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Written by Jina Bacarr
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Jem and the Holograms, The Misfits, Eric, Starlight Girls (Ba Nee) Betty Vick reporter at Philadelphia spotlight, Red Aces (Linc).
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Nobody leaves the Misfits according to Pizzazz.
Roxy's real name is Roxanne Pelligrini and she is from Philadelphia.
When Roxy sings the Misfits song "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!" and even her own song "I'm Gonna Change"
it's actually the same singing voice as Pizzazz, Ellen Bernfeld.
The song "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!" by the Misfits is re-used. Previously appeared in the episode
"The World Hunger Shindig".
A sign as Roxy is driving to Philadelphia says "Philadelphia City limits, Pop: 1,607,022, EL.EV: 500".
Roxy's neighbourhood hasn't changed a bit since Roxy left.
This episodes reveals that the Misfits aren't doing so well money wise.
Roxy signed a contract and has to perform with the Misfits.
Roxy gets a book from Ba Nee, and starts using it to learn how to read.
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Written by Sandy Fries
Synopsis:
Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, Starlight Girls (Ashley, Ba Nee, Krissie, Deidre, Terri, Lela, Anne, Marianne, Joellen, Becky, Nancy), Mrs. Bailey, Laura Holloway, Mrs. Harding the social worker, Bobby Braddock high school student, Miss Sanford group counsellor.
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There is a poster in Starlight Mansion on the wall, where Jem has brown hair.
There is a ping pong table in the recreation room in Starlight Mansion.
Jem thinks Laura is terrific, she plays guitar beautifully and got a wonderful voice.
Laura Holloway is 14 years old.
Laura gets her own room temporarily at top floor of starlight Mansion.
Ashley is worrying about a history test, she needs to get a good grade to pass.
The song "Look Inside Yourself" is said to be written by Laura, and especially for her guest
performance with Jem and the Holograms.
The song "Nightmare" by Jem and the Holograms is re-used. Previously appeared in the episode
"The Fan".
At the end of this episode there as a phone number to a hotline for viewers to call in and
get help if they had drug abuse problems.
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Written by Christy Marx
Synopsis:
Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, The Misfits, Rio, Eric, Danse, Starlight Girls (Ashley, Deidre, Lela, Anne), Mando radio DJ, KMEL's senior DJ, KMEL's engineer, Elzer Marcus owner and manager of KMEL, College School kids (Switch), Mr. Kyte, Adrian Lassiter, Starlight Music's secretary, McDuffy pilot.
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This episode started out as a two-parter. Christy had tons of different ideas. One idea
Christy had for a subplot, involved one of the engineers being an alcoholic and trying to
deal with his alcoholism. But that idea got dropped pretty fast.
Another subplot was with the character Switch, who was going to end up in the hospital,
desperately needing an organ transplant.
According to Ashley, everyone listens to the radio channel KLEK, but Deidre likes KBST.
Jetta claims she is close personal friends with the royal family of England, Charles, Diana, Fergie
and Andrew.
Christy didn't get her way of making the character Jetta black, so she was quite proud
to be able to sneak in a black villain in this episode instead, Mr. Lassiter. She didn't
want to be forced to be too politically correct.
One of the girls at the college resembles very much one of the characters working on Jem's movie in
the Starbright three parter episodes, except this one is a brunette instead of blonde. But she does
have the same hairstyle, hairband, earrings and clothes, also in other colors.
When Christy was writing this episode, she went out to a small college FM radiostation in
Clearmont, California called KSPC and they gave Christy several hours of their time so she
could wander around the station and look at how they did things. Christy shot tons of
film of all their equipment and also of the college students that helped her. She gave the
pictures to the storyboard artists so that they could see the equipment, and actually
turn the college students into cartoon characters.
There is a magazine called Music Beat where Jem is featured.
Rio is in the Pilots Club, and gets a flying license for airplanes. Rio just made his last payment
for his airplane. Rio's plane says "ND7ID".
When Christy was writing this episode her husband at the time, the late Peter Ledger,
loved planes and had just gotten his license to fly a plane. Peter came up with the
idea of using the airplanes they used in this episode.
One of the college kids, Switch, is a friend of Kimber who went to highschool with her.
Elzer Marcus signing off: "Radio is a medium of imagination, creates pictures in the mind, it brings
us news and new ideas, it entertains us with comedy, drama and music. Rock, country and western,
classical, jazz and everything inbetween. But most of all radio is the vital part of our most
precious right, freedom of speech. So support your community and public stations, let radio do more
than just entertain you, let it educate you!".
