
Recess
Join a group of six fourth-grade best friends at Third Street Elementary School on their fun-filled adventures in their school playground. Through the ups-and-downs of adolescence, they must wrestle with authority, avoid the school snitch, and try th...
Recess
Join a group of six fourth-grade best friends at Third Street Elementary School on their fun-filled adventures in their school playground. Through the ups-and-downs of adolescence, they must wrestle with authority, avoid the school snitch, and try their best to win at kick-ball.
Recess
Join a group of six fourth-grade best friends at Third Street Elementary School on their fun-filled adventures in their school playground. Through the ups-and-downs of adolescence, they must wrestle with authority, avoid the school snitch, and try th...

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Episode 1: Recess: School's Out
TJ and company must save summer vacation from disappearing forever.
Episode 2: Recess Christmas: Miracle on Third Street
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Episode 3: All Growed Down
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Episode 4: Taking the Fifth Grade
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Episode 1: The Break In
The main kids try to get all the other kids to help rescue T.J. when Miss Finster punishes him by ma...

Episode 2: The New Kid
New kid Gus arrives at Third Street Elementary, but has to endure the indignities that a new kid mus...

Episode 3: The Experiment
The kids carry out a crucial experiment to see if it's really true that kissing each other is an ine...

Episode 4: The Great Jungle Gym Stand Off
The kids stage a protest when Principal Prickly plans to tear down Ol' Rusty to replace it with a ne...

Episode 5: Jinxed
The Ashleys jinx Gus according to the playground rules so that he can't talk until his friends say h...

Episode 6: Officer Mikey
The others try to help out when Mikey wants to be a safety ranger.

Episode 7: First Name Ashley
The Ashleys try to force Spinelli to be just like them when Spinelli's first name is revealed.

Episode 8: To Finster with Love
The kids help bring Miss Finster together with Hank the janitor when they find out she has a crush o...

Episode 9: King Gus
Bob installs Gus as a substitute king while he has a tonsilectomy, figuring Gus will be easy to cont...

Episode 10: Big Brother Chad
The kids, and Vince himself, come to the awful realization that Vince's once popular older brother C...

Episode 11: My Fair Gretchen
The kids come up with a plan to keep Gretchen from being transferred to Oppenheimer Elementary for t...

Episode 12: Speedy, We Hardly Knew Ye
The kids stage an elaborate funeral for the 4th grade class's beloved hamster, wherein they learn ab...

Episode 13: I Will Kick No More Forever
Vince completely loses his confidence at playing kickball when Ashley Q. beats him in a game.

Episode 14: The Kid Came Back
A weird little boy keeps tagging along behind the kids, apparently causing a streak of bad luck.

Episode 15: The Pest
Jeffrey, an annoying jerk of a boy, insists that Gretchen will be his girlfriend.

Episode 16: The Legend of Big Kid
What do the kindergarteners have planned for T.J. when they capture him?

Episode 17: The Box
Miss Finster comes up with a new punishment that reduces T.J. to a vegetable.

Episode 18: The Trial
Randall accuses Spinelli of hitting him with a rock during a dirt clod war so the kids put her on tr...

Episode 19: Teachers Lounge
The kids dream about what the teachers' lounge must be like.

Episode 20: Randall's Reform
Loneliness compels Randall to want to make friends with the other kids.

Episode 21: Rainy Days
The kids grow increasingly frustrated when rain keeps then indoors for recess days on end.

Episode 22: The Great Can Drive
At first only Mikey wants to participate in the Thanksgiving can drive competition against the unbea...

Episode 23: The Voice
Principal Prickly needs Mikey to sing the National Anthem at the PTA Spring Fling, but Mikey only si...

Episode 24: Kids in the Mist
The kids deal with a pompous expert on child research who wants to study them as they play.

Episode 25: Parents' Night
Spinelli will do anything to keep her parents from attending parents' night and meeting the others.

Episode 26: Swing 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 o...

Episode 1: The Break-Up
The gang breaks up when they are forced to choose a best friend to write about.

