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Written by Christy Marx
Synopsis:
Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, The Misfits, Synergy, Rio, Eric, Lin-Z, Video, Danse, Techrat, Starlight Girls (Ashley, Ba Nee, Krissie, Deidre, Terri, Lela, Anne, Marianne, Joellen, Becky, Nancy, Delaree), Harvey, Joanie, Mrs. Bailey, Eric secretary, Jack Sobieski, Danny, Ramón.
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Deidre thinks Jem is the greatest, she considers herself Jem and the Holograms number 1 fan, and
dreams of playing with the Holograms when she gets good on guitar.
According to Lin-Z, the hot rock music awards is the most important music event of the year.
According to Eric that award can make the Misfits a career.
Jem and the Holograms and the Misfits are both competing in the top new rock group category. This
means this is probably the first year of the groups, or atleast the first year since their
breakthrough.
Lin-Z describes Jem and the Holograms: "They arrived from nowhere and hit it big with their smooth
vibrant sound", The Misfits: "Rocking it up the charts with their tough rough beat and no nonsense
lyrics".
"She Makes An Impression" is Christy's least favorite song, mostly because of the music
video in which she thinks the Starlight Girls pick out the ugliest clothes you have ever
seen on the face of the earth. But Christy liked how they put togheter the lyrics and the
message.
When Jem and the Holograms got Starlight Music back, they dropped the Misfits recording contract.
Misfits Music comes to be when Harvey lets Pizzazz buy a record company.
Joanie at Starlight Music says, about Misfits music, "maybe it's some other Misfits", is she
referring to the real life band?
There's a scene similar to one of the first scenes in the first episode "The Beginning", when Jerrica comes to
Starlight Music and first meets Eric's secretary, and then Eric and the Misfits inside Eric's office.
Techrat was suppose to be a an androgyneous characters, you weren't supposed to be
sure whether this was a male or a female character. But unfortunately Hasbro didn't
like Christy's idea, so consequently Techrat became a male. But he was inspired by Boy
George at the time.
Christy didn't think Techrat's voice fit the character.
Techrat hates being touched.
Synergy can shoot laserbeams, but she only did because of interference from an outside source, one
of Techrats gadgets.
Originally in the script, in the scene where Synergy starts shooting lasers, Jerrica was
able to stop it by using a mirror to bounce back the laserbeams.
The music video of "When It's Only Me And The Music" was storyboarded by Mike Vosburg,
who already happened to be a very good friend of Christy. Infact Mike Vosburg is the
artist who had illustrated Christy's comic book "The Sisterhood of Steel".
Jem and the Holograms are introduced to Danse by Video. Danse's real name is Giselle Dvorak, Danse is
just her stage name.
Danse works part time as a volunteer at Haven House, a place for teenage runaways to get off the
streets. If they want help Haven House has counsellors to talk to, but there are too many runaways and
not enough beds.
The look of the character Video was re-designed for this episode to resemble the doll more.
There's a white grand piano in Starlight Mansion.
Deidre likes Purple Rain, it's the name of a power ballad by Prince, aswell as the name of one of
his albums and a film.
According to the poster made by Danse, the Special Benefit Concert of Haven House starring Jem and
the Holograms, was held August 3, 1986.
One of the Starlight Girls hangouts is a video arcade club, and a fast food restaurant.
According to Aja, Krissie is a sensible girl.
The last name of the character Jack Sobieski is an injoke by Christy because she has
relatives with the name Sobieski.
In the script, the stadium where the Misfits perform, was called "The Slifer Stadium",
as in Roger Slifer. But that name never showed up in the episode, probably because
Slifer was the story editor at the time and cut it out for some reason. Instead it was
called "Stouffer Stadiums".
The song "I Am A Giant" is one of Christy's favorite Misfits songs. She suggested the
events in the music video, and really liked the way it came out.
Like in the episode "The Jem Jam Part 2" Krissie seems to be afraid of heights.
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Written by Christy Marx
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Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, The Misfits, Rio, Eric, Danse, Techrat, Starlight Girls (Ashley, Ba Nee, Krissie, Deidre, Terri, Lela, Anne, Marianne, Joellen, Becky, Nancy, Delaree), Danny, Jack Sobieski, Mick, Ramón.
