Recess

Feb 16, 2001

TJ and company must save summer vacation from disappearing forever.

Nov 06, 2001

Recess Christmas: Miracle on Third Street is a Disney direct-to-video animated film, released on November 6, 2001. The movie shows the last day of school before Christmas break, as Mr. Prickley, Mrs. Finster and Mrs. Grokee remember the times that they've had with the children. The movie is compiled from four unrelated episodes including the series' Christmas special "Yes Mikey, Santa Does Shave".

Dec 09, 2003

Recess: All Growed Down is a Disney direct-to-video animated film released on December 9, 2003. In this movie, the Recess gang remembers how they all met back in Kindergarten.

Dec 09, 2003

Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade is a Disney direct-to-video animated film released on December 9, 2003. It is considered the series finale to the show.

Sep 13, 1997

The main kids try to get all the other kids to help rescue T.J. when Miss Finster punishes him by making him miss recess.

Sep 13, 1997

New kid Gus arrives at Third Street Elementary, but has to endure the indignities that a new kid must undergo.

Sep 20, 1997

The kids carry out a crucial experiment to see if it's really true that kissing each other is an inevitable part of their future.

Sep 20, 1997

The kids stage a protest when Principal Prickly plans to tear down Ol' Rusty to replace it with a new jungle gym.

Sep 27, 1997

The Ashleys jinx Gus according to the playground rules so that he can't talk until his friends say his name.

Sep 27, 1997

The others try to help out when Mikey wants to be a safety ranger.

Oct 04, 1997

The Ashleys try to force Spinelli to be just like them when Spinelli's first name is revealed.

Oct 04, 1997

The kids help bring Miss Finster together with Hank the janitor when they find out she has a crush on him.

Oct 11, 1997

Bob installs Gus as a substitute king while he has a tonsilectomy, figuring Gus will be easy to control - but Gus turns into a despot instead.

Oct 11, 1997

The kids, and Vince himself, come to the awful realization that Vince's once popular older brother Chad has grown up into a geek.

Oct 18, 1997

The kids come up with a plan to keep Gretchen from being transferred to Oppenheimer Elementary for the Incredibly Extremely Gifted.

Oct 18, 1997

The kids stage an elaborate funeral for the 4th grade class's beloved hamster, wherein they learn about how many lives the hamster has touched.

Oct 25, 1997

Vince completely loses his confidence at playing kickball when Ashley Q. beats him in a game.

Oct 25, 1997

A weird little boy keeps tagging along behind the kids, apparently causing a streak of bad luck.

Nov 01, 1997

Jeffrey, an annoying jerk of a boy, insists that Gretchen will be his girlfriend.

Nov 01, 1997

What do the kindergarteners have planned for T.J. when they capture him?

Nov 08, 1997

Miss Finster comes up with a new punishment that reduces T.J. to a vegetable.

Nov 08, 1997

Randall accuses Spinelli of hitting him with a rock during a dirt clod war so the kids put her on trial.

Nov 15, 1997

The kids dream about what the teachers' lounge must be like.

Nov 15, 1997

Loneliness compels Randall to want to make friends with the other kids.

Nov 22, 1997

The kids grow increasingly frustrated when rain keeps then indoors for recess days on end.

Nov 22, 1997

At first only Mikey wants to participate in the Thanksgiving can drive competition against the unbeatable Ashleys. But then the other kids join in to beat the Ashleys.

Jan 10, 1998

Principal Prickly needs Mikey to sing the National Anthem at the PTA Spring Fling, but Mikey only sings well in the bathroom. So he brings in a music teacher to bring the Robert Goulet out of Mikey.

Jan 10, 1998

The kids deal with a pompous expert on child research who wants to study them as they play.

Jan 17, 1998

Spinelli will do anything to keep her parents from attending parents' night and meeting the others.

Jan 17, 1998

Spinelli is inspired to form a cult based on the Swinger Girl when she thinks she's seen her swing over the top into another dimension.

Sep 12, 1998

The gang breaks up when they are forced to choose a best friend to write about.

Sep 12, 1998

A hypnotist performing for the kids inadvertantly hypnotizes Principal Prickly into thinking he's six years old.

