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"The Merry Lives of Pepper Ann" is the fifty-ninth episode of Pepper Ann. It aired on November 5, 2000.

Synopsis[]

Sick of the grind of everyday preteen life, Pepper Ann gets involved in a medieval fair, where she pretends she's Lady Gwynne.

Plot[]

A Balladeer tells the tale of Pepper Ann and her alter ego Lady Gwynne of Bottle. Pepper Ann, tired of studying algebra, as well as the numerous chores that Lydia has for her, has to step out to go to the dentist. As Milo and Nicky wait for Pepper Ann to return so that they can study, Crash challenges them and Moose to a game of Anti-Trust, which they obsessively play throughout the entire episode. Pepper Ann humiliates herself in front of Craig after her numbed mouth results in her drooling chillade and then rollerblades home, only to fly off a sign and crash through a roof of a barn. She sees people in medieval attire and believes she has traveled back in time to 1596.

Pepper Ann disguises herself and then encounters a wizard and asks to return her to her time period. The Wizard gives her tassels to run with and she finds herself back in modern times, only to be informed by Constance that she was at the renaissance faire. Embarrassed, she returns home, but quickly begins to miss the festivities. Donning a medieval outfit of her own, she makes plans to return to the faire, despite Lydia and Nicky reminding her that she needs to study for algebra. Pepper Ann quickly takes to the Elizabethan style of speech and becomes popular with the residents, including a young boy named Guiles of Cork whom she quickly befriends.

Pepper Ann starts to love living her life as Lady Gwynne at the faire and begins to lose touch with reality. After getting a C- in algebra and humiliating herself in front of Craig again, Pepper Ann continues to return to the faire to the point that she still speaks Elizabethan to people when she is at home; upsetting Lydia and the school. With no other option left, she tells the people at the faire that she must return home now. Guiles offers to see her again at the Greezy 'n' Cheezy to which she accepts. However, she arrives still as Gwynne and meets Guiles, real name Gary, who offers to help her with her algebra, but she disappointingly turns him down.

Pepper Ann returns to the faire, but is confronted by the Wizard who knows her actual name and the troubles she has been facing. He convinces her that while medieval play is fun, she needs to return to reality where people care about her. Taking his words to heart, she leaves and it is revealed that he is a real wizard. Pepper Ann, as herself, meets back up with Gary and takes up his offer to be tutored at algebra. She takes him home where they end up chasing after Sir Talonsworth, a falcon that Pepper Ann had adopted. Meanwhile, Nicky beats Milo, Crash and Moose at Anti-Trust. Milo offers to play again to which Nicky agrees, much to Crash and Moose's chagrin.

Cast[]

Desk Gag[]

(holding a hawk) "Sir Talonsworth!"
(Sir Talonsworth squawks at Nicky)

Trivia[]

  • The title of this episode is a parody of William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor.
  • Anti-Trust, as well as how long it takes to play, is a parody of Monopoly.
  • Pepper Ann still has her medieval dress from the Romeo and Juliet play she did in the episode "Romeo and Juliet".

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Media
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Characters
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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