Recess (TV series)

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Recess
Genre	Comedy; Adventure; Coming of age
Created by	Paul Germain; Joe Ansolabehere
Voices of	Ross Malinger; Andrew Lawrence; Rickey D'Shon Collins; Ashley Johnson; Pamela Adlon; Jason Davis; Courtland Mead; April Winchell; Dabney Coleman
Composer	Denis M. Hannigan
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	6
No. of episodes	65 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Paul Germain; Joe Ansolabehere
Running time	20 minutes
Production companies	Walt Disney Television Animation; Paul & Joe Productions (2000–01); (seasons 5–6)
Original release
Network	ABC (One Saturday Morning/ABC Kids) (Seasons 1-3 and 5); UPN (Disney's One Too) (Seasons 4 and 6)
Release	December 7, 1996 –; November 5, 2001

Recess is an American animated television series created by Paul Germain and Joe Ansolabehere (credited as "Paul and Joe") and produced by Walt Disney Television Animation, with animation done by Grimsaem, Anivision, Plus One Animation, Sunwoo Animation, and Toon City. The series focuses on six elementary school students and their interaction with other classmates and teachers. The title refers to the recess period during the daily schedule, in the North American tradition of educational schooling, when students are not in lessons and are outside in the schoolyard. During recess, the children form their own society, complete with government and a class structure, set against the backdrop of a regular school.

Plot

Recess portrays the lives of six fourth graders—cheeky and popular lovable rogue Theodore Jasper "T.J." Detweiler (Ross Malinger, Andrew Lawrence), Jock Vince LaSalle (Rickey D'Shon Collins), tomboy Ashley Spinelli (Pamela Adlon), wise fool Mikey Blumberg (Jason Davis), geek Gretchen Grundler (Ashley Johnson), and awkward new kid Gus Griswald (Courtland Mead)—as they go about their daily lives in a school environment at Third Street Elementary School in Little Rock, Arkansas.[4][5] A major satirical point of the show is that the community of students at school is a microcosm of traditional human society complete with its own government, class system, and set of unwritten laws. They are ruled by a monarch, a sixth grader named King Bob, who has various enforcers to make sure his decrees are carried out. The society has a long list of rigid values and social norms that imposes a high expectation of conformity upon all the students.

Characters

T.J. Detweiler
Vince LaSalle
Mikey Blumberg
Gus Griswald
Gretchen Grundler
Ashley Spinelli
Miss Finster
Randall
Principal Prickly