, even so, Sylvester'southward wife, Gwendolyn, discreetly covers something on the bed and then jumps on superlative of Sylvester and begins to get wild. When Gwendolyn finally climaxes and rolls off him, Sylvester flips the bed cover to find the used safety that she had tried to hibernate.

Ending bewilderment line: "Oh, my God, a prophylactic!"

The video for chapter four has since been revised to better friction match chapter six. The original player for the officer AKA James, Rondolo Bryce, was changed to electric current actor, Michael Kenneth Williams. And the line "I said 'This is some bullshit!', as he gave me the ticket" was inverse to "He flicks his cigarette and and so gives me the ticket." And "He said no except yous were doing 85 in 60 miles zone" Change to "60 in the xl miles zone" and "I turned my radio on and did 70 all the manner abode" inverse to "and did 55 all the way home"

Affiliate 5

Affiliate five starts with Sylvester demanding answers about the condom. They argue, and Gwendolyn retorts with her own knowledge of Sylvester's adultery, saying she saw Sylvester in the social club the nighttime before. He ignores that and demands she proper noun names. She begins talking nearly friends of hers named Tina and Roxanne and also mentions Chuck and Rufus, which confuses Sylvester. She then explains that she and Cathy were friends in high schoolhouse, and it was Cathy who introduced Gwendolyn to the constabulary officer that stopped Sylvester, confirming that the police officer was her secret lover.

Ending bewilderment line: "She introduced me to the policeman that stopped you lot."

Chapter 6

Sylvester and Gwendolyn begin laughing at the unabridged situation. She admits that the cop she slept with is really the i who answered the telephone. And he explains the events of earlier in the morning time. Meanwhile, the cop-lover turns his motorcar back around, concerned for Gwendolyn's condom. He sees the back door broken in and mistakes the laughter for abuse and bursts into the bedroom, gun fatigued. Sylvester pulls his gun on the cop, whose name is revealed to be James. Gwendolyn pleads with Sylvester, and he puts his gun downward. But then James winks and smiles, and Sylvester rushes him. They wrestle over the gun, which inadvertently discharges.

Catastrophe cliffhanger line: "Goin' all around the room, both easily on the gun, and then all suddenly, prisoner of war."

Chapter 7

This affiliate reveals it was Twan, Gwendolyn's brother who was just released from prison house, who was the one who was shot. Subsequently realizing who it was, Sylvester and James argue at who was at fault with the shooting, with Sylvester blaming the entire incident on the cop. Twan is presumed to be dead, but in the middle of Sylvester, James and Gwendolyn arguing, Twan coughs, assuring them he is okay and that he was merely non-fatally shot in the shoulder. As Twan recovers in the bathroom, Sylvester begins telling him what acquired the incident when someone knocks on the door. After beingness hesitant with answering the door, Sylvester grabs his gun and aims information technology at the door, Twan joins him, snatching James' gun. At the count of three, Twan opens the door and information technology is revealed to exist the side by side door neighbor, Rosie, who is shown with a spatula in her hand. A relieved Sylvester and Gwendolyn invite Rosie in while James snatches his gun back from a bewildered Twan's hands and leaves.

Ending bewilderment-outro line: "...With a spatula in her hand...similar that'south gon' practice something against them guns, it'due south Rosie, the nosy neighbour."

Affiliate 8

In this chapter, a tired and frustrated James drives back to his house and calls upwards his wife Bridget (Kelly sings all of Bridget'southward lines with a Southern accent). James tells a concerned Bridget that he was heading domicile, to which Bridget happily tells him she had baked him a cherry pie. Meanwhile, at Sylvester's house, Rosie, the side by side door neighbor, tells Sylvester, Twan and Gwendolyn that she could not stand the cop that just left their business firm causing Gwendolyn, Sylvester and Twan to laugh. Back at James' house, he pulls up to the garage. A panicked Bridget rushes to the door and kisses James. When James asks her why she looked jittery, Bridget excuses it every bit "might be that fourth dimension of the month". The "might be" makes James suspicious. Bridget laughs it off, saying "you know what I hateful". Bridget tries getting him upstairs, or enticing him with fresh pears, merely James insists on heating some leftover chicken. Bridget's nervous breakup finally leads to James enervating a straight answer from Bridget. James then starts to wonder if Bridget had as well cheated on him. Unbeknownst to him and from the looks of a nervous Bridget, information technology becomes clear another man is withal in the business firm.

Ending cliffhanger line: "But fiddling does he know that somebody is still right at that place in his home!"

