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"The Great Beyond" is the 27th episode of the fourth season of Pepper Ann. It aired on February 25, 2000.

Synopsis[]

When Steve the cat is diagnosed with a pancreatic illness, Pepper Ann begins wondering about death and the afterlife.

Plot[]

Pepper Ann takes Steve the cat to the vet to get his usual checkup. However, she is mortified to learn that he has feline pancreatitis and that they do not know if the swelling will go down. Scared at the thought of losing Steve, Pepper Ann asks her mother what happens if Steve were to die. Lydia gives a basic childish answer that he will live in the clouds, get a halo and wings and a harp, but Pepper Ann wants a serious answer as to what will happen to him. She brings the subject up in Mr. Finky's class, confusing everyone there.

Nicky offers various religious answers while Milo believes that the "art" he leaves behind is the answer. Pepper Ann visits the goth kids table, but they give various shallow fashionable answers. She later visits a psychic who misinterprets Pepper Ann's request with a phony psychic reading. As Pepper Ann is faced with the further prospect of pulling the plug on Steve, she asks Grandpa Leo and Grandma Lillian for what will happen, but they give a physical explanation before taking her to the cemetery to show where they will be buried.

At the cemetery, Pepper Ann runs into Craig who plays guitar over his grandfather's grave. He explains that he taught him how to play and that when he passed away he stopped playing until one day he hit a chord and now continues to play guitar to feel as if he is still there. Pepper Ann is satisfied with hearing this and leaves. The next day, Pepper Ann and Lydia arrive at the vet to learn that Steve had made a full recovery; the swelling went down hours ago while Lydia complains about how much she paid.

Cast[]

Desk Gag[]

"Here's my remote control!"
~presses buttons until the screen goes blank~

Trivia[]

  • While Pepper Ann questions what happens after death, it is established that she is of mixed Jewish-Christian faith in "A Kosher Christmas"; meaning that she should be aware of the concept of heaven. This was most likely kept vacant for the sake of the episode's message.

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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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