The BEST episodes of Recess
Every episode of Recess ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Recess!
Six brave fourth-graders at Third Street School make it their mission to protect the other kids on the playground. Despite the rule of King Bob and his minions, who enforce his unwritten laws, T.J, Ashley, Vince, Gus, Gretchen and Mikey seek a rational balance between conformity and individuality.
#1 - To Finster with Love
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/4/1997
The kids bring Miss Finster together with Hank when they find out she has a crush on him.
#2 - Swing on Thru to the Other Side
Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 1/17/1998
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.
#3 - Lost Leader
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/5/2001
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.
#4 - Terrifying Tales of Recess
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/31/2001
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.
#5 - All the Principal's Men
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/7/2000
The gang tries to find out who removed all the balls from the playground.
#6 - Beyond a Reasonable Scout
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/1/2000
Mikey and Gus want to join the Woodchuck Scouts.
#7 - Me No Know
Season 4 - Episode 41 - Aired 4/30/2000
Vince feels left out of the loop when everyone on the playground begins quoting lines from the latest screwball comedy, Me No Know and sets out to see the film.
#8 - Germ Warfare
Season 4 - Episode 38 - Aired 2/29/2000
Gus starts an obsessive crusade to kill all the germs in the world, while Mikey will do anything to save them.
#9 - Bonky Fever
Season 4 - Episode 32 - Aired 2/20/2000
Worried over growing older, Mikey decides to regress by becoming obsessed with Bonky the Dinosaur.
#10 - The A.V. Kid
Season 4 - Episode 30 - Aired 2/13/2000
A.V. Kid must choose a successor because he's leaving Third Street for Portugal. T.J. and Vince would both like the position.
#11 - Dodgeball City
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/18/1999
The main kids discover that Gus was once a notorious dodgeball player who went by the name of El Diablo.
#12 - One Stayed Clean
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/11/1999
On class picture day, the kids vow to keep Gus clean as he's never had a class picture of him taken.
#13 - Principal for a Day
Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 2/27/1999
Principal Prickly and Miss Finster plot to turn T.J. over to their own side by making him principal for a day.
#14 - Yes, Mikey, Santa Does Shave
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 12/26/1998
Mikey is the only fourth grader who still believes in Santa Claus. He tries to convince the others Santa exists.
#15 - Economics of Recess
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 12/12/1998
When the playground goes on the monsticker standard T.J. goes down the path from poverty to wealth.
#16 - Operation Field Trip
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/3/1998
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.
#19 - The Great Jungle Gym Stand Off
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/20/1997
The kids stage a protest when Prickly plans to tear down Ol' Rusty to replace it with a new jungle gym.
#20 - The Great Can Drive
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 11/22/1997
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.
#21 - Randall's Reform
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 11/15/1997
Loneliness compels Randall to want to make friends with the other kids.
#22 - The Legend of Big Kid
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 11/1/1997
What do the kindergarteners have planned for T.J. when they capture him?
#23 - Speedy, We Hardly Knew Ye
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 10/18/1997
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.
#24 - Weekend at Muriel's
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 1/9/1999
Miss Finster agrees to babysit Spinelli for the weekend while her parents are away.
#25 - Bachelor Gus
Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 11/21/1999
Thinking his family is moving away again, Gus moves under the jungle gym to avoid leaving his friends and school