
Recess Episode Rating Graph
Sep 1997 - Nov 2001

Sep 1997 - Nov 2001
7.4
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.
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S2 Ep20
8.7
12th Dec 1998
The main kids wish they could have the overcrowded school to themselves, then surprisingly get their wish.
S4 Ep22
8.2
21st Nov 1999
Thinking his family is moving away again, Gus moves under the jungle gym to avoid leaving his friends and school
S2 Ep17
8.2
9th Jan 1999
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.
S4 Ep1
8.1
12th Sep 1999
Señor Fusion: the Movie finally opens and T.J. vows to be there at its first screening.
S4 Ep36
8.0
29th Feb 2000
Gus starts an obsessive crusade to kill all the germs in the world, while Mikey will do anything to save them.
S4 Ep34
8.0
27th Feb 2000
Mikey makes the other kids regret not letting them play on their team for the playground's soccer tourney.
S2 Ep22
8.0
16th Jan 1999
T.J. and Vince manage to convince everyone that the bad haircut they gave Mikey is actually cool.
S3 Ep13
8.0
15th Jan 2000
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.
S2 Ep19
8.0
12th Dec 1998
When the playground goes on the monsticker standard T.J. goes down the path from poverty to wealth.
S1 Ep7
7.9
4th Oct 1997
The Ashleys try to force Spinelli to be just like them when Spinelli's first name is revealed.
S4 Ep11
7.9
3rd Oct 1999
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.
S4 Ep10
7.9
26th Sep 1999
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.
S2 Ep10
7.9
10th Oct 1998
In the "Pee Wee Pals" program, the main kids each have to take care of a kindergartner during recess.
S2 Ep18
7.9
9th Jan 1999
Miss Finster agrees to babysit Spinelli for the weekend while her parents are away.
S2 Ep1
7.9
12th Sep 1998
The gang breaks up when they are forced to choose a best friend to write about.
S2 Ep16
7.9
14th Nov 1998
King Bob orders the kids to build him a pyramid so that all future classes will remember him.
S4 Ep4
7.9
13th Sep 1999
The main kids make a friend of new kid James Stone and show him all their little schemes, but soon regret that.
S1 Ep5
7.9
27th Sep 1997
The Ashleys jinx Gus according to the playground rules so that he can't talk until his friends say his name.
S3 Ep14
7.9
15th Jan 2000
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.
S2 Ep7
7.9
3rd Oct 1998
Gus winds up the new target of the school bully's wrath.
S2 Ep14
7.8
7th Nov 1998
Mikey wants to be exactly like Vince when Vince saves his life.
S4 Ep12
7.8
3rd Oct 1999
Randall gets the main kids to pretend that they're his friends when his father, Leonard, visits the school on Randall's birthday.
S2 Ep23
7.8
16th Jan 1999
Spinelli's parents put her in Mlle. Povlova's dance school, where she teams up with Mikey.
S2 Ep11
7.8
31st Oct 1998
Substitute teacher Mr. E. captivates all the kids with his command of authority, except T.J.
S6 Ep3
7.8
4th Nov 2001
Randal recruits the Tylers, the Ashleys' little brothers, to help him snitch.
S4 Ep17
7.8
14th Nov 1999
The gang tries to cover up Mikey's ripped pants so Finster won't catch him.
S3 Ep5
7.8
25th Sep 1999
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.
S1 Ep4
7.8
20th Sep 1997
The kids stage a protest when Principal Prickly plans to tear down Ol' Rusty to replace it with a new jungle gym.
S2 Ep12
7.8
31st Oct 1998
Gretchen turns to former yo-yo champ Tommy Tate to learn how to master the yo-yo.
S4 Ep23
7.8
28th Nov 1999
T.J. and the gang meet Mr. Dudicoff, a student teacher who was a legend at 3rd Street School back in the day.
S4 Ep3
7.7
13th Sep 1999
Gus winds up working for the Hustler Kid to pay off a debt, and soon he himself becomes the biggest hustler in the playground.
S1 Ep9
7.7
11th Oct 1997
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.
S4 Ep37
7.7
1st Mar 2000
Spinelli gets peeved with her parents heap so much praise for Gretchen at her expense.
