Recess: School's Out

Release: February 16, 2001

It is the end of the school year at Third Street School, and T.J. is excited to be out of school and spend the whole summer with his friends. Unfortunately everybody else is going to various camps for the summer to look ahead at the future. Soon afterward, T.J. notices strange people hanging out inside the school performing weird experiments, and nobody believes him. After he gets all his friends back together they are initially skeptical, until they too see the strange goings on. They soon find Principal Prickly held hostage by a man named Dr. Phillium Benedict, former Third Street School principal, superintendent and U.S. Secretary of Education who lost his job and the love of his girlfriend Muriel Finster after trying to abolish recess in schools. Now he has a plan to change the orbit of the moon plunging the Earth into an eternal winter and forcing kids to stay indoors, so no Summer Vacation can occur. Now the kids of Third Street, friend and foe alike, must team up and stop Benedict's plan. with the voice talents of Rickey D'Shon Collins, Jason Davis [speaking]/Robert Goulet [singing], Ashley Johnson, Andy Lawrence, Courtland Mead, Pamela Segall Adlon, Dabney Coleman, Melissa Joan Hart, Peter MacNicol, April Winchell, and James Woods [among others]. Director: Chuck Sheetz. Screenplay by Jonathan Greenberg; Story by Joe Ansolabehere, Paul Germain & Greenberg; Based on Disney/ABC's animated One Saturday Morning show created by/Produced by Paul & Joe [Paul was also the dialogue director]. Producer: Stephen Swofford. Music Score by Denis M. Hannigan; featuring the end credits songs: the original "Green Tambourine", and "Dancing in the Street" - performed by Myra. Produced for Walt Disney Pictures by Walt Disney Television Animation. Animation Production by Sunwoo Animation [sk]. Released in Theaters on February 16, 2001 Approved [#36591]/rated G. Copyright ©2000 Disney Enterprises, Inc./Walt Disney Pictures and Television All Rights Reserved

Locate The Duplicate Entry For Recess: School's Out

Poster	Title	Date Added	Release Date
	Recess: School's Out	01/04/2013	(2001)
	Recess Christmas: Miracle on Third Street	10/24/2023	(2001)

Trailers

"Now on Video & Disney DVD [8/2]" trailer (D'sR:"Mo3rdSt." 11/6/01 DVD)

"Coming to Video & Disney DVD 8/7th" trailer ('TE'sNG' 5/1/01 VHS)

Original theatrical trailer for 2/16/01 (late 2000)

Original theatrical trailer.

YouTube trailer for movie rental.

Posters

Quotes

Miss Finster: "Hey teacher, leave them kids alone!"

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Gus: "Ninjas. Why'd it have to be ninjas?"

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Miss Finster: "What the J. P. Morgan is going on around here?"

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Mr. Detwiler: "T.J, did you run into the sliding glass door again?"

T.J.: "Urg!"

Mr. Detwiler: "Come back, your mom's gonna wanna take your temperature!"

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T.J.: "There's guys at the school! They're doing some kind of evil experiment!"

Mrs. Detwiler: "That bonk on the head must have rattled your little brain!"

T.J.: "But mom!"

Mrs. Detwiler: "You're feverish! You wait right here. I'll go get the baby thermometer and the petroleum jelly!"

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Miss Finster: "I'm stuck! Curse these bodacious hips of mine!"

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Vince: "[Whilst looking out a telescope from the treehouse] Infrared night vision, 200-to-1 zoom. I gotta hand it to you, Gretch. You can see the whole school with this thing."

Gretchen: "You can make lots of handy devices out of the spare parts in a family's garage. I once fashioned a particle accelerator out of a broken hair dryer. and a four-slice toaster oven."

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Gretchen: "Excuse me, but aren't supposed to eat dinner before dessert? [pauses; then TJ, Vince, Spinelli, Mikey, and Gus laughs]"

Ashley: "Good one, Gretch."

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TJ: "Mom! Mom!"

