Pepper Ann

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Pepper Ann

Milo, Lydia, Pepper Ann, Moose and Nicky
Genre Animated series
Running time 30 minutes with commercials (mostly two 15-minute segments, with some double-length 22-minute segments)
Creator(s) Sue Rose
Starring Kathleen Wilhoite
Clea Lewis
Danny Cooksey
Pamela Adlon
April Winchell
Country of origin USA
Original channel ABC
Original run September 17, 1997–November 18, 2000
No. of episodes 65
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Pepper Ann was an animated series created by Sue Rose and shown in the United States on ABC. It debuted in September 1997.

Pepper Ann starred cartoon adolescents and charted their ups and downs at Hazelnut Middle School. It aired as part of Disney’s "One Saturday Morning" block, but Pepper Ann was very different from competing Disney star, Doug. Unlike her laid-back male counterpart, Pepper Ann was outgoing, headstrong, and a true free spirit. The twelve-year-old redhead knew what she wanted and went after it, cooking up any crazy scheme necessary to reach her goal.

When trouble reared its head, Pepper's emotions came out in Ally McBeal-like fantasies (the two shows actually debuted within a week of each other). Pepper Ann usually received advice from her conscience in the form of her reflection.

Pepper Ann's best friends were Milo Kamalani, a quirky artist who was rarely ever seen without his purple hat; and Nicky Little, an aspiring violinist who was annoyingly perfect without really trying. Some of Pepper Ann's fellow students included rich and spoiled Trinket, German boy Dieter Liederhosen, popular airhead Cissy, gossipy twins Tessa and Vanessa, Nicky's boyfriend, the RC CAR Racing Stewart Walldinger, and the Cool 8th-grader, Craig. Pepper had no real enemies except Principal Hickey, a tough disciplinarian with zero tolerance for Pepper Ann's shenanigans.

Every time in the opening sequence she always finds something different under her desk (similar to The Simpsons' couch gag).

One of the original segments of "One Saturday Morning", Pepper Ann was a hit with audiences. Pepper Ann was formerly shown on Toon Disney weekdays at 2:30pm E/P, but due to many things including the addition of JETIX, it has vanished completely off the network. Along with a number of other shows it was removed from schedules in November 2004 and has not been seen since. It is unknown if it will ever return, and as of now Disney is currently deciding on whether or not to release it on DVD.

Contents

[edit] Characters

[edit] Main

  • Pepper Ann Pearson - A twelve-year-old redhead who is outgoing, headstrong, and a true free spirit. She knew what she wanted and went after it, cooking up any crazy scheme necessary to reach her goal. Pepper Ann may have been excitable, but she was by no means a spoiled brat. She was generally well-liked at school, where she usually hung out with best friends. One interesting fact about Pepper Ann is that she (and Moose) are half-Jewish. There was even an episode ("A Kosher Christmas") that featured her trying to choose between celebrating Hanukkah and Christmas.
  • Milo - One of Pepper Ann's best friends, a video game and pizza-loving artist of Hawaiian ancestry. He's also got a love for fish sticks and school assemblies. He wears shorts even in the winter and is almost never seen without his beanie hat on.
  • Nicky - Pepper Ann's other best friend. A meek straight-A student and upstanding voice of reason. Way back when Pepper Ann and Milo were in kindergarten, Nicky had been skipped into first grade and was an aggressive girl who bullied a meek and dorky Milo. Her last act of bullying was to force Milo to accept her beanie, which Milo has worn since.
  • Lydia Pearson - Pepper Ann's divorced mother whom she lives with. She marries Alex Trebek at the end of the series.
  • Margaret Rose "Moose" Pearson - Pepper Ann's deep-voiced and rather tomboyish younger sister.

[edit] Supporting

  • Janie Pearson - Pepper Ann's liberal activist aunt.
  • Ned Pearson - Pepper Ann's cousin.
  • Jo Jo Pearson - Pepper Ann's policeman uncle.
  • Principal Hickey - Her school's principal, a tough disciplinarian with zero tolerance for Pepper Ann's shenanigans.

[edit] Schoolmates

  • Alice Kane - Pepper Ann's arch rival; she is very condescending and thinks of herself as smarter than everyone. She calls Pepper Ann "P. Ann".
  • Trinket St. Blair - A rich, pretty, and snobby girl who often insults Pepper Ann.
  • Dieter Lederhosen - A German boy who is obsessed with food and a popular German racecar driving Uber-Monkey named Klaus.
  • Cissy Rooney - A popular airhead who is obsessed with her own looks.
  • Tessa and Vanessa James - Gossipy twins that always finish each other's sentences.
  • Stuart Walldinger - Nicky's boyfriend who races RC cars. He is something of a nerd.
  • Craig Bean - The cool eighth-grader who has his own band. He is the object of Pepper Ann's affections.
  • Pink-Eyed Pete- A kid who has never-ending pink eye.
  • Gwen Mezzrow - Milo's on-and-off girlfriend. They can never seem to like each other at the same time.
  • Constance Goldman - A girl who strives to be as "cool" as Pepper Ann. She has a very cool mom.
  • LaMar Abudabi - Constance's boyfriend.