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The Misfits are pretty good at hanggliding, although Roxy is a bit afraid of heights.
The Jem logo is seen with different rainbowcolors like blue and green.
Apparently Jerrica's office is on the very top floor of Starlight Music, right below the Jem sign on
the roof.
One of Christy's favorite lines is when Eric says to Techrat "You let Pizzazz loose with
a lasergun?".
The headline of the newspaper that the salesman in the Sounds ETC store, says "Runaway problem on
the increase".
Christy wanted to make another episode with the character Danny, that would explore why
he was kicked out by his father. It was going to be a story
about an aloholic father. She had written an entire detailed outline about an episode
that would deal with kids that have alcoholic parents and how they deal with it, and that
they are not responsible. But she couldn't get it approved.
Christy was careful not to make a false happy ending about the serious issue of runaways.
Christy had actually spoken with a person who gave her permission to use the number
to their 800 toll-free help number at the end of this episode, for the national runaway
switchboard where runaway kids could call in and talk to someone and get help getting off
the streets. They got hundreds of hundreds of calls from kids, and it helped some kids get
home to their families.
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Written by Marv Wolfman
Synopsis:
Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, The Misfits, Synergy, Rio, Eric, Lin-Z, Bob Merrit Broadway director, Bob's secretary, gypsy Mama Pama Bama, workers, taxi driver. Lindsey's camera man.
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After Jem has thrown away one of her earrings from the statue of liberty, she is still
seen wearing both.
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Rio suspects that Jerrica is hiding something from him.
There's a newspaper called "Showbiz Daily" that has the headline "Merrit seeks top rockstars for new
b'way musical".
There's a funny scene where Rio gets so excited that he knocks over a tray of hot dogs.
The Misfits are at a gym for no special reason, although that seems out of character for them,
especially with episodes like "Last Resorts", "Hot Time In Hawaii" and "Danse Time" in mind where
they make it clear that they'd rather take it easy than than workout.
There's a magazine in the Misfits music video of "Who Is She, Anyway?" called "FABS" featuring Jem.
While Eric is on TV, you get to see a TV store with alot of TV:s, and one of them is showing the
cartoon Inhumanoids, also made by Sunbow.
Stormer is actually moved to tears during the song "Can't Get My Love Togheter" by Jem and the
Holograms.
Synergy warns that in the wrong hands, her holograms could be used for evil and innocent people could
be hurt.
Roxy almost discovers Jem/Jerrica's secret.
Rio actually asks Jerrica if she and Jem are the same person.
Although Jerrica and Rio never say the words "I love you" in the entire series, Jerrica is close to
do so in this episode, when she says "And I thought I love...".
Also, the fake letter that the Misfits write to Jem, supposedly from Rio, says "I love you" to Jem. Since
when does Rio actually love Jem? But Jem doesn't seem to react as she is reading it.
One of the probably all time funniest hologram projections by Synergy is in this episode. When Jem
takes of her "mask" and reveals who she is.
Jem (Jerrica) is great at skateboarding and hang gliding.
The writer of this episode Marv Wolfman, who is also the comic book writer behind
"The New Teen Titans", actually included a mention of Jem, referring to this episode,
in an issue of the comic. One of the stories include a theater in the background that
reads "Broadway Magic starring Jerrica Benton". Apparently a joke on the fact that Jem
is really Jerrica Benton.
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Written by Rick Merwin
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Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, The Misfits, Synergy, Rio, Eric, Joanie, Zipper, Tim recording engineer at the Starlight Recording studio, Gabor's housekeeper Matilda, The Misfits recording man, Bubba garage owner.
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On the building where it says Starlight Recording Studio, inside the star it also says 8603
which to me seems like March 1986, which is probably when this episode was animated.
We get to see Jem and the Holograms perform, and apparently they, just like real singers, need a
few takes, as they're on take 14 when the episode starts.
Apparently the Holograms do some singing aswell, more than in the background, as Aja keeps singing
a bit of the lyrics before Jem stops her when Jem wants to start over.
