Recess

The main kids try to get all the other kids to help rescue T.J. when Miss Finster punishes him by making him have no recess.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The kids carry out a crucial experiment to see if its really true that their future will be boys kissing girls and girls kissing boys.

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.

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

Gus winds up the new victim of bully Gelmans wrath.

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

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

Gretchens search for her stolen laptop leads her on a journey among the schools delinquents that ultimately brings about her downfall.

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

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

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

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

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

Spinellis parents put her in Mlle. Povlovas dance school, where she teams up with Mikey.

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.

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

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

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

Fed up with Vinces ego, the kids bet Vince that he cant 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.

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

In his hatred of Valentines Day, T.J. sends a ""funny"" valentine to every single girl on the playground to show them how stupid Valentines Day is, but his plan soon backfires when the girls mistake them for ""real"" valentine cards.

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.

Everyone is segregrated once the Ashleys start giving ratings to everyone on the playground.

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

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

The kids want to find out who started a rumor that a boy knocked over Mikeys popcorn at the movies and Mikey then threw the boy into the girls bathroom.

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

Gus takes a new identity when he discovers that people think hes a different cool kid when he doesnt wear them. Too bad "Guy" cant see a thing.

Randall gets the main kids to pretend that theyre his friends when his father, Leonard, visits the school on Randalls birthday.

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

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

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

Digger Dave quits digging and then bosses everyone around.

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

Menlo and Randall team up to manipulate the entire playground.

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

T.J. cant figure out why Gordy doesnt like him.

Scared of turning 10 on his soon-to-be bithday, Mikey develops an obssession of becoming a little kid again so he wont have to grow up.

Ms. Grotkes strange behavior makes the kids think that shes a spy.

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

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

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

Gretchen is worried when shes partnered with T.J. on a class project.

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

T.J. has a mysterious new friend.

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

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

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 Mikeys test says he will be 50 feet tall! The others find this cool and wonder what 50 foot Mikey could do, but Mikey isnt so sure that being 50 feet tall will be that great.

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

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

In this Halloween 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.

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

When one of T.J.s plans goes wrong and Gus breaks his leg he wont make another plan. Its up to the others to get T.J. back to his old self