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  Season 1 Grade Save0/0 watched

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  #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 making him miss recess.

  Release: 1997-09-13Grade Save

  #2 The New Kid

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

  Release: 1997-09-13Grade Save

  #3 The 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.

  Release: 1997-09-20Grade Save

  #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 new jungle gym.

  Release: 1997-09-20Grade Save

  #5 Jinxed

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

  Release: 1997-09-27Grade Save

  #6 Officer Mikey

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

  Release: 1997-09-27Grade Save

  #7 First Name Ashley

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

  Release: 1997-10-04Grade Save

  #8 To Finster with Love

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

  Release: 1997-10-04Grade Save

  #9 King Gus

  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.

  Release: 1997-10-11Grade Save

  #10 Big 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.

  Release: 1997-10-11Grade Save

  #11 My Fair Gretchen

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

  Release: 1997-10-18Grade Save

  #12 Speedy, 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.

  Release: 1997-10-18Grade Save

  #13 I Will Kick No More Forever

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

  Release: 1997-10-25Grade Save

  #14 The Kid Came Back

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

  Release: 1997-10-25Grade Save

  #15 The Pest

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

  Release: 1997-11-01Grade Save

  #16 The Legend of Big Kid

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

  Release: 1997-11-01Grade Save

  #17 The Box

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

  Release: 1997-11-08Grade Save

  #18 The Trial

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

  Release: 1997-11-08Grade Save

  #19 Teachers Lounge

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

  Release: 1997-11-15Grade Save

  #20 Randall's Reform

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

  Release: 1997-11-15Grade Save

  #21 Rainy Days

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

  Release: 1997-11-22Grade Save

  #22 The 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.

  Release: 1997-11-22Grade Save

  #23 The Voice

  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.

  Release: 1998-01-10Grade Save

  #24 Kids in the Mist

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

  Release: 1998-01-10Grade Save

  #25 Parents' Night

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

  Release: 1998-01-17Grade Save

  #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 over the top into another dimension.

  Release: 1998-01-17Grade Save
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  #1 The Break-Up

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

  Release: 1998-09-12Grade Save

  #2 The Hypnotist

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

  Release: 1998-09-12Grade Save

  #3 Mama's Girl

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

  Release: 1998-09-19Grade Save

  #4 Outcast Ashley

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

  Release: 1998-09-19Grade Save

  #5 The Game

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

  Release: 1998-09-26Grade Save

  #6 The Lost Ball

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

  Release: 1998-09-26Grade Save

  #7 Gus' Last Stand

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

  Release: 1998-10-03Grade Save

  #8 Operation 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.

  Release: 1998-10-03Grade Save

  #9 The Challenge

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

  Release: 1998-10-10Grade Save

  #10 Wild Child

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

  Release: 1998-10-10Grade Save

  #11 The Substitute

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

  Release: 1998-10-31Grade Save

  #12 Gretchen and the Secret of Yo

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

  Release: 1998-10-31Grade Save

  #13 The 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.

  Release: 1998-11-07Grade Save

  #14 Copycat Kid

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

  Release: 1998-11-07Grade Save

  #15 Operation Stuart

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

  Release: 1998-11-14Grade Save

  #16 Pharaoh Bob

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

  Release: 1998-11-14Grade Save

  #17 The 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.

  Release: 1999-01-09Grade Save

  #18 Weekend at Muriel's

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

  Release: 1999-01-09Grade Save

  #19 Economics of Recess

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

  Release: 1998-12-12Grade Save

  #20 Omega Kids

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

  Release: 1998-12-12Grade Save

  #21 Yes, Mikey, Santa Does Shave

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

  Release: 1998-12-26Grade Save

  #22 Bad Hair Day

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

  Release: 1999-01-16Grade Save

  #23 Dance Lessons

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

  Release: 1999-01-16Grade Save

  #24 Principal 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.

  Release: 1999-02-27Grade Save

  #25 The 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.

  Release: 1999-02-27Grade Save
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  #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.

  Release: 1999-09-11Grade Save

  #2 A Genius Among Us

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

  Release: 1999-09-11Grade Save

  #3 Dodgeball City

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

  Release: 1999-09-18Grade Save

  #4 A Career to Remember

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

  Release: 1999-09-18Grade Save

  #5 Kindergarten 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.

  Release: 1999-09-25Grade Save

  #6 The Bet

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

  Release: 1999-09-25Grade Save

  #7 Space 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.

  Release: 1999-10-02Grade Save

  #8 Stand Up Randall

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

  Release: 1999-10-02Grade Save

  #9 The 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.

  Release: 1999-11-06Grade Save

  #10 Lord of the Nerds

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

  Release: 1999-11-06Grade Save

  #11 That Stinking Feeling

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

  Release: 1999-11-13Grade Save

  #12 My Funny Valentines

  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.

  Release: 1999-11-13Grade Save

  #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 to solve the mystery of the suspicious substitute janitor, Earl Raymond.

  Release: 2000-01-15Grade Save

  #14 Buried 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.

  Release: 2000-01-15Grade Save

  #15 The Library Kid

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

  Release: 2000-01-22Grade Save

  #16 The Ratings Game

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

  Release: 2000-01-22Grade Save
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  #1 The First Picture Show

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

  Release: 1999-09-12Grade Save

  #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.

  Release: 1999-09-12Grade Save

  #3 Hustler'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.