There is a magazine called "Music Bizz" where Jem and the Holograms are featured.
It's not only Jerrica who works at Starlight Music, the rest of the Holograms do aswell.
Aja talks to someone on the phone called Sean who apparently does the album cover art for Jem and
the Holograms, or atleast for their first big album.
There are sheets music of Jem and the Holograms music at the Starlight Recording Studio. The
sheets say 1986. I can't read music, but it would be interesting to see what it would actually
sound like. Someone who does read music is the Jem fan Nabil Khazzaka who actually provided a
music file of what this mysterious sheet music sounds like,
aswell the following information about
it: First of all, you will notice that the music is totally rubbish. It sounds more like
a contempary piece of music than a Jem and the Holograms song. Secondly, there are a
couple of measure changes. This is sometimes used in popsongs (like in the chorus of
"Only The Beginning"). It adds a bit of an unexpected twist to the song. But in this
case it's just too weird: one measure in 4/4, then two measures in 5/4, then a
measure in 4/4, followed by three measures in 2/4, and then one in 3/4, followed by
a couple of measures in 2/4. Lastly, there are a couple of mistakes: the top of the
score looks like a piano score (bass and treble key)
but the last two lines are two treble keys (without bass line). Nobody writes a
score like that. There are also mistakes to the time signature for instance at one
point the melody line is in 5/4 and the bass line underneath is in 4/4. That's
impossible. My guess is that somebody at the animation studio with a very basic
knowledge of music must have written something quickly down.
When Jerrica and the Holograms are looking through phone books, they find Mirage Garage which is
apparently at 470 Way Out There Blvd. Ca.
Other things that can be read in the phone book is "Audi" and "Volkswagen". And there's an ad that
says "March of Dimes Saves Babies, Please help fight birth defects".
Synergy has a scanner that can analyze notes and somehow find out some info about them.
Jem and the Holograms are number one in the "Music Bizz" magazine.
The rest of the artists on the top then list resembles exactly the top ten list from the episode
Glitter and Gold, where the Misfits are number one though.
Number 2 is some artist called Pauper
(Cindy Lauper?), 3 is
Bruce Fallsteen (Bruce Springsteen), 4 The Moss Covered Stones (The Rolling Stones), 5 Mundanna
(Madonna), 6 Rodents (can't be seen here but in the other episode), 7 Iron Fading (Iron Maiden),
8 Twisted Brother (Twisted Sister), 9 The Roomoans (The Ramones), 10 Tom Potty and the Head Breakers
(Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers).
The song "There's A Melody Playin'" by Jem and the Holograms and the song "There Ain't Nobody Better"
by the Misfits is the same song, except for the lyrics and groups, this was done intentionally
because of the story of the episode.
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Written by Beth Bornstein
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Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, The Misfits, Rio, Starlight Girls (Ashley, Krissie, Deidre), Zipper, Coach Steve, Giselle, Don Lo commentator.
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When Kimber is talking to Steve at the beach, and she sees the Misfits, part of her hair or neck,
flashes between skincolor and red.
Pizzazz loses her makeup for a moment during the music video of the song "Misfits In Hawaii".
Trivia:
Zipper doesn't care about the Misfits.
Kimber is a really good swimmer and surfer.
Kimber gets kidnapped.
This was the last episode of Zipper. The producers told Christy they wanted a new
bad guy working for Eric, so she gave them Techrat instead.
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Written by Christy Marx and Ellen Guon
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Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, The Misfits, Eric, princess Adriana of Morvania, Lexa, Dimitrios, Corven royal guard.
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Kimber has an exact lookalike in Adriana, not even her own sister can tell them apart. But their
voices are slightly different. But then Jerrica can't even tell the difference between Kimber's and
Stormer's voice.
Adriana says she will be 18 years old in one week. Considering that Kimber is her exact
lookalike, one might also take for granted that Kimber is the same age.
Kimber is not included in the music video of "Here Comes Trouble" by Jem and the Holograms.
Kimber gets kidnapped again.
Once again we get an example of what a good swimmer Kimber is, and diver, and very brave.
