The BEST episodes of Recess season 3
Every episode of Recess season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Recess season 3!
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 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - Space Cadet
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/2/1999
T.J. takes charge when Gretchen seems to achieve a dream that T.J.'s always had, to be an astronaut on the space shuttle.
#5 - A Genius Among Us
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/11/1999
Someone else besides Gretchen is a math genius, and through math, Gretchen starts a close relationship with this person.
#6 - Kindergarten Derby
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/25/1999
Every year the older kids pick kindergarteners to race in the Kindergarten Derby. This year an eager Tubby gets an unwilling Mikey to sponsor him in the race.
#7 - The Shiner
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/6/1999
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 - The Ratings Game
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/22/2000
Everyone is segregated once the Ashley's start giving ratings to everyone on the playground.
#9 - 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.
#10 - Stand Up Randall
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/2/1999
Randall becomes popular when he uses a joke book to make himself a standup comedian.
#11 - Lord of the Nerds
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/6/1999
T.J. breaks his clavicle and now has to spend recess with the "pale kids" in Room 51.
#12 - A Career to Remember
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/18/1999
A career day assembly gets all the kids to decide their future careers. That is all except Spinelli.
#13 - My Funny Valentines
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/13/1999
In his hatred of Valentine's Day, T.J. sends a "funny" valentine to every single girl on the playground to show them how stupid Valentine's Day is, but his plan soon backfires when the girls mistake them for "real" valentine cards.
#14 - The Bet
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/25/1999
Fed up with Vince's ego, the kids bet Vince that he can't go one whole day without beating someone in a sport.
#15 - The Library Kid
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/22/2000
When the gang catches the mysterious "Library Kid", they take her out to recess where she becomes obsessed with the playground.
#16 - That Stinking Feeling
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/13/1999
Spinelli gets a crush on a fifth grader and has to get over it to save her reputation.