Recess Episode Rating Graph

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Spinelli is inspired to form a cult based on the Swinger Girl then she thinks she's seen her swing over the top into another dimension.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

T.J. has a mysterious new friend.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Digger Dave quits digging and then bosses everyone around.

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

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

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 ...

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.

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

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.

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

Menlo and Randall team up to manipulate the entire playground.

All the kids go on a big field trip to MISOOE (The Museum of Industry, Science, Oceanography, Oddities and Energy). But Ol' Smokey, the bus with the main kids, breaks down in the middle of nowhere.

Mikey and Gus want to join the Woodchuck Scouts.

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

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

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