Recess

Recess (1997)

133 mistakes - chronological order

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Principal for a Day - S2-E23

Continuity mistake: When TJ announces that there will be no gum sharing, it shows Gretchen in the classroom. There is a kid sitting behind her. However, this is the same kid who is caught running in the hall, who Ms. Lemon says is a sixth grader. The gang is in fourth grade.

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Principal for a Day - S2-E23

Continuity mistake: After T.J. has become principle for a day, it shows him chewing out a kid for running in the halls. He throws down a manilla folder onto his desk in anger. However, when the shot changes, the folder has disappeared.

One Stayed Clean - S3-E1

Character mistake: When Mikey looks at the Picture Day schedule, he points out that 4th grade is going last. However, the schedule says they are after 3rd grade and before 5th grade, actually making them fifth. The faculty is actually listed last on the schedule.

One Stayed Clean - S3-E1

Continuity mistake: Near the end, Gus is standing between the two handball walls. He is looking back at TJ and Lawson, who are near the first wall. But as the camera pans out, TJ and Lawson have moved to the other handball wall.

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Suggested correction: Not really. It definitely sounds like Spinelli due to how he screams the line, but it's not Spinelli's voice. Something similar happens a moment earlier in the episode, when Mikey screams, "Win, win, win!" His voice gets a bit raspy, similar to Spinelli's raspy voice, but those aren't the same voices. Also, I don't know why they would have Pamela Adlon (Spinelli's voice actor) record that one line for Mikey anyway.

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Stand Up Randall - S3-E8

Continuity mistake: When Menlo tells the crew about Randall's joke book, he loosens his tie, and it's still loose when he says "Indeed." But half-a-second later, as he walks away, his tie is back to normal.

The Shiner - S3-E9

Factual error: In the beginning, right before the class is noticing TJ's shiner, Ms. Grotke says, "Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President..." which is true, but on the poster behind her, it says "Abraham Lincoln, 14th President."

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Suggested correction: Incorrect. The poster correctly reads, "Abraham Lincoln, 16th President."

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Buried Treasure - S3-E14

Other mistake: When the gang enters the Ashley's Clubhouse and catches the Ashleys and Randall taking the treasure, Ashley B's skirt is incorrectly coloured green. A second later, it is yellow again as it should be.

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The Big Prank - S4-E2

Continuity mistake: When TJ's friends climb on the jungle gym to try and take TJ's place, we see that Gretchen is the last one up and there is no-one on the bars behind her. But in the next long shot, Mikey is right behind her. Then when it shows a close-up of them, Mikey is gone again; then he reappears a moment later.

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The Big Prank - S4-E2

Plot hole: Why did Mikey jump to make the feathers fly if Vince said to abort? When TJ gets hit by the feathers, he's on the 'X marks the spot.' But when he got honeyed, he was nowhere near it. Before TJ gets feathered, He gets up onto his feet, like he had fallen down. But he was still standing when Mikey fired the feathers.

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Suggested correction: Mikey jumped because he didn't hear Vince's direction in time. After Spinelli and Vince spray T.J. with honey, T.J. is off screen for about 5 seconds. There was time for him to fall down on the X and get back up.

zenee

The Big Prank - S4-E2

Continuity mistake: In the time before King Bob tells his story about being the Prankster Prince, no one is on the jungle gym except TJ and his friends. But after Bob finishes, around 20 kids are on the jungle gym, plus TJ and co. There was not enough time for ALL those kids to get on top of the jungle gym from the time King Bob started his story to the time he finished.

Hustler's Apprentice - S4-E3

Plot hole: Hustler kid tells Gus in this episode that hustlers never deal in things that could get a kid in trouble. In the episode where all the kids need to become Ashley's he has no problem in handing out plenty of fake IDs, and at the beginning of every show he is shown displaying dodgy merchandise to a kid inside his jacket.(the kid isn't inside the jacket...the merchandise is...).

Theodore J. 'T.J.' Detweiler: Never kid a kid who hasn't had his recess.

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