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Recess Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
26 Episodes 1998 - 1999
Episode 1
The Game
Sat, Sep 26, 1998
A game with a bad reputation invades the playground...and one by one, the kids succumb to its strange power.
Episode 2
The Lost Ball
Sat, Sep 26, 1998
Gus accidentally kicks a ball over a fence. Can he get it back, or will he forever be known as the kid who lost the best ball the playground ever had?
Episode 3
Gus' Last Stand
Sat, Oct 3, 1998
Gus stands up to Gelman the bully.
Episode 4
Operation: Field Trip
Sat, Oct 3, 1998
The school is going on a field trip, but T.J.'s class bus breaks down leaving them stranded.
Episode 5
The Challenge
Sat, Oct 10, 1998
Principal Prickly's brother is principal of a rival elementary school. The siblings square off over a bet based on a game of kickball with the gang playing off against their doubles.
Episode 6
Wild Child
Sat, Oct 10, 1998
In the "Pee Wee Pals" program, the main kids each have to take care of a kindergartener during recess.
Episode 7
The Substitute
Sat, Oct 31, 1998
A mysterious substitute by the name of Mr. E takes over Miss Grotke's class while she is away.
Episode 8
Gretchen and the Secret of Yo
Sat, Oct 31, 1998
Gretchen discovers a new talent in yo-yos.
Episode 9
The Girl Was Trouble
Sat, Nov 7, 1998
Gretchen is sent to the principal's office and recalls how a search for her missing hand-held computer turned her into a troublemaker.
Episode 10
Copycat Kid
Sat, Nov 7, 1998
After Vince saves Mikey from being hit by a baseball, Mikey notices how cool Vince is and tries to be just like him.
Episode 11
Operation Stuart
Sat, Nov 14, 1998
T.J. and his friends try to keep the teachers from finding out about Stuart, the mangy cat living behind the dumpster at school.
Episode 12
Pharaoh Bob
Sat, Nov 14, 1998
King Bob makes the kids build a pyramid in his honor.
Episode 13
The Hypnotist
Sat, Dec 5, 1998
An entertainer comes to an assembly at school and fails to hypnotize Miss Finster...but does manage to convince Mr. Prickly that he is only 6 years old.
Episode 14
Mama's Girl
Sat, Dec 5, 1998
Spinelli gets an onslaught of flak for inadvertently calling Ms. Grotke "Mama."
Episode 15
Economics of Recess
Sat, Dec 12, 1998
After being sick TJ comes back to school and things aren't quite the same. A playground currency "Monstickers" have been instituted for everything from having a drink, to playing ball. Stickerless TJ works hard to rise out of poverty.
Episode 16
Omega Kids
Sat, Dec 12, 1998
T.J. and his crew find out they have a previously overcrowded 3rd Street School all to themselves.
Episode 17
Yes, Mikey, Santa Does Shave: Part 1
Sat, Dec 26, 1998
Mikey is ridiculed when it is discovered he still believes in Santa Claus. So, he tries to prove to his friends that he is real. But will he still play Santa in the school's Christmas pageant?
Episode 18
Yes, Mikey, Santa Does Shave: Part 2
Sat, Dec 26, 1998
Mikey is ridiculed when it is discovered he still believes in Santa Claus. So, he tries to prove to his friends that he is real. But will he still play Santa in the school's Christmas pageant?
Episode 19
The Story of Whomps
Sat, Jan 9, 1999
Principal Prickly declares T.J.'s trademark dirty word substitute "whomps" as a dirty word and tries to punish any kid who says it.
Episode 20
Weekend at Muriel's
Sat, Jan 9, 1999
Spinelli must try to survive living with Miss Finster when her parents dump her off on Finster for the weekend.
Episode 21
Bad Hair Day
Sat, Jan 16, 1999
Mikey is given a bad haircut after getting gum stuck in it, and Vince and T.J. lie and say it's a trendy new cut, leading every kid on the playground to want their hair styled the same way.
Episode 22
Dance Lessons
Sat, Jan 16, 1999
After getting in trouble for fighting at school, Spinelli is forced to take ballet lessons - and finds Mikey in the same class.
Episode 23
Principal for a Day
Sat, Feb 27, 1999
Once a year a student is randomly selected to be principal for day of third street school. Finster and Principle Prickley get the bright idea to convert TJ to their disciplinarian ways by making him the unlikely victor.
Episode 24
The Beauty Contest
Sat, Feb 27, 1999
Spinelli is entered into a beauty contest by the Ashleys as a joke, but sticks around so she can beat them.
Episode 25
The Break-Up
Sat, Sep 12, 1998
A school assignment puts the friendship of T.J. and his crew at risk.
Episode 26
Outcast Ashley
Sat, Apr 10, 1999
Ashley A. is thrown out of the Ashley's for committing a major social faux pas. No longer repressing her interest in astronomy, she starts to hang out with Gretchen and gives her fashion advice while they both await the arrival of an upcoming total solar eclipse.
