As someone who photographs school children for a living, it's so far from the truth it becomes hilarious. The kindergarteners are almost always the most well-behaved.
yeah depicting little children who are very aggressive and hard to communicate with as a resemblance to indigenous tribes is hilarious right (im being sarcastic of course)
@@VicenteCarretero no sry it is that funny cuase a joke is a joke get da f over ya self and elogical childish race nonsense there is no races we are all from adam and eve who were in the very middle light brown between black and lightest brown there is no blacks there is no china and so on we are alll the same race just from a diff area which made us look diff
@@abstruseglitch It's so cute that you think kindergartners are like that every single day, and not _only_ because it's Picture Day. When I was in elementary school, I was the PTA's favorite slave-er, "babysitter," because my mom was on the PTA and I was the oldest kid forced to stay after school between 4th and 6th grade. I couldn't break up fights between the tykes, or I'd get in trouble because Zero Tolerance. I couldn't try to find a teacher to break up fights because I'd get in trouble for leaving the tykes alone. I couldn't punish them with timeouts because I wasn't allowed the authority, but got in trouble if they went _"too_ wild," which they _always _*_did._* And when my younger brothers went through elementary school and became the new babysitters-I mean, *slaves* for the PTA, they had just as bad of horror stories. And that's not even *_touching_* the living nightmare that was daycare. I had to go to afterschool daycare during 3rd grade and the kindergartner room was constantly filled with the screams of the damned. Maybe we just lived in a ghetto or something, but kindergartners have always been creatures before they've been humans.
I remember when a former teacher built a laser so that he could bring the moon closer to earth just so he could get rid of recess at school. Good times.
That took me completely off guard its even better because they primed you to think about military history with all the army stuff going on in the episode. I loved this show as a kid and its nice to see looking back that its as good as I remember.
@@Vanessomatic being from the place where little boy was constructed (or technically where uranium was enriched for it) I actually got that joke as a kid! (Since they have a museum about it)
@@TheJbhmetaldon't put dirt on this man's name. You will say it with respect or you will not say it at all. That should go without saying for anyone, really.
@@CosplayCore Mikey the kid was voiced by a different actor, but yes, now after looking it up, you are correct. My favorite character however, will always be T.J.
I loved the one where spinelli calls king bob some dumb kid then cornchip girl goes to say, "my big brother thinks I'm some dumb kid!" Then bobs bodyguard goes and says, "my mom called me some dumb kid just this morning!" That had me laughing so hard
"no gathering no gathering this ball is the property of the state!" I forgot there was a time when Disney did not kowtow to China. No way they would make a joke like that now.
genuine question, what do you mean by this? In what way has disney been doing this? Pretty much every single American media export is censored in some way when played overseas, it's not unique to Disney, they just want to make money so they tweak certain aspects to make it more "acceptable" for different countries. (usually censoring queer representation or certain words) Disney certainly is probably more watered down now but not because they're bowing down to China or anything lol
It's simple economics; a market of 1.4 billion is much larger than a market of 330 million. Just be happy Disney media isn't made in Chinese, and dubed to English.
Wasn't there a version of the episode where, instead of the kickball getting kicked to China, it was kicked into a Dumpster, but the kids still acted like they were impressed over how far it had gone?
We need this joke for kids today, cuz unfortunately it looks like a lot of so called "adults" (If they even identify as that) think they can live in a fantasy world
@@DeRien8 recess canonically takes place in the 90’s according to Gus during the episode “first name ashely” Hey, it’s the 90’s And as most of these kids are between 8-10, they very likely got a little taste of that from the late 80’s era that the early 90’s carried, also remember their parents who lived through a lot of that mentality as well. I myself was born right at the start of the 90’s on the dot just about but for our house we were always behind on tech and such (which frankly I think is excellent for growing up as it makes you less addicted to tech and appreciate the old classics) So though I grow up during the 90-2000’s, my pop culture exposure was 8-10 years older than that most of my “nostalgia” is old timey 80’s stuff.
Other than the race/ethnicity jokes, most of these jokes could probably slip by today in the right context. SpongeBob has made multiple su*cide jokes over the years, and fat-shaming is a staple of Peppa Pig.
@@Vaguer_Weevil sure, unless anything could possibly be taken as negative. Then it's cancel worthy. It's only empowering if you shower then with praise
Thank you for adding the Subliminal messages joke!! Talk about on the nose considering this was a Disney company cartoon. Our boys Paul and Joe were snitching on Disney way before anyone else! You forgot the episode at the old folks home where Gretchen is speaking to one old man “I’m just not getting anywhere... perhaps you would like to discuss the topic of subatomic particles?” “...now that I’m declassified I would be delighted. I happened to be one of the lead scientists on the Manhattan Project.” Dude!