Elzer Marcus was based on Christy father Elzer Marx who managed a local radio station
and was an announcer in their hometown when Christy was growing up, called WITY. So
Christy grew up with alot of radio background, which came to good use for writing this
episode. The character doesn't look exactly like Christy's father, but back when this
episode first aired, one of the locals who saw the cartoon actually recognized the
cartoon character as her father.
We get to see there's something of a park on top of Starlight Music, with grass and trees.
Rio becomes a temporary engineer at the radiostation KJEM.
There was a scene cut from this episode, before Pizzazz comes in screaming at Eric in
his office in Misfits Music, the Misfits has been flooded with promotion materials for
the KJEM station on the street, people were coming up giving them pins and stickers,
and as a final insult someone slaps a KJEM bumper sticker on the Misfits van.
Other scenes that were cut involved some local rockgroups that were playing at the
opening of KJEM.
Christy had more in mind for the character Mr. Lassiter for future episodes, which
she never got the chance to do before the show ended.
According to the song "KJEM", the KJEM radio station broadcasts hits songs, sport, weather and news
night and day.
KJEM was released as a playset in the Jem doll line.
The song "When It's Only Me And The Music" by Jem and the Holograms is re-used. Previously appeared
in the episode "The Music Awards Part 1". Also this time Danse is in the video.
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Written by Misty Stewart-Taggart
Synopsis:
Jem/Jerrica and he Holograms, The Misfits, Eric, Lin-Z, Danse, Techrat, Starlight Girls (Ashley, Ba Nee, Krissie, Deidre, Terri, Lela, Marianne, Joellen, Becky, Nancy), Terrance Landau in real estate, Frederick Vincent, building inspector.
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Rio is on the local board of the historical preservation league.
Terri hates Halloween, she is easily scared and superstitious, atleast until this episode. But she
seems to still be as scared in the episode "The Stingers Hit Town Part 2" when Rapture scares her.
Jem and the Holograms are all big fans of the actor Frederick Vincent, and like his movies.
Frederick Vincent was based on Vincent Price (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993)
an star of old horror movies.
Things have a tendency of falling over Danse. Like in the episode "Danse Time", a fake tree falls
over her when she is practicing iceskating for Jem and the Holograms' music video.
Jem and the Holograms who don't know about Techrat, don't see him in this episode either, because he
is dressed out as a ghost.
Frederick Vincent has a black cat called Phantom, as in "Phantom of the Opera" maybe.
Jem is dressed out as a witch, Shana as the devil, Kimber as a skeleton, Aja as the bride of
Frankenstein and Raya as a mummy.
The song "We can change it" by Jem and the Holograms is re-used. Previously appeared in the episode
"The Rock Fashion Book".
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Written by Beth Bornstein
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Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, the Misfits, Synergy, Eric, Lin-Z, president, Paul Davis the white house's entertainment coordinator, washington marauder.
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One of the guards that come in while the Holograms are trying to put Synergy
back togheter, is black, but when we see a shot of him from behind he is white,
and then back to black.
When Jem and the Holograms receive a fake call with an invititation to the white house,
Shana's hairstyle has some turquoise parts in it on the sides, which is
supposed to be purple like the rest of her hair. Then when they arrive, Shana's
has her regular haistyle, which changes back to the correct hairstyle in the next
clip, but also the miscoloration comes back. Then when they're driving the roadster
it's back to her regular hairstyle.
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The Misfits come closer than ever to finding out about Synergy, they even get a good clear sight of
Synergy as they spy on Jerrica and the Holograms when they put Synergy togheter. Roxy's comment is
that it's a "pretty fancy machine". Eric makes the connection to the machine his private investigator
found in the Truly Outrageous five parter episodes. Apparently Eric still has the photo of it.
Synergy is actually plugged in as she is taken apart, or she is running on her batteries.
Jerrica tells the president about Synergy, she says Synergy is an intergral part of Jem and the
Holograms act, she is an extremely sofisticated computer, she is more than just a computer, she
is the back bone of their act. Finally, Jerrica actually revelas her secret to the president.
According to the people taking Synergy apart, they have never seen anything like it before, it's
lightyears ahead of our present technology, the machine's program is too complex for them to
understand.
The song "Time Is Running Out" by Jem and the Holograms is re-used. Previously appeared in the
episode "In Stitches".
