The Rock Fashion Book is the fifteenth episode of the first season, and the 15th episode overall, of the Jem animated series.
Synopsis[]
Jem and The Holograms are approached by Robert Arlington, a high profile publisher who offers them a opportunity to appear in a rock music-themed fashion book. The Misfits learn of this success and try to upstage the Holograms' book by creating their own.
When their initial attempt fails, the Misfits try to ruin the book outright, but with no success. Eventually, Pizzazz persuades her father to buy the rights to the book, putting the Misfits in charge of the project.
Plot[]
Jerrica and The Holograms are at Starlight Music, when a businessman named Robert Arlington approaches the group and says he has an offer. Jerrica quickly switches to Jem, and returns to hear the man's proposal. He says that since the band recently won a Rock Fashion contest, he would like to create a fashion book with the girls modelling Shana's designs. The girls discuss that this is an opportunity for more publicity, and all agree it sounds like a great idea. Jem switches back to Jerrica due to Robert's request of her manager's confirmation, and signs the contract. At Gabor Mansion, The Misfits are watching the announcement of Jem and The Holograms' new fashion book on Lin-Z TV. Pizzazz is outraged by their constant appearances while Stormer suggests they could create their own book, and upstage their competition by releasing it first. Pizzazz asks Clash to keep an eye on Jem and The Holograms and she goes to the location of their photo shoot the next day, Marine Park.
A professional photographer, Richard Carling is working with the prolific art director Soo Mi on the shoot, with help of the staff at Marine Park. They first take pictures with four beautiful dolphins and Kimber comments on how cute they are, leading to their performance of Come On In. The Water's Fine. While Robin, the animal trainer, feeds fish to a set of Orca whales to encourage them to perform tricks. During the second photograph, Kimber slips off the platform and grabs Shana's leg in an attempt to stop the fall. Shana consequently falls off the platform too, dragging Jem in with her who loses complete grip and falls into the pool with the whales. Aja, who is holding on to Kimber for dear life, loses her footing on the slippy edge and the pair tumble down together. Rio works quickly to bring Kimber and Aja to the surface and onto life preserves, as Richard rescues Shana. Rio continues to search for Jem, who is at the bottom of the pool where her earrings have shorted out and caused to her transform back into Jerrica. Robin makes a smart decision to send in the dolphins, who save Jerrica and narrowly miss the whale. As Jerrica is back on land, the earrings work again and Rio swims over to her. He comments on Jerrica missing out on the excitement but Jem silences him, asking him to just hold her.
The next location on schedule for Jem and The Holograms is Washington, D.C. while The Misfits take their photo shoot on a beach during sunset. Their photographer Harvey is grumbling and mumbling about the set, and Pizzazz eventually loses her temper and fires him, declaring they can take the pictures themselves. They arrive at an amusement park and perform We're Off And Runnin, taking hundreds of shots on the rides and events happening at the park. After putting it together, the group visit seventeen publishing companies who all reject the book due to it being unprofessional and amateur. Pizzazz decides to switch to plan B: wreck Jem and The Holograms' fashion book. Clash sneaks onto their set, which is a high platform scaffolding and a policeman spots her. He chases after her, but Clash disappears and the cart crashes into the scaffolding which begins to break down. Rio grabs a large blanket and creates a net with Soo Mi to catch them. They all manage to land safely just as the set collapses and conspire that The Misfits could have something to do this as they move onto the Grand Canyon. The Misfits beat them there, and aggravate some bats in a cave to fly up to the ledge where The Holograms are standing. The bats force them to the edge of the cliff, and Jem uses Synergy to blast them with reverberating sound so they pull back. Rio then helps them into the helicopter, and they fly away.
The next day, Jem and The Holograms are featured in the newspaper with information about their rescue from the Canyon and Pizzazz is outraged. She goes to her father as a last resort under the premise of a business proposition. As soon as he shows interest, she pleads him to buy the rights to Jem and The Holograms' book. They arrive at Nassau and inform The Holograms of the news, who are shocked but agree to go along with it until they can figure something out. However, by the end of the day, they are fed up and are still unable to back out due to the contract. Richard arrives looking smug and hands out some proof sheets from the shoot - and Jem and The Holograms are suddenly enthusiastic about making the book. They go to Richard's dark room and get ready to develop the photographs as they sing We Can Change It. The Misfits arrive and Pizzazz demands the photos, which are handed to her, not knowing that inside the envelope is picture evidence proving they were responsible for the Grand Canyon accident. They arrive at Harvey Gabor's office and Pizzazz has to lie to her father that the photos just didn't come out correctly, and out of anger he grabs the photos from her. He sees the evidence and is disappointed to see that Pizzazz sabotaged the book after he invested in it. At that moment, Howard Sands walks in and tells Mr. Gabor that Robert Arlington is willing to buy the rights to the book back after the trouble with The Misfits, and he agrees.
At the book signing after the Rock Fashion Book has been released, Jem and The Holograms are signing hundreds of copies to fans and doing a press release. Jem thanks Robert and the rest of the team for the help, and it wouldn't have been successful without them. Rio sneaks up to Jem, and gives her a celebratory hug. She tells him she is certain Jerrica would be proud of his heroic attempts throughout the photo shoot process, and gives a quick wink to the camera.
Songs featured[]
- "Come On In. The Water's Fine" - Jem and The Holograms
- "We're Off And Runnin" - The Misfits
- "We Can Change It" - Jem and The Holograms
Quotes[]
- Pizzazz: (reading about Jem and The Holograms' daring rescue) Do you believe this???
- Roxy: (sarcastically) Great publicity.
- Clash: Yeah, for the wrong band!
- Roxy: Look, I'm a rock star, not a rock climber!
- Harvey Gabor: (after seeing the photos that Pizzazz had in her hands) After getting me to invest in the Fashion Book, you sabotage me! Me, your own father!!!
- Roxy: (After hearing about Jem's rock fashion book) Those no-talent turkeys!
- Ticket Vendor: That'll be 10 dollars,please.
- Clash: (She pays the vendor and gets her ticket) Oh, prices sure have gone up.
- Kimber: (About the dolphins) They're so cute. I want one.
- Jem: Sure, you could keep it in the bathtub.
- Pizzazz: You take the pictures for a while Roxy and then Stormer can take some.
- Roxy: But if I'm taking pictures then I'm not in them.
- Pizzazz: So what! There will be plenty of pictures of both of you.
- Stormer: When do you take pictures, Pizzazz?
- Pizzazz: I don't! You got a problem with that?
- Stormer: Just asking.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Right before Clash is caught by the man in the white car, her dress doesn't have the purple and blue lines on it. The lines are also gone when Clash and the Misfits are sitting in the waiting area.
- At the scene where the police officer crashes into the scaffolding for Jem and The Holograms' book photo-shoot, Clash says "see you later 'ocifer'" instead of 'officer'.
- During "We Can Change It", one of the pictures shown from the photo-shoots shows Jerrica, but Jerrica was never supposed to be at the shoot.
- The fashion contest from In Stitches is referenced.
- Factual error: Killer whales aren't deadly despite their given nickname.