Other episodes with lookalikes are "One Jem Too Many" and "The Fan".
We get to hear part of what could be a Jem song, when Jem and the Holograms rehearse with the wrong
Kimber. It's a shame it wasn't made into a song, it has a nice intro.
Eric and the Misfits save Jem, Aja, Shana and Adriana's life.
Yet another example where Jem projects a hologram which is clearly visable and unrealistic to a group
of people who don't know about Synergy. No one saw it came from Jem though.
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Written by Mary Skrenes
Synopsis:
Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, The Misfits, Rio, Eric, Starlight Girls (Ashley, Ba Nee, Krissie, Deidre, Terri, Lela, Marianne, Joellen, Becky, Nancy, Delaree), captain Warren of the "Bahama Queen", Angus Bean, Krebbs.
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Stormer almost discovers Jem's secret when she is rescued by Jerrica.
Synergy's transmission gets blocked too deep under water.
Jerrica was a girlscout.
Pizzazz knows how to clear a fish.
Kimber is afraid of Spiders, Stormer isn't.
Stormer says a title of a Jem and the Holograms song, "Love's Not Easy" and Kimber repeats that
line, which is the title of Jem song that was
yet to come in many episodes later, and this episode only had two songs.
We get to see Rio unshaved. Apparently purple isn't his real hair color since his beard is not purple.
Jerrica figures out in advance that Rio can't hug a hologram, so she makes sure she is Jerrica, and
since Jem has to be there too, she makes a hologram of Jem next to her.
Kimber suggests that Jem and the Holograms and the Misfits become friends and Stormer practically
agrees, but Roxy and Pizzazz don't.
Although the fashions worn by the Holograms and the Misfits are ruined in this episode, several of
them appear fixed up in later episodes.
The song "Love's Not Easy" by Jem and the Holograms, which appeared in the episode
"Renaissance Woman", may have been made for this episode.
Kimber says the line "love's not easy" in this episode, and it's the only song that
appeared on a cassette with the dolls before it was shown in the cartoon.
A messsage from the writer Mary Skrenes:
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Written by Sandy Fries
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Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, The Misfits, Eric, Video, Bobby Bailey musician, Torch, Mickey, Carl Sanford councilman, Mr. Wellington head of the historical socitey.
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Jem accidentally reveals to Bobby that Kimber is her sister.
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Bobby Bailey, the one who supposedly wrote the song "Rock and Roll Is Forever", thinks Jem and the
Holograms did a lousy cover, that they got the song all wrong, and that they really stunk. Still,
when this song is re-used in a later episode "Journey Through Time", Jem and the Holograms changed
nothing.
Kimber: "What good is a guitar if you can't plug it in". Kimber has played an acoustic guitar several
times in other episodes though, like the first episode "The Beginning" and "Scandal".
Eric thinks it's relaxing to tear down old buildings.
Bobby Bailey and the Tornadoes recorded atleast five gold records.
Pizzazz doesn't seem to like cats very much.
Kimber shows some interest for law. She digs into real estate, and finds out that a neighbourhood
was owned as a residental area, and that no one can build a factory in a residental zone. And
also that a historical landmark can never be demolished. Aja is worried about Kimber, she has been
spending 8 hours doing research in the courts public archives, and Jerrica hopes she is not sick.
Jem thinks there's something unique about the energy and style of the early rock and rollers, today's
rock and rollers owe alot to the musicians who created rock and roll.
The only episode of which the opening theme wasn't changed to the new second Jem Theme.
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Written by Roger Slifer
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Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, The Misfits, Synergy, Rio, Eric, Wise, Martino Grandzetti race car driver, Harry bookmaker.
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Starlight Music are sponsoring a race car driver.
Synergy is an excellent mechanic.
Jem has some racing skills, and so does Pizzazz.
Pizzazz has some binoculars that are shaped as her eye makeup.
The racing car "Starlight Special" has the number 11, and Pizzazz' car has number 007.
Pizzazz has no conscious according to herself.
Jem breaks all the previous indy speed records.
The character Martino Grandzetti is based on a real life Italian American race car driver
Mario Andretti.