Mrs. Detweiler: "TJ are you all right?"

TJ: "Mom those guys at the school are doing some kind of evil experience!"

Mrs. Detweiler: "Oh dear that bog on the head must of rattled your little brain!"

TJ: "But mom..."

Mrs. Detweiler: "You're feverish. You wait right here. I'll go get the baby thermometer and the jelly."

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Captain Brad: "You are a pathetic excuse for a soldier, Griswald! You will never be a leader! Now, stand at attention until I return and do not move a muscle! Do you hear me? NOT A MUSCLE! [He walks away from Gus]"

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Gus: "[after Vince, Ashley, Gretchen, Mikey and the gang are about to leave for the school bus] Well, Teej? There's my transport. [to TJ] Hey, why don't you come with? Military camp's gonna be a blast!"

Captain Brad: "Griswald, you maggot! Get your fanny over here, NOW!"

TJ: "Eh. Thanks, Gus. But, I think I'll stick it out at home this summer."

Gus: "Okay. But, you don't know what you're missing. [He runs to him] Hi, Captain Brad."

Captain Brad: "I don't like you, Griswald! I am not your friend! Do I make myself clear?"

Gus: "Yes, sir! Not looking for friendship, sir!"

TJ: "Good luck, Gus. You're gonna need it. [Gus gets on the bus, waving goodbye to him and Captain Brad nabs him] Man, this summer's gonna whomp."

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Mikey Blumberg: "[while the gang is spying on Benedict] Uh, TJ? I got that feeling, again..."

TJ: "Suck it in, big guy! [Mikey lets out a loud belch that echoes through the school]"

Benedict: "...Somebody better say "Excuse me.""

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Benedict: "[in 1968] Pull up a bag, bro, I wanna rap."

Principal Prickly: "Lay it on me, man."

Benedict: "You see, Pete, I've been thinking, we're a new generation of teachers, right? It's time we shook things up a little."

Principal Prickly: "I hear you brother, in fact, dig this. I was meditating to that new Ravi Shankar album last night when I got this righteous notion. WHat if we hold all our classes outside on the playground? Imagine, school, recess, no boundaries."

Benedict: "Hey baby that's a hip idea but Pete I got a better thought here. As my first official act as principal, I've decided to get rid of recess."

Principal Prickly: "What? No recess? But Phil! For a kid, recess is like a major play-in, it's the one time of day they have any freedom."

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Newscaster: "In other news, the national No Recess movement has hit a serious stumbling block with the disappearance of its leader, former Secretary of State, Philliam Benedict. Benedict, who was fired by the president 2 years ago for his extremist views, has recently been..."

Mr. Detweiler: "[shuts off TV] No recess? What a bunch of hogwash!"

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Benedict: "It started at 3rd street, it will END at 3rd street."

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TJ: "What am I gonna do? Play baseball by myself? Watch reruns? Read?"

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Benedict: "[Flashback to 1968] Be cool, people. Be cool."

Female Protester: "We'll be cool when you give our kids their recess back!"

Benedict: "Hey, baby, I can do what I want! I'm the Principal of the school! And there's nothing anybody can do about it! Dig?"

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Benedict: "Oh, come now, Pete. There's no need to be rude. Not after I've instructed my men to provide you with special care."

Principal Prickly: "Special care? That's what you call gagging me, tying me up, and taking away my pants?"

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Benedict: "Same old noble Pete. Always standing up for the rights of children."

TJ: "[to Prickly] You?"

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Ashley: "Hey, remember that summer after the second grade when we went down to the pond every day to catch minnows?"

Gretchen: "Or how about that summer we all carved our initials in that big tree in the Wilson's backyard?"

Vince: "And Spinelli spelled her's wrong."

Ashley: "Hey, I was seven. And "S's" are tricky. [Gus begins sobbing] What's your problem? This is the first summer you've lived here."

Gus: "I know, and I'll never have any of those memories."

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