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* ButNotTooForeign: 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).
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* {{Expy}}: Becky little could be considered one to [[HeyArnold Olga Pataki]].
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** RichBitch Trinket is voiced by Jenna van Oy (Six from ''Blossom'').
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** RichBitch Trinket is voiced by Jenna van Oy (Six from ''Blossom'').''Series/{{Blossom}}'').
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** TPrincipal Hickey is Inspector Gadget (Don Adams)!
** Chuck Pearson (Pepper Ann's father) is voiced by Maurice LaMarche and apparently the one thing he and Don Adams have in common is that they both voiced ''InspectorGadget'' With Maurice voicing Gadget when Don Adams wasn't available.
** Chuck Pearson (Pepper Ann's father) is voiced by Maurice LaMarche and apparently the one thing he and Don Adams have in common is that they both voiced ''InspectorGadget'' With Maurice voicing Gadget when Don Adams wasn't available.
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** TPrincipal T Principal Hickey is Inspector Gadget InspectorGadget (Don Adams)!
** Chuck Pearson (Pepper Ann's father) is voiced byMaurice LaMarche MauriceLaMarche and apparently the one thing he and Don Adams have in common is that they both voiced ''InspectorGadget'' With Maurice voicing Gadget when Don Adams wasn't available.
** Chuck Pearson (Pepper Ann's father) is voiced by
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* OneHitWonder: Pepper Ann became a famous pianist in spite of the fact she could only play "Greensleeves," and even then, could only do so because her keyboard had light-up keys to guide her.
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** Also with the character of ''Di''di O' ''S''haugh''n''ess''ey'', who is basically Pepper Ann after ExecutiveMeddling.
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* {{Adorkable}}: The title character.
* AlphaBitch: Alice and Trinket
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* FemaleMisogynist: In "The Sisterhood" Grandma Lillian is shown to have very old fashioned views on a woman's role in life. Justified in that she most likely grew up with those values and never let them go.
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* FemaleMisogynist: In "The Sisterhood" Grandma Lillian is shown to have very old fashioned views on a woman's role in life. Justified in that she most likely grew up with in a time and place where those values and were common and, even in her old age, she's never let them go.
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* FriendlyEnemies: Janie and Margot in "The Sisterhood" until Janie realizes she doesn't have to pretend to like Margot just because she's a fellow woman.
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** A semi-running gag on the show is Ms. Bladdar (the cynical English teacher who looks like [[{{Daria}} Jane Lane]] if her art career flopped and she ended up a JadedWashout with a teaching job) being the substitute teacher for an unseen teacher named Ms. Ford, who is implied to have a drug problem, possibly alcohol (the episode "The Environ-Mentals" stated that Ms. Ford "...had too much [[FrothyMugsOfWater "punch"]] at last night's PTA meeting.")
** In an episode in which Nicky starts acting like a {{Delinquent}}, Pepper Ann follows Nicky to the bathroom and is horrified to discover that she has taken up [[NoSmoking gum chewing]].
** Pepper Ann spends an episode freaking out about whether she's ready to have a FirstKiss in a way that exactly mirrors the usual anxiety about one's [[TheirFirstTime first time having sex.]]
** In an episode in which Nicky starts acting like a {{Delinquent}}, Pepper Ann follows Nicky to the bathroom and is horrified to discover that she has taken up [[NoSmoking gum chewing]].
** Pepper Ann spends an episode freaking out about whether she's ready to have a FirstKiss in a way that exactly mirrors the usual anxiety about one's [[TheirFirstTime first time having sex.]]
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** A semi-running gag on the show is Ms. Bladdar (the cynical English teacher who looks like [[{{Daria}} Jane Lane]] if her art career flopped and she ended up a JadedWashout with a teaching job) being the substitute teacher for an unseen teacher named Ms. Ford, who is implied to have a drug problem, possibly alcohol drinking problem (the episode "The Environ-Mentals" stated that Ms. Ford "...had too much [[FrothyMugsOfWater "punch"]] at last night's PTA meeting.")
** In anmeeting" and the "Quiz Bowl" episode in which Nicky starts acting like a {{Delinquent}}, Pepper Ann follows Nicky to the bathroom and is horrified to discover had Principal Hickey state that she has taken up [[NoSmoking gum chewing]].
** Pepper Ann spends an episode freaking out about whether she's ready to have a FirstKiss in a way that exactly mirrorsMs. Ford is on sabbactical at the usual anxiety about one's [[TheirFirstTime first time having sex.]]"I Can Shine" Clinic)
** In an
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** This exchange from the episode where Nicky's big sister visits:
-->'''Nicky:''' Now just let me get all of this off my chest so I can conquer my fear of swans, and...
-->'''Becky:''' What did you say?
-->'''Nicky:''' I know, I have no chest to speak of and you've been a...
-->'''Becky:''' No, after that. The swan part.
-->'''Nicky:''' Now just let me get all of this off my chest so I can conquer my fear of swans, and...
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: There have been no VHS ''or'' DVD releases of the show.
** The closest we got was a ''storybook adaptation'' of "Old Best Friend". It was ''that bad''.
** The closest we got was a ''storybook adaptation'' of "Old Best Friend". It was ''that bad''.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: There have been no VHS ''or'' DVD releases of the show.
** The closest we got was a ''storybook adaptation'' of "Old Best Friend". It was ''that bad''.show. There ''are'' some episodes available on YouTube (catch 'em if you can).
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: The opening, which includes such lines as "Did someone take my lunch?" (Pepper Ann had been rollerblading to school and somewhere between the shot where she goes the 'Wrong Way' and the shot where she emerges in front of school, [[StylisticSuck the lunch bag she was carrying disappears]]).
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* ToughActToFollow: In-universe, Pepper Ann received acclaim after writing a magazine article about the time she sneaked out to a party without her mother's permission, but ended up feeling alone and scared at the party (and guilty for deceiving her mom). Pepper Ann followed this up with a tribute to her mother, after learning she went through the same thing when she was younger, but this received scathing feedback.
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* ToughActToFollow: In-universe, Pepper Ann received acclaim after writing a magazine article about the time she sneaked out to a party without her mother's permission, but ended up feeling alone and scared at the party (and guilty for deceiving her mom). Pepper Ann followed this up with a tribute to her mother, after learning she went through the same thing when she was younger, but this received scathing feedback.hate from students who believe TrueArtIsAngsty.
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** In "One of the Guys" when Pepper Ann wants to enter a beauty pageant and her mother takes her measurements:
-->'''Lydia:''' 21... 21... 21... Peppie, if we're gonna win this thing, we are gonna need more than just a great dress.
-->'''Pepper Ann:''' Like... padding?
-->'''Lydia:''' 21... 21... 21... Peppie, if we're gonna win this thing, we are gonna need more than just a great dress.
-->'''Pepper Ann:''' Like... padding?
