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 - 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.
#2 - Big Ol' Mikey
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/30/2000
Mikey begins to fear for his future when Gretchen's hand-held PC Galileo makes a gross miscalculation about his future height.
#3 - The Candidates
Season 4 - Episode 25 - Aired 11/29/1999
Gretchen and Vince both run for president.
#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 - 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
#6 - 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.
#7 - All the Principal's Men
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/7/2000
The gang tries to find out who removed all the balls from the playground.
#9 - Nobody Doesn't Like T.J.
Season 4 - Episode 28 - Aired 2/6/2000
T.J. can't figure out why Gordy doesn't like him.
#10 - Diggers Split Up
Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 11/19/1999
Digger Dave quits digging and then bosses everyone around.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - Yope from Norway
Season 4 - Episode 31 - Aired 2/20/2000
Gus becomes jealous of Yope, a Norwegian transfer student.
#14 - 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.
#15 - Good Luck Charm
Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 11/19/1999
Spinelli gets too attached to the lucky marble that Vince loans her.
#16 - The Army / Navy Game
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/30/2000
Gus and Theresa (Cornchip Girl) have a hard time becoming friends due to their rivaling fathers.
#17 - Partners in Crime
Season 4 - Episode 24 - Aired 11/8/1999
Menlo and Randall team up to manipulate the entire playground.
#18 - 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.
#19 - Schoolworld
Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 11/21/1999
The school gets a new technology system installed called the SAL 3000 which controls everything.
#20 - 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.
#21 - 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.
#22 - Spinelli's Masterpiece
Season 4 - Episode 27 - Aired 2/6/2000
Spinelli channels her anger into a playground chalk drawing.
#23 - The Big Prank
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/12/1999
The kids rope T.J. into a challenge to play a prank on King Bob before the end of the school day.
#24 - Recess is Cancelled
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/22/1999
Secretary of Schools Garrison chooses 3rd Street School as the place to test his program to bring test scores up by cancelling recess.
#25 - No Strings Attached
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/29/2000
The gang is suspicious when the Ashleys give Spinelli six wrestling tickets.