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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 ...