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"The Wash-Out" is the 6th episode of the third season of Pepper Ann. It aired on November 6, 1999.

Synopsis[]

When Gwen Mezzrow leaves school crying after being called into the principal's office, Pepper Ann accidentally starts a rumor that Gwen was sent home for having head lice.

Plot[]

As Ms. Stark prepares the class for their eventual trip to Fuzzy World to find right angles, Gwen Mezzrow is unexpectedly pulled out of class by Nurse Oomla. While the conversation is not heard, it leaves Gwen crying and running home. At lunch everyone wonders what the conversation was all about. Pepper Ann nonchalantly points out how everyone had lice screenings; leading everyone, including Milo, to spread the rumor that Gwen has head lice. While Pepper Ann was not being serious, Nicky scolds her for being careless about her words.

Despite Nicky telling Pepper Ann that the rumor will subside, Gwen is ostracized the very next day. Even when she tells everyone she left because her goldfish died, everyone ignores her, making Pepper Ann feel even worse. Nobody will pick her to be their partner to Fuzzy World, including Nicky who wants to go with Stewart. Pepper Ann approaches Gwen at lunch time and reveals that she was the one to inadvertently spread the rumor and will make it up to her. She goes from student to student, telling everyone the truth while also interacting with all their head related objects and getting Tess and Vanessa to write a rumor retraction article.

Pepper Ann finally approaches Dieter, but is staunchly refuses to believe her. Left with no choice, Pepper Ann breaks into the Nurse' office to get Gwen's file, but runs into Nurse Oomla. She reveals to Pepper Ann that she has head lice and that she is fine as long as she did not get near anyone else. Unfortunately, Pepper Ann got the whole school sick with lice, ruining the trip to Fuzzy World and sending everyone home, except for Gwen who was the only one, ironically, not infected.

Cast[]

Desk Gag[]

"Ooh, a glowing green stick!"

Trivia[]

  • The episode makes a rather blatant reference to the Hollywood Blacklist and the Red Scare. In Pepper Ann's fantasy, Gwen makes a reference to communism and utters Joseph N. Welch's often quoted exclamation "have you left no sense of decency?"
  • The "you can have my scrunchie, it's the freshest" line is a reference to "Crunch Pod" when Tessa and Vanessa ride by on their bike and call, "Hey new Crunch Pod champ! Your scrunchie is the freshest!" to Pepper Ann.
  • This is the last of four appearances of Wayne Macabre.
  • On Disney+, this episode segment is placed second next to "Burn Hazelnut Burn".

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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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