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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gretchen and Vince both run for president.

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

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

Digger Dave quits digging and then bosses everyone around.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Menlo and Randall team up to manipulate the entire playground.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Spinelli channels her anger into a playground chalk drawing.

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.

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

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

Mikey and Gus want to join the Woodchuck Scouts.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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