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=80's cartoon JEM is finally on TV again!= Started by BKuzak, May 31 2011 09:36 PM

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#1 BKuzak
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Posted 31 May 2011 - 09:36 PM I was a huge fan when i was a kid and always wished it would come back on TV. It's been like 25 years since it went off. The clothes and stuff are so 1980's but it's so great. I still love the show and the music. It's about a girl names Jerrica who gets a pair of earings as inheritance from her father and it's signeled to a woman on a computer who could turn her into JEM, a beutiful rock star. so she goes through every episode balancing her life as Jerrica who runs an orphange and Jem the glam rock star. Jerrica's boyfriend Riot has a crush on Jem, not knowing she is really just a hologram of Jerrica. then there are the misfits who wear ugly make-up and try to destroy Jem's career.

It's on three times a day (one eipisode a day) on THE HUB where Family Ties and Doctor Doogie Howser is playing too.*0
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Posted 31 May 2011 - 09:48 PM I loved this sh!t as a kid, so horribly cheesy and so deliciously 80's.*0
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Posted 31 May 2011 - 10:06 PM Showtime Synergy! I remember giving little girls in my classes Jem stuff at their birthday parties. the toy commercials would boast that she was bigger than Barbie. I swear Jerrica and Rio used to open mouth kiss on the cartoon.*0
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Posted 31 May 2011 - 11:15 PM JEM! I loved that little ho! My ass actualyl downloaded the entire series and watched it a few years ago in my early 20s. I loved all the music and songs. So catchy. Wish I could find a soundtrack

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Posted 31 May 2011 - 11:23 PM


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Posted 01 June 2011 - 01:53 AM You beat me to it, Winning Is Everything is the song I most remember.

Ha, and then Mattel came out with Barbie and the Rockers to compete. I swear, so transparent! they take something as fun and innocent as toys and smarm it all up with calculated moves like that (also see: Gobots).*0
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Posted 01 June 2011 - 03:36 AM I hadn't seen this in such a long time. I mostly remember the theme song. It cracked me up that the songs only had a few lyrics, repeated a dozen times, but they're catchy.

I had forgotten just how crazy the show was. The Misfits steal the Holograms' van, and when Jem and the other girls try to chase them down, the Misfits throw instruments at them until they run off the road and almost over a cliff! Then for the cliffhanger, their home is set on fire and they're engulfed in flames! I wonder if any kids at the time were traumatized...

The animation is at times strikingly beautiful, and atmospheric, moreso than I remembered, and much more than the other 80's cartoons that I watched for reasons that had little to do with animation (He-Man and She-Ra). I especially like the shots of the girls when they're in the mansion as it's about to be torched, and the scene of Jem (whatever her real name is) going up the glass elevator.

Wish the black band member didn't have hair like Marge Simpson's sisters.*0
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Posted 01 June 2011 - 04:11 AM Indeed, Jasmine and her purple jheri curl wedge.

I think the animators behind Jem and He-Man/She-Ra did the thing where film of a real person is directly drawn over in some instances. When Jem spins around and dances or when Filmation characters spin and kick or laugh in medium shots, it is just too good.

They need to show this old fav too:

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<p class="posted_info desc lighter ipsType_small">Posted 01 June 2011 - 11:02 AM I flove this show. Been DVR'ing it thanks to the Hub Now if my cable co gets on the ball and finally adds HUB HD like they're supposed too*0
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<p class="posted_info desc lighter ipsType_small">Posted 01 June 2011 - 01:39 PM Outrageous! LOVE Jem! I'll definitely be tuning in. "Music is magic" and Twilight in Paris" is among my faves. My siblings got sick of me because all I would talk about was Jem as a kid. The Misfits were awesome. I loved Pizzazz (so much fun) and Stormer was my second fave. The thing that made Jem fun was the music being sooooo addictive. It was just pure fun. It'll be great to relive the '80's again*0
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<p class="posted_info desc lighter ipsType_small">Posted 01 June 2011 - 03:00 PM I haven't seen this show since I was a kid I don't remember if it was ever reran in recent years.

I know there's talk of new DVD releases since the co. that had it lost the rights to it*0
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<p class="posted_info desc lighter ipsType_small">Posted 01 June 2011 - 03:01 PM I always loved the Hawaii episodes. I can't wait to see some of the later episodes. I remembered the first six from the marathon since I had the tapes.*0
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<p class="posted_info desc lighter ipsType_small">Posted 01 June 2011 - 03:55 PM If they bring back She-Ra I'll be in 80's heaven!*0
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<p class="posted_info desc lighter ipsType_small">Posted 01 June 2011 - 04:01 PM I don't know why Boomerang channel doesn't air He-Man, She-Ra, Thundercats, Jem etc....*0
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<p class="posted_info desc lighter ipsType_small">Posted 01 June 2011 - 04:18 PM She-Ra and He-Man have BEEN back! I watch practically every night on Qubo Night Owl. Plus Bravestar and Ghostbusters. Only thing is, they don't seem to show all the episodes so I see the same ones all the time.

http://www.qubo.com/...=schedule&owl=1*0
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<p class="posted_info desc lighter ipsType_small">Posted 01 June 2011 - 04:23 PM Never heard of that channel*0
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<p class="posted_info desc lighter ipsType_small">Posted 01 June 2011 - 04:24 PM I hated how the show ended and Jerica never told Rico that she was Jem!

Did anyone else hate Kimber? She was such a whiny little brat. Annoying little sister.

I loved Pizazz. What a bitch...lol*0
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<p class="posted_info desc lighter ipsType_small">Posted 01 June 2011 - 04:33 PM Kimber is kinda like Glimmer on She-Ra. I'm sitting here remembering how so many cartoons used to come on FOX and what is now MyNetwork when I was little and they did such a good job of making it fair and balanced for boys and girls. As kids we sure as hell weren't gonna watch the news so we watched it all. She-Ra is particularly great at appealing to boys too, something I really notice now as an adult. He-Man is very often tied in and the She-Ra toys were SO girly compared to the kickass nature of the cartoon. Edited by SFK, 01 June 2011 - 04:33 PM.


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<p class="posted_info desc lighter ipsType_small">Posted 01 June 2011 - 04:38 PM Wow! I never even heard of Qubo. I just followed the link but Comcast doesn't offer the channel. I'm really bummed. I still won't forgive The Cartoon Network for cancelling Thunder Cats. I was actually a part of a campaign to have it reinstated but to no avail. They just don't make cartoons like they use to.

Popeye; Bravestarr; Defenders of the Earth; Dennis the Menace; Ducktales; He-Man; Karate Kat; Lady Lovely Locks; Laser tag Academy, Pink Panther; Smurfs... I could stay here forever. At least Boomerang still air episodes of The Smurfs, albeit limited. There's still an audience for 80's cartoons. If execs were smart they would dedicate a line up for it. I hate the current revamped asian animation they have on some of these classics. They suck donkey balls.*0
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<p class="posted_info desc lighter ipsType_small">Posted 01 June 2011 - 04:48 PM 'Cheap21', on 01 Jun 2011 - 2:24 PM, said: I hated how the show ended and Jerica never told Rico that she was Jem!

Did anyone else hate Kimber? She was such a whiny little brat. Annoying little sister.

I loved Pizazz. What a bitch...lol Speaking of cartoons ending badly; Up to this day I'm still outraged over the way the original X Men on Fox ended. The show was just so fantastic ans superb! There were two alternate reality episodes that made Wolverine and Storm a couple. I was hooked! ARGH!!! Every time I think of X Men Evolution I shudder. Pure bullshit.*0
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