Recess - Season 2 (1998)

The school is going on a field trip, but T.J.'s class bus breaks down leaving them stranded.

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.

In the "Pee Wee Pals" program, the main kids each have to take care of a kindergartener during recess.

A mysterious substitute by the name of Mr. E takes over Miss Grotke's class while she is away.

Gretchen discovers a new talent in yo-yos.

Gretchen is sent to the principal's office and recalls how a search for her missing hand-held computer turned her into a troublemaker.

After Vince saves Mikey from being hit by a baseball, Mikey notices how cool Vince is and tries to be just like him.

T.J. and his friends try to keep the teachers from finding out about Stuart, the mangy cat living behind the dumpster at school.

King Bob makes the kids build a pyramid in his honor.

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.

Spinelli gets an onslaught of flak for inadvertently calling Ms. Grotke "Mama."

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.

T.J. and his crew find out they have a previously overcrowded 3rd Street School all to themselves.

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?

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?

Principal Prickly declares T.J.'s trademark dirty word substitute "whomps" as a dirty word and tries to punish any kid who says it.

Spinelli must try to survive living with Miss Finster when her parents dump her off on Finster for the weekend.

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.

After getting in trouble for fighting at school, Spinelli is forced to take ballet lessons - and finds Mikey in the same class.

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.

Spinelli is entered into a beauty contest by the Ashleys as a joke, but sticks around so she can beat them.

A school assignment puts the friendship of T.J. and his crew at risk.

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.