So a couple of buddies and I were talking about forgotten, bad TV shows and someone brings up “Jem” (an 80’s cartoon about a girl group named “Jem and the Holograms”). This lead to us trying to remember the name of the bad-girl group that were Jem’s rivals. A few minutes of hunting on the net found that the bad-group was named “The Misfits”.
This name blows chunks. I mean, “Misfits” you think of Rudolph the Reindeer’s Island of Misfit toys. Something kinda sad and cute. These chicks were nasty Joan Collins/Faye Dunaway type evil-Satan-bitches. Misfits just doesn’t cut it.
What would you name the evil, rival girl-group.
My name for them would be for “Skanky Whores on Crack”.
As the proud owner of a Jem tshirt, (“She’s totally outrageous!”) I actually opened this thread thinking “I’ll bet he/she’s asking about Jem.” I am officially pitiful.
Okay, I’ll probably offend someone’s sensibilities, so stop reading right now if you don’t like my humor. And kiss my ass on the way out, too, you uptight prick.
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Kamanawanaleyu and the Hawaiian Hose Hounds? Stinkfold? Kittie?
Josie and the Pussycats. They were the shit.
Oh, and Swiddles, I wanted to BE Jem, even though I was a couple years too old to ask for her for Christmas.
Truly, truly, truly outrageous. You want pitiful? My Useless Knowledge Recall® has archived, in addition to the names of everyone in the Babysitter’s Club, most of the lyrics to the opening of the Jem cartoon. I justify having watched Jem by saying that I was just killing time waiting for Robotix and Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines (they’re big, bad, dirty, and mean) to come on.
As for a true arch-nemesis girl group for Jem, how about Catharine and the Unmodifieds? Betty’s Mystique?
Oh come now Kellibelli, did you see the most recent southpark? They had a boyband with the name Fingerbang. One of the funnier episodes I’ve seen in a while.
It had a great line.
“No son of mine will be in a boy band.”
Wow, you’re right. I have mixed feelings, on the one hand, I don’t know as much Jem trivia as I thought I did, but on the other hand, I don’t know as much Jem trivia as I thought I did.
But anyone who wants to go head-to-head on She-Ra trivia, I’m your girl.
The Brats
Heinous Hanna and her Mindless Minions
The Bitch Kitties
Veruca Salt (no, wait, that one’s taken)
June Cleaver and the Beavers
Contagion
My Hairdresser Must Die! (the exclamation point is crucial, it makes such a statement)
:::::goes into toxic nostaligia shock:::::
“Oh, Jem, Jem, her music’s contagious, outrageous
Jem is my name, no one else is the same, Jem is my name!”
“We are the Misfits, the Misfits, our songs are better
We are the Misfits, the Misfits, and we’re gonna get her!”
:::::returns to her senses:::::
Uh-oh, did I do that out loud???
It was about a year ago that I went searching on the Internet and found a whole page of (gasp, blush) Strawberry Shortcake. The cool thing was that they named most of the pets that the characters had also. I was inexplicably delighted to be reminded that Strawberry Shortcake had a cat named Custard.
Ooooh, I wanna form June Cleaver and the Beavers. Come on, who’s with me?
And the answer would be Mermisa, Edwardina. Here’s one: name the horses, both She-Ra’s and Adora’s. (do I get points for knowing She-Ra’s non Power-Sword name?) Yea, I was a VERY attentive little tyke.