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** Nearly everything the {{Jerkass}} NietzscheWannabe title character of the episode "Effie Shrugged" says is some kind of literary reference. [[AWorldwidePunomenon As is the]] [[Creator/AynRand episode title itself]], [[CaptainObvious for those unaware]]...
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** Nearly everything the {{Jerkass}} NietzscheWannabe title character of the episode "Effie Shrugged" says is some kind of literary reference. [[AWorldwidePunomenon [[PunBasedTitle As is the]] [[Creator/AynRand episode title itself]], [[CaptainObvious for those unaware]]...
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** From "Family Vacation": "I am forced to ride 3000 miles next to an opera loving ACCIDENT!" Out of context, that sounds very weird.
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** FridgeBrilliance: Nicky's bad at sports that require heavy amounts of running like soccer/football; yet Becky excelled at sports like Soccer/Football. Naturally, Nicky isn't very strong because many Soccer/Football athletes tend to be better ''runners''.
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** FridgeBrilliance: Nicky's bad at sports that require heavy amounts of running like soccer/football; yet Becky excelled at sports like Soccer/Football. Naturally, Nicky Becky isn't very strong because many Soccer/Football athletes tend to be better ''runners''.
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* FemaleMisogynist: In "The Sisterhood" Grandma Lillian is shown to have very old fashioned views on a woman's role in life.
* FieryRedhead: Pepper Ann
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* FemaleMisogynist: In "The Sisterhood" Grandma Lillian is shown to have very old fashioned views on a woman's role in life.
life. Justified in that she most likely grew up with those values and never let them go.
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* FriendlyEnemies: Janie and Margot in "The Sisterhood" until Janie realises she doesn't have to pretend to like Margot just because she's a fellow woman.
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*** Pepper Ann's reaction is a definite CrowningMomentOfFunny.
** On the Quiz Bowl episode, Principal Hickey tells the Quiz Bowl team that the regular team captain Ms. Ford has been sent to the "I Can Shine" Rehabilitation Clinic, implying that Ms. Ford has a substance abuse problem.
*** Another episode has him explicitly tell the kids she "fell off the wagon."
** On the Quiz Bowl episode, Principal Hickey tells the Quiz Bowl team that the regular team captain Ms. Ford has been sent to the "I Can Shine" Rehabilitation Clinic, implying that Ms. Ford has a substance abuse problem.
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** Pepper Ann spends an episode freaking out about whether she's ready to have a FirstKiss in a way that exactly mirrors the usual anxiety about one's [[TheirFirstTime first time doing something else.]]
** In the episode "You Oughta Be in Musicals!," a police officer is seen releasing a hooker from handcuffs. Admittedly, she could easily be confused for an overdressed fashion victim, if not for the police officer exclaiming "Go free, you little vixen!"
** In the episode "You Oughta Be in Musicals!," a police officer is seen releasing a hooker from handcuffs. Admittedly, she could easily be confused for an overdressed fashion victim, if not for the police officer exclaiming "Go free, you little vixen!"
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** In the episode "You Oughta Be in Musicals!," a police officer is seen releasing ahooker from handcuffs. Admittedly, woman in tacky clothes. While it can be argued that she could easily might just be confused for an some overdressed fashion victim, if not for the police officer exclaiming officer's line, "Go free, you little vixen!"vixen," clearly implies that she's a prostitute.
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** On the episode where Pepper Ann tries to get her dad to appear on a game show with her, Pepper Ann reads some of her dad's old love letters to her mom...all of which have the risque parts removed (including one letter in which everything is cut except for "Dear Lydia").
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** On the episode where Pepper Ann tries to get her dad to appear on a game show with her, Pepper Ann reads some of her dad's old love letters to her mom...all of which have the risque parts removed (including one letter in which everything is cut except for "Dear Lydia"). When Pepper Ann asks her mom why the love letters are edited, Lydia can be heard running out of the house and driving away.
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** Milo Kamalani is voiced by Danny Cooksey, best remembered for playing Bobby Budnick on ''Salute Your Shorts'' and voicing Montana Max on ''Tiny Toon Adventures''.
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** Nicky's on/off boyfriend Stuart is CamClarke, [[MetalGearSolid Liquid Snake]] and the singing voice of [[TheLionKing Simba]].
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** Nicky's on/off boyfriend Stuart is CamClarke, who voices [[MetalGearSolid Liquid Snake]] and Snake]], provides the singing voice of [[TheLionKing Simba]].Simba]], and has done voice work in a lot of other 1990s cartoons.
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* JewishMother: Averted Subverted with Lydia, Lydia (who is Jewish -- or at least, celebrates Jewish holidays to keep with tradition, but played doesn't act like a stereotypical Jewish mom). Lydia's mom (Pepper Ann's grandmother), however, is a straight with her own mom.example.
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* TheManInTheMirrorTalksBack: Pepper's reflection has talked to Pepper about her issues so many times, it might as well be its own character.
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* TheManInTheMirrorTalksBack: [[TheManInTheMirrorTalksBack The Girl In The Mirror Talks Back]]: Pepper's reflection has talked to Pepper about her issues so many times, it might as well be its own character.
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* NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: Invoked and discussed in "Spice of Life".
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* NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: Invoked and discussed in "Spice of Life".Life" (the episode where a mean old lady whom Pepper Ann hates dies, and Pepper Ann finds out that the mean old lady was [[spoiler:the school secretary's mother]]).
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Pepper's mom marries [[Series/{{Jeopardy}} Alex Trebek]] at the end of the series. Yes, really.
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** Nearly everything the {{Jerkass}} NietzscheWannabe title character of the episode "Effie Shrugged" says is some kind of literary reference.
*** [[AWorldwidePunomenon As is the]] [[Creator/AynRand episode title itself]], [[CaptainObvious for those unaware]]...
*** [[AWorldwidePunomenon As is the]] [[Creator/AynRand episode title itself]], [[CaptainObvious for those unaware]]...
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** Nearly everything the {{Jerkass}} NietzscheWannabe title character of the episode "Effie Shrugged" says is some kind of literary reference.
***reference. [[AWorldwidePunomenon As is the]] [[Creator/AynRand episode title itself]], [[CaptainObvious for those unaware]]...
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* PottyFailure: It's mentioned in The Way They Were that Nicky used to be a bedwetter.
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* SamusIsAGirl: Most of the family (and the viewers) thought Moose was a boy until the Thanksgiving episode.
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* SamusIsAGirl: Most of the family (and the some viewers) thought Moose was a boy until the Thanksgiving episode.
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* ToughActToFollow: In-universe, Pepper Ann received acclaim after writing a magazine article about the time she snuck out to a party without her mother's permission, but didn't have fun doing it, because of how strongly she feared embarrassing herself. Pepper Ann followed this up with a tribute to her mother, after learning she went through the same thing when she was younger, but this received scathing feedback.
