I always remember the song "Who is he Kissing" I hope I still have my Jem cassettes somewhere. I had most of the Jem dolls, plus Rio, and all of the Misfits dolls. Does anyone remember the cheesy Shangri-La episode? It stands out in my mind for some reason.

Maybe it stands out because of the uber-cheesy song that went "Shangri-Laaaaaaa (Shangri-Laaaaa). Where are you hiding?". Or because of the remade video of "You Oughta See the View From Here", with the Misfits running around in the snow flapping their arms like idiots? That was unforgivable. "Journey to Shangri-La" was seriously one of the worst episodes ever.

Of course, I'm going to pop in the CD and watch it right now.

The hook to "Shangri-La" was seriously the only bit of a JEM! song that I could remember until I found the files online, and that includes the title song. Now, which episode is worst? The one where they go back in time, the magic and illusion episode, or the Shangri-La episode. I say the Shangri-La one.

And I still lurve Riot.

Has Rhino come out with the DVDs yet? Oh please, oh please, oh please. *tippy-toe dance*

Wow, you've really scraped the bottom of the barrel for those episodes. I think the time-travelling one was the worst because of the nonstop stupidity. The Shangri-La one comes close, though. I mean, Stormer falls hundreds of feet with a rope around her waist, and instead of breaking her back or being ripped in two (ew), nothing bad happens? Plus, there's the lameness that I mentioned above. And the contrivance that sent them to Tibet was even more contrived than usual. The band's creative well has run dry, so....some guy sends them on this dangerous mountain expedition to find some mythical city? Why not just hit some old music store and try listening to something new & different?

Ah well. Still no new DVD news yet :(

I know that there was someone out there who made unoffical (not liscenced by Rhino Video or anyone else) DVDs, but I can't remember who it was. However, you might want to check out this curious item from Yahoo! Shopping. Click here.

ETA SEE ALSO: Page 1 of this thread.

What made the time-travel episode even more ridciulous? That icky parody of Motzart from Amadeus.

Hey, I thought someone would beat me to this, but yay, I get to be the bearer of good news:

(from tvshowsondvd):

Hee! Oh my god. That is going to be so, so sweet.
Truly, truly outrageous!
My boyfriend is going to get very very scared when he sees me buying this. I have them on computer discs, but DVDs will be better.

Jem DVDs? About friggin' time!

Yes. It's truly, truly, truly outrageous.

I just found it kind of odd that they consider the first five episodes to be the entire "first season". But I guess it makes sense, since those eps aired a year before the other ones. So...is everything after "Glitter and Gold" the third season, or is the Stingers era considered season 4?

Bring on the corn...:-)

I'm all over it like red earrings on a rock star.

You're right that, a bit.
Glitter and Gold was the end of the second season.
The Stingers hit Town is the kick off to the final 11 episodes of the third season, which started with The Talent Search, which is when Shana leaves the Holograms to become a fashion designer and Raya takes her place, and Jetta joins the Misfits. Therefore, new dolls. (Don't worry, Shana comes back and plays the guitar instead of the drums!)
There was never a season 4, as the show was pulled after hitting 65 episdoes (syndication for cartoons back then, I think) when the toy company realized they weren't selling as many Stingers dolls as they had anticipated, and were not going to launch the new dolls they had planned.
I remember reading an interview with the creator of the show, Christy Marx, who said she was giving enough notice to write a finale, which she did A Father Should Be, which inlcuded the song "This is Farewell". Quite touching, actually, to this 12-year-old blossoming gay kid.
Glitter and Gold was just a big deal because that was when they launched a new line of the dolls with new clothes, new car and new playsets and shit like that.

I swear, guys, I never once bought a doll or toy or anything. I'm all abou the show, and if having to know about the dolls is a requirement, well, then so be it.
Any other Jem questions? I bet I can get them all.
Any other really wild Jem questions? I bet I can get them all.

Hey, the notice has been updated and now they say that adventure begins in April.



Not that I'm. . .counting down. . .or anything.

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.

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*

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.

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!"

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

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?

Twenty-five here.

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.

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.

Twenty-three here.

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?)

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.

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'.

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.

33 yo male here who drives his boyfriend insane by singing, "We're off and running ..." when getting into the car.

I may be in the minority, but I liked the Stingers. My favorite episode was the
one where Jem helps Riot re-unite with his father. (Awww!) Ok, it wasn't that good of an episode, but I really liked the song... "It's a hard, hard life".

Gah, now I gotta go find the "Lovesick" mp3 on my old computer.

Ha ha ha ha ha!

"we're off and running and no one can stop us..." Hee.
Starri, good to see you in here, too. It's a toss-up for me, though, on Trans vs. Jem, really, since both define my childhood.

I think my favorite episode has to be the one where they're on the magic island, and they all start disappearing one by one. They use "Music is Magic" in that episode, too, but I still like it.
It's way better than the "Don't Use Drugs" episode with stupid little Laura. "Gotta find Bobby. Bobby will help me now!"

I hated the Stingers! Every single episode could have been done with the Misfits instead. Just subbing in one of them for the other stuff. They didn't play up the Rio/Riot stuff enough for my tastes.

I'm 21 (22 next week).

I wasn't a big Stingers fan either. They took away from the Misfits. And I was downloading some episodes off that site and Riot is skeeving me out. He rigged Rio's car to break so Jem would be mad at him and run off with him (Riot) and then tricked her onto getting on a boat bound for Mexico.