S1 Ep18
7.7
8th Nov 1997
Randall accuses Spinelli of hitting him with a rock during a dirt clod war so the kids put her on trial.
S1 Ep19
7.7
15th Nov 1997
The kids dream about what the teachers' lounge must be like.
S6 Ep4
7.7
4th Nov 2001
Bad-guy Mundy becomes very poular after he prevents a ball from hitting a little kid.
S5 Ep4
7.7
16th Sep 2000
T.J. finds a $100 bill and along with the gang try to find out who lost it.
S5 Ep7
7.7
14th Oct 2000
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.
S4 Ep39
6.1
30th Apr 2000
Vince feels like an outsider after he misses the must-see movie of the weekend.
S5 Ep8
6.6
14th Oct 2000
Vince and T.J. compete for the job as A.V. Kid, but their competition leads to a broken-up friendship between them.
S3 Ep11
6.7
13th Nov 1999
Spinelli gets a crush on a fifth grader and has to get over it to save her reputation.
S4 Ep21
6.7
21st Nov 1999
The school gets a new technology system installed called the SAL 3000 which controls everything.
S4 Ep15
6.8
8th Nov 1999
The bad kids from The Girl was Trouble trick Gus into shoplifting candy from Kelso's.
S2 Ep6
6.8
26th Sep 1998
Gus has to go to the Yard of No Return when he kicks a good kickball over the fence.
S2 Ep25
7.0
27th Feb 1999
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.
S3 Ep15
7.0
22nd Jan 2000
When the gang catches the mysterious ""Libray Kid"", they take her out to recess where she becomes obssessed with the playground.
S4 Ep20
7.0
19th Nov 1999
Digger Dave quits digging and then bosses everyone around.
S4 Ep31
7.0
21st Feb 2000
Spinelli becomes popular as an advice giver when she sits in for Guru Kid.
S4 Ep35
7.0
29th Feb 2000
The bored main kids build their own fort. But then Lawson takes it over.
S4 Ep32
7.1
21st Feb 2000
Ms. Grotke's strange behavior makes the kids think that she's a spy.
S4 Ep41
7.1
7th May 2000
Disgusted by the horrible cafeteria food, Vince becomes the new school cook when the other kids try his cooking.
S3 Ep6
7.1
25th Sep 1999
Fed up with Vince's ego, the kids bet Vince that he can't go one whole day without beating someone in a sport.
S4 Ep25
7.1
29th Nov 1999
Gretchen and Vince both run for president.
S5 Ep6
7.1
23rd Sep 2000
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.
S3 Ep1
7.1
11th Sep 1999
On class picture day, the kids vow to keep Gus clean as he's never had a class picture of him taken.
S4 Ep44
7.1
17th Jul 2000
T.J. has a mysterious new friend.
S4 Ep7
7.1
22nd Sep 1999
Secretary of Schools Garrison chooses 3rd Street School as the place to test his program to bring test scores up by cancelling recess.
S4 Ep42
7.2
7th May 2000
Needing to prepare himself for a poet laureate ceremony, Mikey decides to listen to Menlo to learn how to organize himself.
S2 Ep24
7.2
27th Feb 1999
Principal Prickly and Miss Finster plot to turn T.J. over to their own side by making him principal for a day.
S4 Ep8
7.2
22nd Sep 1999
The kids warn Gus not to break the code by telling Miss Finster who started a food fight.
S3 Ep4
7.2
18th Sep 1999
A career day assembly gets all the kids to decide their future careers. That is all except Spinelli.
S4 Ep19
7.2
19th Nov 1999
Spinelli gets too attached to the lucky marble that Vince loans her.
S1 Ep13
7.2
25th Oct 1997
Vince completely loses his confidence at playing kickball when Ashley Q. beats him in a game.
S5 Ep11
7.2
6th Jan 2001
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 ...
S6 Ep5
7.2
4th Nov 2001
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
S3 Ep8
7.2
2nd Oct 1999
Randall becomes popular when he uses a joke book to make himself a standup comedian.
S4 Ep38
7.3
1st Mar 2000
Randall uses an embarrassing photo to blackmail King Bob into making him Playground Prince.
