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Every now and then Jem dolls or other Jem stuff appear in some more or less unexpected places. Sometimes it's a Jem doll appearing in a movie, or an article about Jem is included in a magazine, or a celebrity talks about remembering Jem. I think it's great that Jem is still showing up every here and there after all years, and this is the page where those kind of appearances go. If you've seen Jem somewhere, be sure to let me know: webmaster@rockjem.com
In episode 14 "Guys and Dolls" of season 2 which was originally aired on 10 January 1988, Marcy manages to lose her Barbie doll. So she sends out her husband Steve and dear neighbor Al Bundy to search for it. It's a Barbie doll, in a Rock 'n Curl Jem doll's outfit.
On his 99 cents segment Jay Leno took up one of those Super Stars dolls that had leftover parts
from Jem and Maxie dolls saying:
"Oh here's a cheap doll, this is a Superstar! Look at this, it says super star doll, and look she's a
superstar. Look at this thing. She realized how to be a superstar in this town, take your top off
apparently. I don't know why. And with the yellow boots. But it's only 99 cents. Kevin, that big blow up
you've got, what did you pay for that? What'd you pay like 80 bucks?".
This particular doll didn't seem to have any of the leftover parts or clothes from the Jem doll line
though. It had some other body and a curly purple haired female head.
In an episode from 2006 from this comedy series based on the Simpsons' kind of humor,
the characters Brian (the dog) and Stewie (the baby) drill a hole to spy on the Mayor
Adam West, which is played by the Actor Adam West, known from the more famous series
the 60's Batman series.
We don't get a very good view of the TV which the Mayor is watching Jem on, but you can
tell Jem is dancing, some music is playing and the
background is flashing in different colors.
This 1988 horror movie about a doll with a murderer's soul, starts with a scene in a toy store. One of the first toys we get to see is a KJEM Rock On Guitar, out of it's box, which was made in 1987. We also see other toys of the time by Mattel like Princess of Power and Barbie and the Rockers.
In the music video of Madonna's song "Sorry" from the 2005 album "Confessions on a Dance Floor", one of the three female dancers is wearing a purple t-shirt with Jem and the Holograms on it which can clearly be seen in several shots. The video was shot in London in January 2006 and directed by Madonna's longtime choreographer Jamie King.
In the 10th, 11th and 12th episodes of the 11th season of South Park, aired on October 17 2007, the South Park characters go to Imaginationland where all the characters that has been made up by our imagination live togheter. Jem is seen a couple of times in a dress she wore in the "Starbright" episodes and with gray hair and star make-up and no Jemstar earrings. Also several other 80's cartoons like She-ra, Transformers and Thundercats show up.
In the 30th season of Saturday Night Live, in the 11th episode aired on 5 february 2005, there's a segment called "Barbie's Dreamhouse" with Amy Poehler as vintage Barbie, Will Forte as Ken, and also featuring Paris Hilton as the new Fashion Fever Barbie. Jem doesn't appear but is mentioned along with the phrase "Truly Outrageous".
Jem and Transformers have several things in common. They're made by the same companies, the toys aswell as the cartoons, they share the theme song writers and several of the voice actors. In other words alot of the people who worked on Jem worked on Transformers. 9 January 1986 in season 2, episode 49 "B.O.T." of Transformers, Jerrica and Kimber actually appear as characters in a school classroom. They have their regular and easy recognizable outfits and hairstyles, but in other colors. Can you spot them?
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Here's your chance to change Jem's features as a cartoon character, artwork, or doll. Just click and drag to change their appearance. You need to have Java enabled.
Words or names connected to Jem, a few doublewords. The words are random so you might get the same word again. You get a point every time you find the word, and lose one when you don't. You get to guess four wrong letters on each word.
Click a color and then the field to fill it with. If you color a field black, you can't change that without clicking the Clear button, which will remove all colors. Peek at an example of a colored picture, by clicking here and the second here.
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Also in the episode "Scandal", there's a flashback with a younger Kimber. But here she doesn't look anything like she does in the other flashbacks in any other episodes.
