The BEST Episodes of Recess
Every episode ever - ranked by fan votes!
Last Updated: Mar 25, 2020
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 - Aired Feb 27, 2000
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.
8.91 
#2 - Bachelor Gus
Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired Nov 21, 1999
Thinking his family is moving away again, Gus moves under the jungle gym to avoid leaving his friends and school
8.86 
#3 - Wild Child
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired Oct 10, 1998
In the "Pee Wee Pals" program, the main kids each have to take care of a kindergartner during recess.
8.61 
#4 - The Story of Whomps
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired Jan 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.
8.59 
#5 - Dance Lessons
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired Jan 16, 1999
Spinelli's parents put her in Mlle. Povlova's dance school, where she teams up with Mikey.
8.56 
#6 - Weekend at Muriel's
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired Jan 9, 1999
Miss Finster agrees to babysit Spinelli for the weekend while her parents are away.
8.54 
#7 - Prickly is Leaving
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired Oct 3, 1999
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.
8.50 
#8 - Call Me Guy
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired Sep 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.
8.46 
#9 - Gus' Last Stand
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired Oct 3, 1998
Gus winds up the new victim of bully Gelman's wrath.
8.45 
#10 - The Biggest Trouble Ever
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired Nov 7, 1999
The gang gets busted when they accidentally break a statue of a famous hero.
8.33 
#11 - Economics of Recess
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired Dec 12, 1998
When the playground goes on the monsticker standard T.J. goes down the path from poverty to wealth.
8.32 
#12 - A Genius Among Us
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired Sep 11, 1999
Someone else besides Gretchen is a math genius, and through math, Gretchen starts a close relationship with this person.
8.32 
#13 - Good Luck Charm
Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired Nov 19, 1999
Spinelli gets too attached to the lucky marble that Vince loans her.
8.31 
#14 - Some Friend
Season 4 - Episode 46 - Aired Jul 17, 2000
T.J. has a mysterious friend who appears to be Menlo.
8.30 
#15 - First Name Ashley
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired Oct 4, 1997
The Ashleys try to force Spinelli to be just like them when Spinelli's first name is revealed.
8.30 
#16 - Fort Tender
Season 4 - Episode 37 - Aired Feb 29, 2000
T.J. and the gang make a fort, only to have Lawson ruin their plans.
8.27 
#17 - Parents' Night
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired Jan 17, 1998
Spinelli will do anything to keep her parents from attending parents' night and meeting the others.
8.25 
#18 - A Great State Fair
Season 4 - Episode 29 - Aired Feb 13, 2000
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 - Copycat Kid
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired Nov 7, 1998
Mikey wants to be exactly like Vince when Vince saves his life.
8.24 
#20 - Kids in the Mist
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired Jan 10, 1998
The kids deal with a pompous expert on child research who wants to study them as they play.
8.23 
#21 - The Shiner
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired Nov 6, 1999
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.
8.23 
#22 - Gretchen and the Secret of Yo
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired Oct 31, 1998
Gretchen turns to former yo-yo champ Tommy Tate to learn how to master the yo-yo.
8.22 
#23 - Buried Treasure
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired Jan 15, 2000
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.
8.21 
#24 - The Kid Came Back
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired Oct 25, 1997
A weird little boy keeps tagging along behind the kids, apparently causing a streak of bad luck.
8.21 
#25 - The Trial
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired Nov 8, 1997
Randall accuses Spinelli of hitting him with a rock during a dirt clod war so the kids put her on trial.
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