* {{Tsundere}}: Gwen Mezzrow acted this way towards Milo.
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* ToughActToFollow: In-universe, Pepper Ann received acclaim after writing a magazine article about the time she snuck sneaked out to a party without her mother's permission, but didn't have fun doing it, because of how strongly she feared embarrassing herself. ended up feeling alone and scared at the party (and guilty for deceiving her mom). Pepper Ann followed this up with a tribute to her mother, after learning she went through the same thing when she was younger, but this received scathing feedback.
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* YamatoNadeshiko: Nicky Little is a lot more soft-spoken especially compared to her younger self, but still as tough as iron. Of course, she still shows streaks of...
** CuteAndPsycho: A running gag with Nicky is her short tempered personality. It becomes even more apparent when it's revealed she used to be a grade-school bully in The Way They Were.
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* PeekABangs: Trinket (covers her right eye) and Nicky (covers [[CheatedAngle whichever eye's furthest from the viewer).
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The episode "In Support Of" where Pepper Ann thinks she needs a support bra for an upcoming trampoline lesson in gym class [[spoiler: and ends up in trouble for flashing her class after Coach Doogan asks her where her support (as in "partner to spot the trampoline jumper") was]].
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The episode "In Support Of" where Pepper Ann thinks she needs a support bra for an upcoming trampoline lesson in gym class [[spoiler: and ends up in trouble for flashing her class after Coach Doogan asks her where her support was (as in "partner "her partner to spot the trampoline jumper") was]].jumper")]].
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* ToughActToFollow: In-universe, Pepper Ann received acclaim after writing a magazine article about the time she snuck out to a party without her mother's permission, but didn't have fun doing it, because of how strongly she feared embarrassing herself. Pepper Ann followed this up with a tribute to her mother, after learning she went through the same thing when she was younger, but this received scathing feedback.
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* TheAce: Becky is portrayed as one, being ridiculously smart and also very good with sports. however, Becky mentions that Nicky is actually the stronger and more creative one. (Becky mentions that she can't even bench-press 15 pounds!) See FridgeBrilliance down below.
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* TheAce: Becky is portrayed as one, being ridiculously smart and also very good with sports. however, Becky mentions that Nicky is actually the stronger and more creative one. (Becky mentions that she can't even bench-press 15 pounds!) See FridgeBrilliance down below.
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** In the Romeo and Juliet episode, all of the girls are auditioning to be Juliet opposite Craig's Romeo. Then they show [[AmibiguouslyGay Dieter]] auditioning for Juliet. To top it off they have him use the line "What satisfaction canst thou have, tonight?"
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** In the Romeo and Juliet episode, all of the girls are auditioning to be Juliet opposite Craig's Romeo. Then they show [[AmibiguouslyGay Dieter]] auditioning for Juliet. To top it off they have him use the line "What satisfaction canst thou have, tonight?" tonight?"
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** The closest we got was a ''storybook adaptation'' of "Old Best Friend". It was ''that bad''.
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* KissingWarmUp: Pepper Ann gets ready for Dieter's unsupervised party by warming up on her hand, a watermelon, and a pillow.
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* KissingWarmUp: Pepper Ann gets ready for Dieter's unsupervised party by warming up on her hand, a watermelon, and a pillow.
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** FridgeBrilliance: Nicky's bad at sports that require heavy amounts of running like soccer/football; yet Becky excelled at sports like Soccer/Football. Naturally, Nicky isn't very strong because many Soccer/Football athletes tend to be better ''runners''.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Pepper's mom marries [[Series/{{Jeopardy}} Alex Trebek]] at the end of the series. Yes, really.
** {{Mark Hamill}} is a RecurringCharacter with [[RunningGag strong jokey overtones]]. [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture In the near future]], he is elected President.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Pepper's mom marries [[Series/{{Jeopardy}} Alex Trebek]] at the end of the series. Yes, really.
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**{{Mark Hamill}} MarkHamill is a RecurringCharacter with [[RunningGag strong jokey overtones]]. [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture In the near future]], he is elected President.
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*** [[AWorldwidePunomenon As is the]] [[AynRand episode title itself]], [[CaptainObvious for those unaware]]...
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* SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack: In the school uniform episode, Pepper Ann managed to get the school uniforms banned from campus after some students complained about them. Despite this, the same students used these uniforms to look cool when outside of school.
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* SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack: In the school uniform episode, Pepper Ann managed to get the school uniforms banned from campus after some students complained about them. Despite this, the same students used these uniforms to look cool when outside of school.
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* ShoutOut: In "Career Daze", Nicky is put on wrapping meat on a conveyor belt - and it looks very much like the famous ''ILoveLucy'' scene with Lucy and Ethel trying to make chocolates at a factory.
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* ShoutOut: In "Career Daze", Nicky is put on wrapping meat on a conveyor belt - and it looks very much like the famous ''ILoveLucy'' scene with Lucy and Ethel trying to make chocolates at a factory.
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* TookALevelInDumbass: Pepper Ann once had a nightmare where everyone turned stupid while suffering feelings of inadequacy.
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* ThemeNaming: Most towns and other places in the series are named after nuts.
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'''''Pepper Ann''''' is a [[TheNineties 1990s]] Disney-created SaturdayMorningCartoon that ran on ABC's ''OneSaturdayMorning'' from 1997-2001. It centers on Pepper Ann, a 12-year-old girl and her other classmates. Her parents are divorced; she lives with her mother and younger sister "Moose." With her two best friends, Nicky and Milo, she goes through a reasonably plausible series of junior high adventures. The series was inspired by short multi-paneled comic strips about Pepper Ann, which appeared intermittently in magazines geared at tween girls.
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!Tropes present include:
* TheAce: Becky is portrayed as one, being ridiculously smart and also very good with sports. however, Becky mentions that Nicky is actually the stronger and more creative one. (Becky mentions that she can't even bench-press 15 pounds!) See FridgeBrilliance down below.
* AdaptationDecay: Taken to hilarious extremes InUniverse with Moose's favorite superheroine, Tundra Woman, in one episode.
** Also with the character of ''Di''di O' ''S''haugh''n''ess''ey'', who is basically Pepper Ann after ExecutiveMeddling.
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Grampa Leo and Grandma Lilly. In an in-universe example, Grandma explains they were originally going to give all their children L names, but she was so hopped-up on epidurals she wrote the L backwards on Laney's birth certificate, making her Janey. They would have changed it, but it would have taken too much paperwork.
* {{Adorkable}}: The title character.
* AlphaBitch: Alice and Trinket
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Lydia occasionally slips into this, but especially when she took Pepper Ann bra shopping.
* AmbiguouslyJewish: The Pearsons, until the ChristmasEpisode.
* 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: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]].
