Every season of Recess ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best seasons of Recess!

The main kids try to get all the other kids to help rescue T.J. when Miss Finster punishes him by making him miss recess.

The Break In

New kid Gus arrives at Third Street Elementary, but has to endure the indignities that a new kid must undergo.

The New Kid

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.

The Experiment

The kids stage a protest when Principal Prickly plans to tear down Ol' Rusty to replace it with a new jungle gym.

The Great Jungle Gym Stand Off

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

Jinxed

The others try to help out when Mikey wants to be a safety ranger.

Officer Mikey

The Ashleys try to force Spinelli to be just like them when Spinelli's first name is revealed.

First Name Ashley

The kids help bring Miss Finster together with Hank the janitor when they find out she has a crush on him.

To Finster with Love

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.

King Gus

The kids, and Vince himself, come to the awful realization that Vince's once popular older brother Chad has grown up into a geek.

Big Brother Chad

The kids come up with a plan to keep Gretchen from being transferred to Oppenheimer Elementary for the Incredibly Extremely Gifted.

My Fair Gretchen

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.

Speedy, We Hardly Knew Ye

Vince completely loses his confidence at playing kickball when Ashley Q. beats him in a game.

I Will Kick No More Forever

A weird little boy keeps tagging along behind the kids, apparently causing a streak of bad luck.

The Kid Came Back

Jeffrey, an annoying jerk of a boy, insists that Gretchen will be his girlfriend.

The Pest

What do the kindergarteners have planned for T.J. when they capture him?

The Legend of Big Kid

Miss Finster comes up with a new punishment that reduces T.J. to a vegetable.

The Box

Randall accuses Spinelli of hitting him with a rock during a dirt clod war so the kids put her on trial.

The Trial

The kids dream about what the teachers' lounge must be like.

Teachers Lounge

Loneliness compels Randall to want to make friends with the other kids.

Randall's Reform

The kids grow increasingly frustrated when rain keeps then indoors for recess days on end.

Rainy Days

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 Great Can Drive

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 Voice

The kids deal with a pompous expert on child research who wants to study them as they play.

Kids in the Mist

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

Parents' Night

Spinelli is inspired to form a cult based on the Swinger Girl when she thinks she's seen her swing over the top into another dimension.

Swing on Thru to the Other Side

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

The Break-Up

A hypnotist performing for the kids inadvertantly hypnotizes Principal Prickly into thinking he's six years old.

The Hypnotist

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

Mama's Girl

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

Outcast Ashley

Gus finds a tile from the game Ajimbo and soon the entire student body gets caught in its evil grasp.

The Game

Gus has to go to the Yard of No Return when he kicks a good kickball over the fence.

The Lost Ball

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

Gus' Last Stand

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.

Operation Field Trip

A visit from Principal Prickly's brother Paul leads to a challenge between 3rd Street and 98th Street kickball teams.

The Challenge

In the "Pee Wee Pals" program, the main kids each have to take care of a kindergartner during recess.

Wild Child

Substitute teacher Mr. E. captivates all the kids with his command of authority, except T.J.

The Substitute

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

Gretchen and the Secret of Yo

Gretchen's search for her stolen laptop leads her on a journey among the school's delinquents that ultimately brings about her downfall.

The Girl Was Trouble

Mikey wants to be exactly like Vince when Vince saves his life.

Copycat Kid

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

Operation Stuart

King Bob orders the kids to build him a pyramid so that all future classes will remember him.

Pharaoh Bob

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.

The Story of Whomps

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

Weekend at Muriel's

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

Economics of Recess

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

Omega Kids

Mikey is the only fourth grader who still believes in Santa Claus.  He tries to convince the others Santa exists.

Yes, Mikey, Santa Does Shave

T.J. and Vince manage to convince everyone that the bad haircut they gave Mikey is actually cool.

Bad Hair Day

Spinelli's parents put her in Mlle. Povlova's dance school, where she teams up with Mikey.

Dance Lessons

Principal Prickly and Miss Finster plot to turn T.J. over to their own side by making him principal for a day.

Principal for a Day

The 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.

The Beauty Contest

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

One Stayed Clean

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

A Genius Among Us

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

Dodgeball City

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

A Career to Remember

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.

Kindergarten Derby

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

The Bet

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.

Space Cadet

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

Stand Up Randall

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.

The Shiner

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

Lord of the Nerds

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

That Stinking Feeling

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.

My Funny Valentines

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.

The Barnaby Boys

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.

Buried Treasure

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

The Library Kid

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

The Ratings Game

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

The First Picture Show

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

The Big Prank

Gus winds up working for the Hustler Kid to pay off a debt, and soon he himself becomes the biggest hustler in the playground.

Hustler's Apprentice

The main kids make a friend of new kid James Stone and show him all their little schemes, but soon regret that.

The Spy Who Came In from the Playground

The kids find a paper fortune teller on the ground that predicts doom for Gus.

Gus' Fortune

The kids want to find out who started a rumor that a boy knocked over Mikey's popcorn at the movies and Mikey then threw the boy into the girl's bathroom.

Rumor Mill

Secretary of Schools Garrison chooses 3rd Street School as the place to test his program to bring test scores up by cancelling recess.

Recess is Cancelled

The kids warn Gus not to break the code by telling Miss Finster who started a food fight.

Tattletale Heart

King Bob abandons his throne in his obsessive pursuit of pulling a prank on T.J. in this sequel to The Big Prank

The Madness of King Bob

Gus takes a new identity when he discovers that people think he's a different cool kid when he doesn't wear them. Too bad "Guy" can't see a thing.

Call Me Guy

Prickly finally gets his appointment to Spiro T. Agnew Middle School. But the kids try to make him stay after they meet the new Principal Slicer.

Prickly is Leaving

Randall gets the main kids to pretend that they're his friends when his father, Leonard, visits the school on Randall's birthday.

Randall's Friends

The gang gets busted when they accidentally break a statue of a famous hero.

The Biggest Trouble Ever

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

The Rules

The bad kids from The Girl was Trouble trick Gus into shoplifting candy from Kelso's.

Gus and Misdemeanors

Second grade prodigy Becky Benson befriends Gretchen to get help for her science fair project. But she has an ulterior motive.

A Science Fair to Remember

The gang tries to cover up Mikey's ripped pants so Finster won't catch him.

Mikey's Pants

Jared, the new student, appears to be perfect, making the rest of the school very jealous.

Here Comes Mr. Perfect

Spinelli gets too attached to the lucky marble that Vince loans her.

Good Luck Charm

Digger Dave quits digging and then bosses everyone around.

Diggers Split Up

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

Schoolworld

Thinking his family is moving away again, Gus moves under the jungle gym to avoid leaving his friends and school

Bachelor Gus

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

The Dude

Menlo and Randall team up to manipulate the entire playground.

Partners in Crime

Gretchen and Vince both run for president.

The Candidates

People start paying Gretchen for doing their homework so she can buy herself a new bike

This Brain for Hire

Spinelli channels her anger into a playground chalk drawing.

Spinelli's Masterpiece

T.J. can't figure out why Gordy doesn't like him.

Nobody Doesn't Like T.J.

When a new kid from Norway comes to 3rd Street School, Gus befriends the kid by making him think that Gus is the hottest kid in the school.

Yope from Norway

Scared of turning 10 on his soon-to-be bithday, Mikey develops an obssession of becoming a little kid again so he won't have to grow up.

The Best Seasons of Recess

The Best Seasons of Recess

Season 2

Season 3

Season 6

Season 1

Season 4

Season 5