Ziterella is the first episode of Season 1 of Pepper Ann. It is a full-length episode and first aired on September 13, 1997 as part of Disney's One Saturday Morning.
Summary[]
On the week of yearbook photo day, seventh grader Pepper Ann Pearson gets her first pimple and must choose between her looks and her dignity when her mother tells her to go to Abe's Mall (referred to as the "Abys-Mal") to buy pimple cream. Meanwhile, Hazelnut Middle School principal Mr. Hickey tries to find a replacement photographer after the current one gets conjunctivitis from infected nerd, Pinkeye Pete.
Main Story[]
Pepper Ann happily tells her friends Milo Kamalani and Nicky Little that she is prepared for this year's yearbook photo after having multiple failures in the past. Hazelnut Middle School principal Mr. Hickey confronts Pepper Ann about the upcoming photos and warns her that they are of the utmost importance. When Pinkeye Pete arrives, Pepper Ann fearfully runs to the bathroom (despite him not actually touching her) and suddenly notices to her horror that she has a pimple on her forehead. While Milo and Nicky have trouble seeing it, Pepper Ann is mortified and asks for help, but both have other matters to attend to. Thankfully, Pepper Ann has until tomorrow to figure out how to get rid of her pimple.
Pepper Ann is forced to go to Abe's Mall (the "Abys-Mal") to get pimple cream which is considered an unpopular shopping place. Her mother, Lydia, refuses to go, as she wants to finish her fashion photos, while her sister, Moose, and her aunt, Janie, both refuse to go for one reason or another and she ends up flipping a penny to decide. Pepper Ann walks the streets where she encounters Trinket St. Blair, Cissy Rooney, Tessa and Vanessa James, her uncle JoJo and various other people and creatures who apparently ask "where are you going?" though it is implied that she is imagining the majority of it. She finally gets to Abe's Mall where she hurriedly buys all of her things and flees back home where she happily applies the cream to her forehead. Her pimple miraculously disappears.
The next day, however, Mr. Hickey sadly tells the students that the second half of yearbook photos will not be taken due to Pinkeye Pete having given the photographer pinkeye. He desperately tries to call a new photographer so that he can get another Yearbook photo award. While in class, Pepper Ann's enthusiastic math teacher Ms. Stark, explains to the students about Abe's Mall and inadvertently reveals that Pepper Ann was there. The whole class begins laughing at her, or at least Pepper Ann thinks they are, before loudly admitting that she liked being there and that the prices were amazing, though her friends calm her down.
Mr. Hickey exhausts every avenue and gets inspired to head to the mall to steal a photo booth, but while there ends up seeing Lydia's photos at the fashion boutique and hires her. The next day, Pepper Ann and her friends enter the gymnasium to get their photos taken and are surprised to see all of their friends including Pepper Ann's crush, Craig Bean, commenting on her sudden fashion status. As Pepper Ann sits to get her photo taken, she is shocked to see that her mother is the photographer, scaring her and unintentionally giving her a goofy face. Mr. Hickey laments that he was unable to get the award for this year because of her.
Trivia[]
- The bus full of old people in this episode says "Cocoon Gables" on the side. This is a reference to the retirement home Pepper Ann has to volunteer at in "Cocoon Gables".
- The sheep jumping out of Pepper Ann's locker becomes somewhat of a running gag. Look for it again in "Radio Freak Hazelnut" and in her room in "One Angry Woman".
- In the original English version of the episode, the shoppers in the mall groan in disgust after Lydia shouts that Pepper Ann has her first pimple. However, in the Spanish version, the shoppers cheer.
Goofs[]
- When Abraham Lincoln on the penny starts talking to Pepper Ann, the penny's date changes from 1972 to 1997. The date then changes back to 1972 when Lincoln stops talking.
- In the original English version of the episode, the shoppers in the mall groan in disgust after Lydia shouts that Pepper Ann has her first pimple. However, in the Spanish version, the shoppers cheer.
Quotes[]
Milo: Whoa, easy Zit Girl. |
Pepper Ann: But what if someone sees me? From then on, I'll be known as 'Pimple Ann'! |
Lydia: That's my daughter! The one with the pimple! My, she's not very photogenic... |
Trinket: Where you goin', Pepper Ann? Cissy: Yeah, where you goin'? |
The Desk Gag[]
"Ooh, five bucks!"
Cast[]
- Kathleen Wilhoite as Pepper Ann Pearson
- Jeff Bennett as Craig Bean, Pink-Eye Pete, Additional Voices
- Danny Cooksey as Milo Kamalani
- Clea Lewis as Nicky Little
- Pamela Segall as Moose Pearson
- April Winchell as Mom, Additional Voices
- Don Adams as Principal Herbert Hickey
- Kath Soucie as Cissy Rooney, Additional Voices
- Paddi Edwards as Vera Groober-Schwartz
- Cree Summer-Francks as Tessa and Vanessa James, Additional Voices
- Susan Tolsky as Aunt Janie
- Tino Insana as Uncle JoJo
- Jenna von Oÿ as Trinket St. Blair
- Jess Harnell as Additional Voices
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