Magical Garbage: Outrageously Good - Jem and the Holograms

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  • @kyoyameganebereznoff
    @kyoyameganebereznoff 7 місяців тому +48

    Rio essentially cheating on Jerrica while getting possessive every time Jem chats with another man (even in business settings!) drives me CRAZY.

    • @bubblingmoon
      @bubblingmoon  7 місяців тому +12

      TBH Rio is the worst

    • @Bobaily
      @Bobaily 7 місяців тому +3

      Yes but Jerico feeds into that by flirting with him as Jem😂. Like I remember at one point he wants to stop being their tour manager and she’s like “you can’t”….why? Girl let him leave. Anyway we all know the couple on this show we root for is Kimber and Stormi

    • @finland4ever55
      @finland4ever55 6 місяців тому

      @@bubblingmoon Kimber sucked too. She was also a serial cheater, I never see people talk abut how she hooks up with every dude she sees then leaves them behind, all while cheating on both Jeff and Sean. Also she's annoying

    • @only257
      @only257 5 місяців тому

      @@bubblingmoon broadway magic

    • @BlahBlah-bb6rl
      @BlahBlah-bb6rl 5 місяців тому

      Why jerrica would cheat on her boyfriend with herself and not just tell him about Jem never made any sense to me

  • @maxmosconi4295
    @maxmosconi4295 7 місяців тому +32

    Finally someone talking about the insanity of the love triangle only with two people
    This plot ruled my childhood I loved it

    • @mycomnithegreat434
      @mycomnithegreat434 7 місяців тому +7

      Jem ran so Miraculous Ladybug can run into a wall sprinting

  • @kyoyameganebereznoff
    @kyoyameganebereznoff 7 місяців тому +14

    I can’t wait for your reaction to season three. It becomes clear that they started running out of ideas and it’s madness and I love it.

  • @kyoyameganebereznoff
    @kyoyameganebereznoff 7 місяців тому +20

    Several classic magical girl series have had idol themes! Having a big bad isn’t inherently necessary for something to be a magical girl show; that’s a more recent trope of the genre.

  • @mycomnithegreat434
    @mycomnithegreat434 7 місяців тому +5

    14:59 oh snap snapcube reference! Also love the "arson murder jaywalking" setup

  • @bubblingmoon
    @bubblingmoon  7 місяців тому +11

    ✨💖 magical list💖✨
    -yuri kuma arashi
    -twin princesses of wonder planet
    -barbie swan lake
    -barbie Thumbelina
    -barbie and the three musketeers
    -glitter force doki doki (the american pretty cure dub)
    -delicious party precure
    -teenieping
    -shugo chara
    -Cardcaptor Sakura
    -Princess tutu
    -pretty much every season of precure
    -Mia and me
    -Soushin shoujo Matoi
    -daybreak illusion
    -Jem and the holograms
    -Barbie island, princess
    -The Barbie movie
    -Jewel riders
    -cosmic baton girl comet-san
    -piki & poko: adventures in starland
    -magical DoReMi
    -regal academy
    -shoushin shoujo matoi
    -magical girl friendship squad
    -Princess Guinevere and the jewel riders
    -Power puff girl Z
    -Barbie Rapunzel
    -Barbie Swan Lake
    -Bee and puppy cat

    • @MintMellons
      @MintMellons 7 місяців тому +3

      Can you add Powerpuff Girls Z to the list?

    • @mycomnithegreat434
      @mycomnithegreat434 7 місяців тому +2

      Barbie Nutcracker and Barbie Rapunzel to complete the Barbie-Tchaikovsky trio?

    • @bubblingmoon
      @bubblingmoon  7 місяців тому

      Add them to the list!😉

    • @finland4ever55
      @finland4ever55 6 місяців тому

      @@bubblingmoon Can you add the Sabrina the Teenage Witch cartoons: The 70s one, the 90s one, its sequel Secret Life, Sabrina Secrets of a Teenage Witch (a 2014 series based on a manga adaptation), Polly Pocket 2018, The Ghost and Molly McGee, Totally Spies, Ever After High, and Monster High?

  • @Bezaliel13
    @Bezaliel13 7 місяців тому +5

    42:29 Well, it did get a comic.

  • @Bobaily
    @Bobaily 7 місяців тому +3

    Yas ive been waiting on this one!! Been wanting to do my own video of Jem but I know yours will be the best, especially on the “love triangle “ between Rio, Jerico, and Jem.

