Trivia / Pepper Ann

• Acting for Two: Jeff Bennett voices Dieter Lederhosen, Craig Bean and Peter Oglevee.
• Banned Episode: The segment "In Support Of" (where Pepper Ann thinks she needs a bra for an upcoming trampoline lesson in phys ed and ends up flashing her gym class) was only shown on One Saturday Morning once, and later shown on the UPN-based Disney's One Too. When the show was brought to Disney Channel and Toon Disney (at least in America; overseas versions do air this — some with edits), it allegedly disappeared, as the censors reportedly felt the story was too risque. When the show finally made its debut on Disney+, the segment was included completely restored (albeit from the PAL masters of Season 1 and some later-series episodes that Disney+ uses) and unaltered, and even given a TV-Y in the US.
• Beam Me Up, Scotty!: The phrase "Too Cool to be Twelve" is often associated with Pepper Ann despite never being used in the show itself. The theme song features a similar phrase ("much too cool for seventh grade"), and an episode title from the show's final season ("Too Cool to be Mom") also alludes to it, but it was only ever used in promotional material.
• Channel Hop: 26 episodes from season 3 premiered on the UPN block Disney's One Too, while simultaneously airing on One Saturday Morning.
• Cross-Dressing Voices: Moose, who is Pepper Ann's younger sister, is voiced by Alan Fernando Velazquez in the Latin American Spanish dub.
• Development Gag: The song that Crash sings to Pepper Ann in "Mash into Me" was originally written as the show's theme song. According to writers Madellaine Paxson and Eddie Guzelian, the song was scrapped early on in production because Disney executives wanted something more upbeat and bouncy.
• Directed by Cast Member:
  • In the Latin American Spanish dub:
    • The first three episodes were directed by Gabriel Cobayassi, who voices additional characters.
    • Yamil Atala is Principal Hickey's voice actor as well as the ADR director for the first two seasons.
    • Diana Santos directed the last three seasons and has a minor role as Mindy.
  • The Italian dub was directed by Leslie La Penna, who provided the show's off-screen voice.
• Fake Nationality: American Jeff Bennett voices the German Dieter.
• Irony as She Is Cast: Pepper Ann is a Dreadful Musician, while her actress Kathleen Wilhoite is a singer-songwriter in her own right.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: There are no video or DVD releases of the show, except for a very rare VHS released by Disney Educational Productions, intended for use by teachers, that contained two segments.^note "Dances with Ignorance", which taught about Native American history and how racial stereotypes can be hurtful, and "The Telltale Fuzzy", which taught about guilt and honesty (the latter episode was about Pepper Ann finding a roll of money at the mall and immediately buying a velvet Fuzzy painting rather than turning it in to mall security to see if anyone who lost the roll comes looking for it) There were some episodes available on YouTube, but Disney took them down in 2013. All the found episodes have been uploaded to this fan page, complete with some dubs. It last aired when Toon Disney was still a channel and didn't officially re-appear on TV or home video until its September 2021 addition to Disney+, making its first time seen outside of a channel.
• Out of Order: When the show premiered on Disney+, most of the fifth season's episode segments were released willy-nilly, which explains why "The Finale" is slotted two episodes short of where it should be.
• Playing Against Type: April Winchell and Pamela Adlon were in three cartoons that aired on One Saturday Morning — this, Recess, and 101 Dalmatians: The Series. In the latter two shows, Winchell played antagonistic characters to Adlon's characters. In this show, however, she plays a doting, perky mom who's very nice and mostly gets along with her daughters, one of whom is played by Pamela Adlon.
• Playing Their Own Twin: Cree Summer voices the James twins, Tessa and Vanessa.
• Pop-Culture Urban Legends: There were some rumors that Pepper Ann’s real name is "Jennifer."
• Post-Release Retitle: "Bye Bye Trinket" is listed on Disney+ as "Bye-Bye Trinket, Bye-Bye". The on-screen title is unchanged.
• Referenced by...:
  • House of Mouse: Pepper Ann and Lydia make cameo appearances in "The Stolen Cartoons", the series' first episode. After Pete gets kicked out of the titular club for trying to sabotage the show, he lands near Pepper Ann and Lydia, who are standing on a street corner. Lydia tells Pepper Ann "Don't touch the villain, dear!"
  • The Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain episode "Squeeze Play" contains a song about Brain's alter-ego Patty Ann that is similar to this show's theme song.
• Technology Marches On: "Reality Bytes" is full of this. Dial-up internet, chatrooms, pop-ups and newsgroups galore!
• What Could Have Been:
  • The show was developed at Nickelodeon. After the executive who supported the project, Linda Simensky, left for Cartoon Network, the show was eventually picked up by Disney.
  • In the aired version of "In Support Of", a nervous Pepper Ann has Moose try on bras for her at the mall. Originally, Milo was going to be the one trying on the bras. The scene made it all the way to the animation stage before Disney executives forced the writers to change the scene. Director Brad Goodchild posted an animation cel of the original scene to his blog, but it has since been deleted.
  • In a similar example, the aired version of "Hazelnut's Finest" (where Pepper Ann and friends have to film a relative doing their job), has Milo mentioning filming his aunt, who works on a pit crew. In the original script, the line is mostly the same, except Milo instead mentions his aunt's girlfriend.
• Write What You Know: Lydia operating a clothing store in the series was based on Sue Rose's mother owning a clothing store in real life.