Chapter 9

James starts investigating his business firm for whatever possible intruders. When he hears a dissonance, he begins to search all over the kitchen while a panicked Bridget stands over by the dishes. After James checks the oven and looks behind the refrigerator, he notices the cherry pie with a slice cut out. When he realizes that Bridget is allergic to cherries, he turns to her and moves slowly to a scared Bridget. After demanding Bridget to move from her spot, which she eventually does, he sees the cabinet and slowly approaches information technology. Just as he opens it, the video all of a sudden stops and the narrator exits out of the kitchen pantry and, breaking the fourth wall, tells the audience that the human, hiding in the chiffonier, is a midget.

Ending un-bewilderment line: "Now, pause the movie, 'cause what I'm nigh to say to y'all is so damn twisted—not only is there a human being in his cabinet, merely the man is a midget! Midget! Midget! Midget!"

Chapter ten

In this chapter, the midget jumps out of the chiffonier and fights with James. After James' abiding roughing upwards on the midget, Bridget runs upstairs where she pulls out a number from her purse. Meanwhile, back downstairs, James puts the midget on the table and demands to know why he was at his house. The midget continues telling him that he was paid not to tell, which only angers James, who pulls his gun on him. When he does, the midget defecates. Back at Sylvester's business firm, he, Twan and Gwendolyn are playing cards when the phone rings. When Gwendolyn answers information technology, she hears a panicked Bridget, who tells her she found her number in James' pocket. After a minute, Gwendolyn hangs up and gives Sylvester and Twan the address to the house, presumably to cease the fight. Back at James' house, James and the midget keep fighting until Bridget comes back to the kitchen with a double-barreled shotgun. When James points his gun at Bridget, the midget takes his inhaler out. A few seconds after, Sylvester and Twan outburst through the door and Sylvester points his gun at James. Sylvester and Twan notice a peculiar smell in the house. Due to Sylvester and Twan's archway, the midget faints on the table.

Catastrophe cliffhanger-outro line: "Ohhh, while Twan and Sylvester are sniffin' around, tryin' to figure out what's that odour—as they turn and look at each other like, 'What the hell?"

Chapter xi

In this chapter, the midget wakes up peculiar to seeing three guns and tries to get out of the situation. Sylvester then begs Bridget and James to put their guns down, to which they adamantly refuse. Bridget then tells Sylvester she will drop the gun if James does not hurt the midget, whose name is revealed as "Big Man," a stripper at a club chosen Dixie's. When Sylvester asks why he was named that, the midget points downwards to his pants and tell him he is "blessed." Subsequently seeing Sylvester and Big Homo communicating, James shuts them upward calling them "Chuck and Rufus," which confuses Sylvester, who demands to know how James knew of them, though James acts bewildered to Sylvester's question. Just as James looks as if he was going to respond, Bridget starts getting ill. It is then revealed that Bridget is three months pregnant, presumably with James' baby. After James' constant prompts to Sylvester, Twan and Big Man with his gun to go out, Bridget stops him and admits paying Big Human being and even admitted that she knew that James had been adulterous on her with Gwendolyn, maxim that she had followed him effectually. When James demands to know what Bridget is really telling him, Bridget says that Big Man is her babe's father, which negates her previous excuse from chapter 8 every bit being "that fourth dimension of the month". Big Man once again faints at the news.

Kelly switches from first person (every bit Sylvester) to third person narrative in the middle of this affiliate every bit the focus fades away from his graphic symbol.

Ending bewilderment-outro line: "The midget faints again, while Twan and Sylvester is trippin. The midget'south the baby'south daddy. Woo!"

Chapter 12

Diagram of all relationships up to Chapter 22 of Trapped in the Closet

Back at Cathy's house, she, Rufus and Chuck get up from the floor. Later Cathy closes the door, she and Rufus argue about the reasons why Sylvester almost shot at them in Chapter 3, with Cathy angered about Rufus "creeping" around with Chuck, who is the deacon of Rufus' church building, telling him "ain't no telling what I've got," referring to sexually transmitted diseases. Chuck gets angry at this and threatens Cathy with a pocketknife, which prompts Cathy to force him to do it. Rufus then calms them downwards and tries to resolve the thing but neither Cathy or Chuck listen, as they continue arguing, even every bit the phone rings. When it rings a second time, Cathy answers information technology and it is Gwendolyn and she begins telling Cathy virtually the drama that had gone on. When Gwendolyn mentions that she saw Sylvester in Paje's club with "some crusty wig-wearing donkey ho," Cathy realizes the man she had slept with that night was Sylvester. When Cathy tries telling her who the "ho" was, Gwendolyn stops her and tells her more about James and his situation. When an aroused Rufus demands Cathy to end their conversation, Cathy shuts Gwendolyn up and tells her she was the "ho" that had been with Sylvester.

Ending cliffhanger line: "I'one thousand deplorable, girl, only that ho was me...."

