Howy Parkins

On New Year’s Eve, 14-year old Hailey decides to make a list of all the big things she wants to do but the real-world challenges she gives herself suddenly have…

When the playground goes on the monsticker standard T.J. goes down the path from poverty to wealth.

T.J. takes charge when Gretchen seems to achieve a dream that T.J.’s always had, to be an astronaut on the space shuttle.

Spinelli gets a crush on a fifth grader and has to get over it to save her reputation.

In his hatred of Valentine’s Day, T.J. sends a ””funny”” valentine to every single girl on the playground to show them how stupid Valentine’s Day is, but his plan soon…

T.J. and Vince are so into the ”Barnaby Boys” books that they dress up like the Barnaby Boys and try to solve the mystery of the suspicious substitute janitor, Earl…

Everyone is segregrated once the Ashley’s start giving ratings to everyone on the playground.

In this Hallowe’en episode, Butch tells us three terrifying tales of Recess. Children of the Cornchip: Cornchip Girl eats some untested cornchips and turns into a werekid! The gang have…

Mikey’s new friendship with Kurst the Worst doesn’t sit well with their friends.

Randal recruits the Tylers, the Ashleys’ little brothers, to help him snitch.

Bad-guy Mundy becomes very poular after he prevents a ball from hitting a little kid.

During a burning hot day, the gang attempts to make it across the playground to the otherside where there is a water pump.

The gang is suspicious when the Ashleys give Spinelli six wrestling tickets.

Gus and Theresa (Cornchip Girl) have a hard time becoming friends due to their rivaling fathers.

Gus must stay behind from the fair because he forgot his permission slip, while the rest of the gang try to figure out a way to get Gus to the…

Vince and T.J. compete for the job as A.V. Kid, but their competition leads to a broken-up friendship between them.

The kids think Vince is getting special treatment when he becomes Prickly’s golf partner.

The kids find a paper fortune teller on the ground that predicts doom for Gus.

Randall gets the main kids to pretend that they’re his friends when his father, Leonard, visits the school on Randall’s birthday.

The original 1935 edition of The Rules of the Playground is discovered in the library.

Second grade prodigy Becky Benson befriends Gretchen to get help for her science fair project. But she has an ulterior motive.

Gretchen and Vince both run for president.

Ms. Grotke’s strange behavior makes the kids think that she’s a spy.

Miss Finster hurts her leg and can’t keep up with the kids during recess.

Gus starts an obsessive crusade to kill all the germs in the world, while Mikey will do anything to save them.

Randall uses an embarrassing photo to blackmail King Bob into making him Playground Prince.

Gretchen is worried when she’s partnered with T.J. on a class project.

Disgusted by the horrible cafeteria food, Vince becomes the new school cook when the other kids try his cooking.

Needing to prepare himself for a poet laureate ceremony, Mikey decides to listen to Menlo to learn how to organize himself.

T.J. has a mysterious new friend.

The main kids discover that Gus was once a notorious dodgeball player who went by the name of El Diablo.

T.J. breaks his clavicle and now has to spend recess with the ””pale kids”” in Room 51.

When the gang catches the mysterious ””Libray Kid””, they take her out to recess where she becomes obssessed with the playground.

When one of T.J.s plans goes wrong and Gus breaks his leg he won’t make another plan. It’s up to the others to get T.J. back to his old self

The gang gets busted when they accidentally break a statue of a famous hero.

The gang tries to cover up Mikey’s ripped pants so Finster won’t catch him.

The school gets a new technology system installed called the SAL 3000 which controls everything.

T.J. and the gang meet Mr. Dudicoff, a student teacher who was a legend at 3rd Street School back in the day.

When a new kid from Norway comes to 3rd Street School, Gus befriends the kid by making him think that Gus is the hottest kid in the school.

T.J. can’t figure out why Gordy doesn’t like him.

Spinelli becomes popular as an advice giver when she sits in for Guru Kid.

Mikey makes the other kids regret not letting them play on their team for the playground’s soccer tourney.

The bored main kids build their own fort. But then Lawson takes it over.

Spinelli gets peeved with her parents heap so much praise for Gretchen at her expense.

Vince feels like an outsider after he misses the must-see movie of the weekend.

Mikey badgers the gang into a trip to senior citizens home.

Mikey and Gus want to join the Woodchuck Scouts.

T.J. finds a $100 bill and along with the gang try to find out who lost it.

After Mikey helps Cornchip Girl off the climbing frame after she gets stuck, the gang wonder how big he will be. Gretchen and Galileo conduct a test to find out…

The gang tries to find out who removed all the balls from the playground.

Tired of TJ and his friends getting all the glory from King Bob, Lawson decides to get a gang of his own together. He recruits Randall, Menlow, Swinger Girl, Skeenes…