  • @izzysauls7737
    @izzysauls7737 7 місяців тому +3

    There is a reboot in the form of a comic series which I HIGHLY recommend. The comics are very very VERY magical girl (at least compared to the og show).
    And it’s got a really interesting plot beyond then music industry stuff. It still keeps the message of “be yourself,” “be kind,” and “be a friend” from the original but it’s def more tailored to today.

  • @kittygardenva2741
    @kittygardenva2741 7 місяців тому +8

    Your new character design looks awesome!

    • @bubblingmoon
      @bubblingmoon  7 місяців тому +3

      Thank you! I worked hard on it

  • @silviamendoza3730
    @silviamendoza3730 5 місяців тому +2

    I watched Jem for the first time when I was in elementary school, and The Hub Network (now known as Discovery Family) was screening it ( from 2011 to 2015 I believe), and I immediately fell in love with the aesthetic!!! They just happened to be playing the very first episode too lol.
    Christy Marx has said herself that she was heavily inspired by superhero comics, which I'm sure you can note with Jerrica's alter ego Jem and all, the constant near-death experiences at the hands of supervillains, and the fight between good and evil represented by The Holograms and The Misfits, respectively. Except, the show has more of a soap opera flair to it to appeal to both girls and boys.
    I revisited the show a little after I finished my first year of university, and was surprised by how hilarious it all is. Many of the show's traits have aged poorly, but the premise itself is begging for a respectful reboot that picks up where this one left off.
    It really is a shame that it will probably never get that...oh well.

  • @MintMellons
    @MintMellons 7 місяців тому +4

    Great video! Can’t wait for the season two video🥰

  • @smilingpenti
    @smilingpenti 7 місяців тому +4

    Jem and the Holograms is very nostalgic for me from my teen years! Thanks so much for traveling back in time to review it, even though it's not a true magical girls show 💖 Love, love, love your channel so much

  • @juliamavroidi8601
    @juliamavroidi8601 7 місяців тому +9

    I love how they tried (and managed) to check off all tropes at once: Jerrica is a pop star, a business woman AND a (foster) mother. She uses technology, but it works like magic. The Holograms make pop music and the Misfits do rock. I think I even heard that the producers tried to make the show appeal to boys as well, because apparently in the 80s boys frequently had the power over the remote (whole other can of worms, but for another day), so they didn't want to risk girls not watching the show, because their brothers found it boring. (Might be worth looking into for the wrap up video)
    Not sure if the attempt to appeal to the broadest possible demographic helped or hindered the show in the long run, but it certainly made for a unique experience.

  • @lauren6509
    @lauren6509 7 місяців тому +6

    Jem was a show that my mom watched as a child as well. I saw this show on the Hub Network back in highschool. After I was done being shocked that a white woman was named Jerrica I got into the story I fell in love 😩
    Adopted multiracial sisters that moonlight as international popstars while running a foster home for girls with the help of her late father's money is still something that is so wholesome.

  • @cougarm8421
    @cougarm8421 7 місяців тому +3

    Losing AC this time of year is rough, sorry to hear that. Thank you for the video!

  • @MarxistMomentum
    @MarxistMomentum 7 місяців тому +13

    I always enjoyed The Misfits music more than The Holograms, as well as their punk rock aesthetic.

  • @T-mack56
    @T-mack56 5 місяців тому +1

    Like many people who weren't born during Jem & The Holorgram's original run, I caught Jem while it was rerunning on The Hub Network in the early to mid 2010s.
    I'd say what first drew me to the show (Aside from the music.) was the fact that it was a western cartoon for children (particularly young girls) with an adult female protagonist. Something you don't really see much in children's animation even to this very day.

  • @KawaiiHamsteruwubean69
    @KawaiiHamsteruwubean69 6 місяців тому

    OMG THE VISUALS FOR YOUR VIDS ARE SO PRETTY!!

  • @ashessakura7518
    @ashessakura7518 7 місяців тому +7

    I will never forget Jerrica wanting to tell Rio about her and Jem by saying she has a secret she needs to share with him but he takes that time to yell at Kimber about having a date with two guys on the same day and that’s how they found out about each other (which yeah, a fault on her but she’s not dating either of them, she just going in a date with them) but he says this hurt them because she’s a liar. Then Jerrica decides not to tell him the secret after he just screamed at her single sister going on dates with different guys and he throws a chair across the fucking garden in anger that she won’t tell him a secret. Then again, the only point for Rio I will give is that when Jem kissed him for the first time he immediately told Jerrica that he couldn’t work with Jem again and apologised for that but she basically begged him to keep working with Jem, he still should have admitted it but even as a Jem fan girl I admit the love triangle between two people is so stupid and genuinely grating. The longer Jerrica takes to tell him the worse it’ll be, Riot in season 3 makes a good point to Rio but I’ll hold off that until you get there.
    Also season 2 has my favourite episode of the whole series because it affects two characters relationships past that one episode, they’re more cordial together after it and I appreciate it~ My fave characters I also Stormer, I just love her