Episode 2: The Hypnotist
A hypnotist performing for the kids inadvertantly hypnotizes Principal Prickly into thinking he's si...

Episode 3: Mama's Girl
Spinelli gets labelled a mama's girl when she inadvertantly calls Ms. Grotke ""Mama.""

Episode 4: Outcast Ashley
Ashley A. hooks up with Gretchen when she sins against the clique so gravely as to get thrown out.

Episode 5: The Game
Gus finds a tile from the game Ajimbo and soon the entire student body gets caught in its evil grasp...

Episode 6: The Lost Ball
Gus has to go to the Yard of No Return when he kicks a good kickball over the fence.

Episode 7: Gus' Last Stand
Gus winds up the new target of the school bully's wrath.

Episode 8: Operation Field Trip
All the kids go on a big field trip to MISOOE (The Museum of Industry, Science, Oceanography, Odditi...

Episode 9: The Challenge
A visit from Principal Prickly's brother Paul leads to a challenge between 3rd Street and 98th Stree...

Episode 10: Wild Child
In the "Pee Wee Pals" program, the main kids each have to take care of a kindergartner during recess...

Episode 11: The Substitute
Substitute teacher Mr. E. captivates all the kids with his command of authority, except T.J.

Episode 12: Gretchen and the Secret of Yo
Gretchen turns to former yo-yo champ Tommy Tate to learn how to master the yo-yo.

Episode 13: The Girl Was Trouble
Gretchen's search for her stolen laptop leads her on a journey among the school's delinquents that u...

Episode 14: Copycat Kid
Mikey wants to be exactly like Vince when Vince saves his life.

Episode 15: Operation Stuart
The kids take in a really ratty stray cat that they find near the dumpster, naming it Stuart.

Episode 16: Pharaoh Bob
King Bob orders the kids to build him a pyramid so that all future classes will remember him.

Episode 17: The Story of Whomps
Principal Prickly and Miss Finster deem T.J.'s word "whomps" as a cuss and punish him for it, starti...

Episode 18: Weekend at Muriel's
Miss Finster agrees to babysit Spinelli for the weekend while her parents are away.

Episode 19: Economics of Recess
When the playground goes on the monsticker standard T.J. goes down the path from poverty to wealth.

Episode 20: Omega Kids
The main kids wish they could have the overcrowded school to themselves, then surprisingly get their...

Episode 21: Yes, Mikey, Santa Does Shave
Mikey is the only fourth grader who still believes in Santa Claus. He tries to convince the others...

Episode 22: Bad Hair Day
T.J. and Vince manage to convince everyone that the bad haircut they gave Mikey is actually cool.

Episode 23: Dance Lessons
Spinelli's parents put her in Mlle. Povlova's dance school, where she teams up with Mikey.

Episode 24: Principal for a Day
Principal Prickly and Miss Finster plot to turn T.J. over to their own side by making him principal...

Episode 25: The Beauty Contest
The Ashleys get back at Spinelli by entering her into the Kiddie Cosmetics Little Miss Blush Beauty...

Episode 1: One Stayed Clean
On class picture day, the kids vow to keep Gus clean as he's never had a class picture of him taken.

Episode 2: A Genius Among Us
Someone else besides Gretchen is a math genius, and through math, Gretchen starts a close relationsh...

Episode 3: Dodgeball City
The main kids discover that Gus was once a notorious dodgeball player who went by the name of El Dia...

Episode 4: A Career to Remember
A career day assembly gets all the kids to decide their future careers. That is all except Spinelli...

Episode 5: Kindergarten Derby
Every year the older kids pick kindergarteners to race in the Kindergarten Derby. This year an eager...

Episode 6: The Bet
Fed up with Vince's ego, the kids bet Vince that he can't go one whole day without beating someone i...

Episode 7: Space Cadet
T.J. takes charge when Gretchen seems to achieve a dream that T.J.'s always had, to be an astronaut...

Episode 8: Stand Up Randall
Randall becomes popular when he uses a joke book to make himself a standup comedian.