  Release: 1999-09-13Grade Save

  #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 regret that.

  Release: 1999-09-13Grade Save

  #5 Gus' Fortune

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

  Release: 1999-09-19Grade Save

  #6 Rumor 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.

  Release: 1999-09-19Grade Save

  #7 Recess 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.

  Release: 1999-09-22Grade Save

  #8 Tattletale Heart

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

  Release: 1999-09-22Grade Save

  #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 The Big Prank

  Release: 1999-09-26Grade Save

  #10 Call Me Guy

  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.

  Release: 1999-09-26Grade Save

  #11 Prickly 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.

  Release: 1999-10-03Grade Save

  #12 Randall's Friends

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

  Release: 1999-10-03Grade Save

  #13 The Biggest Trouble Ever

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

  Release: 1999-11-07Grade Save

  #14 The Rules

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

  Release: 1999-11-07Grade Save

  #15 Gus and Misdemeanors

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

  Release: 1999-11-08Grade Save

  #16 A Science Fair to Remember

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

  Release: 1999-11-08Grade Save

  #17 Mikey's Pants

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

  Release: 1999-11-14Grade Save

  #18 Here Comes Mr. Perfect

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

  Release: 1999-11-14Grade Save

  #19 Good Luck Charm

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

  Release: 1999-11-19Grade Save

  #20 Diggers Split Up

  Digger Dave quits digging and then bosses everyone around.

  Release: 1999-11-19Grade Save

  #21 Schoolworld

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

  Release: 1999-11-21Grade Save

  #22 Bachelor Gus

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

  Release: 1999-11-21Grade Save

  #23 The Dude

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

  Release: 1999-11-28Grade Save

  #24 Partners in Crime

  Menlo and Randall team up to manipulate the entire playground.

  Release: 1999-11-28Grade Save

  #25 The Candidates

  Gretchen and Vince both run for president.

  Release: 1999-11-29Grade Save

  #26 This Brain for Hire

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

  Release: 1999-11-29Grade Save

  #27 Spinelli's Masterpiece

  Spinelli channels her anger into a playground chalk drawing.

  Release: 2000-02-06Grade Save

  #28 Nobody Doesn't Like T.J.

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

  Release: 2000-02-06Grade Save

  #29 Yope from Norway

  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.

  Release: 2000-02-20Grade Save

  #30 Bonky 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.

  Release: 2000-02-20Grade Save

  #31 Don't Ask Me

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

  Release: 2000-02-21Grade Save

  #32 The Secret Life of Grotke

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

  Release: 2000-02-21Grade Save

  #33 The Fuss Over Finster

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

  Release: 2000-02-27Grade Save

  #34 Soccer Boy

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

  Release: 2000-02-27Grade Save

  #35 Fort Tender

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

  Release: 2000-02-29Grade Save

  #36 Germ Warfare

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

  Release: 2000-02-29Grade Save

  #37 More Like Gretchen

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

  Release: 2000-03-01Grade Save

  #38 Prince Randall

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

  Release: 2000-03-01Grade Save

  #39 Me No Know

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

  Release: 2000-04-30Grade Save

  #40 Good Ole T.J.

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

  Release: 2000-04-30Grade Save

  #41 Chez Vince

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

  Release: 2000-05-07Grade Save

  #42 Tucked In Mikey

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

  Release: 2000-05-07Grade Save

  #43 Old Folks Home

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

  Release: 2000-07-17Grade Save

  #44 Some Friend

  T.J. has a mysterious new friend.

  Release: 2000-07-17Grade Save
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  #1 The Coolest Heatwave Ever

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

  Release: 2000-09-09Grade Save

  #2 No Strings Attached

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

  Release: 2000-09-09Grade Save

  #3 Beyond a Reasonable Scout

  Mikey and Gus want to join the Woodchuck Scouts.

  Release: 2000-09-16Grade Save

  #4 The C Note

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

  Release: 2000-09-16Grade Save

  #5 The Army Navy Game

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

  Release: 2000-09-23Grade Save

  #6 Big Ol' Mikey

  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.

  Release: 2000-09-23Grade Save

  #7 A Great State Fair

  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.

  Release: 2000-10-14Grade Save

  #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 friendship between them.

  Release: 2000-10-14Grade Save

  #9 The Principals of Golf

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

  Release: 2000-11-04Grade Save

  #10 All the Principal's Men

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

  Release: 2000-11-04Grade Save

  #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 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 ...

  Release: 2001-01-06Grade Save
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  #1 Terrifying Tales of Recess

  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.

  Release: 2001-08-21Grade Save

  #2 Kurst the Not So Bad

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

  Release: 2001-11-04Grade Save

  #3 League of Randalls

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

  Release: 2001-11-04Grade Save

  #4 Mundy, Mundy

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

  Release: 2001-11-04Grade Save

  #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 the others to get T.J. back to his old self

  Release: 2001-11-04Grade Save
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  #1 Recess: School's Out

  TJ and company must save summer vacation from disappearing forever.

  Release: 2001-02-16Grade Save

  #2 Recess Christmas: Miracle on Third Street

  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".

  Release: 2001-11-06Grade Save

  #3 All Growed Down

  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.

  Release: 2003-12-09Grade Save

  #4 Taking the Fifth Grade

  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.

  Release: 2003-12-09Grade Save