Recess
Follow six best friends at Third Street Elementary School as they navigate everyday playground adventures in fourth grade. Between authority battles, avoiding a school snitch, and trying to win kick-ball, they face the ups and downs of growing up while sticking together.
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E1
One Stayed Clean
On class picture day, the kids vow to keep Gus clean as he's never had a class picture of him taken.
Sep 11, 1999 -
2
E2
A Genius Among Us
Someone else besides Gretchen is a math genius, and through math, Gretchen starts a close relationship with this person.
Sep 11, 1999 -
3
E3
Dodgeball City
The main kids discover that Gus was once a notorious dodgeball player who went by the name of El Diablo.
Sep 18, 1999 -
4
E4
A Career to Remember
A career day assembly gets all the kids to decide their future careers. That is all except Spinelli.
Sep 18, 1999 -
5
E5
Kindergarten Derby
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.
Sep 25, 1999 -
6
E6
The Bet
Fed up with Vince's ego, the kids bet Vince that he can't go one whole day without beating someone in a sport.
Sep 25, 1999 -
7
E7
Space Cadet
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.
Oct 2, 1999 -
8
E8
Stand Up Randall
Randall becomes popular when he uses a joke book to make himself a standup comedian.
Oct 2, 1999 -
9
E9
The Shiner
T.J. shows up in school with a black eye. Everyone makes up wild stories about the heroic acts T.J. must have done to get the shiner.
Nov 6, 1999 -
10
E10
Lord of the Nerds
T.J. breaks his clavicle and now has to spend recess with the ""pale kids"" in Room 51.
Nov 6, 1999 -
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E11
That Stinking Feeling
Spinelli gets a crush on a fifth grader and has to get over it to save her reputation.
Nov 13, 1999 -
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E12
My Funny Valentines
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.
Nov 13, 1999 -
13
E13
The Barnaby Boys
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.
Jan 15, 2000 -
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E14
Buried Treasure
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.
Jan 15, 2000 -
15
E15
The Library Kid
When the gang catches the mysterious ""Libray Kid"", they take her out to recess where she becomes obssessed with the playground.
Jan 22, 2000 -
16
E16
The Ratings Game
Everyone is segregrated once the Ashley's start giving ratings to everyone on the playground.
Jan 22, 2000
