The BEST Episodes of Recess
Every episode ever - ranked by fan votes!
Last Updated: Oct 28, 2019
Network: ABC (US)
Comic tales of a group of good friends, 4 boys and 2 girls, during breaks in primary school, as they grow up, relate to each other, and have brushes with authority.
#1 - Soccer Boy
Season 4 - Episode 36
Vince refuses to let Mikey join his five-a-side soccer team for the King Bob Classic, so Mikey becomes the goalkeeper for Lawson's team.
9.00 
#2 - Bachelor Gus
Season 4 - Episode 22
Thinking his family is moving away again, Gus moves under the jungle gym to avoid leaving his friends and school
8.83 
#3 - Wild Child
Season 2 - Episode 10
In the ""Pee Wee Pals"" program, the main kids each have to take care of a kindergartener during recess.
8.59 
#4 - The Story of Whomps
Season 2 - Episode 20
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.
8.57 
#5 - Weekend at Muriel's
Season 2 - Episode 21
Miss Finster agrees to babysit Spinelli for the weekend while her parents are away.
8.56 
#6 - Prickly is Leaving
Season 4 - Episode 11
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.
8.55 
#7 - Dance Lessons
Season 2 - Episode 23
Spinelli's parents put her in Mlle. Povlova's dance school, where she teams up with Mikey.
8.53 
#8 - Gus' Last Stand
Season 2 - Episode 7
Gus winds up the new victim of bully Gelman's wrath.
8.47 
#9 - Call Me Guy
Season 4 - Episode 10
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.
8.46 
#10 - The Biggest Trouble Ever
Season 4 - Episode 13
The gang gets busted when they accidentally break a statue of a famous hero.
8.35 
#11 - Good Luck Charm
Season 4 - Episode 19
Spinelli gets too attached to the lucky marble that Vince loans her.
8.33 
#12 - Fort Tender
Season 4 - Episode 37
T.J. and the gang make a fort, only to have Lawson ruin their plans.
8.30 
#13 - Some Friend
Season 4 - Episode 46
T.J. has a mysterious friend who appears to be Menlo.
8.30 
#14 - Economics of Recess
Season 2 - Episode 17
When the playground goes on the monsticker standard T.J. goes down the path from poverty to wealth.
8.29 
#15 - First Name Ashley
Season 1 - Episode 7
The Ashleys try to force Spinelli to be just like them when Spinelli's first name is revealed.
8.28 
#16 - A Genius Among Us
Season 3 - Episode 2
Someone else besides Gretchen is a math genius, and through math, Gretchen starts a close relationship with this person.
8.28 
#17 - Parents' Night
Season 1 - Episode 25
Spinelli will do anything to keep her parents from attending parents' night and meeting the others.
8.26 
#18 - A Great State Fair
Season 4 - Episode 29
Gus gets left behind, along with Gelman and Finster when Gus's dad forgets to give him his permission slip to his first great state fair.
8.25 
#19 - The Shiner
Season 3 - Episode 9
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.
8.24 
#20 - Gretchen and the Secret of Yo
Season 2 - Episode 12
Gretchen turns to former yo-yo champ Tommy Tate to learn how to master the yo-yo.
8.23 
#21 - The Kid Came Back
Season 1 - Episode 14
A weird little boy keeps tagging along behind the kids, apparently causing a streak of bad luck.
8.22 
#22 - The Great Jungle Gym Stand Off
Season 1 - Episode 4
The kids stage a protest when Prickly plans to tear down Ol' Rusty to replace it with a new jungle gym.
8.21 
#23 - The Trial
Season 1 - Episode 18
Randall accuses Spinelli of hitting him with a rock during a dirt clod war so the kids put her on trial.
8.21 
#24 - Copycat Kid
Season 2 - Episode 14
Mikey wants to be exactly like Vince when Vince saves his life.
8.21 
#25 - Omega Kids
Season 2 - Episode 18
The main kids wish they could have the overcrowded school to themselves, then surprisingly get their wish.
8.18