In the original version of Affiliate 12 (which was originally going to be Chapter vi), Rufus said he was going to take back Cathy. This idea was later incorporated into the later chapters. Likewise, Gwen never chosen Cathy so Gwen would've never known Cathy was the one that slept with Sylvester.

Video synopsis: Capacity 13–22 [edit]

Chapter xiii

The chapter initially starts with Sylvester and Twan in Sylvester'southward car though it is not clear at first where they are going. When Sylvester tells Twan to be on his best behavior and reminds Twan about how he got sent to jail, Twan says it "was because of Roxanne and that bowwow Tina," which Sylvester remembers his wife mentioning their names in chapter five. The scene soon cuts to Rosie the nosy neighbor and her married man Randolph (played by R. Kelly), who contend over Rosie spying on other neighbors. The argument ends when the scene cuts back to Sylvester explaining to Twan that he has to collect money from someone, he tells Twan to leave the car in bulldoze and exist on the lookout and enters a eating house. An hour goes past with no sign of Sylvester.

Ending line: "(Time goes by) it's at present i 60 minutes later...."

Affiliate 14

In chapter fourteen, it is revealed that patently Sylvester and Cathy, who shows upward in a blond wig and black wearing apparel, made a deal for Sylvester to get defenseless by her pastor hubby Rufus merely the bargain had apparently backfired, non only past Cathy's realization that Sylvester and her best friend Gwendolyn were married but also due to Cathy not wanting to end her spousal relationship to Rufus, with Cathy later on admitting she had inverse her mind on the deal. When Sylvester threatens to leave, Cathy tries to explicate the reasons why. A waitress comes by and offers them drinks. Sylvester looks at the waitress thinking to himself that she looked familiar. Meanwhile, outside at Sylvester's machine, Twan gets a call from a friend (simply shown by a shut-up of his oral fissure) almost Tina, telling him Tina had stopped being a prostitute and was working at a "legit" place. He later tells Twan that Tina was working at the same eating house as Sylvester with Cathy. Dorsum at the eating house, Sylvester notices the waitress but tin can't think from where, until he sees her proper noun tag which says "Tina." Sylvester and so says he wants to talk to her simply she gets scared and calls for her friend/co-worker Roxanne, who runs out with a frying pan. After Tina breaks a beer bottle and makes karate-styled moves saying to Sylvester that she and Roxanne take Tae Bo, Cathy and the residue of the patrons get out quickly, leaving Sylvester alone with Tina and Roxanne. Simply as Tina and Roxanne are nearly to assault, Twan comes busting through the door threatening them.

Catastrophe cliffhanger line: "I will impale both of you knucklehead asses...!"

Affiliate xv

With Twan, Sylvester, Tina and Roxanne in the now-empty eatery, Twan seeks revenge on Tina and Roxanne on his arrest three years ago. Sylvester tries calming Twan downwards reminding him he's on business firm arrest and that a trigger-happy outburst would atomic number 82 to a more serious time in prison. Subsequently convincing Twan to allow him talk to them, Sylvester approaches the two ladies and ask them what had happened on the twenty-four hours of his arrest. Tina and Roxanne explicate that they were on a "simple operation" describing a "trip" to Atlanta. Roxanne tells Sylvester that a loftier Twan was swerving on the road and cutting upward on the both of them, even turning his music loud playing "Mary Jane" and screaming "I'm Rick James, bitch!" Tina explains that equally shortly as that happened, they heard not but constabulary squad cars only also a helicopter. Twan's car breaks down and all iii are eventually arrested. In the interrogation room, the police tell the women that Twan blamed the drug deal on them in order to save his own skin. Information technology is then when Roxanne tells Twan she turned him in. Roxanne says Tina protected him because Tina was meaning with Twan's baby at the time.

Ending cliffhanger line: "Considering at the time I was pregnant by you, T."

Indie folk musician Will Oldham makes a cameo in this affiliate as 1 of the constabulary officers in the interrogation.

Chapter sixteen

Sylvester, stunned at beginning at the news of Tina having Twan's child, congratulates Twan on the news simply Twan is not convinced, accusing Tina of lying to him. This makes Tina's eye twitch, which had started when Sylvester had commencement approached her near the end of affiliate 14. When Sylvester asks Roxanne about it, Roxanne explains a pimp had hitting Tina in the eye a twelvemonth agone and that she'due south had bad nerves ever since. Twan then pulls Sylvester to the side and begins wondering if he is really the male parent of Tina'due south child. Sylvester convinces him that a child would at-home him down. When Twan tells Tina that he wants to make this work, Roxanne kisses Tina and reveals they are lovers.

Ending cliffhanger line: "I'm fucking her now...."

