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"Portrait of the Artist as a Young Milo" is the first segment of the twenty-third episode of Pepper Ann. It aired on December 12, 1998.

Synopsis[]

For the first time in his life, Milo suffers a mental block when he tries to come up with an entry for the Dental Hygienapalooza Poster Contest.

Plot[]

Milo is well respected across Hazelnut for his artistic sensibilities to the point that with the upcoming Dental Hygienapalooza Poster Contest, everyone knows that he will be the winner. However, as he sits down to come up with the art piece, he works all through the night and realizes that he hit an artist's block. He explains his dilemma to Pepper Ann and Nicky who are only mildly concerned. Pepper Ann was chosen to be a judge for the contest over Nicky who believes that Nurse Oomla is out to get her (she said she had mild plaque build up).

Pepper Ann tries to discreetly help Milo (she is not allowed to), though he keeps running into problems, such as recreating the Mona Lisa, though Pepper Ann mistakes it for the new cafeteria lady. Milo tries to go back to where he had his first breakthrough at a frozen food section, but is forced to warm up in a sauna. He tries to suffer for his art by freeing lobsters, but this excursion fails as well with Nicky trying to encourage him to not give up. He decides to meet one of his favorite current living artists, Mark Hamill, but has him confused for Dorothy Hamill.

On the brink of giving up, Milo walks around town to look at all of his artwork when he is suddenly inspired by one of his own quotes. He runs back to Pepper Ann and Nicky and tells them that they were both wrong in their efforts to help him. Rather than trying to please other people based on his reputation, he simply needed to do his art for the sake of doing art. Prior, he had never felt pressured. Pepper Ann and Nicky congratulate him on coming to this conclusion and as they leave, the cafeteria lady is revealed to honestly look like Mona Lisa.

Cast[]

Desk Gag[]

"Wow, a dreidel!"

Trivia[]

  • Pepper Ann is revealed to know Morse code.
  • Pepper Ann noticeably takes a more supporting role in this episode.
  • Milo claims to have gotten inspired to do art when he was a child after coming across the frozen foods section and seeing bags of fish sticks. However, in "The Way They Were", he gained his artistic expertise after Nicky gave him her beanie.

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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