    • @bubblingmoon
      @bubblingmoon  7 місяців тому +2

      Yeah, and as Rio storming off, he also pushes over a garden plant for some reason. Just an actual toddler throwing a fit lol. And OMG really? stormer and Kimber would make such a cute couple! Finally a ship in the show I could get all the way behind.

    • @ashessakura7518
      @ashessakura7518 7 місяців тому +2

      @@bubblingmoon Even the show tries to play him off like he’s the best boyfriend material, at least we’ll always have him punching Eric lmao Oh damn I forgot that you’d see my original comment and not the edited one, sorry for ruining that but yeah, Stormer x Kimber is the most popular ship of the fandom for a reason :)

  • @thegayghost872
    @thegayghost872 7 місяців тому +5

    I love this show, it's so unique for a kids cartoon

  • @SilverDreamyRose
    @SilverDreamyRose 7 місяців тому +3

    The best soap opera out there.

  • @afroditavaitovska7507
    @afroditavaitovska7507 7 місяців тому +4

    I love the colors in this show 🌈

    • @bubblingmoon
      @bubblingmoon  7 місяців тому +3

      The holograms does have a pretty good color palette. Very soothing.

  • @misaki-chan8955
    @misaki-chan8955 5 місяців тому +2

    I think Jerrica was scared of telling Rio because she didn't expect him to fall for Jem as well. Like she said in episode 4, "how can I tell him the truth without feeling like I've made a fool of him?"
    Yes, she should have let him in on the secret from the get-go, but I guess a lot of the show's drama would be lost if she did. 😅

    • @silviamendoza3730
      @silviamendoza3730 5 місяців тому +2

      I also think Jerrica is hyper aware of Rio's hatred for deceit and maybe she felt like putting it off. Only that made everything way worse. I honestly never considered the possibility that Jerrica didn't think Rio would fall for Jem, but it does make sense. Perhaps she was more concerned with going up against Eric and The Misfits, that everything else was a secondary issue in of itself?

  • @m1chell3-x1
    @m1chell3-x1 7 місяців тому +8

    Aren't Aja and Shana, Jerrica and Kimber's adopted sisters? 🤔

    • @bubblingmoon
      @bubblingmoon  7 місяців тому

      I don’t remember anything about that in the first season maybe I missed something?

  • @lunaticproductions0
    @lunaticproductions0 7 місяців тому +6

    I havent seen the show but Im guessing Rio "hating deception" is supposed to justify Jerica keeping the Jem secret from him but idk, youd think he'd understand considering shes doing it to help a bunch of orphan girls. or maybe wouldnt, maybe he just sucks ike that

  • @DocumentMedic
    @DocumentMedic 4 місяці тому +1

    I think it is an interesting notion that Rio has issues with people lying to him or deceiving him, especially since he cheats on Jerrica with Jem without issue. Since cheating is a form of dishonesty, it makes him a hypocrite. (I would have loved to have seen what would have happened if she were to tell him off with it whenever he tried to bring up his issues with lying.)
    While I understand the logic of Jerrica being afraid to tell him because she thought he would become angry and leave her, it makes Jerrica look bad because she seems to tolerate cheating with no issue. I think she should have been honest with him from the start. (If he leaves her, maybe they weren't meant to be together.)
    Incidentally, I am surprised that he never figured it out. I would have thought he would have tried to run his fingers through those luscious 80's locks of hers and discovered that they were nothing but an illusion. 🙂

  • @mycomnithegreat434
    @mycomnithegreat434 7 місяців тому +3

    me: ugh im so sick
    Also me: omg new bubbling moon!

    • @bubblingmoon
      @bubblingmoon  7 місяців тому

      I hope you feel better soon!

  • @sailoranime289
    @sailoranime289 7 місяців тому +3

    Glad to know you're doing okay.

