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Recess

7.8/10 547 votes
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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.

Created by:
Paul Germain, Joe Ansolabehere
Cast:
Andrew Lawrence, Rickey D'Shon Collins, Pamela Adlon, Ashley Johnson
Language:
English
Country:
United States of America
Network:
ABC, UPN

Episode guide

Seasons

7 available

Season 3

Episodes

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Episode 1

★ 7.0

One Stayed Clean

1999-09-11 · 11m

On class picture day, the kids vow to keep Gus clean as he's never had a class picture of him taken.

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Episode 2

★ 7.0

A Genius Among Us

1999-09-11 · 11m

Someone else besides Gretchen is a math genius, and through math, Gretchen starts a close relationship with this person.

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Episode 3

Dodgeball City

1999-09-18 · 11m

The main kids discover that Gus was once a notorious dodgeball player who went by the name of El Diablo.

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Episode 4

★ 7.0

A Career to Remember

1999-09-18 · 11m

A career day assembly gets all the kids to decide their future careers. That is all except Spinelli.

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Episode 5

★ 7.0

Kindergarten Derby

1999-09-25 · 11m

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.

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Episode 6

★ 7.0

The Bet

1999-09-25 · 11m

Fed up with Vince's ego, the kids bet Vince that he can't go one whole day without beating someone in a sport.

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Episode 7

Space Cadet

1999-10-02 · 11m

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.

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Episode 8

★ 8.0

Stand Up Randall

1999-10-02 · 11m

Randall becomes popular when he uses a joke book to make himself a standup comedian.

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Episode 9

The Shiner

1999-11-06 · 11m

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.

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Episode 10

Lord of the Nerds

1999-11-06 · 11m

T.J. breaks his clavicle and now has to spend recess with the ""pale kids"" in Room 51.

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Episode 11

That Stinking Feeling

1999-11-13 · 11m

Spinelli gets a crush on a fifth grader and has to get over it to save her reputation.

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Episode 12

My Funny Valentines

1999-11-13 · 11m

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.

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Episode 13

The Barnaby Boys

2000-01-15 · 11m

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.

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Episode 14

★ 8.0

Buried Treasure

2000-01-15 · 11m

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.

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Episode 15

The Library Kid

2000-01-22 · 11m

When the gang catches the mysterious ""Libray Kid"", they take her out to recess where she becomes obssessed with the playground.

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Episode 16

★ 7.0

The Ratings Game

2000-01-22 · 11m

Everyone is segregrated once the Ashley's start giving ratings to everyone on the playground.

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Cast

Andrew Lawrence

Andrew Lawrence

TJ Detweiler (voice)

Rickey D'Shon Collins

Rickey D'Shon Collins

Vince LaSalle (voice)

Pamela Adlon

Pamela Adlon

Ashley Spinelli (voice)

Ashley Johnson

Ashley Johnson

Gretchen Grundler (voice)

Jason Davis

Jason Davis

Mikey Blumberg (voice)

Courtland Mead

Courtland Mead

Gus Griswald (voice)

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