Too Cool To Be Twelve
Original title
Pepper Ann
Released
9/13/1997
Origin country
US
Genre
Animation, Comedy, Family, Kids
Production companies
Disney Television Animation, Sunwoo Entertainment, Hana Animation
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
5
Number of episodes
113
The quirky adventures of Pepper Ann, a 12-year-old girl trying to get through life with her family and friends.
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 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.
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.
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!
Milo, "the king of crunch," accidentally gets beaten by Pepper Ann in a Crunch Pod tournament. They then have a "who's better" fight
Seeing moose hanging out with the mall psychic, Pepper Ann gets the feeling that Moose is psychic.
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.
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.
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.
Pencil Pepper Ann wants to beat Alice Kane by building a better science project. The trophy? A giant pencil.
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.
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.
After Pepper Ann gets tickets for a sold out concert, she learns her mother knows Mick Snot from her favorite band Flaming Snot.
Pepper Ann joins the environ-mentals and tries to solve the problem that the pyramid peanut butter can presents (skunks crawl in and suffocate).
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.
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.
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.
Pepper Ann gets invited to hang out with an eighth grader named Sketch.
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.
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 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 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...
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Pepper Ann's cat Steve has run away and found a new job as the mascot of the Lottery.
Pepper Ann has to be Shania the Otter mascot for Nicky's field hockey team.
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.
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.
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.
Everyone is afraid to go trick-or-treating this year because of how old they are.
Much to Pepper Ann's annoyance, Crash gets a big crush on her because she looks just like his favorite "Genetic Dozen" character, Regeneca.
Pepper Ann objects when she learns Nicky is going out with Stewart Waldinger, the biggest nerd in school.
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.
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...
The rhetoric of Wayne MacCabre on the high school radio station KHMS so infuriates Pepper Ann that she tries to silence him.
Pepper Ann is getting Framed because some kid who feels lonesome, spray painted the word "Hare" in red spray paint on this brick wall.
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.
Lydia and Janie drag a reluctant Pepper Ann to their annual "Adament Eve" female retreat.
Pepper Ann, Milo and Nicky are in a practical joke competition. Pepper Ann starts to take it too seriously.
Pepper Ann's Grandma is having their 50th Anniversary and She has Cold Feet about the whole thing!
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 decides to have a sick day.
Craig Shaves his head and doesn't look as good as he used to to Pepper Ann. Is she really that shallow?
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.
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.
Pepper Ann finds out shes a little of Indian and wants to learn more about her Heritage, but does she over-do it?
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!
Moose wants Evel Knevel to represent Hazelnut with his statue.
Pepper Ann wants to prove she's not a Girls Guy and wants to be a Girls Girl!
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.
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.
Could it be a first date with Pepper Ann and Craig Bean!?
Pepper Ann freaks out when people start thinking she and Milo are dating.
Pepper Ann makes a list of all the stuff that's great about Christmas or Hanuka, which ever is better.
Pepper Ann becomes friends with a School Bully and doesn't notice it.
Pepper Ann sneaks into an R rated movie. The guilt of lying about it drives her insane.
Pepper Ann really wants to get into Music Appreciation class. She gets stuck in Spanish 101 instead.
Pepper Ann has to do "Take your kid to work week" with Lydia Pearson "MOM," Only Lydia Quit her job.
Burn, Hazelnut, Burn Pepper Ann wants to Create her very own movie but everyone starts to take it over!
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.
Pepper Ann's Aunt Janie becomes upsessed with Violent video games!
Pepper Ann tries to change the way Moose acts and dresses.
Pepper Ann becomes Jumpy and to frightened about Natural disasters after the small so called, "Earth Quake" in Hazelnut!
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.
Pepper Ann gets addicted to Baggy Bean Buddies because a sack of beans is worth over 100 dollars!
Dieter wants to prove to Pepper Ann that he will win the contest for whoever has the freshest vegetables alive!
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?
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!
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!
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!
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.
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.
Nicky gets Detention and a mark on her permanent record and wants to get the mark off!
Pepper Ann wants to be even more of an individual so she decides to dye her hair Green!
Pepper Ann tries to Solve Nicky and Stewart's differences.
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!"
Dieter is sending a tape to his Dad of how he's doing in America and films a bunch of Hazelnut middle school friends!
Trinket wants to move to an all girls school but then moves back because of the Cell-Lines don't reach her particular connections.
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.
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.
Nicky's Sister Becky comes to town and Nicky has always known Becky was the Best sister.
Milo blows off an entry for an album cover contest. But he wins and gets set up as a celebrity artist.
Pepper Ann doesn't want her real Dad to see her Mom with Bernie at the school play.
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.
Pepper Ann needs to win back her Jaybird feathers in-order to be a sponsor for her sister Moose.
Pepper Ann, Milo and Nicky get into a huge fight! Causing them to remember old times.
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!
Pepper Ann relys on a book for Relationships with Boys but the Book fails and Pepper Ann gets dumped by all 3 Boys!
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.
Pepper Ann gets addicted to her computer.
Pepper Ann gets to close to the Frog that she has to disect for Disection day in science class.
The Teachers of Hazelnut middle school go on strike when the school board still wont give in on money and there demands and needs.
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!
Pepper Ann gets addicted to going to the Fair and being Lady Gwen and putting off her real life!
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 is moving and wants to make up with Pepper Ann, but Pepper Ann just thinks its one big setup.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Milo becomes accepted to a Zen Academy but misses friends at Hazelnut.
Pepper Ann wins the chance to have her favorite wrestler, Mama Destructo, teach seventh grade math for a week.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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!
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