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"Food Barn" is the second segment of the second episode of Pepper Ann. It aired on September 20, 1997.

Plot[]

Milo and Pepper Ann are assigned to work at a Costco-esque supermarket called Food Barn as part of their economics class, where Milo is favored over Pepper Ann by their boss.

Synopsis[]

Ms. Carlotta Sneed assigns the class with a week-long project involving after school jobs to learn about economics firsthand. Pepper Ann and Milo are assigned to work at Food Barn much to their dismay. Ms. Sneed reveals that she does not think that either of them is actually up to fully integrating into a capitalist environment, causing Pepper Ann to vow to prove her wrong. They meet with Bob, the Food Barn manager, who immediately takes a liking to Milo's lazy attitude and corner-cutting antics while mildly putting up with Pepper Ann's more by the book and responsible instincts.

Pepper Ann argues with her alter ego about the situation. Despite her instincts telling her to quit, she refuses. Bob continues to get after Pepper Ann for minor offenses while Milo keeps getting promoted for inadvertent deeds. Pepper Ann is also accosted by Assistant Manager Milicent "the Militant" who has her wash her car and check on employee applications like clockwork. Nicky suggests asking Ms. Sneed to switch herself with Dieter (who has been eating the stock at Food Barn instead of working with Nicky), but Pepper Ann once again refuses.

Finally fed up, Pepper Ann makes a loud declaration in the store about working hard and not getting the credit she deserves. Her speech gets the arousing applause of everyone, except Milicent who promptly fires her. Pepper Ann gives her oral report to the class about her experience while Milo, who hadn't really learned anything from the experience, gives a less than impressive one, "It's not about what you know, but who you know". To Pepper Ann's surprise, she received an A+ while Milo got a C- Ms. Sneed sympathizes with Pepper Ann's experience, having once held a job in her youth and fired by Milicent, and takes Pepper Ann on to help spread the message of economical capitalism much to her chagrin.

Cast[]

Main cast[]

* Marks an uncredited voice role

Additional voices (uncredited)[]

Other characters[]

Cameos[]

Goofs[]

  • Milicent's name is misspelt as "Millicent" in the episode's credits.
  • On the long line of patrons behind the Customer Service Desk, miscolored cels of Lydia, Vanessa, and Trinket can be made out.
    • Cissy can also be seen at the very back of the line, although she is colored normally.
  • During the scene in which Pepper Ann's application files literally stack up, Myrna can be seen miscolored on the line behind the desk.
  • During the scene where the Food Barn workers run away, a miscolored Ned can be seen briefly.
    • Timmy can also be seen, with her shirt misspelt as "TIMY".
  • Cossie Van Tuttie is miscolored using Vanessa's colors.
  • Ned cam be spotted next to Tessa and Vanessa when Milo begins his brief speech.

Trivia[]

General[]

  • Lydia only appears in this episode as a background cameo; otherwise, she is absent.
  • Julia Sweeney is credited along with the main cast. This is one of two episodes in which a recurring actor is credited alongside the main cast instead of being featured in Additional Voices.

Continuity[]

  • The Brew Farm seems to be an early version of the JavaNutt.
    • The incidental boy seen in Pepper Ann's fantasy also heavily resembles the JavaNutt waiter/brewer seen in later episodes.
  • Milo is seen without his hat for the first time briefly after he is promoted; in later episodes this will be shown as a bigger insecurity.

Allusions[]

  • Nicky mentions a children's book author named Loco Yono, who is meant to be a parody of Japanese singer and artist Yoko Ono. An excerpt from her book reads "'It was not my fault,' cried the little Asian bunny, 'John made up his own mind'". This is a reference to the infamous, but false, claim that Ono was the reason for John Lennon splitting up The Beatles.

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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