The Best Episodes of Recess Season 3

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

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

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

Director: Howy Parkins

Writer: Holly Huckins, Ilana Wernick

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Howy Parkins

Writer: Chad Einbinder

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

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

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