Recess

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, 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 period of time during the school day in which children are not in lessons and are outside in the schoolyard, in North American society. During recess, the children form their own society, complete with government and a class structure, set against the backdrop of a regular school.

In 2001, Walt Disney Pictures released a theatrical film based on the series, Recess: School's Out. It was followed by a direct-to-video second film entitled Recess Christmas: Miracle on Third Street that same year. In 2003, two more direct-to-video films were released: Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade and Recess: All Growed Down. The characters also made an appearance in a 2006 episode of Disney's Lilo & Stitch: The Series.

Recess premiered on ABC on August 31, 1997, as part of the One Saturday Morning block (later known as ABC Kids). Beginning on September 11, 1999, it also began airing on UPN as part of its block, Disney's One Too. The series ended on November 15, 2001, with 127 episodes and six seasons in total. The success and lasting appeal of the series saw it being syndicated to numerous channels, notably Toon Disney, Disney Channel, and Disney XD.

Recess portrays the lives of six fourth graders—mischievous prankster and leader of the little "gang" T.J. Detweiler (Ross Malinger in season 1; Andrew Lawrence in seasons 2–6), Italian-American hot-headed tomboy Ashley Spinelli (Pamela Segall Adlon), popular jock Vince LaSalle (Rickey D'Shon Collins), awkward genius Gretchen Grundler (Ashley Johnson), gentle giant Mikey Blumberg (Jason Davis, singing voice by Robert Goulet), and upbeat yet unlucky military brat Gus Griswald (Courtland Mead)—as they go about their daily lives in a highly clichéd school environment 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.

Recess is illustrated to be a symbol of freedom—a time when children can express themselves and develop meaningful relationships. Most episodes involve one or more of the main six characters seeking a rational balance between individuality and social order. They are often defending their freedom against perceived threats by adults and school administration or social norms. The group's leader, T.J. Detweiler, tends to have the most complete vision of this struggle, though even he has times when he inadvertently leads the group too far toward an extreme of conformity or non-conformity, and needs to be drawn back to even ground by his loyal friends.

The show's introductory music, art design and style often evoked the feel of prison escape movies such as The Great Escape, and the playground hierarchy and school administration were often depicted in ways that paid homage to common themes in such films. Additionally, many episodes parody classic films such as Good Will Hunting, 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Few Good Men.