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Written by Christy Marx
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Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, The Misfits, Rio, Eric, Lin-Z, Video, Clash, Danse, Techrat, Starlight Girls (Ashley, Ba Nee, Krissie, Deidre, Terri, Lela, Anne, Marianne, Joellen, Becky), Johnny Deacon, Luna Dark, Roland Owens, Lena Lerner, Dominic Lerner, Ron Cox, Randy James drummer, punks (D.R., Quinch).
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Ba Nee's mother told her that her father is an american with red hair.
There is a character among the press people when Jem introduces the Jem Jam, that looks very much
like one that appeared
in the Starbright three parter. Apparently they used the same character model, but new colors.
Same character shows up in the "Hollywood Jem Part One: For Your Consideration... ", with different
colors.
Ashley dreams of her own band with the Starlight Girls Lela on drums, Deidre on guitar, and Becky on
keyboard, and Ashley herself singing and playing guitar.
According to Jerrica there is plenty of room in Starlight Mansion, all the Jem Jam stars
Johnny Deacon, Luna Dark, Roland Owens, Lena Lerner, Dominic, Ron Cox are staying there.
Krissie has her own room on the second floor.
According to Randy James, Ba Nee is a vietnamese name.
Apparently Starlight Mansion has a helipad.
Harvey Gabor has a garage for three cars and two of thems seems to be of the expensive kind.
For the first time, Jem comes to Gabor's mansion, uninvited though.
Harvey Gabor has three Doberman Pinscher as guard dogs walking around the mansion unleashed.
According to Christy: Dominic was based on a young Michael Jackson. Also the other
celebrities in this episode were based on real musicians of the time. Roland Owens is Stevie Wonder.
Ron Cox is Mick Jagger. Lena Lerner is Tina Turner. Luna Dark is Madonna, which was originally
supposed to be called Cherry Bomb but Christy was forced to change it. Luna Dark is a double joke,
because it's like lunar and dark, but also in Australia there's an amusement park called Luna Park.
Johnny Deacon is Bruce Springsteen. Randy James is not based on any musician.
It was Hasbro's idea to give the Starlight Girls their own songs,
this was connected to the fact that Hasbro decided to make dolls of these girls, which were
originally created by Christy.
The song "A Father Should Be" by Ba Nee, says alot about how Christy felt about her own father.
What we see in the music video of "A Father Should Be" is not Ba Nee's memories since she was just a
baby when she was still in vietnam.
Early in Christy's career she worked on a project called "The children of An Loc", a true story
about two women in vietnam who saved an orphanage of children in An Loc, one of the women played
herself in the movie, and she had adopted three vietnamese girls one which was named "Ba Nee".
A whole scene was cut out of this episode, which showed how Clash got into Starlight Music and
obtained the information.
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Written by Christy Marx
Synopsis:
Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, The Misfits, Synergy (voice only), Rio, Eric, Techrat, Starlight Girls (Ashley, Ba Nee, Krissie, Deidre, Terri, Lela, Anne, Marianne, Joellen, Becky, Nancy, Delaree) Johnny Deacon, Luna Dark, Roland Owens, Lena Lerner, Dominic Lerner, Ron Cox, Randy James drummer, D.R.
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This episode starts on a friday.
Ba Nee was born in An Loc, a small town in the south of Vietnam, located approximately 90 km north
of Saigon.
In opposite to the first part of the Jem Jam in the music video of "I Can See Me" by Ashley, here when
the Ashley and the Starlights rehearse, Becky is on drums instead of Lela, and Lela is on the piano.
Dominic can't swim.
Krissie is scared of heights.
The record player in the music video "Gimme A Gimmick" by the Misfits says "SANY" instead of "SONY".
We get to hear several new singing voices, male and female in this episodes.
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Written by David Wise
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Jem and the Holograms, The Misfits, Eric, Video, Anthony, Fitzgerald Beck artist, Maria Castello art dealer and night club owner, Alex Falk.
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During Jem and the Holograms performance on the stage indoors, before the robots go
explode, Shana has the same color on her outfit as Jem does, while it's suppose to be
much brighter pink.
After the robots have exploded, the yellow in Video's makeup changes to green.