[edit] Voice actors

[edit] Episodes

[edit] Season 1: 1997-1998

  • Ziterella (Originally Aired 9/13/1997)
  • Romeo and Juliet / Food Barn (Originally Aired 9/20/1997)
  • Old Best Friend / Crunch Pod (Originally Aired 9/27/2002)
  • Psychic Moose / Doll and Chain (Originally Aired 10/4/1997)
  • Megablades of Grass / Family Vacation (Originally Aired 10/11/1997)
  • The Big Pencil / Sani-Paper (Originally Aired 10/18/1997)
  • Uniform Uniformity / Snot Your Mother's Music (Originally Aired 10/25/1997)
  • The Environ Mentals (Originally Aired 11/8/1997)
  • Crush and Burn / Soccer Season (Originally Aired 11/15/1997)
  • Thanksgiving Dad (Originally Aired 11/22/1997)
  • Sketch 22 / Manly Milo (Originally Aired 1/10/1998)
  • Have You Ever Been Unsupervised / The Unusual Suspects (Originally Aired 1/17/1998)
  • Nicky Gone Bad / In Support of (Originally Aired 1/24/1998)

[edit] Season 2: 1998-1999

  • Quiz Bowl / License to Drive (Originally Aired 9/12/1998)
  • Cocoon Gables / Green-Eyed Monster (Originally Aired 9/19/1998)
  • Hazelnut's Finest / Cat Scan (Originally Aired 9/26/1998)
  • An OtterBiography / GreenSleeves (Originally Aired 10/3/1998)
  • Vanessa Less Tessa / Peer Counselor P.A. (Originally Aired 10/10/1998)
  • A 'Tween Halloween / Mash into Me (Originally Aired 10/31/1998)
  • Presenting Stewart Waldinger / Pepper Ann's Life in a Nutshell (Originally Aired 11/14/1998)
  • Like Riding a Bike (Originally Aired 11/28/1998)
  • Radio Freak Hazelnut / Framed (Originally Aired 12/5/1998)
  • Portrait of the Artist as a Young Milo / The Sisterhood (Originally Aired 12/12/1998)
  • Impractical Jokes / Cold Feet (Originally Aired 12/26/1998)
  • Doppelganger Didi / Pepper Ann's Day Off-Kilter (Originally Aired 1/9/1999)
  • A No Hair Day / That's My Dad (Originally Aired 1/16/1999)

[edit] Season 3: 1999-2000

  • You Oughta Be in Musicals (Originally Aired 9/11/1999)
  • Dances with Ignorance / Girl Power (Originally Aired 9/18/1999)
  • Beyond Good and Evel / One of the Guys (Originally Aired 9/25/1999)
  • The Wash-Out / Def Comedy Mom (Originally Aired 11/6/1999)
  • The First Date Club / Unicycle of Life (Originally Aired 11/13/1999)
  • A Kosher Christmas (Originally Aired 12/18/1999)
  • Effie Shrugged / Mama Knows What Pepper Ann Did Two Nights Ago (Originally Aired 1/15/2000)
  • The Spanish Imposition / Single Unemployed Mother (Originally Aired 1/22/2000)

[edit] Season 4: 2000

  • Burn, Hazelnut, Burn / Career Daze (Originally Aired 2/6/2000)
  • G.I. Janie / Miss Moose (Originally Aired 2/7/2000)
  • Pepper Shaker / Flaw and Order (Originally Aired 2/8/2000)
  • Baggy Bean Buddies / The Beans of Wrath (Originally Aired 2/9/2000)
  • The Velvet Room (Originally Aired 2/10/2000)
  • One Angry Woman (Originally Aired 2/11/2000)
  • The Sellout / The Telltale Fuzzy (Originally Aired 2/12/2000)
  • A Valentine's Day Tune (Originally Aired 2/14/2000)
  • Sammy's Song / Permanent Record (Originally Aired 2/15/2000)
  • Live and Let Dye (Originally Aired 2/16/2000)
  • Remote Possibilitys / Considering Constance (Originally Aired 2/17/2000)
  • To Germany with Love (Originally Aired 2/18/2000)
  • Bye, Bye Trinket / P.A.'s Pop Fly (Originally Aired 2/19/2000)
  • My Mother, Myself (Originally Aired 2/21/2000)
  • The Amazing Becky Little (Originally Aired 2/22/2000)
  • The Untitled Milo Kamalani Project / Guess Who's Coming to the Theater (Originally Aired 2/23/2000)
  • The Great Beyond / Jaybirds of a Feather (Originally Aired 2/25/2000)
  • The Way They Were (Originally Aired 2/25/2000)

[edit] Season 5: 2000

  • The One with Mr. Reason / Sense and Senselessness
  • Forging Ahead / Reality Bytes
  • Carmello / Strike It or Not
  • Complementary Colors
  • The Merry Lives of Pepper Ann
  • A Is for Average / Alice Kane Went Down To Calcutta
  • Spice of Life / T.G.I.F
  • Dear Debby / Too Cool to Be Mom
  • Moose in Love / Two's Company
  • Zen and the Art of Milo
  • Unhappy Campers / The Search for Pepper Ann Pearson
  • The Word / The Perfect Couple
  • The Finale

[edit] Trivia

  • Pepper Ann and her mom had a cameo appearance in the first episode of Disney's House of Mouse. Pepper Ann's mother says "Don't touch the villain, dear" to Pepper Ann, after Pete falls out of the sky, but Pepper Ann has no lines. Notably, they are the only characters directly from another Disney television series to have ever appeared on House of Mouse.
  • "G.I. Janie / Miss Moose" is the only episode Toon Disney has never aired.
  • Milo bears a striking resemblance to Boomer from the T.V. show Lloyd In Space

[edit] External links


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