On class picture day, the kids vow to keep Gus clean as he's never had a class picture of him taken.

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.

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.

Randall becomes popular when he uses a joke book to make himself a standup comedian.

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

T.J. breaks his clavicle and now has to spend recess with the ""pale kids"" in Room 51.

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.

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

Menlo and Randall team up to manipulate the entire playground.

Fed up with Vince's ego, the kids bet Vince that he can't go one whole day without beating someone in a sport.

Spinelli channels her anger into a playground chalk drawing.

T.J. can't figure out why Gordy doesn't like him.

When a new kid from Norway comes to 3rd Street School, Gus befriends the kid by making him think that Gus is the hottest kid in the school.

When the gang catches the mysterious ""Libray Kid"", they take her out to recess where she becomes obssessed with the playground.

Vince feels like an outsider after he misses the must-see movie of the weekend.

Gretchen is worried when she's partnered with T.J. on a class project.

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

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

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

Second grade prodigy Becky Benson befriends Gretchen to get help for her science fair project. But she has an ulterior motive.

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

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.

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.

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.

Gus must stay behind from the fair because he forgot his permission slip, while the rest of the gang try to figure out a way to get Gus to the fair.

Vince and T.J. compete for the job as A.V. Kid, but their competition leads to a broken-up friendship between them.

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

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

Mikey badgers the gang into a trip to senior citizens home.

T.J. has a mysterious new friend.

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.

A career day assembly gets all the kids to decide their future careers. That is all except Spinelli.

Someone else besides Gretchen is a math genius, and through math, Gretchen starts a close relationship with this person.

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

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

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

King Bob abandons his throne in his obsessive pursuit of pulling a prank on T.J. in this sequel to The Big Prank

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.

The main kids discover that Gus was once a notorious dodgeball player who went by the name of El Diablo.

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.

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

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

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

Digger Dave quits digging and then bosses everyone around.

Gretchen and Vince both run for president.

People start paying Gretchen for doing their homework so she can buy herself a new bike

Disgusted by the horrible cafeteria food, Vince becomes the new school cook when the other kids try his cooking.

Needing to prepare himself for a poet laureate ceremony, Mikey decides to listen to Menlo to learn how to organize himself.

Tired of TJ and his friends getting all the glory from King Bob, Lawson decides to get a gang of his own together. He recruits Randall, Menlow, Swinger Girl, Skeenes and Kurst the Worst and together the six start solving the playground's problems and getting the glory. Of course TJ and his friends now have nothing to do, so they are left just talking and eventually realise that just being friends is much better than getting all the glory they used to have. Friends being something that Lawson and his crew are definitely not ...

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

Jared, the new student, appears to be perfect, making the rest of the school very jealous.

When one of T.J.s plans goes wrong and Gus breaks his leg he won't make another plan. It's up to the others to get T.J. back to his old self

Randal recruits the Tylers, the Ashleys' little brothers, to help him snitch.

During a burning hot day, the gang attempts to make it across the playground to the otherside where there is a water pump.

Bad-guy Mundy becomes very poular after he prevents a ball from hitting a little kid.

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

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

Mikey and Gus want to join the Woodchuck Scouts.

Gus and Theresa (Cornchip Girl) have a hard time becoming friends due to their rivaling fathers.

T.J. finds a $100 bill and along with the gang try to find out who lost it.

After Mikey helps Cornchip Girl off the climbing frame after she gets stuck, the gang wonder how big he will be. Gretchen and Galileo conduct a test to find out how big everyone will be when they are older, and Mikey's test says he will be 50 feet tall! The others find this cool and wonder what 50 foot Mikey could do, but Mikey isn't so sure that being 50 feet tall will be that great.

The gang tries to find out who removed all the balls from the playground.

The gang is suspicious when the Ashleys give Spinelli six wrestling tickets.

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

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

In this Hallowe'en episode, Butch tells us three terrifying tales of Recess. Children of the Cornchip: Cornchip Girl eats some untested cornchips and turns into a werekid! The gang have to save her. When Bikes Attack!: The bikes that the kids ride to school everyday become alive and turn against their riders. Night of the Living Finsters: Lawson challenges Vince to spend the night in the graveyard, only for the gang to discover that the school is built on the Finster family graveyard.

The kids think Vince is getting special treatment when he becomes Prickly's golf partner.

Mikey's new friendship with Kurst the Worst doesn't sit well with their friends.

Secretary of Schools Garrison chooses 3rd Street School as the place to test his program to bring test scores up by cancelling recess.

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

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.

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

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

Gus starts an obsessive crusade to kill all the germs in the world, while Mikey will do anything to save them.

Spinelli gets peeved with her parents heap so much praise for Gretchen at her expense.

Randall uses an embarrassing photo to blackmail King Bob into making him Playground Prince.