Dances with Ignorance

Pepper Ann"Dances with Ignorance"
Season 3
Number 28A
Episode information
Production code	302-A
Written by	Edward Guzelian
Directed by	Brad Goodchild
Original air date	September 18, 1999
Pepper Ann Episodes
Previous	"You Oughta Be in Musicals!"
Next	"Girl Power"

"Dances with Ignorance" is the 2nd episode of the third season of Pepper Ann. It aired on September 18, 1999.

Plot

While researching her family heritage, Pepper Ann finds out from her father that she's 1/16 Navajo Indian, but Pepper Ann's stereotypical views of American Indian culture gets her in trouble with a real Navajo family.

Desk Gag

"Ha ha, cool maracas!"

Trivia

• The episode makes a couple of references to Pocahontas
• When Pepper Ann brags about her "knowledge" of American Indian culture to Nicky and Milo, she says that her tribe can "paint with all the colors of the wind". During the reference, a scene transition of leaves blowing in the wind occurs.
• Pepper Ann mentions to Carol (the mother of the Navajo family) that she was going for a Pocahontas type of hairstyle.
• Dave (the son of the Navajo family) calls Pepper Ann "Poca-moron-as" when she comes over to apologize.

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Media Pepper Ann • Pepper Ann Main Theme Characters Pepper Ann Pearson • Pepper Ann's reflection • Nicky Little • Milo Kamalani • Moose Pearson • Becky Little • Trinket St. Blair • Cissy Rooney • Dieter Lederhosen • Tessa and Vanessa James • Constance Goldman • Stewart Waldinger • Gwen Mezzrow • Wayne Macabre • Alice Kane • Brenda • Amber O'Malley • Sketch • Craig Bean • Lydia Pearson • Chuck Pearson • Janie Diggety • JoJo Diggety • Effie Shrugg • Abriola Stark • Carlotta Sneed • Roland Carter • Coach Doogan • Nurse Oomla • Vera Groober-Schwartz • Sherrie Spleen • Principal Hickey Episodes Season 1: "Ziterella" • "Romeo and Juliet" / "Food Barn" • "Old Best Friend" / "Crunch Pod" • "Psychic Moose" / "Doll and Chain" • "Megablades of Grass" / "Family Vacation" • "The Big Pencil" / "Sani-Paper" • "Uniform Uniformity" / "Snot Your Mother's Music" • "The Environ-Mentals" • "Crush and Burn" / "Soccer Season" • "Thanksgiving Dad" • "Sketch 22" / "Manly Milo" • "Have You Ever Been Unsupervised" / "The Unusual Suspects" • "Nicky Gone Bad" / "In Support of" 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" • "Presenting Stewart Waldinger" / "P.A.'s Life in a Nutshell" • "Like Riding a Bike" • "Radio Freak Hazelnut" / "Framed" • "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: "You Oughta Be in Musicals!" • "Dances with Ignorance" / "Girl Power" • "Beyond Good and Evel" / "One of the Guys" • "The Wash-Out" / "Def Comedy Mom" • "The First Date Club" / "Unicycle of Life" • "A Kosher Christmas" • "Effie Shrugged" / "Mom Knows What P.A. Did Two Nights Ago" • "The Spanish Imposition" / "Single Unemployed Mother" Season 4: "Burn, Hazelnut, Burn" / "Career Daze" • "G.I. Janie" / "Miss Moose" • "Pepper Shaker" / "Flaw and Order" • "Baggy Bean Buddies" / "The Beans of Wrath" • "The Velvet Room" • "One Angry Woman" • "The Sellout" / "The Telltale Fuzzy" • "A Valentine's Day Tune" • "Sammy's Song" / "Permanent Record" • "Live and Let Dye" • "Remote Possibilities" / "Considering Constance" • "To Germany with Love" • "Bye, Bye Trinket" / "P.A.'s Pop Fly" • "My Mother, Myself" • "The Amazing Becky Little" • "The Untitled Milo Kamalani Project" / "Guess Who's Coming to the Theater" • "The Great Beyond" / "Jaybirds of a Feather" • "The Way They Were" Season 5: "The One with Mr. Reason" / "Sense and Senselessness" • "Forging Ahead" / "Reality Bytes" • "Carmello" / "Strike it or Not" • "Complimentary Colors" • "The Merry Lives of Pepper Ann" • "A is for Average" / "Alice Kane Went Down to Calcutta" • "Spice of Life" / "T.G.I.F." • "Dear Debby" / "Too Cool to Be Mom" • "Moose in Love" / "Two's Company" • "Zen and the Art of Milo" / "That's My Mama Destructo" • "Unhappy Campers" / "Searching for Pepper Ann Pearson" • "The Word" / "The Perfect Couple" • "The Finale" Locations Hazelnut Middle School • Pepper Ann's House See also House of Mouse