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"The Way They Were" is the 29th and final episode of the fourth season of Pepper Ann. It aired on February 27, 2000.

Synopsis[]

Milo, Nicky, and Pepper Ann's latest argument causes the three to split up, while flashbacks show how the trio met up in the first place.

Plot[]

One day at school, Nicky pokes fun at Milo and Pepper Ann's failed science project, Milo makes some rather crude art of Pepper Ann and Nicky, and Pepper Ann has Milo and Nicky take part in a fundraising project that ends in disaster and gets all three of them in trouble. They argue at the Greezy 'n' Cheezy until they decide to end their friendship. Lydia is shocked to hear this as they have been friends for seven years since they moved back to Hazelnut. Throughout the episode, everyone wonders about their friendship as flashbacks set up their history.

Seven years ago, Pepper Ann and very pregnant Lydia arrive in Hazelnut and move into the duplex with Janie, still in her hippie phase, JoJo who has just entered the police force and their son Ned. After an encounter with Trinket and Cissy, Pepper Ann exclaims that she hates Hazelnut. In Kindergarten, Pepper Ann first meets Hickey, not yet a principal, before meeting a smartly dressed and calmer Milo who is always hiding and reading. She also meets Nicky, who wears a beanie and bullies the other kids, specifically Milo whom she loves to target.

When Lydia goes to the doctor, Pepper Ann runs away with Milo, but they run into Nicky. The girls get into an argument about their siblings and they go to Nicky's house where she realizes that her bullying is the result of pressure from her sister's success and asks that she go back down a grade. Nicky thanks them and gives her beanie to Milo who is empowered to be an artist. Lydia realizes that Pepper Ann ran away and goes into labor. JoJo finds them and Lydia gives birth with the help of Gerta Liederhosen, whose son Dieter, nicknames the baby Moose.

Back in the present, Pepper Ann, Milo and Nicky are called into Principal Hickey's office who knows that the incident was Pepper Ann's doing and orders her to be suspended. Milo and Nicky stand up for her, so Hickey suggests all three get suspended, but Pepper Ann defends them. Hickey finally gives them a janitorial punishment, with the three, now friends again, laughing it off as it is easily avoidable. In the last flashback, Pepper Ann and Nicky see Craig for the first time with Milo forced to drag them away.

Cast[]

Desk Gag[]

(holding a plushie of herself) "A mini me!"

Trivia[]

  • Being that the series is set in 1997-98, the flashbacks in this episode most likely occurred in 1990-91.
  • This episode establishes that Nicky used to be a bully despite the episode "The Amazing Becky Little" establishing that she was always well educated and rather clean.
  • This episode reveals that Milo got his hat from Nicky, despite "Crunch Pod" and "The Sellout" giving two alternate origins.
  • The title of this episode is a twist on the title of the 1973 film The Way We Were.
  • In the French dub, the movie is in English with French subtitles and the angry man and Nicky speak English instead.
  • For some reason, Stewart's name is spelled "Stuart" in the credits.
  • Early in the episode, Principal Hickey is briefly voiced by Jeff Bennett instead of Don Adams.
  • Milo gained his artistic personality after Nicky gave him her beanie. However in "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Milo", he claims to have gotten inspired after visiting the supermarket with his mother and seeing the frozen foods section.
  • Pepper Ann tells Milo and Nicky "this looks like the beginning of a beautiful friendship," a famous line spoken in Casablanca.

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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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