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Many plots would deal with the kid's [[Serious Business]] attitude about simple grade school life, mostly, among other aspects, [[Title Drop|recess]]. This includes having a designated 'King', nicknames for each other based on their main 'quality' (Swinger Girl, The Diggers, Pale Kids ect.) and the concept of popular fads quickly taking over playground demographics. The series was also well known for its large [[Periphery Demographic]], due to every episode having at least one [[Parental Bonus]].
The series was notably the only show to premiere in the initial season of Disney's One Saturday Morning that would last the entirety of the block's run, going on well into the first two years of [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] Kids. It was also rerun the most out of all the shows on [[One Saturday Morning]], pretty much being on all of Disney Channel's affiliates at one point or another. It was one of the few older shows to air on [[Disney XD]] after [[Toon Disney]] shut down, and it has recently returned to the network. Yes, it was ''that good'' folks.
In 2001, ''[[Recess: School's Out]]'' was released in theaters to positive reception. Please put all tropes relating to the movie there.
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== A-E ==
* [[Absentee Actor]]: Gus wasn't in "The Great Jungle Gym Standoff", though he made his debut a few episodes prior. (He was edited into the picture book adaptation, though.) Although someone with a good eye can see that he's actually drawn in the background in a few shots, likely as an animation goof.
* [[Absurdly Powerful Student Council]]
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* [[Animation Bump]]: [[The Movie]] has better animation than the cartoon, but then again it had a ''much'' larger budget and didn't have the deadlines as the animated series has. You can spot some Animation Goofs in the series, such as Gus apparently showing up in a crowd before he actually transferred to school, and Gretchen vanishing in mid-air.
* [[Art Evolution]]
** Originally, the main six characters were given more realistic designs. When the show premiered, they had a more "cutesy" design, and were lacking in eye color.
** In season three
** And T.J. lost the slight puppy-dog sparkle in his eyes after season one. There wasn't much explanation why, but it could've been because he was the only character with it and it looked odd compared to the others. He was also a bit chubbier as well.
** Gus and T.J. are a bit taller in the later episodes, showing that the kids are getting a little older.
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* [[Art Shift]]: One episode had the kids become part of a government experiment to see if getting rid of recess would improve standardized test scores. As everyone lost time to blow off steam, the color palate of the animation becomes more drab. At the end of the episode, the government [[Status Quo Is God|allows the school to have recess again]], and everything becomes vibrant as the children play outside in the sun.
* [[Assumed Win]]: In 'Principal For A Day." When the faculty draws a student's name out of a box to be principal for a day Randall stands up thinking he won (because he stuffed the box). The actaul winner is TJ.
* [[Averse Adept]]: Gus is a master at dodgeball, a skill that earned him the nickname "El Diablo". From when he transfers to 3rd Street School he keeps this a secret from everyone, even his friends, as he fears the harm his talent can cause. When Spinelli holds his guitar hostage to make him spill why he no longer plays dodgeball, Gus explains that during a ferocious game, he accidentally hit a kid who wasn't playing; the kid ran off crying before Gus could apologize and spent every subsequent recess inside.
* [[Backstabbing the Alpha Bitch]]: "Outcast Ashley"
* [[Badass Adorable]]: Arguably, the main kids, especially in the movie, but mainly Spinelli (for already being a [[Cute Bruiser]]) and T.J. (for being the team leader).
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* [[Begone Bribe]]: In one episode, Mikey imagines himself as a bard/minstrel when he's older. He serenades a couple, making the lady swoon and prompting her date to pay him to move on.
* [[Berserk Button]]: The six main characters, except Vince, each have one.
** T.J.: Don't mess with recess, especially if it's summer vacation.
** Spinelli: Never refer to her by her first name. (She shares the same name as the mean girls at school.)
** Gretchen: Never suggest that she's dumb.
** Mikey: Don't mistake his kindness as a sign of weakness.
** Gus: Don't harm a little kid. Incidentally, he happens to be friends with a kindergartner who goes by the name of Hector.
** It's suggested that Upside-Down Girl's berserk button is being turned right-side-up.
{{quote|'''Upside-Down Girl:''' If I have to come down from here, ''no one'' will be happy.}}
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** Gus with dodgeballs in his hands brutally knocked out an entire fifth grade class on his own.
* [[Be Yourself]]: Spinelli in "The Beauty Contest".
* [[Big Eater]]: Both Mikey
* [[Big No]]: Spinelli and TJ after they finished drawing straws knowing that they'll experiment a "kiss" in "The Experiment".
* [[Big Damn Movie|Big Whomping Movie]]: The plot of the movie revolves around the kids and faculty uniting to stop a madman from plunging the Earth into an eternal winter and thus eliminating summer vacation. The series, meanwhile, focuses on mostly playground antics.
