Ciji: Say, I know a boy who plays bass in the Sub-Deviates. His hair is the same shade of blue as yours.

Mama: Small world.

She undoubtedly survived unscrupulous music executives while also helping to accentuate some of celluloid’s greatest graveyard mayhem in Return of the Living Dead. But the most frightening obstacle that Stacey Q faced in her entire career just might have been Vicki Lawrence’s no-nonsense Mama.

Famously remembered as Cinnamon, a glittery pop star much like herself, from an iconic run of The Facts of Life episodes, Stacey returned to sitcom musicality in a 1989 episode of Mama’s Family, Bubba’s House Band. Based on The Carol Burnett Show skit, this show ran for 6 seasons, focusing on Vicki Lawrence’s sarcastic, hard-to-please character. 

Nicely, unlike Cinnamon, Q’s Ciji here is a member of the chainsaw wielding rock band The Bonecrushers. Her fierce partners in leather include Terrah Bennett Smith (Mojo) and Lisa Michelson (Snake) & the trio, initially, turns the Harper household into a zone of dominatrix-like rebellion. But soon the women reveal themselves to be experts at crafts and the culinary arts & are more than willing to help the formerly antagonistic Mama (Vicki Lawrence) succeed at her local bazaar.

Sweetly outfitted for that event, the trio perform the standard Sugar in the Morning to help sell the titular matriarch’s candy cakes. But by the credit crawl, they have returned to their heavy metal ways, much to concert promotor Bubba’s (Allan Kayser) delight and Mama’s scowl mouthed regret. 

Nicely, Q, while not really given a solo moment to shine, blends in well with her co-stars. She and Kayser have a little in common here, as well. While she harmonized her way into horror royalty on the ROLD soundtrack, he played the obnoxious Brad in another ’80s cult classic, The Night of the Creeps.