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"The Tell Tale Fuzzy" is the second segment of the thirty-fifth episode of Pepper Ann. It aired on February 13, 2000.

Synopsis[]

Pepper Ann finds a wad of money at the mall and blows it on a Fuzzy velvet painting, but her conscience begins to bother her, as she feels she should have, at least, turned in the money to the police or asked around to see if anyone lost it.

Plot[]

While at the mall, Pepper Ann spots a wad of cash with no name or initials on it and is entices to spend it on the thing she has always wanted: A Velvet Fuzzy Painting. Upon bringing the painting home, it personifies and admonishes Pepper Ann; suggesting that the wad of cash may have belonged to someone who needed it. Feeling guilty, Pepper Ann decides to return it, but it was a final sale. Milo and Nicky come over to check on Pepper Ann who continues to hear the Fuzzy Painting talk to her, though Milo and Nicky do not hear it, and leave. Pepper Ann resolves to be a better person.

Skating through town, Pepper Ann begins to perform a wide variety of good deeds; becoming inhumanly determined to help those in need or be charitable. Her actions of returning a pile of quarters and giving Milo an ice cream cone are caught on television and soon Pepper Ann's good deeds are spread across all of Hazelnut with her name being plastered in the newspapers and many of her friends and family coming out and saying how much of a good girl she is. She is set to accept the "nutcracker to the city" in a charitable event.

Eventually, the pressures of the ceremony are interrupted by Pepper Ann who admits to taking the wad of cash and using it for her personal gain. Everyone agrees that if they were in that situation, they too would have probably done the same and that she was just being human; she is forced to give the nutcracker and all of the other honorary awards given to her back, though. Back at home, Pepper Ann tells Milo and Nicky that she plans to work to get the money back and return it with her friends supporting her. When they ask what she spent it on, she claims it was a skateboard for Moose, but the Fuzzy Painting comments that they will find out eventually. Milo and Nicky supposedly hear the painting this time.

Cast[]

Main cast[]

Additional voices[]

Other appearances[]

Trivia[]

  • This episode is also referred to as "The Tell-Tale Fuzzy" on some guide listings.
  • This is the first episode in which Sue Rose, the creator of the show, stars in, playing the voice of Fuzzy. She shows up again in select episodes as Moira the Lunch Lady (who had appeared in previous episodes through cameos).
  • This episode was released on VHS along with the following segment, "Dances with Ignorance". While being the only time Pepper Ann was officially released on video, it was intended to be used by teachers as an educational tool. The video was available on the Disney Educational Productions website as late as 2005.
  • During the final shot of the episode, a set of hats can be seen on Pepper Ann's door, using that of Milo's, Ned's, and a young boy incidental.

Continuity[]

  • Pepper Ann finally gets the Velvet Fuzzy painting, which was something referenced in previous episodes.
  • At the start of the episode, Pepper Ann gets a brain freeze from an Endangered Slurshee, a drink which was established in "Effie Shrugged".
  • Moose tells Pepper Ann that she's her hero (for the first time she meant it genuinely), which is a call-back to when she told her it in earlier episodes.
  • Dieter is shown representing the Pup Scout Troop No.651, which he first joined in "Peer Counselor P.A.".
  • Estelle Summers, chairwoman of Hazel's Angels, makes her first appearance since "G.I. Janie," giving PA a pair of wings and making her an honorary angel.

Allusions[]

  • The title of this episode is a twist on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell Tale Heart".

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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