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"Cocoon Gables" is the 3rd episode of the second season of Pepper Ann. It aired on September 19, 1998.

Synopsis[]

Pepper Ann is assigned to volunteer at Cocoon Gables, a retirement home, and learns a lesson in age discrimination and respecting one's elders.

Plot[]

Pepper Ann wakes up early for school, much to Lydia's confusion, and reveals that for her social studies class, she needs to pick a weekend assignment. Not wanting to get stuck with picking up glass like last time, Pepper Ann rushes to school, but encounters geriatrics who slow down her progress. She eventually makes it to school, but is forced to take the only remaining job: working at Cocoon Gables Retirement Home. She asks Mr. Finky if she can get another assignment, but he turns her down; warning her that if she does not fulfill her obligation she will immediately get an F.

Pepper Ann caters to the elders, many of whom she had encountered earlier, and begins to look down on all of them and refuses to listen to anything they do. After a rough day, she goes to the pizzeria with Milo and Nicky and complains about how the elders whine and do not listen to her, ironically what she is doing. Nicky accuses her of being ageist, but she denies this, only to get mistreated the same way by everyone around her. Pepper Ann returns home to learn that Lydia hired a babysitter and comes to realize that this is how she had been treating the elderly, though Lydia says it is not because of her age, but because she filled the sink with cheesy spray.

With a newfound appreciation, Pepper Ann returns to Cocoon Gables, this time allowing the elders to do whatever they want and even takes them out to cool places so that they can have fun. At the end of the day, she tells Milicent, who was running the place, that she should respect elders. Back at home, Pepper Ann tells her mom what she learned, only for her grandparents Leo and Lillian to arrive with their constant nagging and ignorance and completely shatter her zen on elders, however Lydia assures Pepper Ann that they have always been that way and age has nothing to do with it.

Cast[]

Desk Gag[]

"All right, kiwi lip balm!"

Trivia[]

  • The name of the retirement home, Cocoon Gables, is a reference to the movie Cocoon, about a group of geriatrics who become youthful after swimming in a pool that is affected by alien technology.
  • Pepper Ann's fantasy of going to Geriatric Park, full of dinosaurs who resemble the elderly, is a reference to the movie Jurassic Park.

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Media
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Characters
Pepper Ann PearsonPepper Ann's reflectionNicky LittleMilo KamalaniMoose PearsonBecky LittleTrinket St. BlairCissy RooneyDieter LederhosenTessa and Vanessa JamesConstance GoldmanStewart WalldingerGwen MezzrowAlice KanePink-Eye PeteShelf McClainBrendaSketchCraig BeanCrashLydia PearsonChuck PearsonJanie DiggetyJoJo DiggetyNed DiggetyEffie ShruggAbriola StarkCarlotta SneedRoland CarterCoach DooganBronte BladdarSherman FinkyVera Groober-SchwartzPrincipal Hickey
Episodes
Season 1: "Ziterella" • "Romeo and Juliet" / "Food Barn" • "Old Best Friend" / "Crunch Pod" • "Psychic Moose" / "Doll and Chain" • "Megablades of Grass" / "Family Vacation" • "The Big Pencil" / "Sani-Paper" • "Uniform, Uniformity" / "Snot Your Mother's Music" • "The Environ-Mentals" • "Crush and Burn" / "Soccer Season" • "Thanksgiving Dad" • "Sketch 22" / "Manly Milo" • "Have You Ever Been Unsupervised" / "The Unusual Suspects" • "Nicky Gone Bad" / "In Support of"

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" • "Presenting Stewart Waldinger" / "P.A.'s Life in a Nutshell" • "Like Riding a Bike" • "Radio Freak Hazelnut" / "Framed" • "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: "You Oughta Be in Musicals!" • "Dances with Ignorance" / "Girl Power" • "Beyond Good and Evel" / "One of the Guys" • "The Wash-Out" / "Def Comedy Mom" • "The First Date Club" / "Unicycle of Life" • "A Kosher Christmas" • "Effie Shrugged" / "Mom Knows What P.A. Did Two Nights Ago" • "The Spanish Imposition" / "Single Unemployed Mother"
Season 4: "Burn, Hazelnut, Burn" / "Career Daze" • "G.I. Janie" / "Miss Moose" • "Pepper Shaker" / "Flaw and Order" • "Baggy Bean Buddies" / "The Beans of Wrath" • "The Velvet Room" • "One Angry Woman" • "The Sellout" / "The Telltale Fuzzy" • "A Valentine's Day Tune" • "Sammy's Song" / "Permanent Record" • "Live and Let Dye" • "Remote Possibilities" / "Considering Constance" • "To Germany with Love" • "Bye, Bye Trinket" / "P.A.'s Pop Fly" • "My Mother, Myself" • "The Amazing Becky Little" • "The Untitled Milo Kamalani Project" / "Guess Who's Coming to the Theater" • "The Great Beyond" / "Jaybirds of a Feather" • "The Way They Were"
Season 5: "The One with Mr. Reason" / "Sense and Senselessness" • "Forging Ahead" / "Reality Bytes" • "Carmello" / "Strike it or Not" • "Complimentary Colors" • "The Merry Lives of Pepper Ann" • "A is for Average" / "Alice Kane Went Down to Calcutta" • "Spice of Life" / "T.G.I.F." • "Dear Debby" / "Too Cool to Be Mom" • "Moose in Love" / "Two's Company" • "Zen and the Art of Milo" / "That's My Mama Destructo" • "Unhappy Campers" / "Searching for Pepper Ann Pearson" • "The Word" / "The Perfect Couple" • "The Finale"

Locations
Hazelnut Middle SchoolPepper Ann's House
See also
House of Mouse
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