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"G.I. Janie" is the first segment of the twenty-eighth episode of Pepper Ann. It aired on February 7, 2000.

Synopsis[]

Aunt Janie protests against a new, violent video game -- and finds herself addicted to it.

Plot[]

Pepper Ann comes home to see that Lydia and Janie bought the FunStation 8000. Janie is trying to do a report on the violence of video games and Pepper Ann offers to help her out. After looking through her collection of games, Pepper Ann settles on Warmonger, an alien war game. As she plays through the levels, Pepper Ann sets it to two player and has Janie take the second controller. They start playing all through the night and straight on until morning. Pepper Ann goes to do other things while Janie seems hooked on the game.

Pepper Ann tells Nicky what happened and she becomes concerned that Janie playing the game has desensitized her to the violence, though Pepper Ann sees no harm in her playing. Janie, who was once a peace loving hippie, has now become a war obsessed individual and reveals that she got further in the game. She recruits Pepper Ann and Milo and they go around time collecting rations and purchasing better controllers. During this time, Janie becomes much more aggressive and angry; becoming determined to defeat the final boss.

Janie, Pepper Ann and Milo play through the game, but Aunt Janie kills Milo's character. They eventually come across the final boss, General Zohn with Janie trying to kill him, but Pepper Ann talks some sense into her; ending her deranged mental state. Janie gives a speech to a convention stating that while games are harmless, they should not be taken seriously and those should stay grounded to reality. One of the peace members asks Janie to do a similar report on cartoon violence, but everyone turns it down and drags Janie away.

Cast[]

Main cast[]

Additional voices[]

Other appearances[]

Desk Gag[]

"Iceberg, dead ahead!"

Trivia[]

  • The title of this episode is a play on the title of the 1997 film G.I. Jane.
  • FunStation 8000 is a parody of PlayStation. It may be a competitor to the Super Mega Hardcore Game Blaster 8000.
  • For unknown reasons, this segment, along with its sister segment, would be removed from syndication on Toon Disney after a few years.
  • Modern research shows that violent video games have zero effect on children's behavior. It was discovered that children who play video games for less than an hour a day were better behaved. Further research has also suggested that there is no connection towards desensitization and violence in video games.

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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