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Written by Steve Mitchell and Barbara Petty
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Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, Misfits, Rio, Lin-Z, Starlight Girls (Ashley, Ba Nee, Krissie, Deidre, Lela, Anne, Marianne, Joellen, Becky, Nancy, Delaree), Rock Canyon sheriff Dodd, train robber, Bill the security guard, Al.
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According to the map shown on the Lin-Z Pierce show, Jem and the Holograms are touring the states
Los Angeles, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklamhoma, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, New jersey, and New York.
The fact that the traintour is starting in Los Angeles is one thing that speaks for that Jem and
the Holograms live in Los Angeles.
Rio is a great motorcycle driver.
The song "It Takes Alot To Survive" by the Misfits is re-used. Previously appeared in the episode
"Island Of Deception".
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Written by Chris Pelzer
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Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, The Misfits, Rio, Eric, Starlight Girls (Ba Nee), Harvey, Uto, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Kenyak, Mr.s Kenyak, George.
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Raya's skincolor is too bright in this episode.
Ba Nee lost her cap which the seals took care of, but appears with it later anyway.
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Harvey refers to what happened in the episode Starbright Part 3, where Eric ruined
his movie studio and he lost millions.
Ba Nee has a penpal in Alaska.
Apparently Pizzazz doesn't do her own hair, as Eric offers to pay for her next
hairstyling.
The song "Makin' Mischief" by the Misfits is re-used. Previously appeared in the episode
"Disaster".
In the French dubbing of this episode, the voice of Ba Nee's penpal is male instead of
female.
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Written by David Wise
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Jem and the Holograms, Rio, Danse, Robin Goodfellow, Reginald Carfax, Jolly Jack, lord of carfax county.
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Nothing falls over Danse in this episode. Although two men fall for her.
But Danse doesn't believe in whirlwind romances.
It seems that whenever Danse is with Jem and the Holograms,
she gets all the attention instead of any of the Holograms. She
must be considered more beautiful or talented.
Shana used to go to summercamp.
Jem and the Holograms are bad at archery, except for Raya.
Jem is great at swordmanship though.
Rio says he's rigged pyrotechnics for Jem and the Holograms' concerts for years.
This episode is a "Robin Hood"-like story, Robin Hood is even
mentioned by Danse. It also has bits from the "Man in the Iron
Mask".
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Written by Mary Skrenes
Synopsis:
Jem and the Holograms, The Misfits, Rio, Pierre L'arquette detective, Zomboys (Neco, Rag Bag), Maurice detective, Mademoiselle Yvette, Mama Lou, Leon electrician, Lily LaRose, Jean Lafitte pirate.
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Shana finds out that she very much resembles the legendary singer Lily LaRose.
Shana is very faithful to Anthony, she has Anthony's picture in a locket, and she refuses to let
Pierre kiss her hand.
The song "Surprise! Surprise!" by The Misfits is re-used. Previously appeared in the episode
"Culture Clash".
This was the writer Mary Skrenes' last Jem episode, and she left writing animation after this
episode.
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Written by Michael Charles Hill
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Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, The Misfits, Synergy, Rio, Eric, Lin-Z, Jacqui, Emmett.
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In the attic of Starlight Mansion there's a box of Jacqui's things. Among other things several
sheets of music notes. The song "First Love" was written by Jacqui Benton in the 70's.
Jacqui Benton wrote hundreds of songs and had her own band, they performed out of town every so
often. Some of Jacqui's Benton's songs are
"First Love", "My Heart", "Oh. Jo", "Jerrica's" and "Starlight".
The official lyrics to Starlight are: Starlight is the messege (Blooper: mispelled) that I
send from beyond, starlight is for always even when I am gone!, starlight to shimmer on and on,
starlight won't desert you starlight always there, starlight i...
Jacqui never got the chance to cut her last album.
Jacqui had a necklace with a star very similar to the star earrings.
Jacqui was a foster girl and was moved from place to place without having a home to call her own,
never able to share the love of a real family.
Jacqui saw the Starlight Foundation as a chance to help homeless girls feel loved.
Aja doesn't call Jacqui mother, she refers to Jacqui as their (Jerrica and Kimber's) mother and
Emmett as Jerrica's and Kimber's father. Emmett referred to the foster girls as "Jacqui's foster
girls".
Rio's family lived right next door to Starlight House, they moved there after the Benton family, and
Rio was only a young boy at the time.
