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"The Great Beyond" is the first segment of the fifty-first episode of Pepper Ann. It aired on February 25, 2000.

Synopsis[]

When Steve the Cat is diagnosed with a pancreatic illness, Pepper Ann begins wondering about death and the afterlife.

Plot[]

Pepper Ann takes Steve the Cat to the vet to get his usual checkup. However, she is mortified to learn that he has feline pancreatitis and that they do not know if the swelling will go down. Scared at the thought of losing Steve, Pepper Ann asks her mother what happens if Steve were to die. Lydia gives a basic childish answer that he will live in the clouds, get a halo and wings and a harp, but Pepper Ann wants a serious answer as to what will happen to him. She brings the subject up in Mr. Finky's class, confusing everyone there.

Nicky offers various religious answers while Milo believes that the "art" he leaves behind is the answer. Pepper Ann visits the goth kids table, but they give various shallow fashionable answers. She later visits a psychic who misinterprets Pepper Ann's request with a phony psychic reading. As Pepper Ann is faced with the further prospect of pulling the plug on Steve, she asks Grandpa Leo and Grandma Lillian for what will happen, but they give a physical explanation before taking her to the cemetery to show where they will be buried.

At the cemetery, Pepper Ann runs into Craig who plays guitar over his grandfather's grave. He explains that he taught him how to play and that when he passed away he stopped playing until one day he hit a chord and now continues to play guitar to feel as if he is still there. Pepper Ann is satisfied with hearing this and leaves. The next day, Pepper Ann and Lydia arrive at the vet to learn that Steve had made a full recovery; the swelling went down hours ago while Lydia complains about how much she paid.

Cast[]

Desk Gag[]

"Here's my remote control!"
~presses buttons until the screen goes blank~

Trivia[]

  • While Pepper Ann questions what happens after death, it is established that she is of mixed Jewish-Christian faith in "A Kosher Christmas"; meaning that she should be aware of the concept of heaven. This was most likely kept vacant for the sake of the episode's message.

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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