Season 3
🎬 16 Episodes 📅 1999 ⏱ 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
16
Episodes
1999
Year
11
min / ep
2.9
Watch Hours
3/6
Season No.
🎬 Episodes 16 episodes
1
One Stayed Clean
On class picture day, the kids vow to keep Gus clean as he's never had a class picture of him taken.
🎬 Chuck Sheetz ✍️ Gregg Taylor
2
A Genius Among Us
Someone else besides Gretchen is a math genius, and through math, Gretchen starts a close relationship with this person.
🎬 Chuck Sheetz ✍️ Brian Hamill
3
Dodgeball City
The main kids discover that Gus was once a notorious dodgeball player who went by the name of El Diablo.
🎬 Howy Parkins ✍️ Mark Drop
4
A Career to Remember
A career day assembly gets all the kids to decide their future careers. That is all except Spinelli.
🎬 Brenda Piluso ✍️ Mark Drop
5
Kindergarten Derby
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.
🎬 Chuck Sheetz ✍️ Steve Viksten
6
The Bet
Fed up with Vince's ego, the kids bet Vince that he can't go one whole day without beating someone in a sport.
🎬 Chuck Sheetz ✍️ David Pitlik
7
Space Cadet
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.
🎬 Chuck Sheetz ✍️ David Pitlik
8
Stand Up Randall
Randall becomes popular when he uses a joke book to make himself a standup comedian.
🎬 Chuck Sheetz ✍️ Mark Drop
9
The Shiner
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.
🎬 Chuck Sheetz ✍️ Steve Bannos
10
Lord of the Nerds
T.J. breaks his clavicle and now has to spend recess with the ""pale kids"" in Room 51.
🎬 Chuck Sheetz ✍️ Ford Riley
11
That Stinking Feeling
Spinelli gets a crush on a fifth grader and has to get over it to save her reputation.
🎬 Howy Parkins ✍️ Chad Einbinder
12
My Funny Valentines
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.
🎬 Howy Parkins ✍️ Gregg Taylor
13
The Barnaby Boys
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.
🎬 Chuck Sheetz ✍️ Phil Walsh
14
Buried Treasure
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.
🎬 Chuck Sheetz ✍️ Peter Gaffney
15
The Library Kid
When the gang catches the mysterious ""Libray Kid"", they take her out to recess where she becomes obssessed with the playground.
🎬 Chuck Sheetz ✍️ Holly Huckins
16
The Ratings Game
Everyone is segregrated once the Ashley's start giving ratings to everyone on the playground.
🎬 Howy Parkins ✍️ Holly Huckins