In the commentary remix on the Trapped in the Closet DVD, Kelly tells the audience that in the upcoming chapters he volition probably give Tina most iii capacity to explain her nervous middle twitch.

Chapter 17

Stunned at the news of Roxanne and Tina being lovers, a frustrated Sylvester points his gun at the both of them, but soon stops because of his tolerance to lesbians, while Twan kept egging him to shoot them. Sylvester tries to go Twan to leave the eating place. It's just subsequently Twan threatens Tina and Roxanne that he will purchase a gun and come back for them later on that Sylvester finally convinces Twan to leave.

Catastrophe line: "Requite me my motherfuckin' glaze!"

Affiliate 18

Dorsum at the car every bit they bulldoze away, Twan is still angry over seeing Roxanne and Tina together, despite Sylvester's efforts to calm him down. Around this time, Sylvester gets a phone call from Gwendolyn, who tells him that his parents, O'Dale and Myrna, got into it and Myrna had O'Dale put in jail. The scene then shifts to Rufus' church where he is leading the worship song, "Jesus Will Work Information technology Out," with Reverend Mosley James Evans and the Peace Within Choir. When the song reaches a climax, Rufus gets a phone call and excuses himself to his part. It'due south Chuck, who's crying and upset over not seeing Rufus since the incident in the before capacity. Rufus and Chuck argue when Cathy walks in Rufus' role. When Cathy asks Rufus who was on the phone, Chuck, who can be heard accidentally on speaker telephone, cries out for Rufus, which angers Cathy and the two debate before Rufus sends Cathy out to deal with the situation. Rufus then tries to allow Chuck come come across him so they can talk simply Chuck refuses. Rufus so tells Chuck that he wants to stay married because he loves his wife and is a Pastor as the reason he doesn't want to run into Chuck anymore. This angers Chuck, who threatens to reveal their relationship. When Rufus once more tries to get Chuck to come see him, Chuck reveals he is recovering at a hospital.

Ending "cliffhanger" line: Chuck coughs and says "Considering I'm in the hospital...."

Chapter nineteen

Reverend Mosley James Evans and the Peace Within Choir attempt to persuade Pimp Lucius, a pimp with a severe stuttering problem, to finish pimping and to turn his life effectually. As the choir sings "you tin do it Pimp Lucius," Lucius pretends to accept the offer and leaves the church. Yet, he then tells his pimpin' partner, Bishop Craig, that he is never going to "s-due south-s-due south-due south-stop p-p-p-pimpin," considering "p-p-p-pimpin's for life." Then he tells Bishop Craig "now allow's get this mmm-mmmm coin."

Catastrophe scene: Pimp Lucius points to the choir and says, "Church! Church!" He becomes embarrassed and overwhelmed by being on the altar, looks effectually, and accidentally blurts out "SHIT!" He and then says "oops," and leaves the church with Bishop Craig and his "escorts".

Chapter twenty

This chapter shows Rosie the Nosy Neighbor's firm where Rosie is seen in her chair reading the Bible when her married man Randolph comes in shouting, "he'due south got the package!" to Rosie. Unwilling to listen to reason, when Randolph tells her he has news on the pastor (Rufus), she demands to know what was going on with him. Later some grouse, Randolph tells Rosie the story: while working equally a janitor for the church, Randolph hears Rufus coming into the office. Randolph hid in the closet and unintentionally overheard the conversation seen in chapter 18 among Chuck, Rufus and Cathy. Afterward relaying the story, Rosie asks Randolph why he had said the pastor had "the package," Randolph says that Chuck told him he was at the infirmary. Rosie immediately decides to inform the masses, despite Randolph's protests. The affiliate ends with Randolph sitting on the burrow, falling asleep.

Catastrophe line: "Now don't go tellin' ev'rybody 'round town, Rosie, with your big-mouthed ass!"

"The Package" is implied to exist HIV/AIDS considering of the slang term the whole package,^[8] defined as prison house slang for the affliction. Given the large-calibration interconnecting relationships in the series, this is a serious issue affecting most if not all of the characters.

Chapter 21

Sylvester and Twan become to visit an apparent mobster named Joey. Sylvester informs Joey of some job that could get them a lot of coin. While there, Joey accuses Twan of being a cop, as well as calling him "LL Fool J," deeply offending Twan. Sylvester, trying to defuse the situation, asks Twan to wait outside the office while he and Joey talk over concern. Every bit Twan leaves the room, he remarks, "I'll exist listening from the outside." Joey replies, "Yeah, yeah, whatever. Mama said knock yous out, fuck outta here." While waiting exterior, Twan has a nightmare of Sylvester and him in the same situation, being pointed at with guns. In the stop, Sylvester wakes Twan up, and so Joey and Sylvester say their goodbyes, and Joey asks Sylvester to tell Gwendolyn he says hi, as their bargain is sealed.