* BareYourMidriff: Pepper Ann, slightly, due to how her shirt goes up in the middle.
** Gwen Mezzrow is a straight example.
* BlackBeadEyes
* ButNotTooForeign: 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).
* CatchPhrase: "My life is trash."
** "What's for dinner?" could count for Moose. She has said it more than once, and she rarely says anything else.
*** "Peppie, you're (scaring, hurting, etc.) me" could count for Moose.
** Nicky has "absolutamente." Though she doesn't say it quite as constantly as the regular catchphrase it does pop up from time to time.
* ChickMagnet: Craig
* ClipShow: The episode "To Germany With Love" is about Dieter making a video for his dad in Germany about Hazelnut in a clipshow fashion.
** The episode is a parody of these and is intentionally loaded with clips that make no sense [[MakesSenseInContext unless you've seen the episodes they're from]].
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Milo
** Brenda from "Old Best Friend"
* ContinuityNod: Quite a few. Among them, the Chess club researching on Pepper Ann and finding school newspapers detailing her involvement with the soccer team, the football team, and a "bizarre trampoline incident" (see the GettingCrapPastTheRadar entry for more details).
* CoolTeacher: Mr. Finky strives to be this.
* CouchGag: In the opening sequence, Pepper always finds something interesting under her desk (five dollars, a singing Dieter doll, the remote control, a mood ring, etc).
* CryingIndian: Parodied in "Dances with Ignorance".
* DeadpanSnarker: Moose.
** Depending on the episode, everyone from Pepper Ann, Nicky and Milo to Lydia has this role at some point or another.
* DeanBitterman: Principal Hickey, early on was like this.
* DistantFinale: "The Finale" skips 15 years into the future to show what everyone will become after graduating middle school.
* DoItYourselfThemeTune: A fairly early Disney example, as Kathleen Willhoite (voice of the title character) also contributes the vocals.
* DonutMessWithACop: Subverted with Uncle [=JoJo=] who eats nothing but health food. Though he does sometimes eat donuts, they're [[LiteCreme fat-free donuts]] called Dough-Nots.
* DumbBlonde: Cissy Rooney
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: As seen in a flashback episode, it seems that everyone in Hazelnut Middle School was in the same kindergarten class.
* EverytownAmerica: Hazelnut
* FemaleMisogynist: In "The Sisterhood" Grandma Lillian is shown to have very old fashioned views on a woman's role in life.
* FieryRedhead: Pepper Ann
* FictionalVideoGame: Crunch Pod
* FourFingeredHands: Averted.
* FreakyFridayFlip: There was a ''Freaky Friday''-style episode with Pepper Ann and Lydia switching personalities after the two of them argue over who has it tougher.
* FriendlyEnemies: Janie and Margot in "The Sisterhood" until Janie realises she doesn't have to pretend to like Margot just because she's a fellow woman.
* FunnyAfro: Several flashbacks show Lydia used to have one.
* FunnyForeigner: Dieter Lederhosen, the happy German kid obsessed with food and trying to fit in with American culture.
* GagBoobs: Margot [=LaSandre=].
* {{Gainaxing}}: A little bit on Lydia near the end of "In Support Of" when showing she was also a late bloomer.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The episode "In Support Of" where Pepper Ann thinks she needs a support bra for an upcoming trampoline lesson in gym class [[spoiler: and ends up in trouble for flashing her class after Coach Doogan asks her where her support (as in "partner to spot the trampoline jumper") was]].
** From the same episode, Pepper Ann comes home from school and hears her mother shout, "Pepper Ann, do you want breasts?" Of course, two seconds later we find out she means "chicken breasts".
*** Pepper Ann's reaction is a definite CrowningMomentOfFunny.
** On the Quiz Bowl episode, Principal Hickey tells the Quiz Bowl team that the regular team captain Ms. Ford has been sent to the "I Can Shine" Rehabilitation Clinic, implying that Ms. Ford has a substance abuse problem.
*** Another episode has him explicitly tell the kids she "fell off the wagon."
** In an episode in which Nicky starts acting like a {{Delinquent}}, Pepper Ann follows Nicky to the bathroom and is horrified to discover that she has taken up [[NoSmoking gum chewing]].
** Pepper Ann spends an episode freaking out about whether she's ready to have a FirstKiss in a way that exactly mirrors the usual anxiety about one's [[TheirFirstTime first time doing something else.]]
** In the episode "You Oughta Be in Musicals!," a police officer is seen releasing a hooker from handcuffs. Admittedly, she could easily be confused for an overdressed fashion victim, if not for the police officer exclaiming "Go free, you little vixen!"
** This exchange from the episode where Nicky's big sister visits:
-->'''Nicky:''' Now just let me get all of this off my chest so I can conquer my fear of swans, and...
-->'''Becky:''' What did you say?
-->'''Nicky:''' I know, [[{{Pettanko}} I have no chest to speak of]] and you've been a...
-->'''Becky:''' No, after that. The swan part.
** On the episode where Pepper Ann tries to get her dad to appear on a game show with her, Pepper Ann reads some of her dad's old love letters to her mom...all of which have the risque parts removed (including one letter in which everything is cut except for "Dear Lydia").
** In the Romeo and Juliet episode, all of the girls are auditioning to be Juliet opposite Craig's Romeo. Then they show [[AmibiguouslyGay Dieter]] auditioning for Juliet. To top it off they have him use the line "What satisfaction canst thou have, tonight?"
* GirlishPigtails: Gwen Mezzrow
* GossipyHens: Tessa and Vanessa
* GreenAroundTheGills: Nicky in "Quiz Bowl". She becomes ill, green-faced and runs off to throw up, when she gets stage fright on a quiz show.
* GroundhogDayLoop: "T.G.I.F."
* HartmanHips: Pepper Ann's mom is a rare overweight example.
* HeyItsThatVoice:
** The cynical substitute teacher Ms. Bladdar is voiced by Bebe Neuwirth (who played Fraiser Crane's ex-wife on ''Cheers'' and ''Fraiser'').
** Milo Kamalani is voiced by Danny Cooksey, best remembered for playing Bobby Budnick on ''Salute Your Shorts'' and voicing Montana Max on ''Tiny Toon Adventures''.
** RichBitch Trinket is voiced by Jenna van Oy (Six from ''Blossom'').
** Coach Doogan is voiced by Kathy Najimy (Peggy Hill of ''KingOfTheHill'')
** The principal's voice is none other than Don Adams of ''GetSmart'' and ''InspectorGadget'' fame
** Chuck Pearson (Pepper Ann's father) is voiced by Maurice LaMarche and apparently the one thing he and Don Adams have in common is that they both voiced ''InspectorGadget'' With Maurice voicing Gadget when Don Adams wasn't available.
