Recess Season 1
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.
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Recess
1997 / TV-GSix 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.
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Recess Season 1 Full Episode Guide
The kids deal with a pompous expert on child research who wants to study them as they play.
Principal Prickly needs Mikey to sing the National Anthem at the PTA Spring Fling, but Mikey only sings well in the bathroom. So he brings in a music teacher to bring the Robert Goulet out of Mikey.
The others try to help out when Mikey wants to be a safety ranger.
The kids carry out a crucial experiment to see if it's really true that their future will be boys kissing girls and girls kissing boys.
The Ashleys jinx Gus according to the playground rules so that he can't talk until his friends say his name.
The kids stage a protest when Prickly plans to tear down Ol' Rusty to replace it with a new jungle gym.
At first only Mikey wants to participate in the Thanksgiving can drive competition against the unbeatable Ashleys. But then the other kids join in to beat the Ashleys.
The kids grow increasingly frustrated when rain keeps then indoors for recess for days.
Loneliness compels Randall to want to make friends with the other kids.
The kids dream about what the teachers' lounge must be like.
Randall accuses Spinelli of hitting him with a rock during a dirt clod war so the kids put her on trial.
Miss Finster comes up with a new punishment that reduces T.J. to a vegetable.
What do the kindergarteners have planned for T.J. when they capture him?
Jeffrey, an annoying jerk of a boy, insists that Gretchen will be his girlfriend.
A weird little boy keeps tagging along behind the kids, apparently causing a streak of bad luck.
Vince completely loses his confidence at playing kickball when Ashley Q. beats him in a game.
The kids stage an elaborate funeral for the 4th grade class's beloved hamster, wherein they learn about how many lives the hamster has touched.
The kids come up with a plan to keep Gretchen from being transferred to Oppenheimer Elementary for the Incredibly Extremely Gifted.
The kids, and Vince himself, come to the awful realization that Vince's once popular older brother Chad has grown up into a geek.
Bob installs Gus as a substitute king while he has a tonsilectomy, figuring Gus will be easy to control. But Gus turns into a despot instead.
The kids bring Miss Finster together with Hank when they find out she has a crush on him.
The Ashleys try to force Spinelli to be just like them when Spinelli's first name is revealed.
Spinelli is inspired to form a cult based on the Swinger Girl then she thinks she's seen her swing over the top into another dimension.
Spinelli will do anything to keep her parents from attending parents' night and meeting the others.
New kid Gus arrives at Third Street Elementary, but has to endure the indignities that a new kid must undergo.
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.