Sep 19, 1998

Spinelli gets labelled a mama's girl when she inadvertantly calls Ms. Grotke ""Mama.""

Sep 19, 1998

Ashley A. hooks up with Gretchen when she sins against the clique so gravely as to get thrown out.

Sep 26, 1998

Gus finds a tile from the game Ajimbo and soon the entire student body gets caught in its evil grasp.

Sep 26, 1998

Gus has to go to the Yard of No Return when he kicks a good kickball over the fence.

Oct 03, 1998

Gus winds up the new target of the school bully's wrath.

Oct 03, 1998

All the kids go on a big field trip to MISOOE (The Museum of Industry, Science, Oceanography, Oddities and Energy). But Ol' Smokey, the beloved school bus, breaks down in the middle of nowhere.

Oct 10, 1998

A visit from Principal Prickly's brother Paul leads to a challenge between 3rd Street and 98th Street kickball teams.

Oct 10, 1998

In the "Pee Wee Pals" program, the main kids each have to take care of a kindergartner during recess.

Oct 31, 1998

Substitute teacher Mr. E. captivates all the kids with his command of authority, except T.J.

Oct 31, 1998

Gretchen turns to former yo-yo champ Tommy Tate to learn how to master the yo-yo.

Nov 07, 1998

Gretchen's search for her stolen laptop leads her on a journey among the school's delinquents that ultimately brings about her downfall.

Nov 07, 1998

Mikey wants to be exactly like Vince when Vince saves his life.

Nov 14, 1998

The kids take in a really ratty stray cat that they find near the dumpster, naming it Stuart.

Nov 14, 1998

King Bob orders the kids to build him a pyramid so that all future classes will remember him.

Jan 09, 1999

Principal Prickly and Miss Finster deem T.J.'s word "whomps" as a cuss and punish him for it, starting a scandal that leads all the way to the board of education.

Jan 09, 1999

Miss Finster agrees to babysit Spinelli for the weekend while her parents are away.

Dec 12, 1998

When the playground goes on the monsticker standard T.J. goes down the path from poverty to wealth.

Dec 12, 1998

The main kids wish they could have the overcrowded school to themselves, then surprisingly get their wish.

Dec 26, 1998

Mikey is the only fourth grader who still believes in Santa Claus. He tries to convince the others Santa exists.

Jan 16, 1999

T.J. and Vince manage to convince everyone that the bad haircut they gave Mikey is actually cool.

Jan 16, 1999

Spinelli's parents put her in Mlle. Povlova's dance school, where she teams up with Mikey.

Feb 27, 1999

Principal Prickly and Miss Finster plot to turn T.J. over to their own side by making him principal for a day.

Feb 27, 1999

The Ashleys get back at Spinelli by entering her into the Kiddie Cosmetics Little Miss Blush Beauty Pageant. But her friends talk Spinelli into trying to beat the Ashleys in the pageant.

Sep 11, 1999

On class picture day, the kids vow to keep Gus clean as he's never had a class picture of him taken.

Sep 11, 1999

Someone else besides Gretchen is a math genius, and through math, Gretchen starts a close relationship with this person.

Sep 18, 1999

The main kids discover that Gus was once a notorious dodgeball player who went by the name of El Diablo.

Sep 18, 1999

A career day assembly gets all the kids to decide their future careers. That is all except Spinelli.

Sep 25, 1999

Every year the older kids pick kindergarteners to race in the Kindergarten Derby. This year an eager Tubby gets an unwilling Mikey to sponsor him in the race.

Sep 25, 1999

Fed up with Vince's ego, the kids bet Vince that he can't go one whole day without beating someone in a sport.

Oct 02, 1999

T.J. takes charge when Gretchen seems to achieve a dream that T.J.'s always had, to be an astronaut on the space shuttle.

Oct 02, 1999

Randall becomes popular when he uses a joke book to make himself a standup comedian.

Nov 06, 1999

T.J. shows up in school with a black eye. Everyone makes up wild stories about the heroic acts T.J. must have done to get the shiner.

Nov 06, 1999

T.J. breaks his clavicle and now has to spend recess with the ""pale kids"" in Room 51.

Nov 13, 1999

Spinelli gets a crush on a fifth grader and has to get over it to save her reputation.

