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Recess (1997), Season 5 — the final 11 episodes of Disney's playground cartoon, watch online on iFILM. One last lap for the Third Street six, and the show sends its familiar schoolyard off the way it always lived: through small adventures, one recess at a time.
The setups feel more intimate than past seasons. On a brutally hot day the gang mounts a whole expedition across the playground just to reach the water pump. T.J. finds a hundred-dollar bill and the group sets out to track down whoever lost it. Vince and T.J. both fight for the A.V. Kid job and push their friendship to the breaking point. Gus and an army girl can't get along thanks to a feud between their fathers, and a fed-up Lawson assembles his own rival crew to take on T.J.'s team. Fewer stories this time, but most of them circle back to how that friendship holds.
Writers Paul Germain and Joe Ansolabehere bring the show home without a loud goodbye — the same kid logic against the grown-up world. The shortest season, and a fitting close for anyone who watched it all. Stream Recess Season 5 online on iFILM.
11 episodes
S5·E1The Coolest Heatwave Ever
During a burning hot day, the gang attempts to make it across the playground to the otherside where there is a water pump.
S5·E2No Strings Attached
The gang is suspicious when the Ashleys give Spinelli six wrestling tickets.
S5·E3Beyond a Reasonable Scout
Mikey and Gus want to join the Woodchuck Scouts.
S5·E4The C Note
T.J. finds a $100 bill and along with the gang try to find out who lost it.
S5·E5The Army Navy Game
Gus and Theresa (Cornchip Girl) have a hard time becoming friends due to their rivaling fathers.
S5·E6Big Ol' Mikey
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 how big everyone will be when they are older, and Mikey's test says he will be 50 feet tall! The others find this cool and wonder what 50 foot Mikey could do, but Mikey isn't so sure that being 50 feet tall will be that great.
S5·E7A Great State Fair
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 fair.
S5·E8The A.V. Kid
Vince and T.J. compete for the job as A.V. Kid, but their competition leads to a broken-up friendship between them.
S5·E9The Principals of Golf
The kids think Vince is getting special treatment when he becomes Prickly's golf partner.
S5·E10All the Principal's Men
The gang tries to find out who removed all the balls from the playground.
S5·E11Lawson and His Crew
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 and Kurst the Worst and together the six start solving the playground's problems and getting the glory. Of course TJ and his friends now have nothing to do, so they are left just talking and eventually realise that just being friends is much better than getting all the glory they used to have. Friends being something that Lawson and his crew are definitely not ...
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