Season 2
🎬 25 Episodes 📅 1998 ⏱ 11 min
When a mysterious new rule threatens to shrink their beloved recess time, the four-square champions must band together to uncover the truth behind the decision. Recess becomes their battleground, not for conquest, but for friendship—where every kickball game and jungle gym adventure teaches them that loyalty matters more than winning. Through laughter and genuine moments of vulnerability, these fourth-graders discover that growing up means standing up for what you love, even when the odds seem impossible.
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📊 Season Stats
25
Episodes
1998
Year
11
min / ep
4.6
Watch Hours
2/6
Season No.
🎬 Episodes 25 episodes
1
The Break-Up
The gang breaks up when they are forced to choose a best friend to write about.
🎬 Chuck Sheetz ✍️ Michael L. Kramer
2
The Hypnotist
A hypnotist performing for the kids inadvertantly hypnotizes Principal Prickly into thinking he's six years old.
🎬 Susie Dietter ✍️ David Shayne
3
Mama's Girl
Spinelli gets labelled a mama's girl when she inadvertantly calls Ms. Grotke ""Mama.""
🎬 Chuck Sheetz ✍️ Mark Drop
4
Outcast Ashley
Ashley A. hooks up with Gretchen when she sins against the clique so gravely as to get thrown out.
🎬 Chuck Sheetz ✍️ Doria Biddle
5
The Game
Gus finds a tile from the game Ajimbo and soon the entire student body gets caught in its evil grasp.
🎬 Chuck Sheetz ✍️ Peter Gaffney
6
The Lost Ball
Gus has to go to the Yard of No Return when he kicks a good kickball over the fence.
🎬 Chuck Sheetz ✍️ Holly Huckins
7
Gus' Last Stand
Gus winds up the new target of the school bully's wrath.
🎬 Chuck Sheetz ✍️ Jonathan Rosenthal
8
Operation Field Trip
All the kids go on a big field trip to MISOOE (The Museum of Industry, Science, Oceanography, Oddities and Energy). But Ol' Smokey, the beloved school bus, breaks down in the middle of nowhere.
🎬 Chuck Sheetz ✍️ Michael L. Kramer
9
The Challenge
A visit from Principal Prickly's brother Paul leads to a challenge between 3rd Street and 98th Street kickball teams.
🎬 Chuck Sheetz ✍️ Jonathan Greenberg
10
Wild Child
In the "Pee Wee Pals" program, the main kids each have to take care of a kindergartner during recess.
🎬 Chuck Sheetz ✍️ Mark Drop
11
The Substitute
Substitute teacher Mr. E. captivates all the kids with his command of authority, except T.J.
🎬 Susie Dietter ✍️ Phil Walsh
12
Gretchen and the Secret of Yo
Gretchen turns to former yo-yo champ Tommy Tate to learn how to master the yo-yo.
🎬 Chuck Sheetz ✍️ Doria Biddle
13
The Girl Was Trouble
Gretchen's search for her stolen laptop leads her on a journey among the school's delinquents that ultimately brings about her downfall.
🎬 Chuck Sheetz ✍️ Mark Drop
14
Copycat Kid
Mikey wants to be exactly like Vince when Vince saves his life.
🎬 Chuck Sheetz ✍️ Holly Huckins
15
Operation Stuart
The kids take in a really ratty stray cat that they find near the dumpster, naming it Stuart.
🎬 Chuck Sheetz ✍️ Katy Ballard
16
Pharaoh Bob
King Bob orders the kids to build him a pyramid so that all future classes will remember him.
🎬 Chuck Sheetz ✍️ Jonathan Rosenthal
17
The Story of Whomps
Principal Prickly and Miss Finster deem T.J.'s word "whomps" as a cuss and punish him for it, starting a scandal that leads all the way to the board of education.
🎬 Chuck Sheetz ✍️ Mark Drop
18
Weekend at Muriel's
Miss Finster agrees to babysit Spinelli for the weekend while her parents are away.
🎬 Chuck Sheetz ✍️ Michael L. Kramer
19
Economics of Recess
When the playground goes on the monsticker standard T.J. goes down the path from poverty to wealth.
🎬 Howy Parkins ✍️ Mark Drop
20
Omega Kids
The main kids wish they could have the overcrowded school to themselves, then surprisingly get their wish.
🎬 Chuck Sheetz ✍️ Steve Bannos
21
Yes, Mikey, Santa Does Shave
Mikey is the only fourth grader who still believes in Santa Claus. He tries to convince the others Santa exists.
🎬 Susie Dietter ✍️ Mark Drop
22
Bad Hair Day
T.J. and Vince manage to convince everyone that the bad haircut they gave Mikey is actually cool.
🎬 Chuck Sheetz ✍️ Mark Drop
23
Dance Lessons
Spinelli's parents put her in Mlle. Povlova's dance school, where she teams up with Mikey.
🎬 Chuck Sheetz ✍️ Phil Walsh
24
Principal for a Day
Principal Prickly and Miss Finster plot to turn T.J. over to their own side by making him principal for a day.
🎬 Chuck Sheetz ✍️ Steve Bannos
25
The Beauty Contest
The Ashleys get back at Spinelli by entering her into the Kiddie Cosmetics Little Miss Blush Beauty Pageant. But her friends talk Spinelli into trying to beat the Ashleys in the pageant.
🎬 Chuck Sheetz ✍️ Sandy Adomaitis