Well it's thanks to Michael Eisner that ran the company from 1984 - 2005 that pretty much wanted some sort of mature content included in the company, not just the focus on families and children.
I like to think he had an embarrassing name because his parents wanted a girl and were disappointed over getting a boy. But that's just not the world we live in...
Recess do reruns sometimes, and it still turns out just fine. It gathers dark theories, but that's about it. In fact, there was a drawing of them recently as adults and I must say, it does blow you away how long ago this was.
Meanwhile, I was always aware of the barbed wire fence when I grew up watching this show. It became so normalized to me, I had to read this to realize it’s not normal 😂
this show was so fuckin funny. my absolute favorite jokes in the whole show are "kids today don't know the joys of a good gherkin. seems they're more taken with their video games and sequel movies." and "yeah, right. Gus couldn't cream corn."
I remember watching this show when I was little and a lot of what it was about flew over my head. Now, I’m watching these clips out of context and I feel like this show is like the kid version of King of the Hill. It’s got a similar art style, brand of commentary humor, and feel to it that reminds me of King of the Hill and I think that’s really funny.
7:12 It helps that Lilo and Stitch came out around the time I was watching this show, so I was sort of familiar with these sort of hawaiian traditions.
It's reasons like this why I always prefer 90's & 2000's animated shows. Because back then, especially when it came to kids shows, they had actual good writers and they were able to write jokes that got over kids heads without worrying about offending someone. Now days, a lot of jokes in modern kids shows, I just groan in frustration, because of how bad they are written, while older kids shows didn't treat it's general audience like idiots. And as years go by, even older viewers can appreciate and enjoy these older shows. Just because something is old, doesn't always make it bad. Heck, I'm 29 and I still enjoy watching older kids shows even to this very day. And if I ever have kids of my own, I would definitely want them to experience watching the animated shows I grew up with, including Recess as well.
...Do you ever watch newer cartoons? You first wax poetic about how "back then" writers didn't worry about censorship, but then you claim claim you have watched newer cartoons and that the jokes are just bad. But you don't assert that the writers are being stifled by censorship? 🤔 It sounds like you aren't even 30 yet you've decided to be a judgemental old fart already. You don't know anything about the landscape of animation in the late 90s and early 2000s at all if you think they had less censorship- this was the peak of Never Say Die. Of when Batman Beyond had to jump through hoops in production due to violence. When the E10 rating for games was introduced. The fall of the extreme gore fad, and even the tail end of grossout. Shows were getting way more sensitive and PC in this era, all things considered. I really don't think you're watching the right shows or giving new shows an honest chance if you have such an uninformed perspective on animation as a whole. If the jokes in new cartoons are bad and its not because they're obviously avoiding censorship, then maybe its a you problem, and you only give nostalgic cartoons a chance. You are the common denominator here. If you really can't find anything of quality from all the shows out there these days, then that's honestly on you. People consider being a fan of things like movies or animation a *hobby* for a reason- sometimes, things are enriched if you put a bit of effort into it. If these shows mean something to you, learn about them. How they're made, who made them. That's enough of a rabbit hole to lead you to new cartoons, honestly, because you start to want to support those same people, and what they're doing NOW. Because they rarely just make the things you liked when you grew up and then go sitting on their asses when you decide to stop caring.
@@Birdsflight44 A lot newer stuff, especially in the western entertainment industry aren't made by actual writers or talented creators, but instead are made by activists who got hired not because of their talents, but because of either their skin colour, pronouns, sexuality, etc. Now days, entertainment isn't about making something good, but more about how much political & woke messaging you can shove in people's throats. While I'm not saying all the new stuff from western entertainment is bad, but I do notice that the increase of bad or mediocre western entertainment is becoming more common now, then with actual well made entertainment that is actually made by real passion & hard work. While older entertainment isn't perfect either, it still had better writing and passion put into it, then with newer entertainment. Heck, western entertainment of today has gotten so bad, that more people, including kids are more gearing towards anime & manga, then they do with anything that the west is trying put out these days. Because Japanese entertainment is still about entertaining the audience, instead of whatever the hell the west is trying to pull. Heck, Godzilla Minus One despite it's very limited budget, actually sold really well & did better then any movie modern Hollywood has shown in recent years. And what's worse about modern western entertainment is that people have a hard time to criticise it, without idiots pulling the -inst or -phobe cards just because someone doesn't like something modern or new. It's frustrating and because of that, why many people, myself included are either going back to older entertainment or just watch anime instead. Unless modern western entertainment change their ways, I'm not going to support modern entertainment, unless it's actually something good, but as for now, I could care less about new modern western entertainment.
