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Milo, Lydia, Pepper Ann, Moose and Nicky

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.

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 Milo (a video game and pizza-loving artist of Hawaiian ancestry) and Nicky (a meek straight-A student and upstanding voice of reason). At home, Pepper Ann lived with her divorced mother Lydia, deep-voiced and rather tomboyish younger sister Margaret-Rose (known as "Moose"), her liberal activist Aunt Janie, policeman Uncle Jo Jo, and cousin Ned. 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.

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 Stuart, and the Cool Eighth Grader, Craig. Pepper had no real enemies except Principal Hickey, a tough disciplinarian with zero tolerance for Pepper Ann's shenanigans. Pepper Ann had a vivid imagination, which often got the best of her. 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, so nobody stole anyone else's idea). Pepper Ann usually got advice from her conscience which is usually her reflection. Her favorite places to hang out were usually, Greezy n' Cheesy: The Pizza Place, Freezy Pleezy: the Ice Cream Parlor, The Burger Fortress and Brain Dead: the arcade.

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.

Voice actors

Episodes

Season 1: 1997-1998

  • Ziterella

Pepper Ann gets an enormous pimple on picture day, trying to find a cure for her odd blemish of the skin

  • Romeo and Juliet / Food Barn

Pepper Ann is originally given the part of the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, but is forced to wear a fatsuit/as a class project, but she becomes Juliet instead. Pepper Ann works at the Food Barn, a fictional grocery store in the show

  • Old Best Friend / Crunch Pod

Pepper Ann's old friend from Summer camp moves to Hazelnut, but Pepper Ann finds her irritating and shallow, much to her disappointment. Pepper Ann beats Milo's high score at crunch pod, instigating a rivalry between the two.

  • Psychic Moose / Doll and Chain
  • Megablades of Grass / Family Vacation
  • The Big Pencil / Sani-Paper
  • Uniform Uniformity / Snot Your Mother's Music
  • The Environ Mentals
  • Crush and Burn / Soccer Season
  • Thanksgiving Dad
  • Sketch 22 / Manly Milo
  • Have You Ever Been Unsupervised / The Unusual Suspects
  • Nicky Gone Bad / In Support of

Season 2: 1998-1999

  • Quiz Bowl / License to Drive
  • Cocoon Gables / Green-Eyed Monster
  • Hazelnut's Finest / Cat Scan
  • An OtterBiography / GreenSleeves
  • Vannessa Less Tessa / Peer Counselor P.A.
  • A 'Tween Halloween / Mash into Me
  • Presenting Stewart Waldinger / Pepper Ann's Life in a Nutshell
  • Like Riding a Bike
  • Radio Freak Hazelnut / Framed
  • Portrait of the Artist as a Young Milo / The Sisterhood
  • Impractical Jokes / Cold Feet
  • Doppelganger Didi / Pepper Ann's Day Off-Kilter
  • A No Hair Day / That's My Dad

Season 3: 1999-2000

  • You Oughta Be in Musicals
  • Dances with Ignorance / Girl Power
  • Beyond Good and Evel / One of the Guys
  • The Wash-Out / Def Comedy Mom
  • The First Date Club / Unicycle of Life
  • A new friend / Blind Kid / Pushed down the stairs
  • A Kosher Christmas
  • Effie Shrugged / Mama Knows What Pepper Ann Did Two Nights Ago
  • The Spanish Imposition / Single Unemployed Mother

Season 4: 2000

  • Burn, Hazelnut, Burn / Career Daze
  • G.I. Janie / Miss Moose
  • Pepper Shaker / Flaw and Order
  • Baggy Bean Buddies / The Beans of Wrath
  • The Velvet Room
  • One Angry Woman
  • The Sellout / The Telltale Fuzzy
  • A Valentine's Day Tune
  • Sammy's Song / Permanent Record
  • Live and Let Dye
  • Remote Possibilitys / Considering Constance
  • To Germany with Love
  • Bye, Bye Trinket / P.A.'s Pop Fly
  • My Mother, Myself
  • The Amazing Becky Little
  • The Untitled Milo Kamalani Project / Guess Who's Coming to the Theater
  • The Great Beyond / Jaybirds of a Feather
  • The Way They Were

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
  • Middle School Graduation
  • The Finale

Theme song

Who's that girl, what's her name,
Is she cool, is she lame?
(Oh, you're talking about whatshername...)
Pepper Ann! (Pepper Ann)

Is she lame, is she cool,
Is she breaking every rule,
Is she anybody's fool?
Pepper Ann! (Pepper Ann)

Pepper Ann, Pepper Ann,
Marching in her own parade
Pepper Ann, she's like one in a million!
Pepper Ann, Pepper Ann,
Much too cool for seventh grade
Catch her if you can, Pepper Ann!

(Who?)
(Is that that girl from gym class?)
(No, that's me...)
(Oohh...who is she, and WHY does she have her own song?)
(Did someone take my lunch?)

Pepper Ann, Pepper Ann,
Marching in her own parade
Pepper Ann, she's like one in a million!
Pepper Ann, Pepper Ann,
Much too cool for seventh grade
No one's cooler than Pepper Ann,
She's her own biggest fan, Pepper Ann,
Catch her if you can, Pepper Ann!

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