Storyline
The quirky adventures of Pepper Ann, a 12-year-old girl trying to get through life with her family and friends.
Episodes
Season 1
No overview available for this season.
Ziterella
Sep 13, 1997
Pepper Ann Pearson, a spunky too-cool-for-7th-grade girl, has just started middle school. It's yearbook photo day and just when Pepper Ann was thinking her life couldn't get any trashier, she gets a zit. The solution? Zit cream, but she'll have to go to Abe's Mall (or commonly called Abys Mall, as in your life will be an abysmal if you get seen there) to get this cream. At least there's an advantage, 33% discount!
Romeo and Juliet
Sep 20, 1997
Romeo and Juliet Pepper Ann tries out for a play because Craig has the lead role of Romeo. When the time comes around for the results, she's a runner-up to Cissy who's gotten the lead role of Juliet. Pepper Ann got the role of "Nurse." Meanwhile, Milo is O.D.ing on juice boxes. Finally when it's time for the play, Cissy loses her contact lense, and Pepper Ann gets the lead role, but an accident causes Craig to be replaced by a chubby Milo.
Food Barn
Sep 20, 1997
In economics class, Pepper Ann and friends get assigned partners and have to work at a job for a week. Pepper Ann has to work at Food Barn with Milo. While there Milo gets a promotion, Pepper Ann? Nothing; Milo gets praise, Pepper Ann? "Clean this up clean that up." This drives Pepper Ann wild. Meanwhile, Deiter is not showing up at his job because he's been at the Food Barn eating all the strudels.
Old Best Friend
Sep 27, 1997
Pepper Ann gets all excited to see her old friend "Brenda" from Cubby Camp, but to find out she's very Uncool and still acts like she did 5 years ago!
Crunch Pod
Sep 27, 1997
Milo, "the king of crunch," accidentally gets beaten by Pepper Ann in a Crunch Pod tournament. They then have a "who's better" fight
Psychic Moose
Oct 04, 1997
Seeing moose hanging out with the mall psychic, Pepper Ann gets the feeling that Moose is psychic.
Doll and Chain
Oct 04, 1997
Pepper Ann and friends are assigned dolls that must accompany them everywhere. Pepper Ann thinks she's irresponsible because she keeps losing her doll, and can't get it to stop crying.
Megablades of Grass
Oct 11, 1997
Pepper Ann exploits and takes advantage of Milo's skill of being able to cut grass, and trim bushes into the shapes of various things, just to get herself some MegaBlade 3000 roller blades.
Family Vacation
Oct 11, 1997
Pepper Ann and family go to vacation at Lake Tammy. No one ever gets Crash's name right, here are a few of the names he was confused with in this episode; Trash, Slash, Clash, Hatch. An opera loving accident.
The Big Pencil
Oct 18, 1997
Pencil Pepper Ann wants to beat Alice Kane by building a better science project. The trophy? A giant pencil.
Sani-Paper
Oct 18, 1997
Pepper Ann's school gets a invited to the Sani-Paper toilet seat cover factory because no other place will allow them to come. While there she makes several observations such as; 1 large tree makes only 1 toilet seat cover. She then learns that there's much more going on than she saw.
Uniform Uniformity
Oct 25, 1997
Principal Hickey thinks that school uniforms will improve the school, so he hires P.A.'s mom to make the uniforms. Pepper Ann thinks everyone will hate her because of this, but she's wrong.
Snot Your Mother's Music
Oct 25, 1997
After Pepper Ann gets tickets for a sold out concert, she learns her mother knows Mick Snot from her favorite band Flaming Snot.
The Environ-Mentals
Nov 08, 1997
Pepper Ann joins the environ-mentals and tries to solve the problem that the pyramid peanut butter can presents (skunks crawl in and suffocate).
Soccer Season
Nov 15, 1997
The Hazelnut Middle School Otters are back and awful as ever. However, Pepper Ann gets in the game and becomes a star. But the success goes to her head and she needs to be taught a lesson.
Crush and Burn
Nov 15, 1997
Milo is upset that Gwen Mezzrow has a crush on him, so Pepper Ann comes up with a genius idea - her and Milo are a couple. One lie leads to another, which leads to another...until it gets totally out of control.
Thanksgiving Dad
Nov 22, 1997
Pepper Ann's dad has called, saying he has a surprise for her. Pepper Ann thinks he will come and visit her. Meanwhile, Lydia and her aunt Janny are trying to have the best Thanksgiving ever. But; the turkey burns, Ned eats all the yams, and they have to resort to Butterscotch pudding as yams. So they go to plan B and dinner is solved. Pepper Ann finds out her dad is going to visit her next week. Everyone enjoys dinner, even Milo, who was invited by Pepper Ann, who is grateful for everything.