@@Asaylum117 Some talented writers back then had body colors other than white, pronouns and interests other than the norm, and had to swallow these jokes (which are usually less funny if you know someone who is pigeonholed because of these jokes) to make their shows popular. Today, such artists can finally get by without these jokes for the most part and come up with their own jokes or work on making them funny for a wider audience.
@@farusofaura2280 If you seriously think modern humour is funnier then older humour, then you truly don't understand comedy at all. While yes, some older writers were diverse, at least back in the day, it wasn't treated like a commercial/promotional item & it didn't become their core identity or personality. Most modern writers basically self insert themselves and pretty much are preaching about their own identities, rather then making fictional characters that have their own soul & lives that live in their own fictional world. For example, one of my favourite writers is Dwayne McDuffie and he was black. But I didn't care about his skin colour or his pronouns or whatever. His writing skills is what made me admire him and because of him, we got to have great shows like Justice League Unlimited, Static Shock, Ben 10 Alien Force Seasons 1 & 2. And he even worked on a few DC animated films in the past. And I guarantee you, if he was alive today and saw what has become of animated shows now days, he would be very disappointed. I'm pretty certain he is rolling in his grave right now, knowing how bad or mediocre today's western entertainment writing has become.
I feel like the only jokes that wouldn’t fly too much today are the stereotypical jokes against other nationalities and the use of out of vogue words like midget. Otherwise, plenty of modern cartoons still make suicide and under the radar sexual jokes.
Same thing I said! Mind you the show is based on the creators real childhood memories 😂 how would one get offended by a satire of someone’s childhood is beyond me smh.
As a kid i always felt a little sorry for Mikey for getting all the fat kid jokes since i was the fat kid in my school But now i'm thankful they were there, it made me uncomfort, it made me want to take action and now at 22 i feel i'm doing pretty good You do need criticism to know what to improve Someone who cannot handle advice is someone you should propably get far from
This was a favorite cartoon of mine when I was a child and became a comfort show during a rewatch as a teen. The characters, episodes, pop culture jokes, and main character TJ’s leadership is all so nostalgic!
Bombs" since a warhead is basically fired like a rocket. While the things that destroyed two major cities in Japan. Were dropped like what else? A bomb
Adults running the networks wouldn't air these, but that won't stop real schools and real life from *always* being just as unhinged. One way or another.
People making all these comments here forgot how liberal this show was back in the day. This show made jabs about American racism and right-wing politics a lot. Ms. Grotke was based a heck 90% of the time in her dialogue lol.
@youthoughtaboutit6946 Uhhhhhh. No, they were not. Hate to break it to everyone, but all the shows from the 90s were super liberal trash as most media in the present day. Recess, Pepper Ann, Simpsons, Rugrats, etc.
@@SweetyMiki I think you just have a different definition of "liberal". The liberal of the past is the right-wing conservatism now. For example: Skin colour isnot important. it is the personality and action that matter" is right-wing nowadays.
I'm amused at how a bunch of these aren't even jokes, they are just cultural things that happened to be around at the time. Biggest example is when the teacher starts using trucker speech. 6:04
Every 90s cartoon had a designated fat kid who was the butt of endless jokes. Usually that kid was a bully, or at least not the brightest crayon in the box. Recess was refreshing in that Mikey was intelligent, sensitive, and creative.
But Mikey was still kinda bullied or, otherwise, taken advantage of because everyone saw his sweet, sensitive nature as a weakness. And he was more naïve than actually dumb. So, yeah, he still was the bullied fat kid that you see in a lot of 1990s cartoons, but they at least fleshed out his character more, like how his mom looks exactly like him and his father is a short and skinny hippie.
On the whole normally I'd agree, but when viewed through the lens of modernity which is heavily colored by identity politics and today's extreme leftist sociopolitical ideology, there are quite a few jokes and setups/scenarios that could very well be seen as sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, and fatphobic; the most common "offenses" being racism and fatphobia respectively based on my observations, followed closely by a bit of sexism. Would I agree with the outrage in any case? Absolutely not. I for one actually possess a sense of humor and I find this kind of consistently obsessive need for victimhood to be absurd and nothing more than a bunch of poorly veiled narcissism at best. It's utterly tiresome and ultimately incredibly damaging to the overall fabric of society, especially when it comes to our use of language and how this constant exposure to manufactured outrage causes words to lose their true meaning and greater contextual gravity over time. For example the word "trauma" is thrown around so often these days in reference to such insignificant struggles and minor inconveniences that it no longer holds the more powerful implications that it once did. We've begun to change the meaning of words like "assault" and phrases like "acts of violence" which have historically been used to refer to criminal acts to include mere mean words and offensive speech. We've begun to shift the meaning of something so heinous as "sexual assault" which has otherwise exclusively been used in reference to certain forms of non-consentual *physical* contact to include non-physical acts such as "leering" (which is merely looking at someone for an uncomfortable period of time). These are just a few examples but the point is that these are clear signs of some very concerning trends within our culture indicating that we are beginning to travel down a very dangerous path indeed, and that something has just got to give before we reach a point from which there is no return. It may seem like a minor issue, perhaps even a silly or irrational fear right now in the grand scheme but believe me when I say that it is only a matter of time, and that this issue is an insidious one because it masks itself as something relatively surface level and innocuous while having deeply reverberating effects and far-reaching implications throughout all of western society.
