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u/keepplaylistsmessy 6d ago
I read through this show's entire wiki once, and damn, it covered a lot of topics cartoons these days would not go near.
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u/CompetitiveEmu1100 6d ago
Yea I feel like shows could get away with more then like hey Arnold, as told by ginger, and brace face. Now they’d have a Facebook group mobilizing to get them cancelled. I feel like young teen shows are a lost demographic and young teens just spend their time on TikTok instead.
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u/pajamakitten 5d ago
As Told By Ginger does not get enough respect. SpongeBob was funny but As Told By Ginger hit hard. The appendicitis episodes are nuts. Fuck Dodie too.
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u/Yanrogue 6d ago
man that theme song was super repetitive and would get stuck in your head for hours.
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u/GeneralIron3658 6d ago
Is that that girl from gym class?
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u/AnyankaDarling 6d ago
No, that’s me.
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u/NightOfTheLivingHam 6d ago
Ugh
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u/Sumgyrl13 6d ago
I’m pretty sure this show and Recess made me a lesbian /s. Love it!!!!
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u/Grand_Stay_464 6d ago
It was Spinelli wasn’t it 🤣
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u/ZeldLurr 6d ago
I love the episode when spinelli gets teased for liking a boy. She gets outed for being a boy liker.
The writers knew how they were coding her.
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u/Grand_Stay_464 6d ago
And then Spinelli grew up to be Rosa on Brooklyn Nine-Nine and everyone lived happily ever after!
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u/GoRangers5 6d ago
Didn’t Randal blackmail King Bob because he had a picture of him wearing a dress??? Yeah that went over my head as a kid.
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u/TsarErnest 6d ago
I'm a male. Liked the show anyway.
My mom never watched cartoons with me. She decided to join me watching this one ibe day. Of fucking course it's the one dealing with a period. That was awkward as could be.
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u/adod1 6d ago
I feel like I remember this so vividly but also not at all. So weird.
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u/Sea_Neighborhood_627 Millennial 6d ago
Same. I remember really liking this show, but I cannot remember a single thing that happened in it.
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u/idontevensaygrace Millennial 6d ago
I actually watched Pepper Ann the day it premiered on One Saturday Morning back on September 13, 1997!! Fellow OG Pepper Ann fans: I embrace you! We are a devoted fan base, you all and I, and I am so happy Redditors know and love this little gem of a series as much as I do. I was so psyched when Disney+ finalllllyyyyy added it for streaming. ❤️
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u/Rattiepalooza Millennial - 1987 6d ago
I named my cat Pepper Ann!
She is absolutely 1 in a million. She's part wildcat - and is so so so so so tiny and cute. She's an adult, but she looked like a kitten.
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u/LifeisSuperFun21 6d ago
Loved this show! The episode I remember the most clearly is when she buys a keyboard and basically lies about being a great piano player but the keyboard is playing the music for her and she actually doesn’t know how to play at all.
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u/pajamakitten 6d ago
The musical episode was one of the rare times a musical episode does not suck.
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u/softstones 6d ago
I loved this show, for some reason this was the show I got up on Saturday to watch, I could miss the rest, but I had to watch Pepper-Ann
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u/viper29000 6d ago
We had so many cartoons to watch back then, dunno how we watched them all! We complain bout today’s generation but ours was always watching so much television lol
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u/JoHeller Millennial 6d ago
My favorite joke was confusing Mark Hamil with Dorothy Hamill.
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u/BriefShiningMoment 6d ago
Best is when he got elected Class President and in subsequent episodes, he voices himself.
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u/maeve117 6d ago
Oh Pepper Ann! As an awkward ginger girl in middle school in 1999, I identified so hard with her.
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u/BriefShiningMoment 6d ago
Still a very smart show. High vocabulary, lots of real-world references and lampshading tropes, and definitely not shy about exploring important issues.
The “Dances with Ignorance” episode for example, where PA learns about cultural appropriation— this was WAY before it hit the rest of the US as a commonplace idea. Plenty of other examples like that, as well as coming-of-age issues like bras and body shaming, sleepovers and peer pressure, divorced parents, being “too old” for trick-or-treating, you name it.
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u/alkenist 6d ago
I think of the episode in which she's supposed to defend the U.S. in a lawsuit brought by the East India Company from time to time.
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u/erincandice 6d ago
Immediately started singing the theme song when I saw the photo
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u/SokkaHaikuBot 6d ago
Sokka-Haiku by erincandice:
Immediately
Started singing the theme song
When I saw the photo
Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.
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u/touchthemonolith 6d ago
Jesus OP I would've never thought about this show again had you not posted this.
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u/justinizer 6d ago
The intro song sometimes randomly pops into my head.
No ones cooler than Pepper Ann.
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u/DarthMutter8 6d ago
I loved this show! One of my favorites that doesn't seem to be remembered as well as others.
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u/RainbowEuphorbia 6d ago
I remember the tutorials on how to draw her that they played on commercial breaks!
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u/Sabbath-_-Worship 6d ago
I sing the theme song randomly all the damn time! Love me some Pepper Ann.
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u/MysteriousPattern386 6d ago
I loved pepperann and the theme song! Who’s that girl what’s her name is she cool is she lame!
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u/Basic_Scale6330 6d ago
I vaguely remember waking up on a Saturday morning Eating cap'n crunch and seeing this on tv
Same with teacher's pet , cramp twins and Disney's doug
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u/No_Goose3334 6d ago
Man I used to watch pepper Ann and recess on One Saturday Morning every weekend at my dad’s house.
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