7.5/10142 votes#1 - One Stayed Clean
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/11/1999
On class picture day, the kids vow to keep Gus clean as he's never had a class picture of him taken.
Director: Chuck Sheetz
Writer: Bart Jennett, Gregg Taylor
7.6/10132 votes#2 - A Genius Among Us
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/11/1999
Someone else besides Gretchen is a math genius, and through math, Gretchen starts a close relationship with this person.
Director: Chuck Sheetz
Writer: Brian Hamill
8.4/10167 votes#3 - Dodgeball City
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 9/18/1999
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
7.6/10128 votes#4 - A Career to Remember
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 9/18/1999
A career day assembly gets all the kids to decide their future careers. That is all except Spinelli.
Director: Brenda Piluso
Writer: Mark Drop, Phil Walsh, Lesley Wolff
7.6/10127 votes#5 - Kindergarten Derby
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 9/25/1999
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.
Director: Chuck Sheetz
Writer: Jonathan Rosenthal, Steve Viksten
7.0/10130 votes#6 - The Bet
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 9/25/1999
Fed up with Vince's ego, the kids bet Vince that he can't go one whole day without beating someone in a sport.
Director: Chuck Sheetz
Writer: David Pitlik
7.1/10128 votes#7 - Space Cadet
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 10/2/1999
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.
Director: Chuck Sheetz, Howy Parkins
Writer: David Pitlik
7.1/10133 votes#8 - Stand Up Randall
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 10/2/1999
Randall becomes popular when he uses a joke book to make himself a standup comedian.
Director: Chuck Sheetz
Writer: Mark Drop, Phil Walsh, Libby Bideau, Sandy Adomaitis
7.0/10134 votes#9 - The Shiner
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/6/1999
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.
Director: Chuck Sheetz
Writer: Steve Bannos
7.7/10139 votes#10 - Lord of the Nerds
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/6/1999
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
7.1/10131 votes#11 - That Stinking Feeling
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 11/13/1999
Spinelli gets a crush on a fifth grader and has to get over it to save her reputation.
Director: Howy Parkins
Writer: Chad Einbinder
7.3/10133 votes#12 - My Funny Valentines
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 11/13/1999
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.
Director: Howy Parkins
Writer: Gregg Taylor
7.1/10130 votes#13 - The Barnaby Boys
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/15/2000
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.
Director: Chuck Sheetz, Howy Parkins
Writer: Phil Walsh, Rocket Rabinowitz
7.4/10129 votes#14 - Buried Treasure
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 1/15/2000
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.
Director: Chuck Sheetz
Writer: Peter Gaffney, Jonathan Rosenthal
7.3/10135 votes#15 - The Library Kid
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/22/2000
When the gang catches the mysterious ""Libray Kid"", they take her out to recess where she becomes obssessed with the playground.
Director: Chuck Sheetz, Howy Parkins
Writer: Holly Huckins, Doria Biddle
7.7/10143 votes#16 - The Ratings Game
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 1/22/2000
Everyone is segregrated once the Ashley's start giving ratings to everyone on the playground.
Director: Howy Parkins
Writer: Holly Huckins, Ilana Wernick
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Season 3 Ratings Summary
"One Stayed Clean" is the best rated episode of "Recess" season 3. It scored 7.5/10 based on 142 votes. Directed by Chuck Sheetz and written by Bart Jennett, Gregg Taylor, it aired on 9/11/1999. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "A Genius Among Us".