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** In "Parents' Night", when Spinelli's dad is showing the other five kids pictures of her as a baby, he says, "Look at her on the rug with her fanny in the air". The "fanny in the air" part was cut after it's original airing on ABC, but [[Toon Disney]] added it back in (except in the U.K.).
* [[Brick Joke]]: When Spinelli calls Miss Grotke "Mama" by mistake the gang come up with several crazy schemes to help her out such as playing subliminal messages over the PA system. This is forgotten about until the end of the episode when Gretchen says "I wonder why the subliminal messages didn't work" and it cuts to Prickly and Miss Finster calling each other "Mama" and "Daddy" without thinking.
* [[Broken Bird]]: Kurst the Worst may or may not fall under this trope: she's considered one of, if not the meanest girl at school, yet seems
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Gus
* [[Calvin Ball]]: The ''[[Pokémon]]''-esque card game Ajimbo. Just how do you play it, anyway?
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* [[Christmas Episode]]: "Yes, Mikey, Santa Does Shave". Then it was released in a [[Compliation Movie]] released directly to DVD and video, ''Recess Christmas: Miracle on Third Street".
* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]
** After "The Terrifying Tales of Recess" (the first episode of season six, and the stories in the episodes were non-
** There was another teacher's pet to be Randall's rival named Douglas. He only appeared once and was mentioned another time, however.
** The Tylers, the little brothers of the Ashleys, only appear in one episode and never show up in the series again.
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** The Christmas special released on video. All but one of the episodes featured had nothing to do with Christmas at all, although one admittedly was about Thanksgiving.
** Same with "All Growed Down", except for the last segment, which was most likely an unaired episode.
* [[Collectible Cloney Babies]]:
** "The Game" treats Ajimbo pieces as this, because the winner of each match collects the loser's tile pieces. While people can buy more game pieces at Kelso's store, they take pride in collecting the tiles.
** "The Legend of Big Kid" starts with Vince and T.J. comparing baseball cards before kindergarteners ambush them. When the kindergartners turn T.J. into one of them, so he thinks that he is "Big Kid," Vince snaps him out of it by showing him the card of his favorite baseball player.
** "Bonky Fever" shows Mikey having a preteen life crisis after his mother tells him that after he turns ten, she can't walk him to the bus anymore. He starts collecting Bonky the Green Dragon merchandise, which makes him the laughingstock of the school because it's meant for kindergartners. His friends try to snap him out of it by confiscating the merchandise and handing it over to Miss Finster, but he has to have a talk with his mother about how he's scared of growing up to break the obsession.
* [[Comic Book Time]]: Actually ''averted'', as it's been established that while the show aired from 1997 to 2001, the show is taking place over the course of Fall 1997 and Spring/Summer 1998 (with ''Taking the Fifth Grade'' taking place in Fall 1998)
* [[Competence Zone]]:
* [[Concert Kiss]]: The episode "The Experiment" has T.J. and Spinelli kiss, [[Test Kiss|as an experiment]], in front of all their friends and all the kids in the playground, despite T.J. and Spinelli's request in not wanting to kiss in public in the first place, thanks to their friends inability to keep a secret about it.
* [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]: King Bob's version of capital punishment. ''"Let him feel the rubbery thunder of the Dodgeball Wall!"''
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** Franklin "The Dude" Dudakoff. Known as a legendary student of Third Street School who was the prankster prince, the king of the playground before he became a sixth grader, and an all around badass wanted to become a teacher because he thinks science is interesting.
** Miss Grotke's a pretty cool teacher herself.
* [[Continuity Nod]]: Spinelli calling Miss Grotke mama is referenced in "Weekend At Muriel's".
* [[Crossover]]: With ''[[Lilo and Stitch (Disney film)|Liloand Stitch]]'', where the cast had a somewhat clashing animation style and some different voice actors.
* [[Crowd Chant]]: The opinion of the student body can sway violently, and at the drop of a hat, so this happens a lot.
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* [[The Documentary]]: "Kids in the Mist", where a child psychologist films the kids.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: In "Economics of Recess", the American Monsticker currency eventually gets overtaken by the [[Japan Takes Over the World|Japanese Lick-and-Stick Alien Stamp currency]].
* [[Do Not Call Me "Paul"]]: Thaddeus T. Third V (the grandson of the man who Third Street is named after) is always mistakenly called "Mr. Fifth", much to his chagrin.
* [[Don't Ask]]: About Mikey's [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|Uncle]] [[Transsexualism|Mary]].
* [[Doppelganger]]: In an episode where the gang goes to a school for a kickball game (due to a bet of their principals as they're also brothers), the rival school is a near copy of the group's school with their opponents being copies of the gang themselves.