Ending scene: Joey and his goons express joy at Twan for having a nightmare, and Joey tells Sylvester to say hullo to Gwendolyn for him.

Catastrophe line: "Imma shoot me a motherfucker today, I'mma shoot me a motherfucker today!" and ""This guy,' and puffing smoke.

Chapter 22

Diagram of all relationships up to Chapter 33 of Trapped in the Closet

The scene opens to O'Dale and Myrna'southward voicemail and eventually fades into the heart of the voicemail box where the narrator (Kelly) says, "and now the rumor." Throughout a series of phone conversations among all of the original characters from Chapters one–12 and those introduced in Affiliate 13–22, rumors of "The Bundle" circulate. Because Chuck has it, it has mayhap been passed to Rufus, to his married woman Cathy, to Sylvester, and to Gwendolyn. In improver, Bridget realizes that James knows both Chuck and Rufus, though he tried to hide information technology from her earlier, suggesting he may exist on the "down-low" with Chuck every bit well. Gwendolyn also cheated on Sylvester with James. However, she used a prophylactic as revealed in Chapter iv. This would put Bridget, Large Man, and James at serious risk. Lastly, Pimp Lucius gets a similar concerned call from an unidentified adult female (who may have gotten "The Package" from Large Human being, and subsequently passed it to Pimp Lucius).

Endmost scene: The screen fades to blackness with the words "To be continued".

Video synopsis: Chapters 23–33 [edit]

Affiliate 23

This affiliate starts off with Sylvester and Gwendolyn watching Television set and getting a mysterious phone call. Then information technology goes over to Cathy and Rufus, who decided to go shopping downtown. Cathy'due south phone rings and she exclaims its those people again. Rufus tells her to hang upwardly. Bridgette, Twan and near of the rest of the cast as well get a mysterious telephone phone call, proffering money in exchange for an unknown service.^[ix] ^[10]

Ending cliffhanger-outro line: "But in that location was no luck when it came to getting in bear upon with Chuck. Where are yous, Chuck?"

Chapter 24

The chapter starts off with Twan winning a bet during a sports game at the local barber shop. Meanwhile, exterior, Pimp Lucius is yelling at his prostitutes over a lack of money that's been coming in. He then states if he doesn't go his money soon he'll beginning hitting the girls, and it is revealed that he is responsible for Tina's nervous twitch. Sylvester and Twan come outside where after a comical meet with Lucius, they attempt to walk away catastrophe the chapter.

Ending cliffhanger-outro line: "...Sylvester you real funny."

Chapter 25

The chapter begins directly after the previous every bit Pimp Lucius calls Sylvester over to enquire him for a couple of "racks". He then says that he'll pay Sylvester back on the offset adventure he gets. Sylvester tells Lucius he needs to go and see his parents, and then Sylvester and Twan depart from the scene, frustrating Lucius more than.

Catastrophe cliffhanger-outro line: "...Now just stop it! Go go the car! Go!"

Chapter 26

This affiliate contains Cathy'southward confessional for Out of the Closet with Larry and her ultimatum for her husband, Rufus. The affiliate switches to a pan on the door of Doctor William T. Perry, a marriage counselor. The physician is getting off the telephone as Rufus and an impatient Cathy walk into the room. Rufus is at showtime reluctant and asks the doctor not to record their session. Cathy then breaks down and begins to cry over the fact that Rufus loves a man over her. Rufus then pronounces that he is confused and still loves Chuck.

Ending cliffhanger-outro line: "...What accept I done?"

Chapter 27

This affiliate begins with Rufus getting on his knees and praying to God to change his ways. Meanwhile, Physician Perry tries to convince Cathy to go dorsum inside the room and panel Rufus as well as make amends. He details a past couple that had a human relationship that he was upset never got fixed, and pleads for Cathy to not exercise that to her own human relationship. Back in the office, Rufus calls out to God request how God was going to help him. Just every bit he does this, Cathy comes dorsum in the room and forgives Rufus—saying she'south willing to work information technology out.

The chapter and so switches over to Rufus' confessional. Rufus was tricked into coming on the show by the staff; he believed he was at that place to talk about the church and the community simply he is bombarded by questions about his personal life. After an insinuation by an off-screen managing director, he leaves the gear up.

Catastrophe bewilderment-outro line: "...Does Chuck take AIDS? Is that what the Package is?! Sir? Sir are you gonna answer the question?"

