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Recess
Overview
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.
Status
Ended
Created By
Paul Germain, Joe Ansolabehere
Network
ABC, UPN
Seasons & Episodes
Season 3
Episodes
One Stayed Clean
On class picture day, the kids vow to keep Gus clean as he's never had a class picture of him taken.
A Genius Among Us
Someone else besides Gretchen is a math genius, and through math, Gretchen starts a close relationship with this person.
Dodgeball City
The main kids discover that Gus was once a notorious dodgeball player who went by the name of El Diablo.
A Career to Remember
A career day assembly gets all the kids to decide their future careers. That is all except Spinelli.
Kindergarten Derby
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.
The Bet
Fed up with Vince's ego, the kids bet Vince that he can't go one whole day without beating someone in a sport.
Space Cadet
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.
Stand Up Randall
Randall becomes popular when he uses a joke book to make himself a standup comedian.
The Shiner
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.
Lord of the Nerds
T.J. breaks his clavicle and now has to spend recess with the ""pale kids"" in Room 51.
That Stinking Feeling
Spinelli gets a crush on a fifth grader and has to get over it to save her reputation.
My Funny Valentines
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.
The Barnaby Boys
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.
Buried Treasure
TJ 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.
The Library Kid
When the gang catches the mysterious ""Libray Kid"", they take her out to recess where she becomes obssessed with the playground.
The Ratings Game
Everyone is segregrated once the Ashley's start giving ratings to everyone on the playground.
Top Cast
Andrew Lawrence
TJ Detweiler (voice)
Rickey D'Shon Collins
Vince LaSalle (voice)
Pamela Adlon
Ashley Spinelli (voice)
Ashley Johnson
Gretchen Grundler (voice)
Jason Davis
Mikey Blumberg (voice)
Courtland Mead
Gus Griswald (voice)
