• Air date: 11 Sep '99 16 episodes
      Recess is an American animated television series created by Paul Germain and Joe Ansolabehere and produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. The series focuses on six elementary school students and their interaction with other classmates and teachers. The title refers to the period of time during the school day in which children are not in lessons and are outside in the schoolyard, in North American society. One of the main features of the series is how the children form their own society, complete with government and a class structure, set against the backdrop of a regular school. Recess first aired on ABC from 1997 through to 2001, and reruns aired on Disney Channel in the United States. The success of the series saw it being distributed to numerous countries around the world, notably the United Kingdom, where it aired on multiple channels including Toon Disney and Disney Channel UK. In 2001, Walt Disney Pictures released the first of two films based on the series, Recess: School's Out,...
  • List of Episodes (16)
    • 1. One Stayed Clean

      11 Sep '99
      On class picture day, the kids vow to keep Gus clean as he's never had a class picture of him taken.
    • 2. A Genius Among Us

      11 Sep '99
      Someone else besides Gretchen is a math genius, and through math, Gretchen starts a close relationship with this person.
    • 3. Dodgeball City

      18 Sep '99
      The main kids discover that Gus was once a notorious dodgeball player who went by the name of El Diablo.
    • 4. A Career to Remember

      18 Sep '99
      A career day assembly gets all the kids to decide their future careers. That is all except Spinelli.
    • 5. Kindergarten Derby

      25 Sep '99
      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.
    • 6. The Bet

      25 Sep '99
      Fed up with Vince's ego, the kids bet Vince that he can't go one whole day without beating someone in a sport.
    • 7. Space Cadet

      02 Oct '99
      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.
    • 8. Stand Up Randall

      02 Oct '99
      Randall becomes popular when he uses a joke book to make himself a standup comedian.
    • 9. The Shiner

      06 Nov '99
      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.
    • 10. Lord of the Nerds

      06 Nov '99
      T.J. breaks his clavicle and now has to spend recess with the ""pale kids"" in Room 51.
    • 11. That Stinking Feeling

      13 Nov '99
      Spinelli gets a crush on a fifth grader and has to get over it to save her reputation.
    • 12. My Funny Valentines

      13 Nov '99
      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.
    • 13. The Barnaby Boys

      15 Jan '00
      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.
    • 14. Buried Treasure

      15 Jan '00
      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.
    • 15. The Library Kid

      22 Jan '00
      When the gang catches the mysterious ""Libray Kid"", they take her out to recess where she becomes obssessed with the playground.
    • 16. The Ratings Game

      22 Jan '00
      Everyone is segregrated once the Ashley's start giving ratings to everyone on the playground.