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"A is for Average" is the second segment of the sixty-first episode of Pepper Ann. It aired on November 6, 2000.

Synopsis[]

Pepper Ann takes a magazine quiz and is shocked to find that she's average.

Plot[]

Pepper Ann expertly times her day out. Leaving school to play soccer with her teammates, heading to Brain Dead to play Crunch Pod with Milo, going home to watch TV and finally heading to the salon to get her hair done. As she waits, she looks through a magazine that offers a quiz. She takes it to pass the time, but discovers that she is "average". She goes over it with Nicky and Milo who tell her that being average is not bad. Nevertheless, Pepper Ann decides to train herself to retake it, only to end up with average again, demoralizing her.

Pepper Ann begins to lose enthusiasm for everything. Her timing and skills are off, all because she believes that being average means that things are too hard for her. She tells Nicky that she has decided to drop out of advanced algebra and is taking art for delinquents. Principal Hickey finds her behavior unusual and calls her into his office one day. He tells her that her behavior, identified as "Mediocre Malaise", is spreading throughout the school and is affecting the students. Men in hazmat suits enter and attempt to take Pepper Ann, but she flees.

Pepper Ann finds Nicky, Tessa, Vanessa and Milo who are all off and depressed as well. She rounds up all the other students at school at the Greezy 'n' Cheezy and tells them that she was wrong to consider herself average and that they should all be the best regardless of what tests say. All the students stand up for Pepper Ann, but the whole sequence of events are revealed to be a fantasy and she leaves the class. Pepper Ann is beck to her excitable self and has a quick talk with Hickey who tells some visitors that Pepper Ann is "not an average student".

Cast[]

Desk Gag[]

"Scuff marks! ... Uh, I can't show 'em to you 'cause I can't pick 'em up."

Trivia[]

  • Pepper Ann is revealed to be very good at time blocking. This is a common technique among people with ADD, which the series continuously hints that she has.
  • The end of the episode is a parody of Sparticus.

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Media
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Characters
Pepper Ann PearsonAlter EgoNicky LittleMilo KamalaniMoose PearsonBecky LittleDieter LiederhosenTrinket St. BlairCissy RooneyTessa and Vanessa JamesPink-Eye PeteAlice KaneGwen MezzrowStuart WalldingerShelf McClainConstance GoldmanLamar Abu-DabeCraig BeanSketchCrashLydia PearsonChuck PearsonJanie DiggityJo Jo DiggityNed DiggityCrying GirlBrendaMean GirlEffie ShruggAbriola StarkCarlotta SneedRoland CarterCoach DooganBronte BladdarSherman FinkyVera Groober-SchwartzPrincipal HickeyHazelnutians
Episodes
Season 1: "Ziterella" • "Romeo & Juliet" / "Food Barn" • "Old Best Friend" / "Crunch Pod" • "Psychic Moose" / "Doll & Chain" • "Megablades of Grass" / "Family Vacation" • "Sani-Paper" / "The Big Pencil" • "Uniform, Uniformity" / "Snot Your Mother's Music" • "The Environ-Mentals" • "In Support of" / "Nicky Gone Bad" • "Soccer Season" / "Crush & Burn" • "Thanksgiving Dad" • "Have You Ever Been Unsupervised" / "The Unusual Suspects" • "Sketch 22" / "Manly Milo"

Season 2: "Quiz Bowl" / "License to Drive" • "Cocoon Gables" / "Green-Eyed Monster" • "Hazelnut's Finest" / "Cat Scan" • "An Otterbiography" / "Greensleeves" • "Vanessa Less Tessa" / "Peer Counselor P.A." • "A 'Tween Halloween" / "Mash into Me" • "Framed" / "Radio Freak Hazelnut" • "Presenting Stewart Waldinger" / "P.A.'s Life in a Nutshell" • "Like Riding a Bike" • "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Milo" / "The Sisterhood" • "Impractical Jokes" / "Cold Feet" • "Doppelganger Didi" / "Pepper Ann's Day Off-Kilter" • "A No Hair Day" / "That's My Dad"
Season 3: "Burn, Hazelnut, Burn" / "The Wash-Out" • "G.I. Janie" / "Miss Moose" • "Pepper Shaker" / "Flaw and Order" • "Def Comedy Mom" / "Career Daze" • "Baggy Bean Buddies" / "The Spanish Imposition" • "The Beans of Wrath" / "Effie Shrugged" • "The Velvet Room" • "One Angry Woman" • "The Sellout" / "The Tell Tale Fuzzy" • "Dances with Ignorance" / "Girl Power" • "Sammy's Song" / "Permanent Record" • "Live and Let Dye" • "Remote Possibilities" / "Considering Constance" • "You Oughta Be in Musicals!" • "Beyond Good and Evel" / "One of the Guys" • "The First Date Club" / "Unicycle of Life" • "To Germany with Love" • "A Valentine's Day Tune" • "Bye Bye Trinket" / "P.A.'s Pop Fly" • "My Mother, Myself" • "The Amazing Becky Little" • "A Kosher Christmas" • "The Untitled Milo Kamalani Project" / "Guess Who's Coming to the Theater" • "Single Unemployed Mother" / "Mom Knows What P.A. Did Two Nights Ago" • "The Great Beyond" / "Jaybirds of a Feather" • "The Way They Were"
Season 4: "The One with Mr. Reason" / "Sense and Senselessness" • "Dear Debby" / "Reality Bytes" • "Complimentary Colors" • "Searching for Pepper Ann Pearson" / "Forging Ahead" • "Carmello" / "Too Cool to Be Mom" • "The Word" / "The Perfect Couple" • "The Merry Lives of Pepper Ann" • "Strike it or Not" / "Moose in Love" • "Two's Company" / "A is for Average" • "That's My Mama Destructo" / "Unhappy Campers" • "The Finale" • "Spice of Life" / "Alice Kane Went Down to Calcutta" • "T.G.I.F." / "Zen and the Art of Milo"

Locations
Hazelnut Middle SchoolPepper Ann's House
See also
House of Mouse