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* The ending of "Hollywood Jem: Part 1". After a love-crazy Kimber accepts the wedding proposal of her sometime-boyfriend Jeff, her other boyfriend Sean, upon learning about the engagement from her, claims that he wasn't ready to settle down with her and offers his sarcastic congratulations. Once in his movie trailer, however, we see him toss the engagement ring that he had for her in the garbage and puts his head into his hands and begins to cry.
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* Several episodes of ''Jem'' that focus on the Starlight girls are heartbreaking, including "The Jem Jam", with Ba Nee convinced that a stranger she's just met is her long-lost father, and the first five or so minutes of "Alone Again", with Laura Holloway depressed after her parents' deaths and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-alJe-7Upcw sinking into loneliness and self-hatred]] despite Jerrica's best efforts.

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* Several episodes of ''Jem'' ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' that focus on the Starlight girls are heartbreaking, including "The Jem Jam", with Ba Nee convinced that a stranger she's just met is her long-lost father, and the first five or so minutes of "Alone Again", with Laura Holloway depressed after her parents' deaths and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-alJe-7Upcw sinking into loneliness and self-hatred]] despite Jerrica's best efforts.
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** The very last shot in the series is Jem smiling sadly and waving goodbye to Ba Nee, but also the viewer.
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* The Stingers are big jerks but you can't help but feel terrible for them when you see their backstory. Living on the streets in the winter, barely making money.. They're sympathetic even if they currently act awful. Heck, "It's A Hard, Hard Life" is pretty much one big FreudianExcuse that explains why they are pompous and why Rapture is a scam-artist.

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* The Stingers are big jerks [[JerkassWoobie but you can't help but feel terrible for them when you see their backstory.backstory]]. Living on the streets in the winter, barely making money.. They're sympathetic even if they currently act awful. Heck, "It's A Hard, Hard Life" is pretty much one big FreudianExcuse that explains why they are pompous and why Rapture is a scam-artist.
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* Another moment from ''The Music Awards'' acts as a sort of LaserGuidedKarma for Pizzazz. Upon winning the award for best band, Pizzazz decides to take it with her to the benefit concert Jem is performing at just to rub her nose in it. When she gets there, however, the audience cheers the performance. Pizzazz, silenced and shocked by the overwhelming sense of goodwill the concert has created, doesn't notice her award slipping out of her hand to the floor, where it smashes into pieces.

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* Another moment from ''The Music Awards'' acts as a sort of LaserGuidedKarma for Pizzazz. Upon winning the award for best band, Pizzazz decides to take it with her to the benefit concert Jem is performing at just to rub her nose in it. When she gets there, however, the audience cheers the performance. Pizzazz, silenced and shocked by the overwhelming sense of goodwill (the one thing she hates the most) the concert has created, doesn't notice her award slipping out of her hand to the floor, where it smashes into pieces.

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** This song doubles as a TearJerker because as the series finale and the song also served as a goodbye to the fans.
** In hindsight it is slightly less sad since the lyrics did technically come true, even if at the time the writers thought the series was done forever. ''Jem'' seems like a relic of TheEighties but has inexplicably been revived for a movie and comic series.

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** This song doubles as a TearJerker because as the series finale and finale, the song also served as a goodbye to the fans.
** In hindsight it is slightly less sad since the lyrics did technically come true, even if at the time the writers thought the series was done forever. ''Jem'' seems like a relic of TheEighties but has inexplicably been revived for a movie and comic series.
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* "Out of the Past" is a rare episode where they address in a very serious mood the grief the band is still dealing with over the loss of their parents, as they read the diary entries of their father up till days before his death. The episode ended with Jerrica watching a recording of their mother singing thought to be lost forever, and the holograms release the song to the public to carry on her memory.

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* "Out of the Past" is a rare episode where they address in a very serious mood the grief the band is still dealing with over the loss of their parents, as they read the diary entries of their father up till days before his death. The episode ended with Jerrica watching a recording of their mother singing thought to be lost forever, and the holograms Holograms release the song to the public to carry on her memory.memory.
** Just as bad is the moment when Eric Raymond sets the master tapes of Jacqui Benton's music on fire. Jerrica slaps him as a result.




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