Sketch 22
Jan 10, 1998
Pepper Ann gets invited to hang out with an eighth grader named Sketch.
Manly Milo
Jan 10, 1998
Milo tries to be more of a man by hanging out with guys, but the guys reject him because he's always seen hanging out with two girls. He then learns that how macho you are doesn't really matter.
Have You Ever Been Unsupervised
Jan 17, 1998
Deiter is now turning 13 and he decides to have an unsupervised birthday party. This is the type of party where anything can happen, including "spin the bottle."
The Unusual Suspects
Jan 17, 1998
The otter statue was stolen, and unfortunately this is an inanimate object. Principal Hickey calls in possible suspects to hear their story of where they were at the time, and what they were doing
Nicky Gone Bad
Jan 24, 1998
Nicky gets tired of caring for everyone, and decides to stop. She also decides to stop being a goodie two shoes, and be bad. Very bad. All the adults she talks to just ignore her new behavior though, this just makes her even angrier...
In Support of
Jan 24, 1998
Pepper Ann hears about "support" in gym class, and goes on a quest to find information, and a bra. She goes to her mom to find the information part.
Season 2
No overview available for this season.
Quiz Bowl
Sep 12, 1998
The big quiz bowl has come about and Niki, Milo, Deider, and Pepper Ann have been selected to represent HMS. Pepper Ann (being an alternate) uses her trip for fun until Niki gets sick and now must cram for the Championship round.
License to Drive
Sep 12, 1998
It's almost Ned's 16th birthday and Pepper Ann hears that Ned is going to get a new set of wheels. Now, to avoid parent drop-off, Pepper Ann must cram in 12 years of cousinly love to get on Neds good side.
Cocoon Gables
Sep 19, 1998
Pepper Ann has to Volunteer for Cocoon Gables at the old people's place. When Pepper Ann settles in she now knows how its like to be Old. Not getting Choices no more fun and other things. So Pepper Ann changes the rule book and makes everything fun for the old people!
Green-Eyed Monster
Sep 19, 1998
The most popular girl in 7th grade is away for a week. Pepper Ann wants to take her place but keeps getting shown up by new girl Amber. Meanwhile someone has been stealing from all the school lockers.
Hazelnut's Finest
Sep 26, 1998
Pepper Ann has to document her Uncle Jojo's day at work for a school project. She discover his job is not as exciting as she had hoped.
Cat Scan
Sep 26, 1998
Pepper Ann's cat Steve has run away and found a new job as the mascot of the Lottery.
An OtterBiography
Oct 03, 1998
Pepper Ann has to be Shania the Otter mascot for Nicky's field hockey team.
GreenSleeves
Oct 03, 1998
Pepper Ann wants to learn to play the piano but it's too hard. Luckily she finds a light-up keyboard that does all the work for her.
Vannessa Less Tessa
Oct 10, 1998
Tessa and Vanessa get into a small fight about who's cuter and Pepper Ann uses facts from "Crazy Twin Shenanigans" to help Vanessa and Tessa be sisters once again. Only, Pepper Ann has never seen the last 10 minutes of every episode to find out what really happens.
Peer Counselor P.A.
Oct 10, 1998
Pepper Ann's bad habit of not paying attention finally comes back to bite her. When she signs up to be a peer counselor thinking its a vacation to the pier carnival.
A 'Tween Halloween
Oct 31, 1998
Everyone is afraid to go trick-or-treating this year because of how old they are.
Mash into Me
Oct 31, 1998
Much to Pepper Ann's annoyance, Crash gets a big crush on her because she looks just like his favorite "Genetic Dozen" character, Regeneca.
Presenting Stewart Walldinger
Nov 14, 1998
Pepper Ann objects when she learns Nicky is going out with Stewart Waldinger, the biggest nerd in school.
Pepper Ann's Life in a Nutshell
Nov 14, 1998
Pepper Ann writes about how she thinks about herself and how she feels so insecure about herself sometimes. In the "Inside the Nutshell" section of the school whistle.
Like Riding a Bike
Nov 28, 1998
Pepper Ann's Mom, "Lydia Pearson" is dating P.A's Teacher "Mr. Carter" and everyone at school thinks its the greatest thing of all time! I bet you can guess what Pepper Ann is thinking...
Radio Freak Hazelnut
Dec 05, 1998
The rhetoric of Wayne MacCabre on the high school radio station KHMS so infuriates Pepper Ann that she tries to silence him.
