"Considering Constance" is the 19th episode of the fourth season of Pepper Ann. It aired on February 17, 2000.
Synopsis[]
Shy middle schooler Constance turns to Pepper Ann to help her be more confident and charismatic.
Plot[]
Pepper Ann confidently performs on the field and continues her streak of being an unpredictable, yet fun girl. Constance Goldman, one of her classmates, looks up to her and thinks she is cool for being so daring as she herself is shy and has trouble standing up for herself. While being assigned partners in class, Constance takes the initiative to get paired up with Pepper Ann and they manage to win the science contest together. While being with Pepper Ann, Constance finally stands up to Moira the lunch lady for short changing her and gets an extra carton of milk.
Soon, Constance begins to act closely with Pepper Ann; helping her with homework, problems and setting up her social plans. Milo and Nicky think it is weird, but Pepper Ann does not want to be rude to her. She finally tries to talk her out of being so subservient to her, so she settles on trying to make her like her by having her dress similarly. Pepper Ann tries to teach Constance to be like her, though in typical fashion, these backfire and Constance ends up doing things that make her more unique like talking to her crush Lamar Abudabe.
Pepper Ann figures out that Constance has a crush on him and tries to set up a typical mismatched scheme into getting the two of them together. Instead, Constance decides to do something different and directly confront Lamar, resulting in the two going out. Nicky thinks that Pepper Ann did it on purpose to help Constance be more of an individual, though she neither confirms nor denies it. A very confident Constance and Lamar begin dating and continue to support Pepper Ann at soccer. As Constance cheers her on, Crying Girl thinks that Constance is cool.
Cast[]
- Kathleen Wilhoite as Pepper Ann Pearson
- Jeff Bennett as Craig Bean
- Danny Cooksey as Milo Kamalani
- Clea Lewis as Nicky Little
- Kenny Blank as Lamar Abudabe
- Candi Milo as Constance Goldman, Deeana, Biana
- Sue Rose as Moira
- Cree Summer as Crying Girl
Trivia[]
- The "Big Pen" that Pepper Ann and Constance win in this episode is a reference to the "Big Pencil" from "The Big Pencil".
- This is the first episode where we find out the lunch lady's name is Moira. It's also the second time the creator of the show, Sue Rose, voices a character, the first being Fuzzy in "The Telltale Fuzzy".
- This is the first episode to truly focus on minor character Constance Goldman and, to a certain extent, Lamar Abudabe.
- Rather progressive for the time, this episode depicts a mixed race couple between a white girl and black boy.