He's like one step above slipping roofies into her drink.

Oh, that's "The Day The Music Died" when the Misfits make all the Stingers and Holograms her bitch because Jem/Jerrica and Riot are stranded on an island.

"...We're lookin' stunning! We're off and running!"

I'm still 26. I think I first saw it when I was 8, and I got my father to watch it with me. You see, I had also got him watching G. I. Joe, and Jem came on after it. A 40-something hetero ("I am a manly-man!") male watching Jem is a sight to behold. He got me back, though. He started me on soap operas.

The Stingers were an excuse for Hasbro to make more dolls. Really. I can't forgive the Stingers for making Pizzazz look like such an idiot. I mean, she's Pizzazz! And so what if she had it coming? She's Pizzazz!
The Stingers uppance never came...

I'm 27. My best friend and I used to get up early on Sunday mornings just to watch it, back when it first aired. Cartoon crack, it was.

Truly outrageous! And released on DVD today!

Squeeeee!

*adds to Amazon wish list*

Does anyone have it yet? If so, can I come over?

I am so excited. I NEED it.

I want it too, but I was hoping that some of the big chains would have it on sale this week. As it is, the JEM! set isn't even featured in any of their ads!! What's up with that? That is truly outrageous, and not in the good way. Ah well, I'll probably have to hit Amazon then (they seem to have the best price).

Also, does anyone else get all confused & frustrated whenever they see a reference to that (real-life) singer Jem? On Friday, I was leafing through the new EW when I was going up the stairs from my mailbox, and, knowing that the DVD was coming out this week, I was kind of excited to see an article about JEM in the TOC. Only there was no pink, blue, or green hair to be found anywhere. The hell?

I few weeks back I was looking for the theme song to the cartoon online but kept finding songs by the real-life Jem so I downloaded one of her (real-life) songs. I actually like the real one. Yeh, it's bubble pop, but hell, so was cartoon Jem.

I'm so giddy right now. Oh man, this is just plain. WRONG.

::Runs to place online order::

Oh yeah. I work at Borders, I reserved this ahead of time, I bought it today, I've watched the first disc- do you need any more proof whatsoever that I'm a complete and total dork? Well, if you do, here it is- I paid fifty-two damn dollars for it because I didn't want to wait to get it from Amazon.
I'm not the only dork, though. When I bought it, three of my fellow employees were bitching about how they forgot that it came out today. I vastly increased my dork status by stating, in the manner of Rick James, "I got the only copy, bitch." There may have been a Cabbage Patch or a Running Man thrown in for effect, also.

Hi, my name is TDoc72, I'm 31 and I used to watch Jem. I have just ordered the DVD's. Uh, for my 3 yr old, not me.

LOL DramaQueenLite!

Britta Phillips, the voice of Jem, also co-starred in the snarkingly delightful 80's flick, Satisfaction (w/Justine Bateman and Julia Roberts). She played Billie, the druggie guitarist and does a good cover of Billie Holiday's God Bless The Child and someone else's Knock On Wood.

I've been lurking through the thread. The last time I saw an episode of this was years ago at a Ground Round. They had a tape playing in the back that looked like it had been shown about a thousand times and was about to break at any moment. Not my all time favorite cartoon but a fond memory.

Deepdiscountdvd.com has it for $35.88

*boggle*

She WAS? That was JEM?

Wow, paradigm shift. Bigtime.

In other news, the Jem DVDs will be mine. Oh yes. They WILL be mine.

I eighteen (turning nineteen in a month) and my cousin and I would always watch Jem right before my aunt had to take her to kindergarten. I would sit at home and watch more of the tapes until we had to go pick her up again. I ordered the DVD's online yesterday and my cousin and I have already planned and all night Jem viewing.

My DVDs just arrived today (I pre-ordered them on Amazon a couple weeks ago). And I'm 22.

The extras are what makes them. Other shows I get on DVD don't have this many extras. The picture quality is so much better than the tape I have. It just brings me back.

Someday, I'd like to complete my doll collection, when I can afford it. If only She-Ra came out on DVD, my life would be complete.

I hope the sales of Jem are good, so the other seasons can come out, too.

FOR THE HONOR OF GREYSKULL!



If I have my druthers, they will be.

Oh me too! That was one of my favorite shows!

I'm 23 and the main thing I remember about Jem is the damned Shangri La song. Seriously, I'll be sitting at work and for no reason the song will pop into my head along with a mental image of Pizazz groaning over being cut by the thorns. I haven't seen or heard anything from the show since the mid eighties and yet I think of that song at the weirdest times.

I also remember that Stormer and Kimber were my favorites. I remember some little girl going blind and also the ep with the contest between the Holograms and Misfits where whoever sold the most records got the car (I think this was Glitter and Gold).

I had a Jem doll and I think a Stormer one. A friend down the street had Pizazz. I also remember a TV commercial advertising that "Jem is bigger than Barbie!". That did tick me off though and was probably the reason I was never big on Jem dolls. There weren't enough accessories to really play with them and all of Barbie's were too small. I mean Jem was an Amazon compared to Barbie. I think if the Jem dolls had been made the same scale as Barbie they would have sold much better. I did have the guitar/stage playset. You know the tape player shaped like a guitar that you could set up as Jem's stage. It had neon colored lightening bolts and mic stands that always fell over.

Wow, I think I may just have to buy this DVD set, my boyfriend will think I'm nuts.