Framed
Dec 05, 1998
Pepper Ann is getting Framed because some kid who feels lonesome, spray painted the word "Hare" in red spray paint on this brick wall.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Milo
Dec 12, 1998
For the first time in his life, Milo suffers a mental block when he tries to come up with an entry for the Dental Hygienapalooza Poster Contest.
The Sisterhood
Dec 12, 1998
Lydia and Janie drag a reluctant Pepper Ann to their annual "Adament Eve" female retreat.
Impractical Jokes
Dec 26, 1998
Pepper Ann, Milo and Nicky are in a practical joke competition. Pepper Ann starts to take it too seriously.
Cold Feet
Dec 26, 1998
Pepper Ann's Grandma is having their 50th Anniversary and She has Cold Feet about the whole thing!
Doppelganger Didi
Jan 09, 1999
Pepper Ann freaks out when she learns that Didi O'Shaunassy, a student attending Our Lady of Walnut, looks and acts just like her.
Pepper Ann's Day Off-Kilter
Jan 09, 1999
Pepper Ann decides to have a sick day.
A No Hair Day
Jan 16, 1999
Craig Shaves his head and doesn't look as good as he used to to Pepper Ann. Is she really that shallow?
That's My Dad
Jan 16, 1999
Pepper Ann wants to learn as much about her dad as she can, after Trinket remarks that she doesn't since her parents are divorced.
Season 3
No overview available for this season.
You Oughta Be in Musicals
Sep 11, 1999
Pepper Ann is bored with her daily routine. She thinks she can put excitement in her life by playing the lead in the school's ""Detention: the Musical"". But she regrets that.
Dances with Ignorance
Sep 18, 1999
Pepper Ann finds out shes a little of Indian and wants to learn more about her Heritage, but does she over-do it?
Girl Power
Sep 18, 1999
Moose loves a cartoon "Tundra Woman" Because she fights for what she believes in, but when she finds out they replaced her by some stupid girly girl she gets angry and tries to fix the way Tundra Woman really is. But then they make Tundra woman to Evil!
Beyond Good and Evel
Sep 25, 1999
Moose wants Evel Knevel to represent Hazelnut with his statue.
One of the Guys
Sep 25, 1999
Pepper Ann wants to prove she's not a Girls Guy and wants to be a Girls Girl!
The Wash-Out
Nov 06, 1999
When Gwen has to leave school in the middle of the day Pepper Ann accidentally starts a rumor that it's because Gwen has lice.
Def Comedy Mom
Nov 06, 1999
Lydia decides to try out being a standup comedian to add some variety into her life. Pepper Ann freaks that Lydia'll will embarrass her.
The First Date Club
Nov 13, 1999
Could it be a first date with Pepper Ann and Craig Bean!?
Unicycle of Life
Nov 13, 1999
Pepper Ann freaks out when people start thinking she and Milo are dating.
A Kosher Christmas
Dec 18, 1999
Pepper Ann makes a list of all the stuff that's great about Christmas or Hanuka, which ever is better.
Effie Shrugged
Jan 15, 2000
Pepper Ann becomes friends with a School Bully and doesn't notice it.
Mom Knows What P.A. Did Two Nights Ago
Jan 15, 2000
Pepper Ann sneaks into an R rated movie. The guilt of lying about it drives her insane.
The Spanish Imposition
Jan 22, 2000
Pepper Ann really wants to get into Music Appreciation class. She gets stuck in Spanish 101 instead.
Single Unemployed Mother
Jan 22, 2000
Pepper Ann has to do "Take your kid to work week" with Lydia Pearson "MOM," Only Lydia Quit her job.
Season 4
No overview available for this season.
Burn, Hazelnut, Burn
Feb 06, 2000
Burn, Hazelnut, Burn Pepper Ann wants to Create her very own movie but everyone starts to take it over!
Career Daze
Feb 06, 2000
Everyone at Hazelnut Middle School takes a Career test to see what they'll be when they grow up...NOT TRUE. Soon Everyone begins to be horrible at their jobs...that they all realize, just because some piece of paper says something doesn't mean its your future.
G.I. Janie
Feb 07, 2000
Pepper Ann's Aunt Janie becomes upsessed with Violent video games!
Miss Moose
Feb 07, 2000
Pepper Ann tries to change the way Moose acts and dresses.
Pepper Shaker
Feb 08, 2000
Pepper Ann becomes Jumpy and to frightened about Natural disasters after the small so called, "Earth Quake" in Hazelnut!
Flaw and Order
Feb 08, 2000
Mr. Finky sets up a mock trial of the Boston Tea Party revolutionaries, and Pepper Ann thinks she doesn't need to do any work for her role as defense counsel.
