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The Best Episodes of Recess Season 3

Every episode of Recess Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Recess Season 3!

The Best Episodes of Recess Season 3

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...

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  1. 8.3/10(173 votes)

    #1 - Dodgeball City

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    S3:E3

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

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  2. 7.8/10(144 votes)

    #2 - Lord of the Nerds

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    S3:E10

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

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  3. 7.7/10(148 votes)

    #3 - The Ratings Game

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    S3:E16

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

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  4. 7.6/10(144 votes)

    #4 - One Stayed Clean

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    S3:E1

    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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  5. 7.6/10(134 votes)

    #5 - A Genius Among Us

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    S3:E2

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

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    Director:Chuck Sheetz
  6. 7.5/10(132 votes)

    #6 - A Career to Remember

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    S3:E4

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

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  8. 7.5/10(131 votes)

    #7 - Kindergarten Derby

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    S3:E5

    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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  9. 7.4/10(134 votes)

    #8 - Buried Treasure

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    S3:E14

    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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  10. 7.3/10(139 votes)

    #9 - My Funny Valentines

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    S3:E12

    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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    Director:Howy Parkins
  11. 7.3/10(138 votes)

    #10 - The Library Kid

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    S3:E15

    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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  12. 7.2/10(130 votes)

    #11 - Space Cadet

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    S3:E7

    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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  13. 7.2/10(134 votes)

    #12 - That Stinking Feeling

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    S3:E11

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

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  14. 7.1/10(136 votes)

    #13 - Stand Up Randall

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    S3:E8

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

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  15. 7.1/10(139 votes)

    #14 - The Shiner

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    S3:E9

    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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    Director:Chuck Sheetz
  16. 7.1/10(135 votes)

    #15 - The Barnaby Boys

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    S3:E13

    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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  17. 7.0/10(134 votes)

    #16 - The Bet

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    S3:E6

    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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    Director:Chuck Sheetz

Season 3 Ratings Summary

"Dodgeball City" is the best rated episode of "Recess" season 3. It scored 8.3/10 based on 173 votes. Directed by Howy Parkins and written by Mark Drop, Phil Walsh, Gil Evans, it aired on 9/18/1999. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "Lord of the Nerds".