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"Nicky Gone Bad" is the 22nd episode of the first season of Pepper Ann. It aired on January 24, 1998.

Plot[]

Fed up with her friends taking her for granted and being seen as a goody-goody, Nicky becomes a bad girl known as Nic'kay, but Pepper Ann worries that Nicky's new attitude will lead to a life of ruin.

Synopsis[]

Nicky wakes up every morning getting ready and prepped for the day, even going so far as to make suggestions to her own parents and going to Pepper Ann and Milo's to wake them up for school. The tradition soon becomes monotonous for her, especially when Pepper Ann and Milo call her perfect and copy her work. She finally snaps and tells them that she is going to be a bad girl from now on. The next day, she comes into class tardy with messy hair and lipstick on and now calling herself Nic'kay, but Mr. Carter excuses her because of her usual perfect self which once again annoys her.

Nicky tries to do a variety of bad things such as buying her food at school, returning a book late, making lewd words at scrabble, messing with elevator buttons, buying tickets for a PG-13 film and trying to leave school to head to the mall. However, all of these attempts fail with some of them having an ironic comeback or making her seem more like her usual nice and perfect self. Pepper Ann begins imagining that if Nicky continues down this road she will succumb to terrible misfortune. She finally confronts her about her actions and suggests that she cannot pretend to be bad for long, which she challenges.

Nicky puts off her usual studies and tries to go to sleep, but has a dream that she fails at everything because she gave up on her studies. She immediately gets back into studying. Pepper Ann and Milo barge into Nicky's room in the morning to try to get her to change her mind, but she tells them that she already has, or rather Pepper Ann thinks she got through to her. Pepper Ann and Nicky get to Mr. Carter's class and he proudly embraces Nicky returning to normal. However, he still gives Pepper Ann a detention slip for being tardy, but she and Nicky laugh it off.

Cast[]

Desk Gag[]

"Cool, a mood ring!"

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

  • This episode marks the first appearance of Nicky's father.
  • On Disney+, this episode segment and "In Support of" are swapped.

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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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