Chapter 28

Rosie and Randolph are the central plot for this affiliate. Randolph can't sleep and wakes Rosie up, and asks if she meant it when she chosen him Mr. Can't-Become-It-Up in Chapter thirteen. She tries to exit the conversation but Randolph begins dancing around, taunting her and maxim he's going to take off his pajamas and wink her. The doorbell rings, interrupting their shenanigans, and Randolph goes to answer the door. The scene switches to Rosie in her confessional, she calls Randolph 89 and insinuates that he has a tiny penis. So it goes to Randolph's confessional. He attempts to defend himself from Rosie'southward insinuations; she comes on the fix and two brainstorm to fight comically. The off-screen managing director is yelling for them to end, only they just proceed.

Ending cliffhanger-outro line: "...Oh, you want some of this don't ya?"

Affiliate 29

The chapter starts off with Reverend Mosley James Evans in an advertizement near his new book, Trapped in the Cupboard. He dances effectually and compares his volume to the Bible. The scene changes to Roxanne talking well-nigh the Preacher to Tina and saying that the human being is a con artist. Tina tells Roxanne not to say those things about the Reverend. A fight ensues and Tina ends up dumping Roxanne and saying she's going to go notice Twan. The chapter and so goes to Tina's confessional where she says she appreciated Roxanne for taking her in but she says it'southward time for her to find her own identity. She also states she will be coming onto the Out of the Closet show. The scene then switches to Roxanne'due south confessional, where she talks well-nigh how ungrateful Tina is existence and that the argument isn't over.

Ending cliffhanger-outro line: "...Twan? She crazy if she thinking she's leaving me for his gorilla-body having ass."

Affiliate 30

This chapter starts off with Sylvester and Twan in a private garage going over their plans for a future coming together with an unknown gangster. Twan lifts his shirt upwards and shows Sylvester that he bought a gun, Sylvester takes it from him until subsequently the deal. Sylvester warns him i more time about the delirious mobster they're about to encounter. The two of them and so get into the motorcar. The chapter so switches the simultaneous confessional of both Sylvester and Twan. Twan starts off past proverb that Sylvester never lets him accept fun. Sylvester and so informs the viewers that Twan likes to talk a lot only can't really back it up. He then informs him that true thugs move in silence. Subsequently a comical dialogue, the chapter ends with them laughing.

Ending cliffhanger-outro line: "...Man, you gotta beloved this man."

Chapter 31

The affiliate involves Pimp Lucius going home to see his parents, who plow out to exist Randolph and Rosy. Randolph is at first angry and doesn't want to permit Lucius in but Rosy insists he come up in. Rosy gets mad at Randolph and calls him past his center name, Douglas. The chapter continues with Lucius explaining the mysterious phone calls he'due south getting and his need for money and a place to sleep. It ends with Randolph answering the door again to observe Lucius' prostitutes whom he compares to En Vogue.

Ending cliffhanger-outro line: "...It'due south En Vogue, with a new lead vocaliser."

Affiliate 32

Pimp Lucius chews out his prostitutes in this chapter trying to find out why they didn't stay in the car while he talked to his parents. The girls say the blind prostitute got worried and asked them to get up to the door to observe out if Lucius was okay. Pimp Lucius doesn't believe them and sends them back to the car. Lucius so reflects as the girls walk abroad. The affiliate then goes over to the dramatic confessional of Pimp Lucius alongside his four prostitutes. He talks near his male parent denying him of money and a identify to slumber. He wonders why his father could accept done something like this to him, considering the fact that he is family.

Catastrophe bewilderment-outro line: "...Call me a pimp, a thug, I'1000 nevertheless his blood. How could he practice this to me? Church building!"

Chapter 33

The last affiliate involves Sylvester and Twan meeting upwards with the mobster, Beeno. The conclusion of Office iii begins with the grapheme Bankhead opening the door, at outset reluctant to let the men in. He warns and threatens them and then guides the men to Beeno. Beeno is eating sunflower seeds aggressively and listens to Sylvester as he makes his proposal. Something seems to be bothering Beeno's throat and he reveals that Joey shot him in the neck during a past bargain. Beeno doesn't much care for Sylvester's humor and tells his men to impale them afterwards revealing that he is aware of Sylvester making deals with the Italians. Twan saves the twenty-four hour period and takes Bankhead'south gun and the two abscond. Then the melody changes to an upbeat ane, as Bankhead and his coiffure chase Sylvester and Twan. The ii men run and stop up hiding behind a garbage bin. Afterward assuring that they weren't followed, Sylvester reveals to Twan that they're standing outside of the dorsum entrance to the evidence that the cast has been doing confessionals for, Out of the Closet with Larry. The ii men walk inside and the chapter ends every bit the prove is about to brainstorm.

Catastrophe cliffhanger-outro line: "Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the Out of the Cupboard testify. At present give it up for your host, Larry!"

