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Pepper Ann

Pepper Ann
Genre	Animated sitcom Teen comedy
Created by	Sue Rose[1]
Based on	Pepper Ann by Sue Rose
Directed by	Sherie Pollack (season 1) Brad Goodchild (seasons 2–5)
Voices of	Kathleen Wilhoite Clea Lewis Danny Cooksey Pamela Adlon April Winchell Cree Summer Candi Milo Don Adams Jim Cummings Kath Soucie Tino Insana Jeff Bennett
Theme music composer	Brian Woodbury
Composer	Pat Irwin
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	5
No. of episodes	65 (113 segments) (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Sue Rose Nahnatchka Khan
Running time	22 minutes
Production companies	Walt Disney Television Animation Buena Vista International, Inc.[a]
Original release
Network	ABC (seasons 1–3) UPN (seasons 4–5)
Release	September 13, 1997 (1997-09-13) – November 18, 2000 (2000-11-18)

Pepper Ann is an American animated television series created by Sue Rose and aired on Disney's One Saturday MorningonABC.^[2] It first premiered on September 13, 1997, and ended on November 18, 2000.^[3] Pepper Ann was the first Disney animated television series to be created by a woman.

Tom Warburton, who later created Cartoon Network's Codename: Kids Next Door, served as the lead character designer for the series.

Overview[edit]

Pepper Ann centers on the trials and tribulations that occur during the titular character's adolescence and charts her ups and downs at Hazelnut Middle School. The character originated in a comic strip published in YM magazine.^[4]

Episodes[edit]

Characters[edit]

Main[edit]

• Pepper Ann Pearson (voiced by Kathleen Wilhoite) is the titular protagonist of the series, who is a bespectacled, 12-year-old girl whose emotions come out in fantasies. She is of Jewish faith from her mother's side (as stated in the holiday-themed episode).
• Nicky Anais Little (voiced by Clea Lewis) is Pepper Ann's blonde-haired best friend, who is a shy and timid over-achiever.
• Milo Kamalani (voiced by Danny Cooksey) is Pepper Ann's other best friend, who is a laid-back artist.
• Lydia Pearson (voiced by April Winchell) is the mother of Pepper Ann and Moose.
• Margaret Rose "Moose" Pearson (voiced by Pamela Adlon) is Pepper Ann's stoic younger 7-year-old sister.

Recurring[edit]

• Principal Herb Hickey (voiced by Don Adams) is Hazelnut Middle School's tough disciplinarian with zero-tolerance for Pepper Ann's shenanigans. This was Adams's final role on television.
• Vera Groober-Schwartz (voiced by Paddi Edwards) is Hazelnut Middle School's secretary.
• Roland Carter (voiced by Jim Cummings) is a science teacher at Hazelnut Middle School who is passionate about what he teaches. He is known for giving Pepper Ann detention slips, but does believe that she can be a good student even when she successfully does her assignments.
• Abriola Stark (voiced by April Winchell) is the math teacher at Hazelnut Middle School who is also in charge of the drama club.
• Janie Lilly Diggety (voiced by Susan Tolsky) is Pepper Ann and Moose's aunt and Lydia's sister who served in the Peace Corps.
• JoJo Diggety (voiced by Tino Insana) is Pepper Ann and Moose's uncle and Janie's husband who works as a cop.
• Trinket St. Blair (voiced by Jenna von Oÿ) is a spoiled, rich, popular girl who is Pepper Ann's nemesis.
• Cissy Rooney (voiced by Kath Soucie) is an air-headed popular girl who is Trinket's best friend.
• Dieter Lederhosen (voiced by Jeff Bennett) is a German immigrant in Pepper Ann's class who loves food, especially strudel.
• Tessa & Vanessa James (both voiced by Cree Summer) are two gossipy black twin sisters who finish each other's sentences.
• Peter "Pink-Eye Pete" Oglevee (voiced by Jeff Bennett) is a nerdy kid who suffers from pink eye.
• Craig Bean (voiced by Jeff Bennett) is the "cool" 8th grader and Pepper Ann's love interest.
• Alice Kane (voiced by Lauren Tom) is Pepper Ann's nerdy rival.
• Gwen Mezzrow (voiced by Kimmy Robertson) is a bubbly girl who constantly alternates between stalking Milo and being entirely uninterested in him in favor of Dieter.
• Sketch (voiced by Karen Duffy) is an 8th grader that Pepper Ann admires for her "coolness".

Broadcast and home media[edit]

Pepper Ann was aired as part of the Disney's One Saturday Morning block on ABC from 1997 to 2001. Reruns were also shown on Disney's One TooonUPN during the 2000–01 season, and later on Disney Channel, and on Toon Disney until 2008.

All 65 episodes of the series were released on Disney+ on September 8, 2021,^[5] with the episodes from seasons 4–5 listed under season 3 on the platform and most of the season 5's episode segments that are in mismatched order.^[6]

Internationally, the show aired on the likes of GMTV and RTÉ

Legacy[edit]

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

^ Pepper AnnonDisney+

External links[edit]

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