The Best Episodes of Recess

The kids take in a really ratty stray cat that they find near the dumpster, naming it Stuart.

Director: Chuck Sheetz

Writer: Katy Ballard

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

Director: Howy Parkins

Writer: Mark Drop, Phil Walsh, Gil Evans

Gus winds up the new target of the school bully's wrath.

Director: Chuck Sheetz

Writer: Jonathan Rosenthal

Gretchen turns to former yo-yo champ Tommy Tate to learn how to master the yo-yo.

Director: Chuck Sheetz

Writer: Doria Biddle

The main kids wish they could have the overcrowded school to themselves, then surprisingly get their wish.

Director: Chuck Sheetz

Writer: Steve Bannos

The original 1935 edition of The Rules of the Playground is discovered in the library.

Director: Howy Parkins

Writer: Etan Cohen, Bart Jennett

Spinelli will do anything to keep her parents from attending parents' night and meeting the others.

Director: Chuck Sheetz

Writer: Holly Huckins

Ashley A. hooks up with Gretchen when she sins against the clique so gravely as to get thrown out.

Director: Chuck Sheetz

Writer: Doria Biddle

All 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.

Director: Chuck Sheetz

Writer: Michael L. Kramer

When one of T.J.s plans goes wrong and Gus breaks his leg he won't make another plan. It's up to the others to get T.J. back to his old self

Director: Howy Parkins

Writer: Bart Jennett, Randy Fechtor

The kids carry out a crucial experiment to see if it's really true that kissing each other is an inevitable part of their future.

Director: Chuck Sheetz

Writer: Lesa Kite

The gang breaks up when they are forced to choose a best friend to write about.

Director: Chuck Sheetz

Writer: Michael L. Kramer

Miss Finster agrees to babysit Spinelli for the weekend while her parents are away.

Director: Chuck Sheetz

Writer: Michael L. Kramer, Phil Walsh

When the playground goes on the monsticker standard T.J. goes down the path from poverty to wealth.

Director: Howy Parkins

Writer: Mark Drop, Phil Walsh, Rick Gitelson

The kids rope T.J. into a challenge to play a prank on King Bob before the end of the school day.

Director: Chuck Sheetz

Writer: Gregg Taylor

The Ashleys jinx Gus according to the playground rules so that he can't talk until his friends say his name.

Director: Chuck Sheetz

Writer: Scott Shelley

Spinelli gets labelled a mama's girl when she inadvertantly calls Ms. Grotke ""Mama.""

Director: Chuck Sheetz

Writer: Mark Drop

Principal 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.

Director: Chuck Sheetz

Writer: Mark Drop

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

Director: Chuck Sheetz, Howy Parkins

Writer: Ford Riley

Señor Fusion: the Movie finally opens and T.J. vows to be there at its first screening.

Director: Chuck Sheetz

Writer: Richard Whitley

The school gets a new technology system installed called the SAL 3000 which controls everything.

Director: Howy Parkins

Writer: Scott Shelley

T.J. and the gang meet Mr. Dudicoff, a student teacher who was a legend at 3rd Street School back in the day.

Director: Howy Parkins

Writer: Richard Whitley

Spinelli becomes popular as an advice giver when she sits in for Guru Kid.

Director: Howy Parkins

Writer: Libby Bideau, Sandy Adomaitis

Ms. Grotke's strange behavior makes the kids think that she's a spy.

Director: Howy Parkins

Writer: Ford Riley

Mikey makes the other kids regret not letting them play on their team for the playground's soccer tourney.

Director: Howy Parkins

Writer: Bart Jennett, Scott Redman