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 4 is "The First Picture Show", rated 7.7/10 from 127 user votes. It was directed by Chuck Sheetz and written by Richard Whitley. "The First Picture Show" aired on 9/12/1999 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Big Prank".
Señor Fusion: the Movie finally opens and T.J. vows to be there at its first screening.
Director: Chuck Sheetz
Writer: Richard Whitley
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
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
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
The kids find a paper fortune teller on the ground that predicts doom for Gus.
Director: Howy Parkins
Writer: Phil Walsh, Ron Birnbach
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
Secretary of Schools Garrison chooses 3rd Street School as the place to test his program to bring test scores up by cancelling recess.
Director: Chuck Sheetz
Writer: Mark Drop, Phil Walsh, Jeff Haber
The kids warn Gus not to break the code by telling Miss Finster who started a food fight.
Director: Brenda Piluso
Writer: Matt Rosenberg
King Bob abandons his throne in his obsessive pursuit of pulling a prank on T.J. in this sequel to The Big Prank
Director: Chuck Sheetz
Writer: Gregg Taylor
Gus takes a new identity when he discovers that people think he's a different cool kid when he doesn't wear them. Too bad "Guy" can't see a thing.
Director: Brenda Piluso
Writer: Ford Riley
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 gang gets busted when they accidentally break a statue of a famous hero.
Director: Howy Parkins
Writer: Mark Drop, Steve Bannos, Phil Walsh
The original 1935 edition of The Rules of the Playground is discovered in the library.
Director: Howy Parkins
Writer: Etan Cohen, Bart Jennett
The bad kids from The Girl was Trouble trick Gus into shoplifting candy from Kelso's.
Director: Chuck Sheetz
Writer: Holly Huckins
Second grade prodigy Becky Benson befriends Gretchen to get help for her science fair project. But she has an ulterior motive.
Director: Howy Parkins
Writer: Libby Bideau, Sandy Adomaitis, Bart Jennett
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
Jared, the new student, appears to be perfect, making the rest of the school very jealous.
Director: Chuck Sheetz
Writer: Phil Walsh, Ron Birnbach
Spinelli gets too attached to the lucky marble that Vince loans her.
Director: Chuck Sheetz
Writer: David Pitlik
Digger Dave quits digging and then bosses everyone around.
Director: Chuck Sheetz
Writer: Cary Okmin
The school gets a new technology system installed called the SAL 3000 which controls everything.
Director: Howy Parkins
Writer: Scott Shelley
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
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
Menlo and Randall team up to manipulate the entire playground.
Director: Chuck Sheetz
Writer: Bart Jennett
Gretchen and Vince both run for president.
Director: Chuck Sheetz, Howy Parkins
Writer: Etan Cohen, Mark Drop