The WORST episodes of Recess
Every episode of Recess ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 - Big Ol' Mikey
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/23/2000
Mikey begins to fear for his future when Gretchen's hand-held PC Galileo makes a gross miscalculation about his future height.
#2 - 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.
#3 - More Like Gretchen
Season 4 - Episode 39 - Aired 3/1/2000
After a visit to a beauty museum with Gretchen, Spinelli's parents seem to be a little "unsatisfied" with their daughter.
#4 - 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.
#5 - Yope from Norway
Season 4 - Episode 31 - Aired 2/20/2000
Gus becomes jealous of Yope, a Norwegian transfer student.
#6 - The Beauty Contest
Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired 2/27/1999
The Ashleys get back at Spinelli by entering her into the Kiddie Cosmetics Little Miss Blush Beauty Pageant. But her friends talk Spinelli into trying to beat the Ashleys in the pageant.
#7 - Schoolworld
Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 11/21/1999
The school gets a new technology system installed called the SAL 3000 which controls everything.
#8 - 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.
#9 - This Brain for Hire
Season 4 - Episode 26 - Aired 11/29/1999
People start paying Gretchen for doing their homework so she can buy herself a new bike
#10 - Tucked in Mikey
Season 4 - Episode 44 - Aired 5/7/2000
Menlo teaches Mikey to be more "organized", and Mikey starts changing
#11 - 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.
#12 - League of Randalls
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/4/2001
Randal recruits the Tylers, the Ashleys' little brothers, to help him snitch.
#13 - Gus and Misdemeanors
Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 11/8/1999
The bad kids from The Girl was Trouble trick Gus into shoplifting candy from Kelso's.
#14 - The Lost Ball
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/26/1998
Gus has to go to the Yard of No Return when he kicks a good kickball over the fence.
#15 - Partners in Crime
Season 4 - Episode 24 - Aired 11/28/1999
Menlo and Randall team up to manipulate the entire playground.
#16 - Principal for a Day
Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 2/27/1999
Principal Prickly and Miss Finster plot to turn T.J. over to their own side by making him principal for a day.
#17 - The Fuss Over Finster
Season 4 - Episode 35 - Aired 2/27/2000
Miss Finster hurts her leg and can't keep up with the kids during recess.
#18 - Tattletale Heart
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/22/1999
The kids warn Gus not to break the code by telling Miss Finster who started a food fight.
#19 - Lawson and His Crew
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/6/2001
Tired of T.J. and his friends getting all the glory from King Bob, Lawson decides to get a gang of his own together.
#20 - The Break In
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/31/1997
The main kids try to get all the other kids to help rescue T.J. when Miss Finster punishes him by making him have no recess.
#21 - The C Note
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/16/2000
T.J. finds a $100 bill and along with the gang try to find out who lost it.
#22 - 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.
#23 - Prince Randall
Season 4 - Episode 40 - Aired 3/1/2000
Randall blackmails King Bob into giving him the throne.
#24 - Operation Stuart
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 11/14/1998
The kids take in a really ratty stray cat that they find near the dumpster, naming it Stuart.
#25 - The Hypnotist
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/5/1998
A hypnotist performing for the kids inadvertently hypnotizes Principal Prickly into thinking he's six years old.
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