Jerrica was interested in Rio already when she was ten years old and Rio had just moved into the
neigbourhood.
Emmett thought Rio had a very keen mind and was a natural technician.
Rio helped Emmett alot when he was younger, and showed alot of interest for audio equipment.
Aja became the very first foster girl of Starlight House when she was only 11 years old, same age as
Jerrica. Aja got her own room in Starlight House. Second foster girl was Shana and third was Lela.
Aja got along better with Rio when they were younger, as Aja was a bit of a tomboy and Jerrica wasn't.
Shana was a very shy when she first arrived at Starlight House.
Kimber, Shana, Aja and Rio all had the same haircolor as kids as they do today.
Jerrica and Rio went to the same school.
Rio was Jerrica's first love. Jerrica and Rio's first kiss was at a drive-in theather watching a
western film.
Starlight Music was when first started by Emmett and Jacqui, first located in a another, smaller,
building.
Eric stole some things from Starlight Music when he was fired, like Jacqui Benton's master tape
recordings.
One of the first holograms that Emmett projects is a small hologram of a transformer robot.
Just like in "KJEM", there's a female character that resembles very much one of the characters
working on Jem's movie in the Starbright three parter episodes, except this one is a light blonde
instead of blonde. But she does have the same hairstyle, hairband, earrings and clothes, also in
other colors. She appears right after Emmett says "May 10".
After Emmett says "May 10", he drops a briefcase with papers that are written on, and we get
to see some of them fly by and can read some of the text.
Rio went to engineering school.
According to Synergy, she is Synergy and nothing more and nothing less. Not Jacqui. She is Emmett's
gift of love.
Once again Synergy is being taken apart.
Emmett Benton kept a diary. Dates in Emmett's diary:
March 6: Rio's family has just moved next door and Rio came by Starlight House. Jerrica is 10 years old.
June 30: Aja arrived to Starlight House.
November 13: Shana arrived to Starlight House.
April 29: Jerrica is trying to catch Rio's attention, Shana is shy and feels lonely. Jerrica makes
her first attempt to make Shana feel welcome.
June 6: Jacqui had a sold out performance.
August 13: Lela arrived to Starlight House, which Kimber is happy about because she is younger than
Kimber.
September 5: Jacqui officiated over a sacret female pact in the girls club with Jerrica, Aja and
Shana, where they promised to share everything they had and to be good and true friends forever,
and to let nothing interefere with their friendship, even boys.
January 31: Jacqui died.
February 8: A week since Jacqui died. Emmett felt that life lost all purpose and meaning. But the
love of his daughters and foster daughters gave hime reason to live again.
May 31: Emmett came up with the idea to link music and threedimensional holographic images. His
idea was to recreate live musical performances in the home of every music fan in america. Rio and
Jerrica are inseparable.
November 9: Emmett made amazing breakthroughs in computergenerated holograms.
May 6: For privacy Emmett moved his workshop to an old Drive-in theather that he purchased. He named
his holographic computer Synergy.
May 10: Emmett decide to hire someone to oversee his affairs at Starlight Music. He is getting tired.
He decides to see his doctor.
May 21: Emmett hires a young and agressive assistant, Eric Raymond. Jerrica approves of his choice,
and Emmett thought Rio might have competition. Jerrica was only 17 years old.
June 23: Rio comes home from engineering school for the summer. Jerrica decided to use Eric to make
Rio jealous.
July 1: Synergy is near completion. Emmett records her with Jacqui's recordings and likeness. But he
couldn't bear to make her too much like Jacqui.
July 6: Synergy was complete. She became much more than Emmett originally intended. She can create
holographic images of anything and be a very dangerous tool in the wrong hands. He decides to keep
her a secret. The doctor says he doesn't have long to live, but he hasn't told anyone.
February 2: Emmett continues with his preparations for his family's future. The Rockin' Roadster is
being brought to Starlight Drive-in. He plans to give Synergy as a gift to his daughters,
to be a friend, mother, teacher and guide.
May 30: Emmett makes the star earrings for Jerrica. He hoped to give them to Jerrica personally, but
if not, he programmed Synergy to reveal her existance to Jerrica and Kimber. He knew they would use
her wisely.
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Written by Christy Marx
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Jem and the Holograms, The Misfits, Craig, Flo mother of Jetta, Bertie father of Jetta, Cindy Tucker, sir Hugh Ridley, Jack, Lord Trevor, Stoke, Fenton, Mason Hawthorne earl of Wissex, Alan, James.