Episode 9: The Shiner
T.J. shows up in school with a black eye. Everyone makes up wild stories about the heroic acts T.J....

Episode 10: Lord of the Nerds
T.J. breaks his clavicle and now has to spend recess with the ""pale kids"" in Room 51.

Episode 11: That Stinking Feeling
Spinelli gets a crush on a fifth grader and has to get over it to save her reputation.

Episode 12: My Funny Valentines
In his hatred of Valentine's Day, T.J. sends a ""funny"" valentine to every single girl on the playg...

Episode 13: The Barnaby Boys
T.J. and Vince are so into the "Barnaby Boys" books that they dress up like the Barnaby Boys and try...

Episode 14: Buried Treasure
TJ receives an old history textbook with a treasure map that leads the gang, Randall, and the Ashley...

Episode 15: The Library Kid
When the gang catches the mysterious ""Libray Kid"", they take her out to recess where she becomes o...

Episode 16: The Ratings Game
Everyone is segregrated once the Ashley's start giving ratings to everyone on the playground.

Episode 1: The First Picture Show
Señor Fusion: the Movie finally opens and T.J. vows to be there at its first screening.

Episode 2: The Big Prank
The kids rope T.J. into a challenge to play a prank on King Bob before the end of the school day.

Episode 3: Hustler's Apprentice
Gus winds up working for the Hustler Kid to pay off a debt, and soon he himself becomes the biggest...

Episode 4: The 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 r...

Episode 5: Gus' Fortune
The kids find a paper fortune teller on the ground that predicts doom for Gus.

Episode 6: Rumor Mill
The kids want to find out who started a rumor that a boy knocked over Mikey's popcorn at the movies...

Episode 7: Recess is Cancelled
Secretary of Schools Garrison chooses 3rd Street School as the place to test his program to bring te...

Episode 8: Tattletale Heart
The kids warn Gus not to break the code by telling Miss Finster who started a food fight.

Episode 9: The Madness of King Bob
King Bob abandons his throne in his obsessive pursuit of pulling a prank on T.J. in this sequel to T...

Episode 10: Call Me Guy
Gus takes a new identity when he discovers that people think he's a different cool kid when he doesn...

Episode 11: Prickly is Leaving
Prickly finally gets his appointment to Spiro T. Agnew Middle School. But the kids try to make him s...

Episode 12: Randall's Friends
Randall gets the main kids to pretend that they're his friends when his father, Leonard, visits the...

Episode 13: The Biggest Trouble Ever
The gang gets busted when they accidentally break a statue of a famous hero.

Episode 14: The Rules
The original 1935 edition of The Rules of the Playground is discovered in the library.

Episode 15: Gus and Misdemeanors
The bad kids from The Girl was Trouble trick Gus into shoplifting candy from Kelso's.

Episode 16: A Science Fair to Remember
Second grade prodigy Becky Benson befriends Gretchen to get help for her science fair project. But s...

Episode 17: Mikey's Pants
The gang tries to cover up Mikey's ripped pants so Finster won't catch him.

Episode 18: Here Comes Mr. Perfect
Jared, the new student, appears to be perfect, making the rest of the school very jealous.

Episode 19: Good Luck Charm
Spinelli gets too attached to the lucky marble that Vince loans her.

Episode 20: Diggers Split Up
Digger Dave quits digging and then bosses everyone around.

Episode 21: Schoolworld
The school gets a new technology system installed called the SAL 3000 which controls everything.

Episode 22: Bachelor Gus
Thinking his family is moving away again, Gus moves under the jungle gym to avoid leaving his friend...

Episode 23: The Dude
T.J. and the gang meet Mr. Dudicoff, a student teacher who was a legend at 3rd Street School back in...

Episode 24: Partners in Crime
Menlo and Randall team up to manipulate the entire playground.

Episode 25: The Candidates
Gretchen and Vince both run for president.

