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, and try their best to win at kick-ball.
The best episode of "Recess" season 3 is "One Stayed Clean", rated 7.6/10 from 140 user votes. It was directed by Chuck Sheetz and written by Bart Jennett, Gregg Taylor. "One Stayed Clean" aired on 9/11/1999 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "A Genius Among Us".
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
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
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
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. 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
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
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
Spinelli gets a crush on a fifth grader and has to get over it to save her reputation.
Director: Howy Parkins
Writer: Chad Einbinder
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
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
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
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
Everyone is segregrated once the Ashley's start giving ratings to everyone on the playground.
Director: Howy Parkins
Writer: Holly Huckins, Ilana Wernick