Sorry about that last esoteric contest-gone-awry. I had a few specific people in mind, and they let me down. (Stephanie, are you still reading?)
The answer is Jem and the Holograms, of course. But then, I do have the advantage of being probably the first person ever to get Jem from Netflix and watch my favorite episode several times, the one where Jerica and the girls arrange a benefit video, and it's all on ice, and someone nearly dies. The orphan is an indeterminately Asian girl named Bah-nee.
Thus ends my sojourn into late-80s cartoon territory. I've realized that among the non-OCD, nostalgia for it is limited to the fuzzy images and not the intricate plot twists and character development. You know that Rio Pacheco had purple hair, but the fact that Danse was a fragile orphan who filled her need for attention with a love of performance? Probably forgot about that.
Tomorrow, I promise, I shall return to normal. Navel-gazing of my own navel, not that of defunct fictional characters.
Ooh, unless I can dredge up a memory of a choice tidbit from The Get-Along Gang. The Portia-Montgomery dynamic could be very resonant with today's political landscape!
After I get back from the Friends of the Libraries discarded book sale! Yee-haw!
p.s. The contest-within-a-contest is from Speed. Another area of ignorance no one should ever try to correct.
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You run--no, supersonically speed--circles around my tidbit trivia nostalgia knowledge! We've gotta get you on some television game show.
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