Episode 26: This Brain for Hire
People start paying Gretchen for doing their homework so she can buy herself a new bike

Episode 27: Spinelli's Masterpiece
Spinelli channels her anger into a playground chalk drawing.

Episode 28: Nobody Doesn't Like T.J.
T.J. can't figure out why Gordy doesn't like him.

Episode 29: Yope from Norway
When a new kid from Norway comes to 3rd Street School, Gus befriends the kid by making him think tha...

Episode 30: Bonky Fever
Scared of turning 10 on his soon-to-be bithday, Mikey develops an obssession of becoming a little ki...

Episode 31: Don't Ask Me
Spinelli becomes popular as an advice giver when she sits in for Guru Kid.

Episode 32: The Secret Life of Grotke
Ms. Grotke's strange behavior makes the kids think that she's a spy.

Episode 33: The Fuss Over Finster
Miss Finster hurts her leg and can't keep up with the kids during recess.

Episode 34: Soccer Boy
Mikey makes the other kids regret not letting them play on their team for the playground's soccer to...

Episode 35: Fort Tender
The bored main kids build their own fort. But then Lawson takes it over.

Episode 36: Germ Warfare
Gus starts an obsessive crusade to kill all the germs in the world, while Mikey will do anything to...

Episode 37: More Like Gretchen
Spinelli gets peeved with her parents heap so much praise for Gretchen at her expense.

Episode 38: Prince Randall
Randall uses an embarrassing photo to blackmail King Bob into making him Playground Prince.

Episode 39: Me No Know
Vince feels like an outsider after he misses the must-see movie of the weekend.

Episode 40: Good Ole T.J.
Gretchen is worried when she's partnered with T.J. on a class project.

Episode 41: Chez Vince
Disgusted by the horrible cafeteria food, Vince becomes the new school cook when the other kids try...

Episode 42: Tucked In Mikey
Needing to prepare himself for a poet laureate ceremony, Mikey decides to listen to Menlo to learn h...

Episode 43: Old Folks Home
Mikey badgers the gang into a trip to senior citizens home.

Episode 44: Some Friend
T.J. has a mysterious new friend.

Episode 1: The Coolest Heatwave Ever
During a burning hot day, the gang attempts to make it across the playground to the otherside where...

Episode 2: No Strings Attached
The gang is suspicious when the Ashleys give Spinelli six wrestling tickets.

Episode 3: Beyond a Reasonable Scout
Mikey and Gus want to join the Woodchuck Scouts.

Episode 4: The C Note
T.J. finds a $100 bill and along with the gang try to find out who lost it.

Episode 5: The Army Navy Game
Gus and Theresa (Cornchip Girl) have a hard time becoming friends due to their rivaling fathers.

Episode 6: Big Ol' Mikey
After Mikey helps Cornchip Girl off the climbing frame after she gets stuck, the gang wonder how big...

Episode 7: A Great State Fair
Gus must stay behind from the fair because he forgot his permission slip, while the rest of the gang...

Episode 8: The A.V. Kid
Vince and T.J. compete for the job as A.V. Kid, but their competition leads to a broken-up friendshi...

Episode 9: The Principals of Golf
The kids think Vince is getting special treatment when he becomes Prickly's golf partner.

Episode 10: All the Principal's Men
The gang tries to find out who removed all the balls from the playground.

Episode 11: Lawson and His Crew
Tired of TJ and his friends getting all the glory from King Bob, Lawson decides to get a gang of his...

Episode 1: Terrifying Tales of Recess
In this Hallowe'en episode, Butch tells us three terrifying tales of Recess. Children of the Cornchi...

Episode 2: Kurst the Not So Bad
Mikey's new friendship with Kurst the Worst doesn't sit well with their friends.

Episode 3: League of Randalls
Randal recruits the Tylers, the Ashleys' little brothers, to help him snitch.

Episode 4: Mundy, Mundy
Bad-guy Mundy becomes very poular after he prevents a ball from hitting a little kid.

Episode 5: Lost Leader
When one of T.J.s plans goes wrong and Gus breaks his leg he won't make another plan. It's up to th...
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