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"Effie Shrugged" is the 11th episode of the third season of Pepper Ann. It aired on January 15, 2000.

Synopsis[]

Feeling neglected by Milo and Nicky, Pepper Ann befriends a gifted, overgrown elementary school student who can get P.A. anything she wants—through brute force.

Plot[]

Pepper Ann is once again late for class, having fallen asleep while waiting for her friends who had informed her that they were coming to school via alternate means. A new transfer student, a large, intimidating and soft spoken girl named Effie Shrugg, arrives and sits next to Pepper Ann who is mildly put off by her somewhat bluntly intelligent speech mannerisms. Pepper Ann asks Milo and Nicky if they want to hang out afterwards, but they have other plans. Effie approaches her and asks if they want to hang out and Pepper Ann reluctantly agrees.

Effie takes Pepper Ann to a bookstore and gets her interested in reading Dickens while the once long line suspiciously opens up. They go to the museum to learn about Darwin where Effie manages to secure two slushies despite them initially running out. When Pepper Ann returns home, Moose sees Effie and runs upstairs scared. Effie reveals that she is actually 8 years old (she will be 9 next month) and not only transferred, but moved up several grades. She speaks with Lydia and deduces personal information about her that causes her to sweat, much to Pepper Ann's confusion.

The next day, Milo and Nicky inform Pepper Ann that Effie is a bully. Pepper Ann disbelieves them, but upon seeing the signs and hearing her confirm it, she is shocked. Effie tells her that they need to take advantage of the weak and be superior to others. Pepper Ann takes her up on her philosophy, but when she is about to take on Nicky and Milo at the movie theater, Pepper Ann defends them and tells Effie that she needs to evolve and be better than a bully. Effie agrees, but her mother comes to tell her that she has been accepted into an Ivey college and leaves immediately. Pepper Ann is told to go to the back of the line, but Milo and Nicky decide to join her.

Cast[]

Desk Gag[]

"The letter Q!"

Trivia[]

  • The episode's title is a play on the Ayan Rand novel Atlas Shrugged.
  • This episode, along with "The Beans of Wrath" and "Def Comedy Mom" were the only post-season 1 episodes to use traditional cel animation. They were also the only episodes of the series to be animated by Hana Animation, instead of the show's primary animation studio, Sunwoo Animation.
  • On Disney+, this episode is second next to "The Beans of Wrath".

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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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