    • @bubblingmoon
      @bubblingmoon  7 місяців тому +1

      Thank you! I’ll be doing perfect once the AC is finally fixed

  • @TheMonarchofMonarchs933
    @TheMonarchofMonarchs933 7 місяців тому +6

    There are multiple tyoes of Magical Girl. The one you decribed in the video is the warrior type. Jem is a Magical Idol. She fits most of the criteria for one in tv tropes. She may not use magic but she has futuristic tech. Lyrical Nanoha also uses technology and no one disputes her status.

    • @bubblingmoon
      @bubblingmoon  7 місяців тому +2

      I totally get what you’re saying but Lyrical Nanoha uses magic with technology. It’s purely my opinion and I’m not saying anyone has to agree with me, but there is absolutely no in universe magic in Jem. So it just doesn’t meet my bar for a true magical girl show.

  • @RoseWaltz
    @RoseWaltz 7 місяців тому +5

    there was a pretty good comic book series a few years ago - Rio is actually a good character in the comics
    Techrat was supposed to be non-binary in the cartoon, but the crew was forced to make him a cis guy - a LOT of the people working on the show were Queer in a time when that as a career killed, and they wanted to be more inclusive

    • @bubblingmoon
      @bubblingmoon  7 місяців тому

      That’s interesting to know, I’ll be doing more research on the production of the show once I start my wrapup video, but I’m trying to experience it just as its own entity my first time watching it.

    • @finland4ever55
      @finland4ever55 6 місяців тому

      where did you hear the techrat thing, I haven't seen anything like that or any indication Christy wanted that. Credible sources?

    • @RoseWaltz
      @RoseWaltz 6 місяців тому

      @@finland4ever55 ua-cam.com/video/ijdzZZ7ic_g/v-deo.html
      from JemCon 2020

  • @only257
    @only257 5 місяців тому +1

    huge fan of the 1985 jem cartoon series

  • @darrensteinke1521
    @darrensteinke1521 7 місяців тому +3

    I'll add a bit of a spoiler for season 3. Riot from the Stingers is one of my favourite characters. I grew up in the 1980s, and I loved this series. I also feel like it is something that is meant to stay in the 1980s. I believe there were always roadblocks in the reboots due to issues with the licences regarding the songs. They made 101 original songs just for the Jem and The Holograms band.

    • @bubblingmoon
      @bubblingmoon  7 місяців тому +2

      That’s a pretty fair assessment. If they fix everything that they need to to make the show fit modern audiences it would basically be a different show

  • @lizwisecarver1756
    @lizwisecarver1756 7 місяців тому +3

    Love the video! You should do a review on Bee and Puppycat, she probably counts as an actual magical girl and not magical garbage.

    • @bubblingmoon
      @bubblingmoon  7 місяців тому

      I love being puppy cat! It definitely doesn’t belong in magical garbage, but I’ll for sure talk about it at some point! I’ll add it onto the list

  • @stargalaxy3639
    @stargalaxy3639 7 місяців тому +2

    To me Gem is basically like an early magical girl show that deals with out of pocket situations like doremi witches

  • @garthst.claire3459
    @garthst.claire3459 7 місяців тому +5

    Oh yes, Stormer is my favourite too. She doesn't deserve all the crap the other Misfits and Erik put her through!
    Interesting about Tech-Rat: I once read that Christie Marx, the head-writer, wanted to make Tech-Rat so androgynous that nobody would ever be sure whether they are male or female, but the network forbade that.

    • @bubblingmoon
      @bubblingmoon  7 місяців тому +1

      That’s so interesting to know about tech-rat, the character also strikes me as kind of neurodivergent. Such a shame network producers ruin shows so often🫤

    • @only257
      @only257 5 місяців тому

      @@bubblingmoon Pizzazz roxy and jetta were my favorite villainesses

  • @ashaintheam
    @ashaintheam Місяць тому

    The reason the show gave for Jerrica not telling Rio is she waited too long (cause she was busy with the house fire and murder attempts) and she knows he'll be mad about her lying for so long (which is hella messed up when you think about it).

  • @maxmosconi4295
    @maxmosconi4295 7 місяців тому +3

    Have you ever heard of Maxie’s world?

    • @bubblingmoon
      @bubblingmoon  7 місяців тому +1

      No I haven’t, is it any good?

  • @thefinalme
    @thefinalme 6 місяців тому

    I didn’t get to watch this as a child but limewire was all the rage when I was a teen. I saw it then. All I remember is that Stormer was my favorite. And there was an episode where they were in a hedge maze and I learned how to cheat at solving them. I think I watched every episode but thats all I remember.😅

  • @mycomnithegreat434
    @mycomnithegreat434 7 місяців тому +2

    5:01 honestly? Girlboss move right there

    • @mycomnithegreat434
      @mycomnithegreat434 7 місяців тому +2

      5:21 I wonder if any of the music is available for purchase or streaming? Maybe a kind man with a cone hat and parrot has them?