Baggy Bean Buddies
Feb 09, 2000
Pepper Ann gets addicted to Baggy Bean Buddies because a sack of beans is worth over 100 dollars!
The Beans of Wrath
Feb 09, 2000
Dieter wants to prove to Pepper Ann that he will win the contest for whoever has the freshest vegetables alive!
The Velvet Room
Feb 10, 2000
Everyone's Family has a Peticular Special kind of Room or something where it should not be Touched nor Rough housed in! In this case Pepper Ann starts to Wonder Why?
One Angry Woman
Feb 11, 2000
Pepper Ann's Mother is Called to Jury to decide whether this kid should be sentence for a long time of Community service or not. For Supposedly Spitting on the Bank Camera. Meanwhile, Pepper Ann is in charge of the house and Moose is annoyed by her act!
The Sellout
Feb 13, 2000
Pepper Ann and Friends buy tickets to a concert only Pepper Ann gets SOLD OUT! So she complains to Nicky and Milo how they should give a ticket to her, when all of them apparently end up to Dieter!
The Telltale Fuzzy
Feb 13, 2000
Pepper Ann finds a lot of Money near this bench in the mall, and then she buys the Fuzzy painting she's always wanted. When Pepper Ann turns in a sack of coins that dumped out of a crunch pod machine. People start to suspect that Pepper Ann is the Finest in all of Hazelnut!
A Valentine's Day Tune
Feb 14, 2000
Now, on the eve of Valentine's Day, Pepper Ann's haunted by 3 ghosts, they show her how she tried to get her parents together by forging each other's names on cards, and when Lydia gave her a necklace. Then she sees her friends at the dance missing her, then she sees that if she doesn't learn to love Valentine's Day, she'll be a lonely old lady who forbid it. So she vows to love Valentine's Day forever.
Sammy's Song
Feb 15, 2000
Pepper Ann thinks the Pyramid Peanut Butter company is nothing but evil for making packages that skunks and gophers can get stuck in. But Janie tries to get her to rethink.
Permanent Record
Feb 15, 2000
Nicky gets Detention and a mark on her permanent record and wants to get the mark off!
Live and Let Dye
Feb 16, 2000
Pepper Ann wants to be even more of an individual so she decides to dye her hair Green!
Remote Possibilities
Feb 17, 2000
Pepper Ann tries to Solve Nicky and Stewart's differences.
Considering Constance
Feb 17, 2000
Constance wants to be just like Pepper Ann so Pepper Ann does everything the wrong way and it all even's up from how Milo and Nicky see it! "It's better to be yourself than somebody you aren't!"
To Germany with Love
Feb 18, 2000
Dieter is sending a tape to his Dad of how he's doing in America and films a bunch of Hazelnut middle school friends!
Bye, Bye Trinket
Feb 20, 2000
Trinket wants to move to an all girls school but then moves back because of the Cell-Lines don't reach her particular connections.
P.A.'s Pop Fly
Feb 20, 2000
Pepper Ann likes Soccer, but her Dad wants to share the Baseball fever with Pepper Ann too. So he takes Pepper Ann to the Baseball game and Pepper Ann ends up catching the 700th home run ball and decides whether to trade it in or give it back to the Star.
My Mother, Myself
Feb 21, 2000
Pepper Ann and Lydia switch places by saying the same sentence at the same time and now they have to figure out a way to change everything back the way it was before.
The Amazing Becky Little
Feb 22, 2000
Nicky's Sister Becky comes to town and Nicky has always known Becky was the Best sister.
The Untitled Milo Kamalani Project
Feb 23, 2000
Milo blows off an entry for an album cover contest. But he wins and gets set up as a celebrity artist.
Guess Who's Coming to the Theater
Feb 23, 2000
Pepper Ann doesn't want her real Dad to see her Mom with Bernie at the school play.
The Great Beyond
Feb 25, 2000
Pepper Ann's cat Steve has a problem and she's hoping he'll be alive but Beyond that, she's wondering where he'll go if he does die.
Jaybirds of a Feather
Feb 25, 2000
Pepper Ann needs to win back her Jaybird feathers in-order to be a sponsor for her sister Moose.
The Way They Were
Feb 27, 2000
Pepper Ann, Milo and Nicky get into a huge fight! Causing them to remember old times.
Season 5
No overview available for this season.
The One with Mr. Reason
Sep 09, 2000
Pepper Ann doesn't like Wood Class just like everyone else. So she tries to get everyone sign a petition to get the class to stop!
Sense and Senselessness
Sep 09, 2000
Pepper Ann relys on a book for Relationships with Boys but the Book fails and Pepper Ann gets dumped by all 3 Boys!