** Moose is [[{{Recess}} Spinelli]]...and [[KingOfTheHill Bobby Hill]]...and [[TimeSquad Otto Osworth]]...and a lot of other prepubescent boys (Adlon rarely, if ever, plays girls. If she does play girls, they're tomboys, like Moose and Spinelli).
** Nicky's on/off boyfriend Stuart is CamClarke, [[MetalGearSolid Liquid Snake]] and the singing voice of [[TheLionKing Simba]].
* HoldUpYourScore
* {{Homage}}: One subplot was one to TwelveAngryMen, involving Pepper Ann's mother as a RogueJuror.
** There was the episode "Myself, My Mother," which is an homage to ''FreakyFriday''.
* HypocriticalHumor: Pepper Ann's mother in "The Sisterhood" forces Pepper Ann to go to a Woman's bonding weekend seminar, talking about how ''her'' mother forced her to do all sorts of things she didn't want to and learned all sorts of skills that had no place in the real world (all the while making her do stuff like chainsaw ice statues and participate in a mock women's rights protest)
* ImagineSpot: Lots and lots. Let's just say Pepper Ann has a very... active imagination.
* ItsAWonderfulPlot: Done on Valentine's Day.
* [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy I Want My Friend to Be Happy]]: Nicky also has a crush on Craig Bean, but she's still willing to help Pepper Ann get with him.
* JewishMother: Averted with Lydia, but played straight with her own mom.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: There have been no VHS ''or'' DVD releases of the show.
* KidsShouldntWatchHorrorFilms: Pepper Ann gets invited to a slumber party where they will be watching the R-rated film ''Gutter Clowns'', which Lydia warns Pepper Ann against seeing. At first Pepper Ann tries to stop the girls at the party from watching the film but ends up watching it anyway and is terrified for the next few days.
* KissingWarmUp: Pepper Ann gets ready for Dieter's unsupervised party by warming up on her hand, a watermelon, and a pillow.
* LateForSchool: If the opening is any indication (and the fact that her science teacher has preprinted detention slips made exclusively for Pepper Ann's tardiness), Pepper Ann is late every day.
* MamaBear: Lydia is hinted at having this side to her. One time, she physically threatens a waiter who is making her late for Pepper Ann's play.
* MarshmallowHell: In "In Support Of" Pepper Ann winds up in it for a second when she says she wants a bra and her mom hugs her.
** In the ''Romeo & Juliet'' episode, Pepper Ann, Nicky, and Milo wind up in Ms. Stark's.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: Nicky Little is just as skinny as her two friends, but ridiculously strong. A childhood flashback shows that ''she'' was the [[CuteBruiser local bully]], overpowering a much larger kid who would normally be considered the bully.
** FridgeBrilliance: Nicky's bad at sports that require heavy amounts of running like soccer/football; yet Becky excelled at sports like Soccer/Football. Naturally, Nicky isn't very strong because many Soccer/Football athletes tend to be better ''runners''.
* MusicalEpisode: Parodied, with everything suddenly turning into a musical with Pepper Ann being the only one who notices everyone is bursting into song and dance spontaneously.
* MyHairCameOutGreen: Pepper Ann's hair turns green when she tries dyeing it ''blue''.
* MyNameIsNotDurwood: Everybody always gets Moose's best friend Crash's name wrong.
** It comes to the point where Crash wears a shirt that says "My Name is Crash," which doesn't help anyone remember his name.
* NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: Invoked and discussed in "Spice of Life".
* NewTransferStudent: Amber, the Locker Bandit.
* NightmareFuel: An in-universe example that's PlayedForLaughs. Nicky and Becky are both terrified of swans, and none of them remembers why. At the end of the episode, their mom throws a box of their old toys out...and inside is a swan that, when active, has glowing red eyes and says, "Swan wants to PLAAAAAAAYYYYY" in a very intentionally scary voice.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Pepper's mom marries [[Series/{{Jeopardy}} Alex Trebek]] at the end of the series. Yes, really.
** {{Mark Hamill}} is a RecurringCharacter with [[RunningGag strong jokey overtones]]. [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture In the near future]], he is elected President.
* NoodlePeople: Every character. Even the overweight characters have skinny arms.
* OfficialCouple: Nicky and Stewart (until the finale).
* OneOfTheBoys: Moose
** Also Pepper Ann on an episode where Pepper Ann enters a beauty contest to prove her femininity.
* OnlySaneMan: When she is not having her random outburts, Nicky is close to being the only Normal person in Hazelenut.
** Maybe Moose as well.
* OpeningShoutOut: In "Like Riding a Bike" which starts with Pepper Ann finding maracas under her desk and Dieter taking them back. Then in the next scene, Pepper Ann is explaining her conspiracy theory that Mr. Carter is somehow responsible for her being late for school every day, listing a number of things that make her late in the opening.
* PacManFever: Recurring arcade game Crunch Pod
* ParentalBonus: In the first episode Pepper Ann goes into Abe's Mall (which features a big statue of Abe Lincoln out front) to buy some pimple cream. The names of various shops in the mall float behind her, including "John Wilkes Photo Booth," "Getty's Burgers," "Four Score and Seven Year Pets," and "Civil Wear."
** Nearly everything the {{Jerkass}} NietzscheWannabe title character of the episode "Effie Shrugged" says is some kind of literary reference.
*** [[AWorldwidePunomenon As is the]] [[AynRand episode title itself]], [[CaptainObvious for those unaware]]...
** In "Cold Feet" a flashback shows a pregnant young Grandma planning to leave for a flight with Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper, but then she goes into labor before she can leave.
* PokeThePoodle: Nicky's attempts at pranks in "Impractical Jokes".
* PottyFailure: It's mentioned in The Way They Were that Nicky used to be a bedwetter.
* RiseOfZitboy: "Ziterella"
* SamusIsAGirl: Most of the family (and the viewers) thought Moose was a boy until the Thanksgiving episode.
* SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack: In the school uniform episode, Pepper Ann managed to get the school uniforms banned from campus after some students complained about them. Despite this, the same students used these uniforms to look cool when outside of school.
* ScienceFair: An area of contention between Pepper Ann and Alice.
* ShallowLoveInterest: Craig Bean to Pepper Ann.
* ShoulderAngels: Sort of. Pepper Ann often deals with situations by talking/arguing to her reflection, which can on any given day be her conscience and chide her for doing something wrong, be her anti-conscience and encourage her to not think about consequences, reassure her about something, express her doubts, or simply be her common sense, which loops back to being her conscience.
* ShoutOut: In "Career Daze", Nicky is put on wrapping meat on a conveyor belt - and it looks very much like the famous ''ILoveLucy'' scene with Lucy and Ethel trying to make chocolates at a factory.
* 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'' favoured 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. FridgeBrilliance when you consider that even if Becky has athletic trophies; they're all for more agility-based sports.
* SliceOfLife: Was made when this genre was starting to get popular.
