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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The kids stage a protest when Principal Prickly plans to tear down Ol' Rusty to replace it with a new jungle gym.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

On class picture day, the kids vow to keep Gus clean as he's never had a class picture of him taken.

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

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

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

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

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

Digger Dave quits digging and then bosses everyone around.

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

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

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 ...

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.

Gretchen and Vince both run for president.

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

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

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

Menlo and Randall team up to manipulate the entire playground.

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

T.J. has a mysterious new friend.

Mikey and Gus want to join the Woodchuck Scouts.

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

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

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

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

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.