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* [[Everyone Went to School Together]]: Well, ''obviously''. Less apparent, ''All Growed Down'' revealed Gus was at Third Street for a period of Kindergarten as well (which was [[retcon]]ned in).
* [[Everything's Better with Plushies]]: The main six all got stuffed dolls of them released towards the end of the `90s going into the early 2000s, at The Disney Store and Toys "R" Us. T.J., Gretchen, and Gus were released first, with Vince, Spinelli, and Mikey released later.
== F-J ==
* [[Face Your Fears]]: T.J. is forced to do this to overcome the terror of the Box... which was just a white square drawn on the playground tarmac.
* [[Fan Disservice]]
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* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: [[Recess/Radar|It has its own page.]]
* [[The Ghost]]: Spinelli's older brothers, Joey and Vito. T.J.'s sister, Becky, was this until ''[[Recess: School's Out]]'' when she finally made a physical appearance.
* [[Girl Posse]]: The Ashleys are a mean girl posse.
** Spinelli joins one when she's sent to a ballet school. However, she finds that Mikey is also at ballet school.
* [[Here We Go Again]]
* [[Hidden Depths]]:
** Gus turns out to be a famous dodgeball player. He quits when he accidentally hits an innocent kid, but he temporarily plays dodgeball again when a bully hits his kindergartner friend Hector with a ball.
** Kurst the Worst proves that she's not always a mean girl, especially not to Mikey, who while friendlier than her shares the same appetite.
** Principal Prickly gets this in the movie. Turns out he cares more about children than TJ had thought.
** Miss Finster herself gets this occasionally...she's not always the tyrant that the students portray her as. Spinelli dislikes her stay with Finster not because she's mean to her, but because she's boring...initially.
* [[Hippie Teacher]]
** Ms. Grotke.
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* [[Jet Pack]]: In one episode, the cast found a note worth a large amount of money and decided to try to find its owner. They did, and T.J returned it, only to be told to leave. The person he returned it to appeared wearing a Jet Pack and explained that [[Secret Test|he did this all the time, and the gang was the only one to actually return the note to him]].
* [[The Jimmy Hart Version]]: The theme is an obvious parody of the ''[[Series/Hogans Heroes|Hogans Heroes]]'' theme. Which in turn, as pointed out above, is an obvious parody of the march from ''[[The Great Escape]]''.
== K-O ==
* [[Karma Houdini]]: [[Alpha Bitch|Ashley A]] and her [[Girl Posse]]. (Hey, that rhymes!) They [[Manipulative Bastard|exploit]] Gus's [[Honour Before Reason]] approach by tricking him into a "jinx" such that he doesn't talk at all, [[For the Evulz|just to toy with him for their own amusement]]. When Gus holds back from talking at all, even to the point where the school staff is threatening to take him to the police station over it, '''[[Kick the Dog|they STILL enjoy causing him to get into this kind of trouble]].''' Eventually it's announced that Gus was jinxed, and the main characters retaliate against the [[Girl Posse]] by tricking them into a jinx. However, the episode ends there, and if you just think about the logic of the episode, you will realize there's no way in the world that [[Girl Posse]] has the "honor" within them to obey said "jinx."
* [[Kid Com]]
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** "League of Randalls" puts the main six out of focus, then brings them in briefly for their plan, then they're gone for the rest of the episode.
** This would end up happening to Miss Grotke in the later episodes
== P-T ==
* [[Panty Shot]]: Subverted by Upside-Down Girl, who wears thigh-length leggings under her skirt as she hangs from the monkey bar.
* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]
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* [[Tunnel King]]: The Diggers
* [[Two Girls to a Team]]: Gretchen and Spinelli are the only girls in the main six.
== U-Z ==
* [[Unintentional Period Piece]]: The earlier episodes came off as this at times.
* [[Unspoken Plan]]
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* [[Wanting Is Better Than Having]]: One episode had the kids build a cool fort to hang out in, only to have it promptly stolen from them by bullies. After spending the whole episode trying to win it back, afterwards they realize that it was more fun trying to take back the fort than actually hanging out in it. They promptly call up the bullies to try and take it back from them.
* [[Welcome Episode]]: "The New Kid", for Gus, and as a rare example, aired as episode 1B (first episode; second story after the commercial break).
* [[Wise Beyond Their Years]]: Menlo acts like an adult despite being a child. Gretchen also acts like an adult, but no to the same extent as Menlo himself.
* [[Wham! Episode]]: "The Biggest Trouble Ever", where the gang accidentally breaks a priceless statue and become town scapegoats, to the point where the [[Smug Snake]] of a Mayor plans to break them up and send them to six different schools. Sure, you know it'll be resolved and [[Status Quo Is God|nothing will change]], but it's easily the most dramatic story ''Recess'' ever did.
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?]]: The Unwritten Code of the Playground.
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