History WesternAnimation / PepperAnn

The series was adapted by Sue Rose, also known for creating the advertising mascot Fido Dido, and adapted from short comic strips she created which appeared intermittently in ''YM Magazine'' in the early 1990s.

* {{Zeerust}}: The GrandFinale can be seen as this as it takes place in 2012, 15 years after the series began going by ComicBookTime above.

Pepper Ann!\\

Is she cool, is she lame?\\

Pepper Ann!''"

* HairTodayGoneTomorrow: A variation. A flashback to Moose's birth shows Janie (who sports a bob in the present day) with magnificent RapunzelHair as she was a hippie at the time.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Averted; when Pepper Ann calls Milo out on dying his hair blue, he admits his hair is so incredibly naturally black, that it looks blue.

* {{Meganekko}}: Pepper Ann's always lovable with glasses on.
** Even her mom counts too.

* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: In "The Sisterhood", the "Adamant Eve" event Pepper Ann, her mom and her aunt attend is this. They even spell "women" as "womyn"! [[LampshadeHanging P.A.'s grandma lampshades this.]]

* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Between Nicky and Becky. Nicky is jealous that Becky has all sorts of athletic trophies and good-name stuff under her belt and her parents ''clearly'' favored her whenever she was around. However, when she finally confronts Becky about this, Becky admits that Nicky is far more creative (being more musically inclined) and is ''far'' stronger than she is.

* SiblingRivalry: Between Nicky and Becky. Nicky is jealous that Becky has all sorts of athletic trophies and good-name stuff under her belt and her parents ''clearly'' favored her whenever she was around. However, when she finally confronts Becky about this, Becky admits that Nicky is far more creative (being more musically inclined) and is ''far'' stronger than she is.

* SixtyFiveEpisodeCartoon: The series ended with 65 episodes, as that was Disney's maximum at the time.

* SixtyFiveEpisodeCartoon: 65 episodes over 3 seasons, which The Other Wiki incorrectly labels as 5 seasons.

* AmicablyDivorced: Pepper Ann's parents. Unlike most other shows that have divorced parents, Pepper Ann's parents didn't split up because they didn't get along; [[spoiler:it is implied that they split up because Chuck (Pepper Ann's father) works as a blimp driver and his job got in the way of being a full-time father]].

** 3 episodes in seasons 3 and 4 (which were originally produced as one, 26-episode "3rd season") were outsourced to a different, lesser-known animation studio that still used traditional cel animation, which also resulted in a brief return to the more cartoony animation style seen in the 1st season.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: For most of season 1, Nicky wasn't shown hanging out with Pepper Ann and Milo outside of school much, and many Season 1 episodes focus almost exclusively on Pepper Ann and Milo, with Nicky sometimes showing up for a bit. There was also a RunningGag with Nicky being picked up by her mom for some sort of after-school lesson or practice, right when Pepper Ann needed her help. Both aspects were dropped by Season 2, with the RunningGag re-appearing in the Season 5 episode "Two's Company" (an episode that involved Nicky and Milo hanging out without Pepper Ann), presumably as a development gag.

* OffModel: The Season 5 episode "Searching for Pepper Ann Pearson" was animated by the series' usual animation studio, Creator/SunwooEntertainment; however, it has many of the same qualities of the Hana episodes, albeit in a more subtle manner. Pepper Ann's face and hair are the main differences, as both are drawn in the same "compacted" way as in the Hana episodes, and P.A.'s hair is animated with more fluidity and movement than usual. There is also a quick inking error that results in Pepper Ann herself being briefly rendered in the ThickLineAnimation style.

* SixtyFiveEpisodeCartoon: 65 episodes over 5 seasons.

* SixtyFiveEpisodeCartoon: The series ended with 65 episodes.

* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: As seen in a "The Way They Were", it seems that everyone in Hazelnut Middle School was in the same kindergarten class.

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* MixedAncestry: Pepper Ann is Jewish on her mom's side of the family and Spanish, British, and Navajo Indian on her dad's side (though Pepper Ann's dad sounds like he has an Australian accent).

* ImagineSpot: Loads. In fact, due to Pepper Ann not giving us a signal about having one like WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}, you can't tell if the surreal things that she witnesses are in fact either in her head or real - like the talking squirrel and bird in the first episode.

* GroundhogDayLoop: "T.G.I.F.," which involves Pepper Ann pretending to be sick to get out of taking a test. The repeating day finally stops when she takes the test. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, the next morning ''looks'' like the day's still repeating (her neighbor yells at the paper boy, Lydia enters the room the same way she did before) and it causes Pepper Ann to snap. She then spends the entire day insulting people assuming it won't matter, and then wakes up to find everyone she insulted is super pissed at her. She spends the day making it up to everyone... and then learns ''this'' day is now repeating. The biggest hints that the first loop ended are that her one neighbor is no longer upset about losing his winning lottery ticket and none of her friends are at school.]]

* TwoShorts: Most of the episodes of the series are this, and the episodes that are one double-length story have a ToBeContinued graphic at the end of their first acts.

* DigitalDestruction: The Creator/DisneyPlus run of the series has Season 1 from it's PAL master, which reportedly was sourced from an airing on the series on Irish television in the 2010s.

* DigitalDestruction: The Creator/DisneyPlus run of the series has Season 1 and the traditionally animated episodes from seasons 3-4 in their PAL masters, which reportedly were sourced from an airing on the series on Irish television in the 2010s.

* ComicBookTime: The series first aired in 1997 and it consistently took place in 1997, even when it aired in the new millennium. A late series episode has one of the students note that the class has been in the 7th grade for a long time.

* ComicBookTime: The series first aired in 1997 and it consistently took place in 1997, even when it aired in the new millennium. A late series episode has Cissy note that her class has been in the 7th grade a long time.