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"Spice of Life" is the first segment of the sixty-fourth episode of Pepper Ann. It aired on November 12, 2000.

Synopsis[]

Pepper Ann deals with a mean old woman who doesn't like door-to-door salespeople, but when she dies (and Pepper Ann finds out that she's Vera the secretary's mother), Pepper Ann offers to speak at her funeral, but how can she eulogize someone she hates?

Plot[]

The students of Hazelnut Middle School must sell spices in order to raise money for new books, though Nicky scoffs at this as she never sees any new books. Pepper Ann wants to win cardboard cutouts of the Cutie Maootie Boys and has a rivalry with Dieter. They encounter the house of Edna "Old Lady" Groober whom Pepper Ann tried to sell to, but never does due to her temper. Pepper Ann tries again and Groober yells at her. Pepper Ann responds with "Will it kill ya to be nice?" The next day, Pepper Ann wins the fundraiser, but learns that Groober, who is Vera's 114-year-old mother has died.

Pepper Ann believes that she had in fact killed Groober, but Vera tells her that she would tell her the same thing and that she had lived a full long life. She further tells her that Groober insisted that she give a eulogy at her funeral, even though she never liked her. Pepper Ann goes asking people how they felt about her, including her mother. They begin by insulting her, but when she mentions that she died, everyone turns around and says how much they liked her. Pepper Ann has a nightmare that the Cutie Magootie Boys tell her that she is experiencing hypocrisy and that she needs to be honest for the eulogy.

Pepper Ann decides to tell Vera that she will not give the speech, but gets distracted by stories of her mother and becomes interested. Afterwards, she tells her that she will be there after all. Pepper Ann gives a very special eulogy explaining how Groober was a special person and how they will remember her for her character. After the funeral, and after Pepper Ann tosses her Cutie Magootie Boys cutouts away, Vera tells her that Groober wrote in her will that she donated to charity in her name as she enjoyed her spunk. Principal Hickey is caught off guard by Nicky and reveals that he received an inheritance from Groober and used it to buy books.

Cast[]

Trivia[]

  • This episode is dedicated to Paddi Edwards, due to this being the last episode she recorded for the series before her passing on October 18, 1999, over a year before this episode aired.

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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