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* [[Acrofatic]]: He's a more subtle example. While he's not "huge", he's definitly chubby, yet can pull off some awesome stunts.

* [[Book Dumb]]: He got a C- on a book report because he used the book's cover blurb, thinks "spy" is spelled S-P-I, gets a 10.1% on a test, however, on the playground, he can pull of elaborate schemes (literaly) under his hat.

* [[Ambiguously Brown]]: Spinelli's ethnic background has been called into question. Since she has almond-shaped eyes found on Asian girls in cartoons and light brown skin, many viewers have assumed that Spinelli was originally from somewhere in South Asia and was adopted by Caucasian parents. On the other hand, Spinelli's skin tone is also found on Southern Italians (Silicians, specifically) and [[That Other Wiki]] has established that Spinelli's family (possibly her father's side, as he has really dark hair and almost the same skin tone as his daughter, and her mother looks like she could be white European) is Italian (right down to Spinelli's penchant for fighting, which comes from the stereotype of the hot-blooded Italian) so either Spinelli's mom isn't really her mom, Spinelli's mom being a redhead is an [[Actor Allusion]] to Katey Sagal [who played Peggy Bundy -- a redheaded housewife who wore tacky 1960s housewife clothes and has a big bouffant, like Spinelli's mom does -- on ''[[Married... with Children]]''], Spinelli's mom dyes her hair, or Spinelli takes after her father more than her mother (which further reinforces Spinelli's aversion to all things she thinks are for girly-girls).

* [[Berserk Button]]: Don't EVER refer to her by her first name.

** Don’t do what Prickly did and MESS WITH HER HAT, even if you was temporary hypnotizes into the mind of a child. Prickly got lucky because he’s the principal and Gretchen happened to be there.

* [[Masculine Girl Feminine Boy]]: Definitely more masculine than Mikey. She's also manlier than TJ, though TTJ himself isn't terribly girly.

* [[Geek Physiques]]: Of the really skinny variaty.

* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Girly Girl to Spinelli's Tomboy, even if Gretchen isn't ''that'' girly. (She was considerably moreso in the unaired pilot; as she's shown wearing some jewelry and lipstick)

* [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]]: Probably the nicest kid on the playground, followed by Gretchen. (Though Gretchen HAS gotten in trouble at school before.)

* [[Cute Shotaro Boy]]: His broken base aside, Gus is probably one of the most adorable characters in the show. Doesn't hurt that his voice actor, Courtland Mead was one.

* [[Elmuh Fudd Syndwome]]: As a kindergartener

** [[Jerk with a Heart of Jerk]] part is debatable, because a lot of times he was shown as [[Friendly Enemy]] of Reccess Gang, genuinly wanted to be friends with them and especially TJ in "Randall's Reform" and genuinly respected Ms. Finster and looked up to her and had some [[Even Evil Has Standards]] moments. While he may be jerk and snitch, but deep down he is not that bad.

** In fact, he pretty much contrasts T.J. in appearence and personality. Unlike T.J., Lawson is tall, lanky, wears his baseball hat with the visor in the front, and is mean.

=== The Kindergarteners ===

* [[Expy]]: In-universe, Captain Sticky is the kindergartener's expy of King Bob

** All of the other kindergarteners are voiced by E.G. Daily, Pamela Segal, [[Ashley Johnson]] (sometimes), Francesca Smith (sometimes), and [[Kath Soucie]], which leads to this trope.

* [[Identical Twin ID Tag|Identical Friend ID Tag]]: Sam wears a red bandana around his neck, while Dave wears a white mouth cover around his neck.

** Sam ends up getting Dave's voice actor in ''Taking the Fifth Grade'' as well, due to his originaly voice actor, Klee Bragger, going through puberty. He does return to voice him at the end of the movie, [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshading]] his voice change.

* [[Tunnel King|Tunnel Kings]]

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "SCANDALOUS!"

* [[Hair Decorations]]: Ashley A. wears a pink headband and Ashley B. wears two yellow barrets.

* [[Even Evil Has Standards| Even The Ashleys Has Standards]]: Each of the Ashleys has a brother named Tyler. When each Tyler learned how to snitch and King Bob was among the targets, it was too scandalous, even for them since they were fair game.

* [[Five-Man Band|Four Girl Band]]: All of them are [[The Chick|Chicks]].

* [[One Steve Limit]]: Completely averted (and Spinelli's also named Ashley, but she wants no association with them), as well as each one having a younger brother named Tyler ''and'' a little sister named Britney.

* [[The Other Darrin]]: Ashley Johnson played Ashley T. from season two onwards, replacing Rachel Crane (who would conitune to do Ashley Q., however).

* [[Everyone Has Standards| Hustler Kid Has Standards]]: Don't except him to sell anything that could get a kid in trouble despite being a cheapsake.

* [[Cross-Dressing Voices]]: He's one of the few boys in the show done by a girl

* [[Kath Soucie]]

* [[Broken Bird]]: She actually doens't take much pride into her mean acts and dislikes her nickname.

* [[Berserk Button]]: Don't make her go rightside-up.

** [[Shout-Out]]: Which is most likely a refrence to the [[Carl Barks]] ''[[Donald Duck]]'' comics, featuring the Juior Woodchucks.

* [[Adorkable]]: She's overly enthusiastic about almost everything she does, plus she's rather adorable physicaly.

** According to [http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/tv-shows/Disneys-Recess/ Behind the Voice Actors: Disney's Recess] her first name is Alordayne.

* [[Token Good Teammate]]: Out of the four named facuilty, she's the only one who's not an [[Apathetic Teacher]] or [[Sadistic Teacher]].

* [[Knight of Cerebus]]: His episode is one of the darkest episodes of the series and every scene he appears in takes a darker turn. Not to mention, that unlike all other antagonists, his actions are played seriously and he is downright cruel (calling TJ sappy boy, just because he showed emotion and humilliated him in front of the school) and every other characters fear him, even TJ, who normally stands up to evils of adults.