* SpinTheBottle: Happens at Dieter's unsupervised birthday party, to Pepper Ann's chagrin. As it happens, Nicky is the only person to get spun (and subsequently smooched) before everyone decides that the game is boring and they decide to play video games.
* StopHelpingMe: Pepper Ann is chronically bad at helping people and giving advice. Lampshaded in "The Amazing Becky Little."
--> Milo: "How to put this... hmm... often-times when to attempt to help people they end up worse off than before you-"
--> Pepper Ann: "Don't you think I know that?"
* TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation
* TheStoic: Moose Pearson and Craig Bean, though they've both had at least one NotSoStoic moment.
* ThreeAmigos: Pepper Ann, Milo and Nicky.
* {{Tsundere}}: Gwen Mezzrow acted this way towards Milo.
* TomboyishPonytail: The title character has one, and yes, she's a tomboy.
* TookALevelInDumbass: Pepper Ann once had a nightmare where everyone turned stupid while suffering feelings of inadequacy.
* UnusualEuphemism: "Fuzzy", the name of an in-universe comic strip character, is used as an all-purpose euphemism.
* ValleyGirl: Cissy Rooney (only Cissy was voiced by KathSoucie, not Gail Matthius)
* ViolentGlaswegian: Shelf [=McLain=], the school bully. It apparently runs in the family.
* VisitByDivorcedDad: Pepper Ann's parents may be divorced, but there are episodes where Pepper Ann's father visits.
* VoicesAreMental: A noteworthy rare ''aversion'' of this; when Pepper Ann and her mom swap minds, the voice actors do not trade jobs, but they do trade inflections and speech patterns.
* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Moose does have a real name (Margaret Rose), but there is no explanation for Pepper Ann and several other characters.
** Allegedly, Pepper Ann's "real" name is Jennifer, but this is never spoken on the show, nor is it officially confirmed. It is only seen on some old Internet episode guide listings.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Nicky has a fear of swans, but runs into them on a frequent basis.
* YamatoNadeshiko: Nicky Little is a lot more soft-spoken especially compared to her younger self, but still as tough as iron. Of course, she still shows streaks of...
** CuteAndPsycho: A running gag with Nicky is her short tempered personality. It becomes even more apparent when it's revealed she used to be a grade-school bully in The Way They Were.
* YouHaveToBelieveMe: In "Snot Your Mother's Music" Mick Snot stays with the Pearsons and every time Pepper Ann tries to show Nicky and Milo that Mick is staying with them they don't believe her, because he instantly switches between his stage outfit and his lame old man look depending who's looking.
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[[caption-width-right:315:From Left to Right: Milo, Lydia, Pepper Ann, Moose, and Nicky]]
'''''Pepper Ann''''' is a [[TheNineties 1990s]] Disney-created SaturdayMorningCartoon that ran on ABC's ''OneSaturdayMorning'' from 1997-2001. It centers on Pepper Ann, a 12-year-old girl and her other classmates. Her parents are divorced; she lives with her mother and younger sister "Moose." With her two best friends, Nicky and Milo, she goes through a reasonably plausible series of junior high adventures. The series was inspired by short multi-paneled comic strips about Pepper Ann, which appeared intermittently in magazines geared at tween girls.
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!Tropes present include:
* TheAce: Becky is portrayed as one, being ridiculously smart and also very good with sports. however, Becky mentions that Nicky is actually the stronger and more creative one. (Becky mentions that she can't even bench-press 15 pounds!) See FridgeBrilliance down below.
* AdaptationDecay: Taken to hilarious extremes InUniverse with Moose's favorite superheroine, Tundra Woman, in one episode.
** Also with the character of ''Di''di O' ''S''haugh''n''ess''ey'', who is basically Pepper Ann after ExecutiveMeddling.
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Grampa Leo and Grandma Lilly. In an in-universe example, Grandma explains they were originally going to give all their children L names, but she was so hopped-up on epidurals she wrote the L backwards on Laney's birth certificate, making her Janey. They would have changed it, but it would have taken too much paperwork.
* {{Adorkable}}: The title character.
* AlphaBitch: Alice and Trinket
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Lydia occasionally slips into this, but especially when she took Pepper Ann bra shopping.
* AmbiguouslyJewish: The Pearsons, until the ChristmasEpisode.
* 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: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]].
* BareYourMidriff: Pepper Ann, slightly, due to how her shirt goes up in the middle.
** Gwen Mezzrow is a straight example.
* BlackBeadEyes
* ButNotTooForeign: 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).
* CatchPhrase: "My life is trash."
** "What's for dinner?" could count for Moose. She has said it more than once, and she rarely says anything else.
*** "Peppie, you're (scaring, hurting, etc.) me" could count for Moose.
** Nicky has "absolutamente." Though she doesn't say it quite as constantly as the regular catchphrase it does pop up from time to time.
* ChickMagnet: Craig
* ClipShow: The episode "To Germany With Love" is about Dieter making a video for his dad in Germany about Hazelnut in a clipshow fashion.
** The episode is a parody of these and is intentionally loaded with clips that make no sense [[MakesSenseInContext unless you've seen the episodes they're from]].
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Milo
** Brenda from "Old Best Friend"
* ContinuityNod: Quite a few. Among them, the Chess club researching on Pepper Ann and finding school newspapers detailing her involvement with the soccer team, the football team, and a "bizarre trampoline incident" (see the GettingCrapPastTheRadar entry for more details).
* CoolTeacher: Mr. Finky strives to be this.
* CouchGag: In the opening sequence, Pepper always finds something interesting under her desk (five dollars, a singing Dieter doll, the remote control, a mood ring, etc).
* CryingIndian: Parodied in "Dances with Ignorance".
* DeadpanSnarker: Moose.
** Depending on the episode, everyone from Pepper Ann, Nicky and Milo to Lydia has this role at some point or another.
* DeanBitterman: Principal Hickey, early on was like this.
* DistantFinale: "The Finale" skips 15 years into the future to show what everyone will become after graduating middle school.
* DoItYourselfThemeTune: A fairly early Disney example, as Kathleen Willhoite (voice of the title character) also contributes the vocals.
* DonutMessWithACop: Subverted with Uncle [=JoJo=] who eats nothing but health food. Though he does sometimes eat donuts, they're [[LiteCreme fat-free donuts]] called Dough-Nots.
* DumbBlonde: Cissy Rooney
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: As seen in a flashback episode, it seems that everyone in Hazelnut Middle School was in the same kindergarten class.
* EverytownAmerica: Hazelnut
* FemaleMisogynist: In "The Sisterhood" Grandma Lillian is shown to have very old fashioned views on a woman's role in life.
* FieryRedhead: Pepper Ann
* FictionalVideoGame: Crunch Pod
* FourFingeredHands: Averted.