Although Jem and the Holograms live in Los Angeles and had to fly to New York,
they are able to get back to Los Angeles and Misfits Music and then again to
New York in the same night. Guess the writer forgot they were in New York.
When Jem and the Holograms are stuck with the police, Synergy is able to project a
hologram although it appears outside the room where Jem is with her earrings.
A hologram can't be projected through a door.
At Maria's club, after Jerrica has projected a hologram of Eric knocking on
Maria's door, Maria appears to push the hologram aside as she runs by. But no one can
touch a hologram, it's empty space.
Trivia:
Eric and Video are big fans of Fitz.
We get to hear a part that is not included in the song "Surprise! Surprise!" by the Misfits, that
says "wait till you see what's in store for you".
Fitz is in love with Jem, but Jem says there is someone else. Could it be Rio? But Rio is with
Jerrica.
The fact that Jem and the Holograms have to travel by airplane to get to New York shows that they
don't live there. On the other hand the Holograms were pretty quick to get to Misfits Music and then
back to New York.
Again Jem gets handcuffed by the police, like in the earlier episode "Frame Up".
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Written by Christy Marx
Synopsis:
Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, The Misfits, Synergy, Rio, Eric, Lin-Z, Video, Clash, Starlight Girls (Ashley, Ba Nee, Krissie, Deidre, Lela, Anne, Marianne, Becky, Nancy, Delaree), Anthony, Jeff, 5th Avenue boys (Joe, Jay, Tom), Max Connelly photographer, Owen Beach owner of the Diskovery records, The Skulls.
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Jem and the Holograms haven't put out a new album in ages according to Kimber. It's been so long that
there's an article in a magazine called Music Bizz with the title "Where's Jem?". It says
"Whatever happened to Jem and the Holograms, the once popular group has disappeared from the music
scene". According to Eric, Jerrica ruined Jem's career.
Jerrica is tired about hearing about Jem.
The Misfits entered the Glitter and Gold contest held by Diskovery records, before Jem and the
Holograms did. So for once, they didn't just show up to harass Jem and the Holograms.
The look of the character Clash was re-designed for this episode to resemble the doll more.
Pizzazz is featured in a magazine called "Star Variety".
With the scene where Jerrica asks Synergy to project Rio, Christy meant to show us a
concrete reason why Jerrica is terrified to tell the truth to Rio.
Synergy thinks that Rio doesn't know that Jem and Jerrica is the same person and that if he found
out he would get so upset he would never talk to Jerrica again.
Jerrica decides to reveal that she and Jem are the same person.
Rio kicks over a pot outside of Starlight Mansion when he's angry, according to Christy Marx
this childish behaviour of Rio was not in her scripts and she wouldn't have tolerated it.
The 5th Avenue boys are signed to Starlight Music. Jerrica is their manager.
The 5th Avenue boys is an injoke by Christy Marx about some of the people who worked on Jem, they
worked on the street 5th Avenue and their names are Jay Bacal (creative director), Tom Griffin
(executive producer) and Joe Bacal (executive producer). Jay Bacal was Joe's son and Christy worked
closely with him on many Sunbow shows.
This episode introduces Hasbro's "Glitter and Gold" Jem and Rio dolls, the Roadster and the fashions.
From this episode and on, Jem's pink eyemakeup turns gold, blue or purple to
correspond with the new dolls in the doll line.
Jem and the Holograms' new album is called "Glitter 'n Gold", it uses Hasbro's GNG Jem logo.
Eric offers the band the Skulls a recording contract with Misfits Music.
Shana speaks a line in the song "We're Up/You're Down" by Jem and the Holograms/The Misfits, which
is voiced by Britta Phillips.
Both Jem and the Holograms and the Misfits sold half a million records.
The line "Would my golden lady care to dance?" spoken by Rio at the very end of the
episode, wasn't in Christy's script, someone else added it.
Christy and the others who worked on Jem during the time the "Glitter And Gold" series was introduced
into the Jem line, had to use a codename, "Ruby Red", when talking about Glitter And Gold, to keep
companies like Mattel from stealing ideas and releasing something similar for Barbie.
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