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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!

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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,

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Recess Season 3 Episode 3 - Dodgeball City
    8.3/10(162 votes)

    S3:E3

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

    Director:Howy Parkins
    Writers:Mark Drop, Gil Evans, Phil Walsh

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  2. Recess Season 3 Episode 10 - Lord of the Nerds
    7.8/10(126 votes)

    S3:E10

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

    Directors:Chuck Sheetz, Howy Parkins
    Writer:Ford Riley

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  3. Recess Season 3 Episode 16 - The Ratings Game
    7.8/10(129 votes)

    S3:E16

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

    Director:Howy Parkins
    Writers:Holly Huckins, Ilana Wernick

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  4. Recess Season 3 Episode 2 - A Genius Among Us
    7.6/10(114 votes)

    S3:E2

    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

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  5. Recess Season 3 Episode 1 - One Stayed Clean
    7.5/10(123 votes)

    S3:E1

    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
    Writers:Bart Jennett, Gregg Taylor

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  6. Recess Season 3 Episode 4 - A Career to Remember
    7.5/10(116 votes)

    S3:E4

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

    Director:Brenda Piluso
    Writers:Mark Drop, Lesley Wolff, Phil Walsh

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  7. Recess Season 3 Episode 5 - Kindergarten Derby
    7.5/10(111 votes)

    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.

    Director:Chuck Sheetz
    Writers:Steve Viksten, Jonathan Rosenthal

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  8. Recess Season 3 Episode 14 - Buried Treasure
    7.4/10(116 votes)

    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.

    Director:Chuck Sheetz
    Writers:Peter Gaffney, Jonathan Rosenthal

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  9. Recess Season 3 Episode 12 - My Funny Valentines
    7.3/10(123 votes)

    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.

    Director:Howy Parkins
    Writer:Gregg Taylor

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  10. Recess Season 3 Episode 15 - The Library Kid
    7.2/10(118 votes)

    S3:E15

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

    Directors:Chuck Sheetz, Howy Parkins
    Writers:Holly Huckins, Doria Biddle

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  11. Recess Season 3 Episode 7 - Space Cadet
    7.1/10(111 votes)

    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.

    Directors:Chuck Sheetz, Howy Parkins
    Writer:David Pitlik

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  12. Recess Season 3 Episode 8 - Stand Up Randall
    7.1/10(118 votes)

    S3:E8

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

    Director:Chuck Sheetz
    Writers:Mark Drop, Sandy Adomaitis, Libby Bideau, Phil Walsh

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  13. Recess Season 3 Episode 9 - The Shiner
    7.1/10(120 votes)

    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.

    Director:Chuck Sheetz
    Writer:Steve Bannos

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  14. Recess Season 3 Episode 11 - That Stinking Feeling
    7.1/10(114 votes)

    S3:E11

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

    Director:Howy Parkins
    Writer:Chad Einbinder

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  15. Recess Season 3 Episode 13 - The Barnaby Boys
    7.0/10(116 votes)

    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.

    Directors:Chuck Sheetz, Howy Parkins
    Writers:Rocket Rabinowitz, Phil Walsh

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  16. Recess Season 3 Episode 6 - The Bet
    6.9/10(115 votes)

    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.

    Director:Chuck Sheetz
    Writer:David Pitlik

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"Dodgeball City" is the best rated episode of "Recess" season 3. It scored 8.3/10 based on 162 votes. Directed by Howy Parkins and written by Mark Drop, Gil Evans, Phil Walsh, it aired on 9/18/1999. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "Lord of the Nerds".