Nov 13, 1999

In his hatred of Valentine's Day, T.J. sends a ""funny"" valentine to every single girl on the playground to show them how stupid Valentine's Day is, but his plan soon backfires when the girls mistake them for ""real"" valentine cards.

Jan 15, 2000

T.J. and Vince are so into the "Barnaby Boys" books that they dress up like the Barnaby Boys and try to solve the mystery of the suspicious substitute janitor, Earl Raymond.

Jan 15, 2000

TJ receives an old history textbook with a treasure map that leads the gang, Randall, and the Ashleys out to get the treasure. But as they get closer, greed arises and the 4th graders fight for the treasure.

Jan 22, 2000

When the gang catches the mysterious ""Libray Kid"", they take her out to recess where she becomes obssessed with the playground.

Jan 22, 2000

Everyone is segregrated once the Ashley's start giving ratings to everyone on the playground.

Sep 12, 1999

Señor Fusion: the Movie finally opens and T.J. vows to be there at its first screening.

Sep 12, 1999

The kids rope T.J. into a challenge to play a prank on King Bob before the end of the school day.

Sep 13, 1999

Gus winds up working for the Hustler Kid to pay off a debt, and soon he himself becomes the biggest hustler in the playground.

Sep 13, 1999

The main kids make a friend of new kid James Stone and show him all their little schemes, but soon regret that.

Sep 19, 1999

The kids find a paper fortune teller on the ground that predicts doom for Gus.

Sep 19, 1999

The kids want to find out who started a rumor that a boy knocked over Mikey's popcorn at the movies and Mikey then threw the boy into the girl's bathroom.

Sep 22, 1999

Secretary of Schools Garrison chooses 3rd Street School as the place to test his program to bring test scores up by cancelling recess.

Sep 22, 1999

The kids warn Gus not to break the code by telling Miss Finster who started a food fight.

Sep 26, 1999

King Bob abandons his throne in his obsessive pursuit of pulling a prank on T.J. in this sequel to The Big Prank

Sep 26, 1999

Gus takes a new identity when he discovers that people think he's a different cool kid when he doesn't wear them. Too bad "Guy" can't see a thing.

Oct 03, 1999

Prickly finally gets his appointment to Spiro T. Agnew Middle School. But the kids try to make him stay after they meet the new Principal Slicer.

Oct 03, 1999

Randall gets the main kids to pretend that they're his friends when his father, Leonard, visits the school on Randall's birthday.

Nov 07, 1999

The gang gets busted when they accidentally break a statue of a famous hero.

Nov 07, 1999

The original 1935 edition of The Rules of the Playground is discovered in the library.

Nov 08, 1999

The bad kids from The Girl was Trouble trick Gus into shoplifting candy from Kelso's.

Nov 08, 1999

Second grade prodigy Becky Benson befriends Gretchen to get help for her science fair project. But she has an ulterior motive.

Nov 14, 1999

The gang tries to cover up Mikey's ripped pants so Finster won't catch him.

Nov 14, 1999

Jared, the new student, appears to be perfect, making the rest of the school very jealous.

Nov 19, 1999

Spinelli gets too attached to the lucky marble that Vince loans her.

Nov 19, 1999

Digger Dave quits digging and then bosses everyone around.

Nov 21, 1999

The school gets a new technology system installed called the SAL 3000 which controls everything.

Nov 21, 1999

Thinking his family is moving away again, Gus moves under the jungle gym to avoid leaving his friends and school

Nov 28, 1999

T.J. and the gang meet Mr. Dudicoff, a student teacher who was a legend at 3rd Street School back in the day.

Nov 28, 1999

Menlo and Randall team up to manipulate the entire playground.

Nov 29, 1999

Gretchen and Vince both run for president.

Nov 29, 1999

People start paying Gretchen for doing their homework so she can buy herself a new bike

Feb 06, 2000

Spinelli channels her anger into a playground chalk drawing.

Feb 06, 2000

T.J. can't figure out why Gordy doesn't like him.

Feb 20, 2000

When a new kid from Norway comes to 3rd Street School, Gus befriends the kid by making him think that Gus is the hottest kid in the school.

Feb 20, 2000

Scared of turning 10 on his soon-to-be bithday, Mikey develops an obssession of becoming a little kid again so he won't have to grow up.

