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"Searching for Pepper Ann Pearson" is the 20th episode of the fifth season of Pepper Ann. It aired on November 16, 2000.

Synopsis[]

Pepper Ann sneaks out of detention and heads to the park, where she wins her first game of chess ever against a seasoned master.

Plot[]

Pepper Ann is stuck in detention and wants to experience the first day of Spring. While Vera is distracted, Pepper Ann sneaks out and winds up in the Chess Club room. There, the geeks lead by Alf, talk about their love of the sport, which Pepper Ann scoffs at. Alf challenges her to a game and to his surprise, actually gets beaten by her. When Pepper Ann leaves, Alf and the geeks all begin to find out who she is and discover the things she has done. Believing that she is a show off, Alf decides to challenge her again to another game.

Alf confronts Pepper Ann in front of her friends and challenges her to another game, surprising Nicky and Milo. When Alf accuses her of being a coward, Pepper Ann agrees and plays several games, all of them ending with her defeating him. Nicky concludes that Pepper Ann is a chess prodigy and they leave a humiliated Alf who still wants to play another game to regain his title. Alf follows her to Brain Dead, soccer practice and to the Freezy Pleezy all the while learning to do some of the things that she enjoys (like eating a sundae despite being lactose intolerant).

When Alf continues to pester Pepper Ann, she finally snaps and calls chess dumb, saddening him. Feeling bad for hurting his feelings, Pepper Ann heads back down to the Chess Club and is confronted by the other geeks for being rude. She apologizes and Alf arrives; admitting that ever since he followed Pepper Ann, he has learned that there is more to life than chess and has started to enjoy other things too. They play another game, but Alf wins this time, saying he was just lucky. Pepper Ann then begins to demand a rematch from him.

Cast[]

Trivia[]

  • On Disney+, the episode segment is first next to "Forging Ahead".
  • In the credits, Emit Swink's name is spelled as "Emmett" Swink.
  • The episode partially takes place on March 20, as Pepper Ann mentions that it is the first day of Spring.
  • The title of the episode is a reference to the film Searching for Bobby Fischer, which is the film Pepper Ann keeps forgetting the name to.
  • The chess team look into Pepper Ann's background and discover that she had a "bizarre trampoline incident", a reference to the episode "In Support of".

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Characters
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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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