Cast

Image	Character	USA	Mex	Jap	Bra	Ger	Fran	Ita	Pol	Neth	Hun	Swe	Fin	Nor	Den	Bul	Spa	Por	Taiw	Ira	Malay	Egyp
	T.J. Detweiler	AndrewLawrence	Yex Flores Sayavedra			RobertStadlober	Donald Reignoux	Paola Majano
		Ross Malinger	RenéRodriguezCarreño			Fritz Vogt
	Vince LaSalle	Rickey D'Shon Collins	Alejandro Millán	Hayato Taya	Vagner Fagundes	Kim Hasper	Dimitri Rougeul	Monica Ward	Jędrzej Łagodziński	Remy Ravenstijn	Bíró Attila	Sebastian Paulsson	Samuel Harjanne	Even Rognlid	Mathias Klenske	Deyan Angelov	Manuel Gimeno	Miguel Teixeira	Liú Jié			Hussein Raouf
	Spinelli	Pamela Adlon	Lucero Garza		Angélica Santos	Anja Stadlober	Ludivine Sagnier			Merel Burmeister
	Mikey Blumberg	Jason Davis	Damián Longoria Ponce	KitamuraMasaharu	Sérgio Cavalcanti	David Turba	Arthur Pestel	Alessia Amendola	Adam Pluciński	Moshe Burmeister	Hahn Bertalan	Leo Hallerstam	Saska Pulkkinen	August F. Sanengen	Benjamin Hasselflug	Albena Mikhova	Roger Isasi-Isasmendi	Tiago Retrê	Aya Liu	Abbas Chahardehi		Makram Al-Shazly
				Tanaka Taiga
	Gretchen Grundler	Ashley Johnson	WendyGonzálezSalinas			Esra Vural	Charlyne Pestel							Siri Nilsen				Cristina Cavalinhos
			CarolinaRodríguezSaldaña
	Gus Griswald	Courtland Mead	Marco Antonio Moreno	Kazuhiro Shindô	Gabriel Noya	Hannes Maurer	Elliott Weill	StefanoDeFilippis	Jonasz Tolopilo	Sander vanderPoel	Gacsal Ádám	Tin Carlsson	Aapo Mustonen	Bastian Stabell	Lukas'Graham' Forchhammer	Zdrava Kamenova	Masumi Mutsuda	Guilherme Duarte	Carey Yang			ZiadAnwar Sharif
			MyriamMartínezRodriguez	Takihara Yūta				MarinellaMontanari
	Ms. Finster	April Winchell	Patricia Cervantes	Masako Isobe	Helena Samara	Evelyn Meyka	MarieMartine Bisson	Paola Tedesco	Krystyna RutkowskaUlewicz	Beatrijs Sluijter	Vajda Márta	My Holmsten	EiraSoriola	Mona Hofland	Vibeke Dueholm	Ilka Zafirova	RosaMaría Pizá	Irene Cruz	Jiāng Guī-Jǐn			Ihsan Al-Qalawi
													TittaJokinen
	Principal Prickly	Dabney Coleman	Rubén González Garza	Minoru Inaba	Hélio Vaccari	Wilfried Herbst	Thierry Wermuth	Vittorio Battarra	Bronisław Surmiak	Victor van Swaay	Harsányi Gábor	Guy de la Berg	Ossi Ahlapuro	Hallvard Lydvo	Esper Hagen	Ivan Dzhambazov	Emilio FreixasBaleitó	Jorge Sequerra	Jiāng XiānChéng			Ahmed Kamal
	Randall	Ryan O'Donohue	Izmir Flores Sayavedra			Carsten Otto	Zaïra Benbadis
			Angélica Rodríguez Ovalle
	Miss AlordayneGrotkey	Allyce Beasley	Nancy López Montemayor				Zaïra Benbadis											Cristina Cavalinhos
	King Bob	Toran Caudell	Juan Francisco Alfaro				Zaïra Benbadis		Krzysztof Szczerbiński
	Ashley Ambruster	Anndi McAfee	Angélica Rodríguez Ovalle				Patricia Legrand
	Ashley Boulet	Francesca Marie Smith	Carmen Villalpando			Susanne Kaps								Siri Nilsen	Amalie Dollerup
						Ilona Brokowski
	Ashley Quinlan	Rachel Crane	Nancy López Montemayor			Giuliana Jakobeit	Marine Boiron							Siri Nilsen
	Ashley Tomossian	Camille Winbush	Lucía Cavazos
	Digger Dave	Ryan O'Donohue	Angélica Rodríguez Ovalle									Dick Eriksson
	Digger Sam	Klee Bragger	Yex Flores Sayavedra									Dick Eriksson
	Cornchip Girl	Aria Noelle Curzon

Songs

Image	Character	USA	Mex	Jap	Bra	Ger	Fran	Ita	Pol	Neth	Hun	Swe	Fin	Nor	Den	Bul	Spa	Por	Taiw	Ira	Malay	Egyp
	Mikey Blumberg	Robert Goulet	Isidro VillarealPérez	Kamijō Tsunehiko	Sandro Christopher	Thomas "Tommy"Amper	Daniel Beretta	Ernesto Brancucci	Jakub Szydlowski	Jon van Eerd	Szolnoki Péter	Krister St. Hill	Pasi Ruohonen	Stig Krogstad & Trond Teigen	Torben Eskildsen	Nencho Balabanov	Jordi Vila	Paulo Espírito Santo		Abbas Chahardehi		Rida El-Wakil

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