* FreakyFridayFlip: There was a ''Freaky Friday''-style episode with Pepper Ann and Lydia switching personalities after the two of them argue over who has it tougher.
* FriendlyEnemies: Janie and Margot in "The Sisterhood" until Janie realises she doesn't have to pretend to like Margot just because she's a fellow woman.
* FunnyAfro: Several flashbacks show Lydia used to have one.
* FunnyForeigner: Dieter Lederhosen, the happy German kid obsessed with food and trying to fit in with American culture.
* GagBoobs: Margot [=LaSandre=].
* {{Gainaxing}}: A little bit on Lydia near the end of "In Support Of" when showing she was also a late bloomer.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The episode "In Support Of" where Pepper Ann thinks she needs a support bra for an upcoming trampoline lesson in gym class [[spoiler: and ends up in trouble for flashing her class after Coach Doogan asks her where her support (as in "partner to spot the trampoline jumper") was]].
** From the same episode, Pepper Ann comes home from school and hears her mother shout, "Pepper Ann, do you want breasts?" Of course, two seconds later we find out she means "chicken breasts".
*** Pepper Ann's reaction is a definite CrowningMomentOfFunny.
** On the Quiz Bowl episode, Principal Hickey tells the Quiz Bowl team that the regular team captain Ms. Ford has been sent to the "I Can Shine" Rehabilitation Clinic, implying that Ms. Ford has a substance abuse problem.
*** Another episode has him explicitly tell the kids she "fell off the wagon."
** In an episode in which Nicky starts acting like a {{Delinquent}}, Pepper Ann follows Nicky to the bathroom and is horrified to discover that she has taken up [[NoSmoking gum chewing]].
** Pepper Ann spends an episode freaking out about whether she's ready to have a FirstKiss in a way that exactly mirrors the usual anxiety about one's [[TheirFirstTime first time doing something else.]]
** In the episode "You Oughta Be in Musicals!," a police officer is seen releasing a hooker from handcuffs. Admittedly, she could easily be confused for an overdressed fashion victim, if not for the police officer exclaiming "Go free, you little vixen!"
** This exchange from the episode where Nicky's big sister visits:
-->'''Nicky:''' Now just let me get all of this off my chest so I can conquer my fear of swans, and...
-->'''Becky:''' What did you say?
-->'''Nicky:''' I know, [[{{Pettanko}} I have no chest to speak of]] and you've been a...
-->'''Becky:''' No, after that. The swan part.
** On the episode where Pepper Ann tries to get her dad to appear on a game show with her, Pepper Ann reads some of her dad's old love letters to her mom...all of which have the risque parts removed (including one letter in which everything is cut except for "Dear Lydia").
** In the Romeo and Juliet episode, all of the girls are auditioning to be Juliet opposite Craig's Romeo. Then they show [[AmibiguouslyGay Dieter]] auditioning for Juliet. To top it off they have him use the line "What satisfaction canst thou have, tonight?"
* GirlishPigtails: Gwen Mezzrow
* GossipyHens: Tessa and Vanessa
* GreenAroundTheGills: Nicky in "Quiz Bowl". She becomes ill, green-faced and runs off to throw up, when she gets stage fright on a quiz show.
* GroundhogDayLoop: "T.G.I.F."
* HartmanHips: Pepper Ann's mom is a rare overweight example.
* HeyItsThatVoice:
** The cynical substitute teacher Ms. Bladdar is voiced by Bebe Neuwirth (who played Fraiser Crane's ex-wife on ''Cheers'' and ''Fraiser'').
** Milo Kamalani is voiced by Danny Cooksey, best remembered for playing Bobby Budnick on ''Salute Your Shorts'' and voicing Montana Max on ''Tiny Toon Adventures''.
** RichBitch Trinket is voiced by Jenna van Oy (Six from ''Blossom'').
** Coach Doogan is voiced by Kathy Najimy (Peggy Hill of ''KingOfTheHill'')
** The principal's voice is none other than Don Adams of ''GetSmart'' and ''InspectorGadget'' fame
** Chuck Pearson (Pepper Ann's father) is voiced by Maurice LaMarche and apparently the one thing he and Don Adams have in common is that they both voiced ''InspectorGadget'' With Maurice voicing Gadget when Don Adams wasn't available.
** Moose is [[{{Recess}} Spinelli]]...and [[KingOfTheHill Bobby Hill]]...and [[TimeSquad Otto Osworth]]...and a lot of other prepubescent boys (Adlon rarely, if ever, plays girls. If she does play girls, they're tomboys, like Moose and Spinelli).
** Nicky's on/off boyfriend Stuart is CamClarke, [[MetalGearSolid Liquid Snake]] and the singing voice of [[TheLionKing Simba]].
* HoldUpYourScore
* {{Homage}}: One subplot was one to TwelveAngryMen, involving Pepper Ann's mother as a RogueJuror.
** There was the episode "Myself, My Mother," which is an homage to ''FreakyFriday''.
* HypocriticalHumor: Pepper Ann's mother in "The Sisterhood" forces Pepper Ann to go to a Woman's bonding weekend seminar, talking about how ''her'' mother forced her to do all sorts of things she didn't want to and learned all sorts of skills that had no place in the real world (all the while making her do stuff like chainsaw ice statues and participate in a mock women's rights protest)
* ImagineSpot: Lots and lots. Let's just say Pepper Ann has a very... active imagination.
* ItsAWonderfulPlot: Done on Valentine's Day.
* [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy I Want My Friend to Be Happy]]: Nicky also has a crush on Craig Bean, but she's still willing to help Pepper Ann get with him.
* JewishMother: Averted with Lydia, but played straight with her own mom.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: There have been no VHS ''or'' DVD releases of the show.
* KidsShouldntWatchHorrorFilms: Pepper Ann gets invited to a slumber party where they will be watching the R-rated film ''Gutter Clowns'', which Lydia warns Pepper Ann against seeing. At first Pepper Ann tries to stop the girls at the party from watching the film but ends up watching it anyway and is terrified for the next few days.
* KissingWarmUp: Pepper Ann gets ready for Dieter's unsupervised party by warming up on her hand, a watermelon, and a pillow.
* LateForSchool: If the opening is any indication (and the fact that her science teacher has preprinted detention slips made exclusively for Pepper Ann's tardiness), Pepper Ann is late every day.
* MamaBear: Lydia is hinted at having this side to her. One time, she physically threatens a waiter who is making her late for Pepper Ann's play.
* MarshmallowHell: In "In Support Of" Pepper Ann winds up in it for a second when she says she wants a bra and her mom hugs her.
** In the ''Romeo & Juliet'' episode, Pepper Ann, Nicky, and Milo wind up in Ms. Stark's.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: Nicky Little is just as skinny as her two friends, but ridiculously strong. A childhood flashback shows that ''she'' was the [[CuteBruiser local bully]], overpowering a much larger kid who would normally be considered the bully.
