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Recess

The Recess Gang breaks up when a project involving writing a report about their best friend sparks division amongst the pupils. All five of the other children write about TJ, and he is rather dumbfounded to discover that he has five best friends, not just one best friend. A hypnotist accidentally...

Spinelli accidentally calls Miss Grotke "Mama" in front of the whole playground. Since her friends think that this is funny, they then try to make Randall say "Mama", too. However, Randal is too smart for his friends... Later, all Miss Grotke's pupils call her "Mama"! Ashley A gets thrown out of ...

An addictive card game called Ajimbo reaches Third Street and it isn't long before everyone except TJ are under its spell. They can't think about anything but Ajimbo. Gus is told that he has to go to the Yard of No Return when he loses a good ball over the fence. Gus enters a dream about how losi...

After having his attention accidentally focused on Gus, school bully Gelman starts to pick on him, routinely tossing him into a rubbish bin. This continues relentlessly, despite the friends' best attempts to stop Gelman and although Miss Finster threatens to take the bully to Principal Prickly's ...

Principal Prickly has a brother and he too is the headmaster of a primary school. One day, he decides to call on his brother at Third Street. The kids are very excited and Principal Prickly has them tidying the whole school for the visit. Things seem pretty calm at first, but then Prickly's broth...

Miss Grotke is absent from school for a week due to a hospital visit, and has arranged for a substitute. The kids are excited, as they see this as a golden opportunity to do whatever they choose and play tricks. However, the substitute arrives in the form of the mysterious and imposing Mr E, a te...

Gretchen braves Third Street's underworld to reclaim her Galileo PDA, and finds herself on the wrong side of the law! Mikey nearly gets hit in the face by a ball during a baseball game but Vince catches it just in the nick of time. Mikey then starts to idolise Vince, imitating his voice, manneris...

The friends try to hide a stray cat, but the staff are on the trail and things get very difficult. Two of the children get into a fight and King Bob reminds them of an 'ancient rule' made by an earlier king to solve disputes. However, no-one can even remember any of the previous kings, let alone ...

TJ discovers that while he was at home due to illness, the school invented a new currency in his absence, called Monstickers. Now even things that were once free cost Monstickers, including playing, drinking at the drinking fountain and even coming into the school at all. TJ goes from poverty to ...

Christmas is coming but there's no snow yet, much to Hank's disappointment. The children are making the best of it, however, inventing all kinds of playground games. They start discussing what is on their Christmas lists and Mikey gets taunted for believing in Santa. So he decides to prove to the...

Miss Finster catches TJ using the word 'whomps' and sends him to Principal Prickly's office, where he makes it absolutely clear that 'whomps' is unacceptable for use in the school. When Spinelli and her parents tell Miss Finster that they cannot find a babysitter for their daughter the following ...

Mikey attempts to blow the world's biggest bubblegum bubble, but it goes all over his hair and he starts to worry about what his parents will think. So TJ gives him a dreadful haircut. Spinelli is fighting all the time and so her mother decides to enroll her for some dance lessons to make her a l...

TJ has just broken the headmaster's window with a ball - not a good start to the day. But Miss Finster recalls that becoming principal for a day radically changed Menlo's behaviour and she persuades Principal Prickly to choose TJ this time around. So TJ spends the day with the headmaster, handing...