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Pepper Ann takes place in the same universe as Doug
The two premises are similar, geeky middle schoolers who want to be cool and accepted. The animation styles and character designs are somewhat similar, and going by the theory that Bluffington is polluted in the Doug WMG page, that's why everyone on Pepper Ann is normal looking.
  • Additionally; other One Saturday Morning shows such as Recess, The Weekenders, and Fillmore! are all part of this universe.
  • House of Mouse is the nexus point, along with Lilo & Stitch that links all the Disney series together.
  • In Cat Scan Steve the Cat violently interrupts a newscast. The newscast? "A nuclear silo has just exploded, releasing deadly radiation across our-" (cue Steve shredding her papers.) What if the fallout missed Hazelnut and blew into Bluffington?

Pepper Ann and Codename: Kids Next Door share a universe as well
The art styles are nearly alike and they seem to share background characters.
  • ^^^^^^^
Related to the above
Pepper Ann could be the story of some of the "normal" kids/adults/teens in the Verse. People who don't know about/ don't participate in the KND vs Adult vs Teen conflict.

Her reflection in the mirror (and other surfaces) is a second personality. That's why she can engage in coherent conversations with the real Pepper Ann, even debating her and giving sound (and sometimes less-than-sound) advice, appear to pop out of the reflecting surfaces at times, and all in all behave like a separate character. This personality is projected in the mirror and remains confined to it, instead of taking over her body in the real world like most common iterations of this trope.
A live-action remake will be made for Disney +, and will be released in 2022, as a Milestone Celebration of the franchise's 25th anniversary.
UPDATE: Now that 2022 has actually arrived, I, Jsslade, your troping reporter who also wrote the original entry, shall be occasionally returning to this WMG to report on the sights of this coming true.

Brenda from "Old Best Friend" is autistic.
She seems to lack boundaries and proper social skills, plus she hasn't matured since she was a younger kid.

Mr. Carter is only so hard on Pepper Ann because he sees great potential in her, as he does with Nicky, and wants her to use said potential.

In Strike It Or Not, he tells Pepper Ann that she's one of the best students he has academic-wise, likely excluding Nicky, and he's genuinely nice to her when not in a professional setting, such as the episode he dated Lydia, so it makes sense that he's disappointed in her not working to what he sees as her full potential, since she's constantly tardy and is more disruptive than Nicky is. He even says to Pepper Ann, "Why can't you be more like Nicky?", at the end of Nicky Gone Bad, which doesn't sound like something he'd say to a student that he doesn't hold much hope for.

However, considering the implications that Pepper Ann has ADHD, his tactics could be backfiring since her behaviors would be more the symptoms of an undiagnosed mental disorder rather than her being purposely difficult and uncooperative. Unfortunately, she dislikes him because he rarely makes it clear that he's only trying to push her and isn't doing this to be a Sadistic Teacher, and he doesn't realize that her behaviors, such as her tardiness, stem from a force outside her control.

The song that Craig wrote for Pepper Ann is the Pepper Ann theme song

It feels like that'd be the ultimate plot twist to tie in the theme song to the show in-universe.

Pepper Ann has autism and ADHD
She tends to delve into fantasy sequences, has trouble listening to others (this is most obvious in "Peer Counselor P.A.), has a Lack of Empathy, not realizing what she's done wrong even when others call her out on it, and seems to have trouble telling fantasy from reality, often thinking things will work out the same way they will on a TV show (an example being "Vanessa Less Tessa")

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