The BEST Episodes of Recess
Every episode ever - ranked by fan votes!
Last Updated: Sep 15, 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.
8.89 
#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
8.73 
#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 - Some Friend
Season 4 - Episode 46
T.J. has a mysterious friend who appears to be Menlo.
8.30 
#12 - 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 
#13 - 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 
#14 - 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 
#15 - Parents' Night
Season 1 - Episode 25
Spinelli will do anything to keep her parents from attending parents' night and meeting the others.
8.26 
#16 - 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 
#17 - 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 
#18 - 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 
#19 - 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 
#20 - 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 
#21 - Copycat Kid
Season 2 - Episode 14
Mikey wants to be exactly like Vince when Vince saves his life.
8.21 
#22 - Good Luck Charm
Season 4 - Episode 19
Spinelli gets too attached to the lucky marble that Vince loans her.
8.18 
#23 - 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 
#24 - Jinxed
Season 1 - Episode 5
The Ashleys jinx Gus according to the playground rules so that he can't talk until his friends say his name.
8.17 
#25 - Buried Treasure
Season 3 - Episode 14
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.
8.17