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 - The Story of Whomps
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/9/1999
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.
#2 - 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
#3 - 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.
#4 - The Barnaby Boys
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/15/2000
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.
#5 - Call Me Guy
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/26/1999
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.
#6 - Dance Lessons
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 1/16/1999
Spinelli's parents put her in Mlle. Povlova's dance school, where she teams up with Mikey.
#7 - Buried Treasure
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/15/2000
T.J. 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.
#8 - Pharaoh Bob
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 11/14/1998
King Bob orders the kids to build him a pyramid so that all future classes will remember him.
#9 - First Name Ashley
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/4/1997
The Ashleys try to force Spinelli to be just like them when Spinelli's first name is revealed.
#10 - The Break-Up
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/12/1998
The gang breaks up when they are forced to choose a best friend to write about.
#11 - The First Picture Show
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/12/1999
Señor Fusion: The Movie finally opens and T.J. vows to be there at its first screening.
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#12 - The Secret Life of Grotke
Season 4 - Episode 34 - Aired 2/21/2000
The gang believe that Miss Grotke is a spy. But is she spying for or against America?
#13 - 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.
#14 - Copycat Kid
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 11/7/1998
Mikey wants to be exactly like Vince when Vince saves his life.
#15 - 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.
#16 - Parents' Night
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 1/17/1998
Spinelli will do anything to keep her parents from attending parents' night and meeting the others.
#17 - The Trial
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 11/8/1997
Randall accuses Spinelli of hitting him with a rock during a dirt clod war, so the kids put her on trial.
#18 - 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.
#19 - All the Principal's Men
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/4/2000
The gang tries to find out who removed all the balls from the playground.
#20 - Gus' Last Stand
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/3/1998
Gus winds up the new victim of bully Gelman's wrath.
#21 - Wild Child
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/10/1998
In the "Pee Wee Pals" program, the main kids each have to take care of a kindergartner during recess.
#22 - Bad Hair Day
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 1/16/1999
T.J. and Vince manage to convince everyone that the bad haircut they gave Mikey is actually cool.
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#23 - 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.
#24 - Omega Kids
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 12/12/1998
The main kids wish they could have the overcrowded school to themselves, then surprisingly get their wish.
#25 - The Spy Who Came in from the Playground
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/13/1999
The main kids make a friend of new kid James Stone and show him all their little schemes, but soon regret that.
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