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"Reality Bytes" is the second segment of the fifty-fourth episode of Pepper Ann. It aired on September 16, 2000 on Disney's One Saturday Morning block on ABC.

Synopsis[]

Pepper Ann ends up addicted to the Internet while researching for a school project.

Plot[]

Just before Spring Break starts, Mr. Finky assigns the class a project on indigenous peoples. Pepper Ann is upset over this, but Milo and Nicky inform her that they already completed the project and that she should also be finished as well. Nevertheless, Pepper Ann promises to finish it before they go on their hiking trip for the week. When Pepper Ann returns home, the thesaurus is missing because they were dated. However, Lydia informs her that they have faster internet now and she can simply look up the information she needs.

Pepper Ann uses the internet for the first time and immediately becomes hooked by various pop ups and begins communicating with people, specifically an eskimo girl her age. She starts using it to the point that everyone becomes worried for her and practically wastes the Spring Break on chat rooms and reviews. Eventually, Milo and Nicky drag her out and force her to come to the mall with them to get hiking equipment. However, she spots a computer store and begins to buy computer equipment, angering Milo and Nicky who leave.

Pepper Ann has a nightmare that she is in nature with Milo and Nicky, but an unseen force messes with them like a computer. Her reflection tells her that she needs to quit and she finally does. Pepper Ann catches up with Milo and Nicky on their nature hike and apologizes for abandoning them for using the computer. They forgive her and she reveals that the one good thing she got from the internet was a report she managed to do about the eskimo girl. She sees a bunny and runs away scared, due to it being the start of her nightmare from earlier.

Cast[]

Main cast[]

Additional voices[]

Trivia[]

General[]

  • For ABC broadcasts, this segment was paired next to Forging Ahead in favor of its sister episode.
  • The reason as to why Lydia isn't able to use the phone while Pepper Ann used the computer is due to them being connected to the same network, preventing both from being used simultaneously; since this episode was produced in 2000 and presumably takes place in 1998, this was the standard for the time.

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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