Cast [edit]

Introduced in Part i [edit]

R. Kelly as Sylvester and the narrator
LeShay Tomlinson as Cathy Longs
Rolando A. Boyce equally Rufus Longs
Malik S. Middleton equally Chuck
Michael Kenneth Williams every bit Sgt. James
Cat Wilson as Gwendolyn
Eric Lane every bit Twan
La Donna Tittle as Rosie, The Nosy Neighbor
Rebecca Field as Bridget
Drevon Cooks as "Big Human"

Introduced in Part 2 [edit]

R. Kelly as Randolph, Rev. Mos and Pimp Lucius
Tracey Bonner as Tina
Erika Ringor equally Roxanne
Volition Oldham as Sgt. Platoon
Greg Hollimon as Det. Tom
Brian "Wildcat" Smith as Bishop Craig
Pierre Maurey every bit Church Homo
Brendan Averett as Henchman #1
Gino Crededio as Henchman #2
Dominic Capone Three as Joey
Katherine Mitchell as Myrna
Alan Donovan as Desk Sergeant
Heather Zagone every bit Dixie bellboy

Introduced in Part 3 [edit]

R. Kelly as Dr. William T. Perry, Beeno
Javon "Faz" Johnson as Bankhead
Larry^[11] ^[12] ^[13]

Legacy [edit]

The first affiliate of Trapped in the Closet was ranked by VH1 as the #41 best song of the 2000s.

Parodies and derivatives [edit]

Trapped in the Closet has inspired numerous parodies and derivatives.

In July 2005, a parody titled Harry Potter: Trapped in the Closet Under the Stairs was aired in five parts (each part for the first 5 Harry Potter books) on Q100 radio based in Atlanta, Georgia.^[fourteen]
On July fifteen, 2005, Jimmy Kimmel made a parody of the single, called "The Pizza", on his testify Jimmy Kimmel Live! on ABC. This parody was aired in six installments, one week at a fourth dimension. The series documents Jimmy Kimmel and his quest to take a piece of pizza.
In August 2005, website Something Awful released a CliffsNotes mode assay of the first v capacity.^[15]
In August 2005, website No Pic School^[16] released Out of the Cupboard,^[17] a guerrilla remix of the first five chapters. "Out of the Closet" tells a completely dissimilar story than Trapped in the Closet — all using R. Kelly'south ain words and original vocals, as well as parts of a Dave Chappelle parody.
In September 2005, Tichina Arnold, Tisha Campbell and Duane Martin performed a live parody at the BET Comedy Awards.
On Oct 2, 2005, MADtv aired a parody called "Trapped in the Cupboard", featuring R. Kelly (spoofed past Jordan Peele) and his wife contesting over breakfast cereal.
Computer Games Magazine reports of a group who has recreated the offset v chapters using The Sims ii blitheness engine.^[eighteen] ^[19]
On Nov ix, 2005, website Something Atrocious released a CliffsNotes-style analysis of the next seven chapters.^[7]
On November 11, 2005, Eric Appel hosted a panel discussion almost the song and video at the New York Urban center chapter of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. The panel featured Aziz Ansari, Anthony Male monarch, Brian Berrebbi, Eugene Mirman, Rob Huebel, and Brett Gelman.
On November xvi, 2005, a South Park episode named "Trapped in the Closet" aired. The plot gain around Stan being idea of as the second coming of L. Ron Hubbard by Scientologists and Tom Cruise locking himself in Stan'southward closet. Every bit the incident receives news coverage, Kelly appears and sings about the state of affairs, and is eventually used to coax Prowl out of the closet before going within it himself.^[20]
On November 19, 2005, a Saturday Night Live episode parodied the vocal, featuring Kelly fighting with his wife who turns out to exist seeing an alien who also turns out to be Kelly's begetter.
In January 2006, Aziz Ansari and Paul Scheer took Eric Appel's console show to the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles. Special guest panelists have included Patton Oswalt, David Cross, Paul F. Tompkins, Drevon Cooks ("Big Man") and others. Since so, information technology has been performed regularly at the UCB Theatre on both coasts.
On the May eleven, 2006, episode of Eve, which was the episode'south last before UPN ceased operations in the cliffhanger episode, Nick (Brian Hooks) and J.T. (Jason George) hide in a closet, which Jamal (Darius McCrary) opens. Eve was also cancelled due to merger of UPN and The WB.
In September 2006, "Weird Al" Yankovic released "Trapped in the Drive-Thru" for his album Straight Outta Lynwood.^[21]
In a 2013 episode of the sketch one-act Loiter Squad, a sketch featured a parody of Trapped in the Closet titled "Trapped with Tyler", in which cast members Tyler the Creator and Jasper Dolphin, dressed as Sylvester and Bishop Craig, respectively, walk through a busy street and sing an machine-tuned parody of the song. Its lyrical content consists of mockery of other peoples' fashion sense, too as rude insinuations about other peoples' personal lives.^[22]
A 2016 episode of Crazy Ex Girlfriend features a parody titled "Stuck in the Bathroom."^[23]
In a 6th-season episode of the animated series Glory Deathmatch, R. Kelly teams upward with Kelly Clarkson to defeat Ludacris and Criss Angel in a fight. At random intervals, Kelly pauses to narrate his actions during the fight in a similar fashion to Trapped in the Closet, including mention of Bridget'due south affair with Big Man. Clarkson eventually does similar, causing Kelly to limited badgerer.^[24]
On May 23, 2016, American Dad! aired an episode titled "Criss-Cross Applesauce: The Ballad of Billy Jesusworth" featuring the character Steve Smith doing a parody of Trapped in the Closet called "Trapped in the Locker".

