» Jem and The Holograms: Showtime, Synergy! Options

[areacode212]

A street date has been announced! (it's 3/30/04 if you're impatient)

[tothemax]

A street date has been announced! (it's 3/30/04 if you're impatient)

Not many things can make me queen out in public. This? This is one of them.

ETA: I still remember that stupid Shangri-La song too, even though I don't remember anything about the actual episode. The hell my mother didn't know I was gay.

This post has been edited by tothemax: Feb 10, 2004 @ 6:31 pm.

[Symmetrically]

Can anybody find anything about this on the official Rhino page? Because I've been searching and I can't. I just don't want to get my hopes up tooooo much.

Not that I. . .care. . .or anything. . . *cough*

[Schroeder]

ETA: I still remember that stupid Shangri-La song too, even though I don't remember anything about the actual episode. The hell my mother didn't know I was gay.

The Holograms go off looking for Shangri-La, and the Misfits, like usual, catch wind of the plan and go off looking too.
Along the way, a girl from a local village is doing the whole "i'm useless to my culture and family" and ends up helping the Misfits try to find shangri-la, there's an abominal snowman, and there's a scene where Jem has to turn into Jerrica in front of an old woman because "She's false" and the old woman can only give the map to shangri-la to someone who is not false, and the Misfits get really sick from somoe thorns, and only the music of Shangri-la is the only thing that brings the back to life!

It was a really dumb episode.
And how my mother didn't know I was gay then, either beats the hell out of me.

[the fresh maker]

There was also more Kimber and Stormer action in the Shangri-la ep. Why yes, I do heart Kimber & Stormer. Why do you ask? The Misfits and Holograms are climbing up the mountain, and Stormer falls on top of Kimber, or something like that. Kimber quips: "Oooo, Stormer! You need to go on a diet!"

[Symmetrically]

You know, when my parents and their friends found out I was gay, they were all like "But, she's so girly!" Heh. From what you guys are saying, maybe Jem! gave me cover through the more vulnerable years. Go Synergy! ;p

[Schroeder]

Maybe Stormer needs to lay off the banana splits.
Remember during that Kimber/Stormer episode where Kimber orders a Peach Shake, thick, realy thick, and Stormer walks in and order a banaa split, with like three scoops, double fudge, whipped cream and all?
hee.

Are we all around the same age? 20-somethings? Or has this show, that ran a short time and hasn't been in reruns since, gotten to a larger audience as well?

[tothemax]

Twenty-five here.

[Schroeder]

Yeah, I was just wondering because didn't the show only run in first run for like two years in the mid-80s? And then in reruns until '88 or something? I can't imaging it having appealed to a younger crowd, without reruns to attract them, or older crowds, as they might have been too old for this series anyway.

All I know is this is the only show that's ever made me wish that I was born a female punk rocker, because through 65 episodes, they should did have a shitload of fun and an even more larger shitload of money.

I'm not a cross dresser, I swear.

[The Last Dodo]

I got addicted to it in 1989 when they would show it every morning on a local Chicago station, but I have no idea if by then those were just reruns. And I'm 31.

This post has been edited by The Last Dodo: Feb 16, 2004 @ 12:36 am.

[FfrauleinN]

Twenty-three here.

[Kris_AB]

21 year old guy.

I think I watched pretty much every cartoon that was available on Canadian television (and the few U.S. stations we got at the time, like Fox) in the mid-to-late `80s/early `90s. Catching the "girly" shows like She-Ra (which probably had the most crossover appeal--especially with the few literal crossovers with He-Man it had--between the genders) was just as important as catching the ones that were targeted at a male demographic (but thankfully appealed to a whole lot of girls as well, which just goes to show you that the people involved in marketing don't understand little kids very well, and just how much of a non-issue the gender-specific categorizing of a cartoon is to them as long as the show's entertaining and there aren't outside influences like their parents telling them not to watch it or their friends making fun of them). I watched My Little Pony, Rainbow Bright, and probably whatever else was on that I'm forgetting, but I think She-Ra and Jem are the only must-haves as far as DVDs go. Especially Jem since I have the foggiest memory of what happened and wouldn't mind being reminded over those 65 episodes (plus an unaired pilot? What was the deal with that? It was released to VHS only?)

[Readster]

I'm almost 26, I watched the show all the time when I could. So don't feel that old, I feel it for all of us.

[Schroeder]

Hey, I just turned 27.
I was really just trying to get an idea if Jem has one target following, and it seems that we're all in our mid-20s or so, so it seems that most of us were 10-14 when the show was on.
It's like we could have all been at the same lunch table talking about it together, or worse, all filling rolls in our own garage Jem band.
Hee.
I wanna be Aja. She didn't put up with anyone's crap. Plus, she had blue hair. How can you not like blue hair?
Are there any straight guys that watched this show? I'm just wonderin'.

[starri]

I'll be 26 in about two months. Male, natch. Jesus, I'm excited by the DVD release, moreso even than Transformers.

I can never meet any of you face-to-face, having just admitted that.