Recess: School's Out/Trivia


 * Some of the guests who came to the premiere of the film include Wendie Malick, Joey Lawrence (Andrew Lawrence's (T.J.) older brother, who was also the voice of "The Dude" in the show), Dylan and Cole Sprouse, Michelle Trachtenberg, and Myles Jeffrey (Who would become T.J.'s new voice actor a few years later), among others.
 * Hey Its That Voice!:
 * Benedict is voiced by Hades.
 * Principal Prickly is Dr. John McKittrick.
 * The Ugly Bald Guy is Byron Hadley. And Mr. Krabs and Lex Luthor, to boot.
 * Fenwyck is voiced by Janosz.
 * Non Singing Voice: Mikey, as usual, but when the kids are singing backup in "Green Tamborine", a few of them have different voices. Blake Ewing, who usually voices Menlo (who doesn't appear in the movie), did T.J. and Gus's singing voices (Blake Ewing's little brother, Zach, would eventually voice Gus in the Lilo & Stitch crossover), while Andi McAffee, who voices Ashley A., did Gretchen's singing voice. Pamela Segal and Ricky D'Shon Colins did their characters, Spinelli and Vince, as usual.
 * Though oddly enough, any other scene with the kids singing has them sing with their regular voices.
 * What Could Have Been: It was going to be released for summer 2000, just in time for summer vacation, the theme for the movie. Because Pokémon The Movie 2000 was being released at the same time, Disney feared competition from the mentioned Cash Cow Franchise and kept on pushing the movie back until February 2001...which was far from summer vacation (though at least it was released during the usual week for February vacation!).
 * Though if both were released at the same time, Pokémon would've done better in the box office, while Recess would've done better with critics.
 * Summer Vacation: The Ultimate Recess was the original title for the movie before it was changed to the much-better sounding title it has now.
 * After the gang leaves T.J. for camp, there was going to be an original song by They Might Be Giants playing as he sadly rode his bike alone. It was replaced with "One".
 * In the ending credits, Mikey was going to sing "Get Back", but it was too expensive to get the rights to a song by The Beatles. They used "Green Tamborine" instead.