The Best Episodes of Recess Season 4

The original 1935 edition of The Rules of the Playground is discovered in the library.

Director: Howy Parkins

Writer: Etan Cohen, Bart Jennett

The kids rope T.J. into a challenge to play a prank on King Bob before the end of the school day.

Director: Chuck Sheetz

Writer: Gregg Taylor

Señor Fusion: the Movie finally opens and T.J. vows to be there at its first screening.

Director: Chuck Sheetz

Writer: Richard Whitley

The school gets a new technology system installed called the SAL 3000 which controls everything.

Director: Howy Parkins

Writer: Scott Shelley

T.J. and the gang meet Mr. Dudicoff, a student teacher who was a legend at 3rd Street School back in the day.

Director: Howy Parkins

Writer: Richard Whitley

Spinelli becomes popular as an advice giver when she sits in for Guru Kid.

Director: Howy Parkins

Writer: Libby Bideau, Sandy Adomaitis

Ms. Grotke's strange behavior makes the kids think that she's a spy.

Director: Howy Parkins

Writer: Ford Riley

Mikey makes the other kids regret not letting them play on their team for the playground's soccer tourney.

Director: Howy Parkins

Writer: Bart Jennett, Scott Redman

The main kids make a friend of new kid James Stone and show him all their little schemes, but soon regret that.

Director: Chuck Sheetz

Writer: Michael L. Kramer

Spinelli channels her anger into a playground chalk drawing.

Director: Brenda Piluso

Writer: Ford Riley

The bored main kids build their own fort. But then Lawson takes it over.

Director: Howy Parkins

Writer: Nick DuBois

Gus winds up working for the Hustler Kid to pay off a debt, and soon he himself becomes the biggest hustler in the playground.

Director: Chuck Sheetz

Writer: Katy Cooper, Ned Teitelbaum

Miss Finster hurts her leg and can't keep up with the kids during recess.

Director: Howy Parkins

Writer: Milton Chassman

The kids find a paper fortune teller on the ground that predicts doom for Gus.

Director: Howy Parkins

Writer: Phil Walsh, Ron Birnbach

Prickly finally gets his appointment to Spiro T. Agnew Middle School. But the kids try to make him stay after they meet the new Principal Slicer.

Director: Chuck Sheetz

Writer: Bart Jennett, Julie Ann Sipos

Randall gets the main kids to pretend that they're his friends when his father, Leonard, visits the school on Randall's birthday.

Director: Howy Parkins

Writer: Milton Chassman

The bad kids from The Girl was Trouble trick Gus into shoplifting candy from Kelso's.

Director: Chuck Sheetz

Writer: Holly Huckins

The gang tries to cover up Mikey's ripped pants so Finster won't catch him.

Director: Chuck Sheetz, Howy Parkins

Writer: Phil Walsh, Scott Redman

Spinelli gets too attached to the lucky marble that Vince loans her.

Director: Chuck Sheetz

Writer: David Pitlik

Thinking his family is moving away again, Gus moves under the jungle gym to avoid leaving his friends and school

Director: Chuck Sheetz

Writer: Libby Bideau, Sandy Adomaitis

Gretchen and Vince both run for president.

Director: Chuck Sheetz, Howy Parkins

Writer: Etan Cohen, Mark Drop

Scared of turning 10 on his soon-to-be bithday, Mikey develops an obssession of becoming a little kid again so he won't have to grow up.

Director: Chuck Sheetz

Writer: Bart Jennett

The kids want to find out who started a rumor that a boy knocked over Mikey's popcorn at the movies and Mikey then threw the boy into the girl's bathroom.

Director: Chuck Sheetz

Writer: David Pitlik

The kids warn Gus not to break the code by telling Miss Finster who started a food fight.

Director: Brenda Piluso

Writer: Matt Rosenberg

The gang gets busted when they accidentally break a statue of a famous hero.

Director: Howy Parkins

Writer: Mark Drop, Steve Bannos, Phil Walsh