    • @mycomnithegreat434
      @mycomnithegreat434 7 місяців тому +2

      7:19 Jericho father could've done so much more if only he had TIME

    • @mycomnithegreat434
      @mycomnithegreat434 7 місяців тому +1

      7:30 WAIT KIMBER IS HER SISTER????

    • @mycomnithegreat434
      @mycomnithegreat434 7 місяців тому +1

      8:25 you know I'm surprised he never tries to force Jericho to marry him so he can force her to give up tbh. What better way to get 100% of the shares, and then pull a black widow to get her portion of the inheritance?

    • @mycomnithegreat434
      @mycomnithegreat434 7 місяців тому +1

      9:09 my theory is that she was worried Jerry would claim she only succeeded bc of her father fame, so she built up the band as a "total unknown" so to speak to prove and win over Jerry

  • @thegayghost872
    @thegayghost872 7 місяців тому +2

    Asha did have a love interest, btw, it was Stormer’s brother

    • @bubblingmoon
      @bubblingmoon  7 місяців тому +3

      I just started watching season two, for my next video on Jem, where they introduced stormers brother. I gotta say so far Aja has the best love interest in canon.

  • @a.t.trujillo9970
    @a.t.trujillo9970 6 місяців тому +1

    I feel like Jem and the Holograms deserves a reboot but it probably will never get one because there was a post by this one girl who really liked the Jem and the Holograms reboot comics and everyone kind of got mad at that post and I get it that people are tired of reboots but Jem and the Holograms is an amazing series the kind of got killed off prematurely and it's an amazing show the talks about a lot of real-world problems in a very real way and I feel like it deserves like an X-Men 87 Revival because Jem and the Holograms is a really great show that deserved more than two seasons and a laughable short third one and if it does get brought back keep it in the 80s don't go put in like the early 2000s or the 2010s or the 2020 because it's an 80 show and it will always be in 80 show just like how you can't take the early 2000s out of Legally Blonde you can't take the 80s out of Jem and the Holograms and if you do it just simply isn't Jem and the Holograms it's wannabe Taylor Swift and the wannabes because that's basically what the Jem and the Holograms movie is because they're trying to basically just turned gem into Taylor Swift if you watched Miss Americana she sounds very much like Taylor Swift but worse

  • @lowrider276
    @lowrider276 7 місяців тому +2

    I never watched this show cause by the time it was over and done with I was barely out of pre-K lol. I do sort of have a nostalgic attachment to it cause I discovered the music from this show in high school and fell in love with it.
    This video makes me wanna check it out. Also Synergy seems like a cross between Motherboard from Cyberchase and Gaia from Captain Planet. Not sure how accurate that is, that's just the vibe I'm getting lol 😅

  • @MPbmfm
    @MPbmfm 7 місяців тому +3

    Looking back I think that the Jem and the Holograms cartoon was part commercial and part infomercial
    Btw I'm a Jem Girl!

  • @marleythechangling9779
    @marleythechangling9779 7 місяців тому +1

    3:50 Cutie Honey

  • @Yummy1gyattebayo
    @Yummy1gyattebayo 3 дні тому

    Nah pizzazz lowkey goated 😴😴😤🥱

  • @c0nstanc393
    @c0nstanc393 3 місяці тому

    Hey, could you please talk about the kids show crybabies magic tears? it is so atrocious

  • @megancarter7139
    @megancarter7139 7 місяців тому +2

    I worshiped this show as a kid, but I cannot rewatch it. It just seems terrible

    • @bubblingmoon
      @bubblingmoon  7 місяців тому +1

      To be perfectly fair, it’s not as fleshed out or polished as a modern show might be, but it’s still a pretty fun watch if you temper your expectations. After sky dancers, it seems like a masterpiece.

  • @stardust948.
    @stardust948. 7 місяців тому +4

    I don't think anyone likes Rio 😅

  • @a.t.trujillo9970
    @a.t.trujillo9970 6 місяців тому

    Pizzazz Hair is ugly but her makeup looks amazing I love the way it looks will a better hair color she wouldn't be as rancid but honestly probably not

  • @originalkingdomhearts
    @originalkingdomhearts Місяць тому

    This show was so good until the end, when they brought in the blonde hair dude it became so boring and weird.