S2E15: “KJEM”

Synopsis: “Radio station KMEL is about to be shut down after years of being on the air. Jem makes a deal with the station owner, Elzer Marcus, offering to turn it into a college-run station funded by Starlight Music. A rival media mogul named Adrian Lassiter is determined to buy the station at any cost, and spoils its opening broadcast by hiring The Misfits to air a concert on a pirate signal. The signal source has to be found in order to reclaim the channel before all the sponsors pull out.”

Summary: Episode 41 (S2E15) is written by Christy Marx.

We open with Danse giving a workout session to the Starlight girls. After warming up, Danse requests that one of the girls turn on the radio to find some music, but an argument breaks out when they can’t decide what station to tune into.

Jem and the Holograms music video: “When It’s Only Me And The Music.”

Mondo: That was “When It’s Only Me and The Music” by Jem and the Holograms. This is KMEL on your FM dial. We’ll be back, after these messages.

Well, how’d I do?

Elzer Marcus, the owner of radio station KMEL, is disappointed when his senior DJ and engineer decide to leave for a rival radio station after they’re offered a salary that’s three times that of what KMEL can provide. After the two men leave, a somewhat unsavoury looking man confronts Elzer with an offer from an anonymous buyer to purchase KMEL. Unfortunately for Elzer, the offer is barely enough to compensate him for the mountain of bills he’s been collecting. The prospective buyer claims nobody would want the “worthless little station” anyway, so it’s either he takes the deal or risk going bankrupt. Feeling pressured to sell, Elzer’s students try to prevent him from signing the contract as they offer to help find someone who can pay the bills. Elzer gives Mondo until tonight before he signs off the air to find a new prospective buyer.

Eric Raymond is shilling the Misfits to the head of KBST, Adrian Lassiter, to try and convince the station to give the band more airtime for their music, more interviews, and promotion. Jetta mentions that she’s personal friends with the royal family, however, that doesn’t seem to work when Adrian tells her he’s entertained the royal family on his yacht, and they failed to mention her name. As a last ditch effort, Eric offers to pay KBST for every time they play a Misfits song.

Adrian Lassiter’s hired goon returns to give him the bad news that Elzer Marcus has given a group of students until the end of the day to secure a new financial backer. Adrian is not pleased and explains why he has a personal vendetta against Elzer Marcus–it turns out Adrian worked for him in the past, but was fired when they didn’t see eye to eye with respect to how the business was run.

Adrian: Why should we worry? What could these college kids possibly do before tonight?

KMEL’s student interns get together to brainstorm how they’re going to find a new financial backer. Switch makes a suggestion that they approach Jem and the Holograms, since he went to school with Kimber and knows her sister runs Starlight Music. There’s some debate as to why they would help, as they only give money away for the publicity like the Misfits, but he tries to convince his friends that the Holograms are not like that.

At Cloud 9 restaurant, Jem and the Holograms make an appearance to support Rio getting his pilot licence as well as to give a private show. Rio offers to show Jem the new Cessna he purchased, but when he does, two men interrupt and mock his plane.

Heheheh. Hey, you call that toy a plane? Now, that is an airplane.

We’ll key an eye out for you, Pacheco, so’s we don’t run over ya!

Switch drops by Cloud 9, but is promptly turned away as the private event requires you to have a pilot licence. After a failed…