
Recess (1997)
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Chuck Sheetz — Director
Episodes 75
The Break In
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.
Read MoreThe New Kid
New kid Gus arrives at Third Street Elementary, but has to endure the indignities that a new kid must undergo.
Read MoreThe Experiment
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.
Read MoreThe Great Jungle Gym Stand Off
The kids stage a protest when Principal Prickly plans to tear down Ol' Rusty to replace it with a new jungle gym.
Read MoreOfficer Mikey
The others try to help out when Mikey wants to be a safety ranger.
Read MoreFirst Name Ashley
The Ashleys try to force Spinelli to be just like them when Spinelli's first name is revealed.
Read MoreTo Finster with Love
The kids help bring Miss Finster together with Hank the janitor when they find out she has a crush on him.
Read MoreBig Brother Chad
The kids, and Vince himself, come to the awful realization that Vince's once popular older brother Chad has grown up into a geek.
Read MoreMy Fair Gretchen
The kids come up with a plan to keep Gretchen from being transferred to Oppenheimer Elementary for the Incredibly Extremely Gifted.
Read MoreSpeedy, We Hardly Knew Ye
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.
Read MoreI Will Kick No More Forever
Vince completely loses his confidence at playing kickball when Ashley Q. beats him in a game.
Read MoreThe Kid Came Back
A weird little boy keeps tagging along behind the kids, apparently causing a streak of bad luck.
Read MoreThe Legend of Big Kid
What do the kindergarteners have planned for T.J. when they capture him?
Read MoreTeachers Lounge
The kids dream about what the teachers' lounge must be like.
Read MoreRandall's Reform
Loneliness compels Randall to want to make friends with the other kids.
Read MoreRainy Days
The kids grow increasingly frustrated when rain keeps then indoors for recess days on end.
Read MoreThe Great Can Drive
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.
Read MoreKids in the Mist
The kids deal with a pompous expert on child research who wants to study them as they play.
Read MoreParents' Night
Spinelli will do anything to keep her parents from attending parents' night and meeting the others.
Read MoreSwing on Thru to the Other Side
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.
Read MoreThe Break-Up
The gang breaks up when they are forced to choose a best friend to write about.
Read MoreMama's Girl
Spinelli gets labelled a mama's girl when she inadvertantly calls Ms. Grotke ""Mama.""
Read MoreOutcast Ashley
Ashley A. hooks up with Gretchen when she sins against the clique so gravely as to get thrown out.
Read MoreThe Lost Ball
Gus has to go to the Yard of No Return when he kicks a good kickball over the fence.
Read MoreGus' Last Stand
Gus winds up the new target of the school bully's wrath.
Read MoreOperation Field Trip
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.
Read MoreThe Challenge
A visit from Principal Prickly's brother Paul leads to a challenge between 3rd Street and 98th Street kickball teams.
Read MoreWild Child
In the "Pee Wee Pals" program, the main kids each have to take care of a kindergartner during recess.
Read MoreGretchen and the Secret of Yo
Gretchen turns to former yo-yo champ Tommy Tate to learn how to master the yo-yo.
Read MoreThe Girl Was Trouble
Gretchen's search for her stolen laptop leads her on a journey among the school's delinquents that ultimately brings about her downfall.
Read MoreCopycat Kid
Mikey wants to be exactly like Vince when Vince saves his life.
Read MoreOperation Stuart
The kids take in a really ratty stray cat that they find near the dumpster, naming it Stuart.
Read MorePharaoh Bob
King Bob orders the kids to build him a pyramid so that all future classes will remember him.
Read MoreOmega Kids
The main kids wish they could have the overcrowded school to themselves, then surprisingly get their wish.
Read MoreThe Story of Whomps
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.
Read MoreWeekend at Muriel's
Miss Finster agrees to babysit Spinelli for the weekend while her parents are away.
Read MoreBad Hair Day
T.J. and Vince manage to convince everyone that the bad haircut they gave Mikey is actually cool.
Read MoreDance Lessons
Spinelli's parents put her in Mlle. Povlova's dance school, where she teams up with Mikey.
Read MorePrincipal for a Day
Principal Prickly and Miss Finster plot to turn T.J. over to their own side by making him principal for a day.
Read MoreThe Beauty Contest
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.
Read MoreOne Stayed Clean
On class picture day, the kids vow to keep Gus clean as he's never had a class picture of him taken.
Read MoreA Genius Among Us
Someone else besides Gretchen is a math genius, and through math, Gretchen starts a close relationship with this person.
Read MoreThe First Picture Show
Señor Fusion: the Movie finally opens and T.J. vows to be there at its first screening.
Read MoreThe Big Prank
The kids rope T.J. into a challenge to play a prank on King Bob before the end of the school day.
Read MoreHustler's Apprentice
Gus winds up working for the Hustler Kid to pay off a debt, and soon he himself becomes the biggest hustler in the playground.
Read MoreThe Spy Who Came In from the Playground
The main kids make a friend of new kid James Stone and show him all their little schemes, but soon regret that.
Read MoreRumor Mill
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.
Read MoreRecess is Cancelled
Secretary of Schools Garrison chooses 3rd Street School as the place to test his program to bring test scores up by cancelling recess.
Read MoreKindergarten Derby
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.
Read MoreThe Madness of King Bob
King Bob abandons his throne in his obsessive pursuit of pulling a prank on T.J. in this sequel to The Big Prank
Read MoreSpace Cadet
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.
Read MoreStand Up Randall
Randall becomes popular when he uses a joke book to make himself a standup comedian.
Read MorePrickly is Leaving
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.
Read MoreThe Shiner
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.
Read MoreLord of the Nerds
T.J. breaks his clavicle and now has to spend recess with the ""pale kids"" in Room 51.
Read MoreGus and Misdemeanors
The bad kids from The Girl was Trouble trick Gus into shoplifting candy from Kelso's.
Read MoreMikey's Pants
The gang tries to cover up Mikey's ripped pants so Finster won't catch him.
Read MoreHere Comes Mr. Perfect
Jared, the new student, appears to be perfect, making the rest of the school very jealous.
Read MoreGood Luck Charm
Spinelli gets too attached to the lucky marble that Vince loans her.
Read MoreDiggers Split Up
Digger Dave quits digging and then bosses everyone around.
Read MoreBachelor Gus
Thinking his family is moving away again, Gus moves under the jungle gym to avoid leaving his friends and school
Read MorePartners in Crime
Menlo and Randall team up to manipulate the entire playground.
Read MoreThe Candidates
Gretchen and Vince both run for president.
Read MoreThis Brain for Hire
People start paying Gretchen for doing their homework so she can buy herself a new bike
Read MoreThe Barnaby Boys
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.
Read MoreBuried Treasure
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.
Read MoreThe Library Kid
When the gang catches the mysterious ""Libray Kid"", they take her out to recess where she becomes obssessed with the playground.
Read MoreBonky Fever
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.
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