S2 Ep3
7.3
19th Sep 1998
Spinelli gets labelled a mama's girl when she inadvertantly calls Ms. Grotke ""Mama.""
S3 Ep12
7.3
13th Nov 1999
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.
S5 Ep5
7.3
23rd Sep 2000
Gus and Theresa (Cornchip Girl) have a hard time becoming friends due to their rivaling fathers.
S4 Ep6
7.3
19th Sep 1999
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.
S1 Ep8
7.3
4th Oct 1997
The kids help bring Miss Finster together with Hank the janitor when they find out she has a crush on him.
S1 Ep11
7.3
18th Oct 1997
The kids come up with a plan to keep Gretchen from being transferred to Oppenheimer Elementary for the Incredibly Extremely Gifted.
S2 Ep4
7.3
19th Sep 1998
Ashley A. hooks up with Gretchen when she sins against the clique so gravely as to get thrown out.
S4 Ep24
7.3
28th Nov 1999
Menlo and Randall team up to manipulate the entire playground.
S1 Ep20
7.3
15th Nov 1997
Loneliness compels Randall to want to make friends with the other kids.
S1 Ep1
7.5
13th Sep 1997
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.
S1 Ep2
7.4
13th Sep 1997
New kid Gus arrives at Third Street Elementary, but has to endure the indignities that a new kid must undergo.
S1 Ep3
7.5
20th Sep 1997
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.
S1 Ep4
7.8
20th Sep 1997
The kids stage a protest when Principal Prickly plans to tear down Ol' Rusty to replace it with a new jungle gym.
S1 Ep5
7.9
27th Sep 1997
The Ashleys jinx Gus according to the playground rules so that he can't talk until his friends say his name.
S1 Ep6
7.7
27th Sep 1997
The others try to help out when Mikey wants to be a safety ranger.
S1 Ep7
7.9
4th Oct 1997
The Ashleys try to force Spinelli to be just like them when Spinelli's first name is revealed.
S1 Ep8
7.3
4th Oct 1997
The kids help bring Miss Finster together with Hank the janitor when they find out she has a crush on him.
S1 Ep9
7.7
11th Oct 1997
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.
S1 Ep10
7.6
11th Oct 1997
The kids, and Vince himself, come to the awful realization that Vince's once popular older brother Chad has grown up into a geek.
S1 Ep11
7.3
18th Oct 1997
The kids come up with a plan to keep Gretchen from being transferred to Oppenheimer Elementary for the Incredibly Extremely Gifted.
S1 Ep12
7.4
18th Oct 1997
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.
S1 Ep13
7.2
25th Oct 1997
Vince completely loses his confidence at playing kickball when Ashley Q. beats him in a game.
S1 Ep14
7.4
25th Oct 1997
A weird little boy keeps tagging along behind the kids, apparently causing a streak of bad luck.
S1 Ep15
7.3
1st Nov 1997
Jeffrey, an annoying jerk of a boy, insists that Gretchen will be his girlfriend.
S1 Ep16
7.4
1st Nov 1997
What do the kindergarteners have planned for T.J. when they capture him?
S1 Ep17
7.7
8th Nov 1997
Miss Finster comes up with a new punishment that reduces T.J. to a vegetable.
S1 Ep18
7.7
8th Nov 1997
Randall accuses Spinelli of hitting him with a rock during a dirt clod war so the kids put her on trial.
S1 Ep19
7.7
15th Nov 1997
The kids dream about what the teachers' lounge must be like.
S1 Ep20
7.3
15th Nov 1997
Loneliness compels Randall to want to make friends with the other kids.
S1 Ep21
7.4
22nd Nov 1997
The kids grow increasingly frustrated when rain keeps then indoors for recess days on end.
S1 Ep22
7.6
22nd Nov 1997
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.
S1 Ep23
7.5
10th Jan 1998
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.
S1 Ep24
7.6
10th Jan 1998
The kids deal with a pompous expert on child research who wants to study them as they play.
S1 Ep25
7.7
17th Jan 1998
Spinelli will do anything to keep her parents from attending parents' night and meeting the others.
S1 Ep26
7.5
17th Jan 1998
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.