G.I. Janie

"G.I. Janie" is the 3rd episode of the fourth season of Pepper Ann. It aired on February 7, 2000.
==Synopsis==
Aunt Janie protests against a new, violent video game -- and finds herself addicted to it.
==Plot==
Pepper Ann comes home to see that Lydia and Janie bought the FunStation 8000. Janie is trying to do a report on the violence of video games and Pepper Ann offers to help her out. After looking through her collection of games, Pepper Ann settles on Warmonger, an alien war game. As she plays through the levels, Pepper Ann sets it to two player and has Janie take the second controller. They start playing all through the night and straight on until morning. Pepper Ann goes to do other things while Janie seems hooked on the game.
Pepper Ann tells Nicky what happened and she becomes concerned that Janie playing the game has desensitized her to the violence, though Pepper Ann sees no harm in her playing. Janie, who was once a peace loving hippie, has now become a war obsessed individual and reveals that she got further in the game. She recruits Pepper Ann and Milo and they go around time collecting rations and purchasing better controllers. During this time, Janie becomes much more aggressive and angry; becoming determined to defeat the final boss.
Janie, Pepper Ann and Milo play through the game, but Milo's character gets killed. They eventually come across the final boss, General Zohn with Janie trying to kill him, but Pepper Ann talks some sense into her; ending her deranged mental state. Janie gives a speech to a convention stating that while games are harmless, they should not be taken seriously and those should stay grounded to reality. One of the peace members asks Janie to do a similar report on cartoon violence, but everyone turns it down and drags Janie away.
==Cast==
* Kathleen Wilhoite as Pepper Ann Pearson
* Jeff Bennett as Dieter Liederhosen
* Danny Cooksey as Milo Kamalani
* Clea Lewis as Nicky Little
* April Winchell as Lydia Pearson
* Scanlon Gail as Sales Clerk
* Edie McClurg as Estelle Sommers
* Susan Tolsky as Janie Diggety
==Desk Gag==
"Iceberg, dead ahead!"
==Trivia==
* The title of this episode is a play on the title of the 1997 film G.I. Jane.
* FunStation 8000 is a parody of PlayStation.
* Violent video games have zero effect on children's behavior. It was discovered that children who play video games for less than an hour a day were better behaved. Further research has also suggested that there is no connection towards desensitization and violence in video games.
== External links ==
* G.I. Janie on Pepper Ann Wiki
Category:Pepper Ann episodes