Reception [edit]

Roger Cormier wrote that "when journalists write almost...Trapped in the Closet, they tend to throw out a high-brow literary reference," simply then described information technology as "a subtlety free, it'south-and then-dumb-it'southward-brilliant piece of work of art" comparable to "Laurence Sterne's 18th-century novel The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman [sic]".^[25]

Writing for Flagpole, Hillary Brown linked Trapped in the Closet to the Renaissance concept of sprezzatura and compared it to the work of Stendhal and John Ashbery.^[26]

John Lichman warned "once yous get-go watching Trapped in the Closet, whether out of marvel or because you think it'due south a joke, you volition find yourself sucked down a hole into something more than obsession-friendly than Arrested Development when it comes to jokes, plot twists and fan-service."^[27]

Chuck Klosterman writing for The Guardian chosen it a cult archetype and wrote: "Describing Trapped in the Cupboard to anyone who hasn't seen it themselves is most impossible, just considering there's no other art to compare information technology with (it falls somewhere betwixt a parody of musical theatre, a soap opera from the late 1970s, and a BET version of the Red Shoe Diaries)."^[28]

Writing for Pitchfork, Jen Polly stated "If yous haven't seen Trapped in the Closet before... end what you're doing and watch all of it right at present. It is truly heed-bravado."^[29]

VEVO release [edit]

Until Kelly's conviction of sexual abuse allegations confronting him in 2021, the outset 22 chapters of the Trapped in the Closet series were released via VEVO and were viewed for free as the videos were advertisement-supported. As of May 2012, the series averaged 7,000,000 views for the get-go 22 chapters on the website itself,^[30] and likewise an average of 7,000,000 views on Kelly's VEVO YouTube page.^[31] However, chapters 3,^[32] 5,^[33] half dozen,^[34] and 13^[35] were cutting brusque. Days later on Kelly was plant guilty on September 27, 2021, his YouTube channel was terminated.

Charts [edit]

Chapter 1 [edit]

Weekly charts [edit]

Nautical chart (2005)	Top position
United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland Single (Official Charts Company)	33
Kingdom of belgium (Ultratop) Unmarried Chart	42
Belgium (Ultratip Flemish region) Single Chart	2
Belgium (Ultratip Wallonia) Unmarried Chart	2
France Single Nautical chart	51
Germany Single Chart	35
Ireland Single Chart	31
Dutch Unmarried Chart	48
New Zealand Single Chart	22
Swiss Single Nautical chart	28
United states Billboard Hot 100^[36]	22
US Billboard Pop Songs^[37]	38
US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs^[38]	5
United states Hot R&B Streaming Songs^[39]	14

Release history [edit]

Other projects [edit]

R. Kelly stated in an interview with Rap-Up TV that he was, at the time, working on a movie version of Trapped in the Cupboard that would have been released to theaters. The movie was rumored to exist called Trapped in the Closet: The Movie.^[42]

Trapped in the Closet: The Book
Author	Robert Kelly
Country	United states
Language	English
Publication appointment	2016–2017
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)

Trapped in the Closet: The Book is a yet-to-be-released book past Robert Kelly, also the creator of the hip hopera of the same name. The Volume was set to be released sometime in 2018 alongside the Broadway debut of Trapped in the Closet, however neither of these projects were released to the public. The volume is near what happened earlier the characters actually meet in the musical. The book has been shown in the latest capacity of the show in 2012, Chapter 23–33.^[43]

R. Kelly dubbed it "the prequel meeting the sequel".^[44]

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External links [edit]

Trapped in the Closet 1–12 at IMDb
Trapped in the Closet 13–22 at IMDb
Trapped in the Closet videos on IFC.com

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapped_in_the_Closet