Feb 21, 2000

Spinelli becomes popular as an advice giver when she sits in for Guru Kid.

Feb 21, 2000

Ms. Grotke's strange behavior makes the kids think that she's a spy.

Feb 27, 2000

Miss Finster hurts her leg and can't keep up with the kids during recess.

Feb 27, 2000

Mikey makes the other kids regret not letting them play on their team for the playground's soccer tourney.

Feb 29, 2000

The bored main kids build their own fort. But then Lawson takes it over.

Feb 29, 2000

Gus starts an obsessive crusade to kill all the germs in the world, while Mikey will do anything to save them.

Mar 01, 2000

Spinelli gets peeved with her parents heap so much praise for Gretchen at her expense.

Mar 01, 2000

Randall uses an embarrassing photo to blackmail King Bob into making him Playground Prince.

Apr 30, 2000

Vince feels like an outsider after he misses the must-see movie of the weekend.

Apr 30, 2000

Gretchen is worried when she's partnered with T.J. on a class project.

May 07, 2000

Disgusted by the horrible cafeteria food, Vince becomes the new school cook when the other kids try his cooking.

May 07, 2000

Needing to prepare himself for a poet laureate ceremony, Mikey decides to listen to Menlo to learn how to organize himself.

Jul 17, 2000

Mikey badgers the gang into a trip to senior citizens home.

Jul 17, 2000

T.J. has a mysterious new friend.

Sep 09, 2000

During a burning hot day, the gang attempts to make it across the playground to the otherside where there is a water pump.

Sep 09, 2000

The gang is suspicious when the Ashleys give Spinelli six wrestling tickets.

Sep 16, 2000

Mikey and Gus want to join the Woodchuck Scouts.

Sep 16, 2000

T.J. finds a $100 bill and along with the gang try to find out who lost it.

Sep 23, 2000

Gus and Theresa (Cornchip Girl) have a hard time becoming friends due to their rivaling fathers.

Sep 23, 2000

After Mikey helps Cornchip Girl off the climbing frame after she gets stuck, the gang wonder how big he will be. Gretchen and Galileo conduct a test to find out how big everyone will be when they are older, and Mikey's test says he will be 50 feet tall! The others find this cool and wonder what 50 foot Mikey could do, but Mikey isn't so sure that being 50 feet tall will be that great.

Oct 14, 2000

Gus must stay behind from the fair because he forgot his permission slip, while the rest of the gang try to figure out a way to get Gus to the fair.

Oct 14, 2000

Vince and T.J. compete for the job as A.V. Kid, but their competition leads to a broken-up friendship between them.

Nov 04, 2000

The kids think Vince is getting special treatment when he becomes Prickly's golf partner.

Nov 04, 2000

The gang tries to find out who removed all the balls from the playground.

Jan 06, 2001

Tired of TJ and his friends getting all the glory from King Bob, Lawson decides to get a gang of his own together. He recruits Randall, Menlow, Swinger Girl, Skeenes and Kurst the Worst and together the six start solving the playground's problems and getting the glory. Of course TJ and his friends now have nothing to do, so they are left just talking and eventually realise that just being friends is much better than getting all the glory they used to have. Friends being something that Lawson and his crew are definitely not ...

Aug 21, 2001

In this Hallowe'en episode, Butch tells us three terrifying tales of Recess. Children of the Cornchip: Cornchip Girl eats some untested cornchips and turns into a werekid! The gang have to save her. When Bikes Attack!: The bikes that the kids ride to school everyday become alive and turn against their riders. Night of the Living Finsters: Lawson challenges Vince to spend the night in the graveyard, only for the gang to discover that the school is built on the Finster family graveyard.

Nov 04, 2001

Mikey's new friendship with Kurst the Worst doesn't sit well with their friends.

Nov 04, 2001

Randal recruits the Tylers, the Ashleys' little brothers, to help him snitch.

Nov 04, 2001

Bad-guy Mundy becomes very poular after he prevents a ball from hitting a little kid.

Nov 04, 2001

When one of T.J.s plans goes wrong and Gus breaks his leg he won't make another plan. It's up to the others to get T.J. back to his old self