Recess (1997)
Join a group of six fourth-grade best friends at Third Street Elementary School on their fun-filled adventures in their school playground. Through the ups-and-downs of adolescence, they must wrestle with authority, avoid the school snitch, and try their best to win at kick-ball.
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Episode 1 - The Break-Up
Release Date: 1998-09-12The gang breaks up when they are forced to choose a best friend to write about.
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Episode 2 - The Hypnotist
Release Date: 1998-09-12A hypnotist performing for the kids inadvertantly hypnotizes Principal Prickly into thinking he's six years old.
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Episode 3 - Mama's Girl
Release Date: 1998-09-19Spinelli gets labelled a mama's girl when she inadvertantly calls Ms. Grotke ""Mama.""
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Episode 4 - Outcast Ashley
Release Date: 1998-09-19Ashley A. hooks up with Gretchen when she sins against the clique so gravely as to get thrown out.
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Episode 5 - The Game
Release Date: 1998-09-26Gus finds a tile from the game Ajimbo and soon the entire student body gets caught in its evil grasp.
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Episode 6 - The Lost Ball
Release Date: 1998-09-26Gus has to go to the Yard of No Return when he kicks a good kickball over the fence.
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Episode 7 - Gus' Last Stand
Release Date: 1998-10-03Gus winds up the new target of the school bully's wrath.
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Episode 8 - Operation Field Trip
Release Date: 1998-10-03All the kids go on a big field trip to MISOOE (The Museum of Industry, Science, Oceanography, Oddities and Energy). But Ol' Smokey, the beloved school bus, breaks down in the middle of nowhere.
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Episode 9 - The Challenge
Release Date: 1998-10-10A visit from Principal Prickly's brother Paul leads to a challenge between 3rd Street and 98th Street kickball teams.
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Episode 10 - Wild Child
Release Date: 1998-10-10In the "Pee Wee Pals" program, the main kids each have to take care of a kindergartner during recess.
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Episode 11 - The Substitute
Release Date: 1998-10-31Substitute teacher Mr. E. captivates all the kids with his command of authority, except T.J.
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Episode 12 - Gretchen and the Secret of Yo
Release Date: 1998-10-31Gretchen turns to former yo-yo champ Tommy Tate to learn how to master the yo-yo.
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Episode 13 - The Girl Was Trouble
Release Date: 1998-11-07Gretchen's search for her stolen laptop leads her on a journey among the school's delinquents that ultimately brings about her downfall.
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Episode 14 - Copycat Kid
Release Date: 1998-11-07Mikey wants to be exactly like Vince when Vince saves his life.
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Episode 15 - Operation Stuart
Release Date: 1998-11-14The kids take in a really ratty stray cat that they find near the dumpster, naming it Stuart.
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Episode 16 - Pharaoh Bob
Release Date: 1998-11-14King Bob orders the kids to build him a pyramid so that all future classes will remember him.
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Episode 17 - The Story of Whomps
Release Date: 1999-01-09Principal 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.
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Episode 18 - Weekend at Muriel's
Release Date: 1999-01-09Miss Finster agrees to babysit Spinelli for the weekend while her parents are away.
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Episode 19 - Economics of Recess
Release Date: 1998-12-12When the playground goes on the monsticker standard T.J. goes down the path from poverty to wealth.
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Episode 20 - Omega Kids
Release Date: 1998-12-12The main kids wish they could have the overcrowded school to themselves, then surprisingly get their wish.
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Episode 21 - Yes, Mikey, Santa Does Shave
Release Date: 1998-12-26Mikey is the only fourth grader who still believes in Santa Claus. He tries to convince the others Santa exists.
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Episode 22 - Bad Hair Day
Release Date: 1999-01-16T.J. and Vince manage to convince everyone that the bad haircut they gave Mikey is actually cool.
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Episode 23 - Dance Lessons
Release Date: 1999-01-16Spinelli's parents put her in Mlle. Povlova's dance school, where she teams up with Mikey.
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Episode 24 - Principal for a Day
Release Date: 1999-02-27Principal Prickly and Miss Finster plot to turn T.J. over to their own side by making him principal for a day.
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Episode 25 - The Beauty Contest
Release Date: 1999-02-27The 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.