** FridgeBrilliance: Nicky's bad at sports that require heavy amounts of running like soccer/football; yet Becky excelled at sports like Soccer/Football. Naturally, Nicky isn't very strong because many Soccer/Football athletes tend to be better ''runners''.
* MusicalEpisode: Parodied, with everything suddenly turning into a musical with Pepper Ann being the only one who notices everyone is bursting into song and dance spontaneously.
* MyHairCameOutGreen: Pepper Ann's hair turns green when she tries dyeing it ''blue''.
* MyNameIsNotDurwood: Everybody always gets Moose's best friend Crash's name wrong.
** It comes to the point where Crash wears a shirt that says "My Name is Crash," which doesn't help anyone remember his name.
* NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: Invoked and discussed in "Spice of Life".
* NewTransferStudent: Amber, the Locker Bandit.
* NightmareFuel: An in-universe example that's PlayedForLaughs. Nicky and Becky are both terrified of swans, and none of them remembers why. At the end of the episode, their mom throws a box of their old toys out...and inside is a swan that, when active, has glowing red eyes and says, "Swan wants to PLAAAAAAAYYYYY" in a very intentionally scary voice.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Pepper's mom marries [[Series/{{Jeopardy}} Alex Trebek]] at the end of the series. Yes, really.
** {{Mark Hamill}} is a RecurringCharacter with [[RunningGag strong jokey overtones]]. [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture In the near future]], he is elected President.
* NoodlePeople: Every character. Even the overweight characters have skinny arms.
* OfficialCouple: Nicky and Stewart (until the finale).
* OneOfTheBoys: Moose
** Also Pepper Ann on an episode where Pepper Ann enters a beauty contest to prove her femininity.
* OnlySaneMan: When she is not having her random outburts, Nicky is close to being the only Normal person in Hazelenut.
** Maybe Moose as well.
* OpeningShoutOut: In "Like Riding a Bike" which starts with Pepper Ann finding maracas under her desk and Dieter taking them back. Then in the next scene, Pepper Ann is explaining her conspiracy theory that Mr. Carter is somehow responsible for her being late for school every day, listing a number of things that make her late in the opening.
* PacManFever: Recurring arcade game Crunch Pod
* ParentalBonus: In the first episode Pepper Ann goes into Abe's Mall (which features a big statue of Abe Lincoln out front) to buy some pimple cream. The names of various shops in the mall float behind her, including "John Wilkes Photo Booth," "Getty's Burgers," "Four Score and Seven Year Pets," and "Civil Wear."
** Nearly everything the {{Jerkass}} NietzscheWannabe title character of the episode "Effie Shrugged" says is some kind of literary reference.
*** [[AWorldwidePunomenon As is the]] [[AynRand episode title itself]], [[CaptainObvious for those unaware]]...
** In "Cold Feet" a flashback shows a pregnant young Grandma planning to leave for a flight with Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper, but then she goes into labor before she can leave.
* PokeThePoodle: Nicky's attempts at pranks in "Impractical Jokes".
* PottyFailure: It's mentioned in The Way They Were that Nicky used to be a bedwetter.
* RiseOfZitboy: "Ziterella"
* SamusIsAGirl: Most of the family (and the viewers) thought Moose was a boy until the Thanksgiving episode.
* SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack: In the school uniform episode, Pepper Ann managed to get the school uniforms banned from campus after some students complained about them. Despite this, the same students used these uniforms to look cool when outside of school.
* ScienceFair: An area of contention between Pepper Ann and Alice.
* ShallowLoveInterest: Craig Bean to Pepper Ann.
* ShoulderAngels: Sort of. Pepper Ann often deals with situations by talking/arguing to her reflection, which can on any given day be her conscience and chide her for doing something wrong, be her anti-conscience and encourage her to not think about consequences, reassure her about something, express her doubts, or simply be her common sense, which loops back to being her conscience.
* ShoutOut: In "Career Daze", Nicky is put on wrapping meat on a conveyor belt - and it looks very much like the famous ''ILoveLucy'' scene with Lucy and Ethel trying to make chocolates at a factory.
* 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'' favoured 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. FridgeBrilliance when you consider that even if Becky has athletic trophies; they're all for more agility-based sports.
* SliceOfLife: Was made when this genre was starting to get popular.
* SpinTheBottle: Happens at Dieter's unsupervised birthday party, to Pepper Ann's chagrin. As it happens, Nicky is the only person to get spun (and subsequently smooched) before everyone decides that the game is boring and they decide to play video games.
* StopHelpingMe: Pepper Ann is chronically bad at helping people and giving advice. Lampshaded in "The Amazing Becky Little."
--> Milo: "How to put this... hmm... often-times when to attempt to help people they end up worse off than before you-"
--> Pepper Ann: "Don't you think I know that?"
* TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation
* TheStoic: Moose Pearson and Craig Bean, though they've both had at least one NotSoStoic moment.
* ThreeAmigos: Pepper Ann, Milo and Nicky.
* {{Tsundere}}: Gwen Mezzrow acted this way towards Milo.
* TomboyishPonytail: The title character has one, and yes, she's a tomboy.
* TookALevelInDumbass: Pepper Ann once had a nightmare where everyone turned stupid while suffering feelings of inadequacy.
* UnusualEuphemism: "Fuzzy", the name of an in-universe comic strip character, is used as an all-purpose euphemism.
* ValleyGirl: Cissy Rooney (only Cissy was voiced by KathSoucie, not Gail Matthius)
* ViolentGlaswegian: Shelf [=McLain=], the school bully. It apparently runs in the family.
* VisitByDivorcedDad: Pepper Ann's parents may be divorced, but there are episodes where Pepper Ann's father visits.
* VoicesAreMental: A noteworthy rare ''aversion'' of this; when Pepper Ann and her mom swap minds, the voice actors do not trade jobs, but they do trade inflections and speech patterns.
* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Moose does have a real name (Margaret Rose), but there is no explanation for Pepper Ann and several other characters.
** Allegedly, Pepper Ann's "real" name is Jennifer, but this is never spoken on the show, nor is it officially confirmed. It is only seen on some old Internet episode guide listings.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Nicky has a fear of swans, but runs into them on a frequent basis.
* YamatoNadeshiko: Nicky Little is a lot more soft-spoken especially compared to her younger self, but still as tough as iron. Of course, she still shows streaks of...
** CuteAndPsycho: A running gag with Nicky is her short tempered personality. It becomes even more apparent when it's revealed she used to be a grade-school bully in The Way They Were.
* YouHaveToBelieveMe: In "Snot Your Mother's Music" Mick Snot stays with the Pearsons and every time Pepper Ann tries to show Nicky and Milo that Mick is staying with them they don't believe her, because he instantly switches between his stage outfit and his lame old man look depending who's looking.
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