Forging Ahead
Sep 16, 2000
Pepper Ann wants to get her ears Pearced, but when Lydia (Mother of Pepper Ann) says not till she's 13 years old, she forges her moms Signiture anyway.
Reality Bytes
Sep 16, 2000
Pepper Ann gets addicted to her computer.
Carmello
Sep 23, 2000
Pepper Ann gets to close to the Frog that she has to disect for Disection day in science class.
Strike It or Not
Sep 23, 2000
The Teachers of Hazelnut middle school go on strike when the school board still wont give in on money and there demands and needs.
Complementary Colors
Nov 04, 2000
Pepper Ann wants to Class President because someones got to do it. Know one takes it seriously anymore. Right before the fun starts, P.A. finds out the Alice Kane, "Her arch evil nemesis" is running for Class president too! They spread fake rumors about each other! Oh, and Mike Hammel Wins!
The Merry Lives of Pepper Ann
Nov 05, 2000
Pepper Ann gets addicted to going to the Fair and being Lady Gwen and putting off her real life!
A Is for Average
Nov 06, 2000
Pepper Ann takes a quiz in a magazine she was browsing threw one day and to discover, She's average! She takes the test over and over again but her scores don't lie! Then she causes the school to catch..."Mediocer-Mollez".
Alice Kane Went Down To Calcutta
Nov 06, 2000
Alice Kane is moving and wants to make up with Pepper Ann, but Pepper Ann just thinks its one big setup.
Spice of Life
Nov 12, 2000
Every year Pepper Ann works up her courage to sell something to a mean old lady, Vera's mother. And this year Pepper Ann still tries like every other year. Now Vera's mother dies and she mentions Pepper Ann in her will and Vera wants Pepper Ann to say some words at her funeral.
T.G.I.F
Nov 12, 2000
Pepper Ann does not go to school on Friday and claims she's sick just so she won't have to do the algebra test she did not study for. When Pepper Ann takes advantage of the fact it keeps being Friday every day until she lets everything out. And oh boy she's in trouble.
Dear Debby
Nov 13, 2000
Pepper Ann reads an add a girl "Janie" who wrote her feelings in the Newspaper section, "Dear Debby" Pepper Ann thinks its her Aunt Janie so she starts to bond with her more often.
Too Cool to Be Mom
Nov 13, 2000
Pepper Ann finds out Denise is coming to School! "Who's Denise?" Denise is Contance's "Cool Mom" She's the coolest and Pepper Ann wants to prove to the other girls her mom is something special too!
Moose in Love
Nov 14, 2000
Pepper Ann finds out moose has a BF, "Shawn" and now Pepper Ann has to help them see each other in secret...Why? Because Lydia hates the Mother of Shawn "Margo Lassandra" She's deaf in one ear which makes Shawn speak very loudly. Way back when, Lydia asked directions to this certain place and Margo didn't hear, and said something mean but was really words to a song. So its all been a misunderstanding.
Two's Company
Nov 14, 2000
Milo and Nicky get dumped by Gwen and Stewart. Pepper Ann thinks of an idea to get Gwen and Stewart jealous by Nicky and Milo, But now Pepper Ann feels left out.
Zen and the Art of Milo
Nov 15, 2000
Milo becomes accepted to a Zen Academy but misses friends at Hazelnut.
That's My Mama Destructo
Nov 15, 2000
Pepper Ann wins the chance to have her favorite wrestler, Mama Destructo, teach seventh grade math for a week.
Unhappy Campers
Nov 16, 2000
Pepper Ann, Milo and Nicky, get caught doing something bad at the school and have to go to a camp and learn how to survive in the wilderness together. After that get lost and split up.
The Search for Pepper Ann Pearson
Nov 16, 2000
Pepper Ann escapes from detention because of the "Spring Fever" and falls into the Chess Club. She beats the chess geek at it, and he calls for a rematch.
The Word
Nov 17, 2000
Pepper Ann discovers an Unknown Word in the girls Bathroom, "Frasny" She passes it on into conversations hope to see who will ask and tell what "The Word" defines!
The Perfect Couple
Nov 17, 2000
Nicky and Stewart decide to break up right before they go to Pepper Ann's surprise party, for Nicky and Stewart, now both of them have to keep their differences secret for a while!
The Finale
Nov 18, 2000
It's 15 years into the future and Pepper Ann has to go to Hazelnut middle school reunion to open the school time capsule. There she meets Nicky and Milo and they share a little bond. Then Pepper Ann remembers what she put in the Time Capsule. A mean ol' Nasty letter saying a bunch of hateful words about the school!