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We see on a calendar that it is the 12th, but not what month it is.
Jetta is called by her real name Sheila by her parents.
Jetta has apparently been in so much trouble while growing up that her
parents fear the worst whenever she calls them.
Jetta's parents like to bet on horses.
Outside the Rock Hard Cafe there's a newspaper, the Los Angeles Times.
Another sign Jem and the Holograms obviously live in Los Angeles.
Raya and Kimber act like it's their first time in England, but they
had already been to England twice in the episodes "Renaissance Woman"
and "Beauty And The Rock Promoter".
The Misfits are pretty good at horseriding.
Maison is 21 years old.
Stormer seems to be afraid of Jem and the Holograms without the
other Misfits around. Even though she made friends with them in
the episode "The Bands Break Up".
Craig intentionally kept Stormer a secret from Aja.
Craig calls Aja "gorgeous".
Maison's pet fox understands English.
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Written by Eric Early
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Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, The Misfits, Synergy, Eric, Lin-Z, Techrat, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ben Tiller, Larry, Ray, Johnny Beldrix, Willy.
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Roxy thinks Techrat is a jerk.
Jem and the Holograms go back to Vienna in March 1781.
Synergy has the ability to switch to battery power, so she doesn't need to be plugged in.
A storm can break Synergy's signal.
Aja thinks Mozart is gorgeus, and Jem thinks he is one of the greatest composers who
ever lived.
We get to hear Mozart play. But can anyone tell me what he's playing?
Jem and the Holograms go back to London 1944.
Ben Tiller is suppose to be the real life american jazz musician Glenn Miller.
Uncle Sam appears in the music video of the song "We're Making It Happen" by Jem and
the Holograms.
Jem and the Holograms go back to Woodstock 15-18 august 1969 near the city Bethel in
New York. Pizzazz calls Woodstock the greatest concert of all time.
Jem and the Holograms meet Johnny Beldrix who is supposed to be Jimi Hendrix.
Johnny Beldrix thinks the Misfits are unhip.
Eric goes back in time to the dinosaurs.
In the song "Rockin' Down Through Time" by Jem and the Holograms, real life musicians
are mentioned: Wolfgang Amadeus¨Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann
Sebastian Bach, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, George Gershwin, Glenn
Miller, John Lennon, and Elvis Presley.
Stormer says a line "Pizzazz, how are we ever gonna get back to the future" that might be a
reference to the 1985 movie "Back To The Future", considering the time travelling theme.
Part of this episode took place on a Sunday, or more exact... the parts when Jem and
the Holograms are in Woodstock took place on sunday august 17 in 1969.
The song "Rock And Roll Is Forever" by Jem and the Holograms is re-used. Previously appeared in the
episode "Old Meets New".
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For Your Consideration... Written by Roger Slifer
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Jem/Jerrica and the Holograms, Rio, Starlight Girls (Ba Nee), Danielle, Howard, Jeff, Sean, Harriet, Geraldine Pathos, Sigourney Reaver, Meryl Saint, Francois, jewelry store woman, Flint Westwood actor.
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There's a newspaper called "Daily-News" which has the headlines "Jem nominated for Oscar".
A magazine called "ROCKSCENE" says "Rock industry salutes academy nominee - Jem!"
There are some characters that are supposed to be real actors, like
"Signourney Reaver" (Sigourney Weaver), Meryl Saint (Meryl Streep), Geraldine Pathos
(Geraldine Page) Flint Westwood (Clint Eastwood), Michael J. Badger (Michael J. Fox).
Here Harriet Horn is spelled without the "E" at the end of "Horn".
According to Harriet Horn, Jem is Rock's hottest sensation.
The Harriet Horn show is sponsored by Cool Trash magazine.
A woman on TV, representing Cool Trash magazine, looks very much like
Georgia from the Starlight three parter episodes.
The picture Jem is filming is called "Future Rock", it's directed by H. Moore, and
filmed by C. Smith.
Jem wears her own clothes in the film.
Kimber, Sean, and another man is bathing in a bubblebath with their clothes on.
Sean says the line "Come on in the water's fine" which is the title of a Jem song.
Jeff thinks Sean is a wimp.
There is a character working in the jewelry store 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 "Jem Jam Part 1", with different colors.
The song "Too Close" by Jem and the Holograms is re-used. Previously appeared in the episode
"Frame Up".
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