Rickey D'Shon Collins

Recess portrays the lives of six fourth graders at Third Street Elementary School, where students have set up 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.

The school year is finally ending, and the Recess gang are looking forward to summer until T.J. uncovers an evil plot to banish summer and have year-round school.

T.J. and The Recess Gang are kidnapped by the Third Street School's kindergartners, who are in turn being bullied by a new kid in their class. T.J., Gretchen and Mikey try to remind the kindergartners that they're all friends by retelling different adventures they've all had together. But it's only when Gus tells the kindergartners about the time T.J. and company were toddlers that the current kindergartners overcome their fear of the new kid and depose him as their leader.