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Every now and then you make a Jem search, and you have to add the word "Holograms"
because otherwise you will end up with a bunch of irritating results that has nothing
to do with the cartoon rockband and doll Jem. But have you ever wondering what those
other Jem's are all about? Here are some of them:
Then of course there are a bunch of things named as other things from the Jem
world, such as "The Misfits", or the characters' names.
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An anagram is when you rearrange the letters of a word or a name to form other fun words. I tried this with some of the Jem characters' names, and these are some of the best ones I figured out:
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Take a look at some "real life" singers who look like the Jem characters. Whether their looks has been based on Jem or not, it's still funny to see how much some of them look like Jem, or atleast to see artists that dare to color their hair in these unusual haircolors.
Gwen Stefani
The singer from No Doubt colored all her hair pink for a while, as can be seen in the music video to "Ex girlfriend".
Pink
A singer called Pink, whose first released single was "There You Go".
Samantha Fox
Meja
Katy Perry
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As you've noticed by now, there's no fan fiction on this site, and probably never
will be. But if I was to write my own Jem fanfic, here are some of my ideas. You be
the judge if they are good or not:
Jem's Bond
Agent JEM comes to the rescue on a mission from M.
See all the cool gadgets Techrat has invented for her, like a car that doesn't drive sicne it's made of
plastic but is really a radio, or a waterbed that is really a keyboard.
The Pink Orangutan
This one I actually started writing on: "Have you seen the news? Jem is opening a K-JEMART, maybe they got
Pizzas, Pizzazz", said Stormer, "let's storm in and surprise them". "And what is this", asks Jetta, "is Rio
driving his Jetta to Rio to film his own video with Video and her cousin Film?". "What a
culture clash", said Clash, we better go along to find out what
they're up to, lets call the Stingers and all other singers and have them come along too.
Big Brother Jem
What if you could peek into the mysterious every day life of Jem,
when she isn't singing.
When she is just at home, opening the fridge, explaining to Rio why she and Jerrica share
bedroom, closing the fridge, defragmating Synergy, going
to the bathroom, hanging up a picture on the holographic wall,
and bathing in the pool with her clothes on.
Adventure In A Circus
Jem gets an invitation to visit a circus. She doesn't realize it was
sent by the Misfits who intend to make Jem and the Holograms the
clowns. What the Misfits don't know is that Jem and the Holograms
all happen to be great acrobats. On top of it, there's a really weird
pink llama running around.
Here are the results of the latest poll:
Maybe some day we Jem fans will get to enjoy the kind of respect a Transformers fan gets, but until that day, we get to hear things like this:
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These are some of the most common messages, and also the reason why the message
board was shut down at this site:
Answer: I'm getting really tired of answering this question eight times a
day. So I made a screensaver to answer it. It's currently not
available for PC or Mac, and you'll need the Synergy OS.
Answer: The Jeminizer. Just put in a few words and within a few minutes it
will write you a Jem fanfic story or make you a Jem website including
visitors and discussions on a message board. It makes imagination
useless, and all the wellwritten Jem fanfics seem nerdy and unprofessional.
Answer: As all Jem doll customizers know, removing the doll's head
is always a must. First, do NOT put Jem in an alcohol ketchup mixture
like I did. The make-up may come off. Do you have syrup? Well if you
do, squeeze it out over the head and let it dry, put in the freezer
and wait two hours atleast, then take it out and if you find out it's
useful for something, let me know. Also make sure you take off the
other dolls heads, just incase.
Answer: Yes of course you can, but I won't read it. Unless it arrives in a
specific time period of certain days when I feel helpful. Which is never, because
the word "help" is not in my vocabulary.
Answer: I can't provide the kind of help you need, sorry.
Answer: I can't answer that, mine are on a constant diet. Infact I think
Hasbro did it that way to resemble lack of eating in the cartoon.
Answer: Oh thanks! Just what I needed. I'm just in the process of updating the
doll fashion gallery with pics of all Jem doll fashions in all
angles, photographed in daylight, sunlight, nightlight and starlight.
So thanks for your contribution.
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