@@jaketheripper7385 I did a Review of a german movie some time ago called turkish for beginners which was from early 2000s and I realized that this obsessive need to look for any kind of offensive things in todays age does way more harm than good as it hyperfocuses on everyones differences in a way that causes friction. Yes Comedy can go to far but overall its intendet as good natured riffing similar to how Friends to it between one another which uses eqch others inherit differences for Something constructive
America has no left wing. Identity politics is aligned with neoliberal centrism, not leftism. Leftism is focused on workers and wages, not sjw buzzwords. If this had come out in the late 80s, the pearl clutching Reaganites would have been trying to censor it too.
“It’s wrong bullying on people unless it’s in the best geopolitical interests of the United States of America”. I DIED!
He said lean on not bullying
That would anger a certain party.
@@KazeShikamaruWho? It sounds fine
@@KazeShikamaru Both parties in the US have blatantly lied to wage war in the interest of money.
@@JimmyFantage I won't say who but I do agree it sounds fine.
The Kindergarteners being an unruly tribe is the funniest running joke on the show.
I do love how it's a world-wide phenomenon as well, it's not just the American 5-year-olds.
As someone who photographs school children for a living, it's so far from the truth it becomes hilarious. The kindergarteners are almost always the most well-behaved.
yeah depicting little children who are very aggressive and hard to communicate with as a resemblance to indigenous tribes is hilarious right (im being sarcastic of course)
@@VicenteCarretero no sry it is that funny cuase a joke is a joke get da f over ya self and elogical childish race nonsense there is no races we are all from adam and eve who were in the very middle light brown between black and lightest brown there is no blacks there is no china and so on we are alll the same race just from a diff area which made us look diff
@@abstruseglitch It's so cute that you think kindergartners are like that every single day, and not _only_ because it's Picture Day.
When I was in elementary school, I was the PTA's favorite slave-er, "babysitter," because my mom was on the PTA and I was the oldest kid forced to stay after school between 4th and 6th grade.
I couldn't break up fights between the tykes, or I'd get in trouble because Zero Tolerance. I couldn't try to find a teacher to break up fights because I'd get in trouble for leaving the tykes alone. I couldn't punish them with timeouts because I wasn't allowed the authority, but got in trouble if they went _"too_ wild," which they _always _*_did._*
And when my younger brothers went through elementary school and became the new babysitters-I mean, *slaves* for the PTA, they had just as bad of horror stories.
And that's not even *_touching_* the living nightmare that was daycare. I had to go to afterschool daycare during 3rd grade and the kindergartner room was constantly filled with the screams of the damned.
Maybe we just lived in a ghetto or something, but kindergartners have always been creatures before they've been humans.
I remember when a former teacher built a laser so that he could bring the moon closer to earth just so he could get rid of recess at school. Good times.
That was a great movie.
@@TheSmileyK1ngagreed
That was the movie and it was to get rid of summer vacation
@@MonkeyDLooney indeed it was, also recess is what the characters referred to it as.
@@MonkeyDLooney either way
The "Fat Man" to "Little Boy" being a Nuke reference went over my head for the longest time, lol
Shit. I never even realised. I'm a WW2 buff too. 😂
"Fat Man to Little Boy"
This line probably gave the Japanese some flashbacks
Underrated joke
WAIT
HOLY SHIT I KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS NOW
That took me completely off guard its even better because they primed you to think about military history with all the army stuff going on in the episode. I loved this show as a kid and its nice to see looking back that its as good as I remember.
Here I was thinking it was a pedo joke but now, holy crap that's bad xD
@@Vanessomatic being from the place where little boy was constructed (or technically where uranium was enriched for it) I actually got that joke as a kid! (Since they have a museum about it)
RIP Dabney Coleman aka Principal Pete Prickley.
Don't forget about Mikey's voices. Both his speaking and singing voices are dead.
Dabney hun
Sad
@@TheJbhmetaldon't put dirt on this man's name. You will say it with respect or you will not say it at all. That should go without saying for anyone, really.
@@TheJbhmetal that's disrespectful
"No gathering! This ball is property of the state!"
Damn you communism!
Rest In Peace
Voice Actors Of Mikey & Principal Prickly
I didn't even know they had the same voice actor
1. Did not know they were the same VA!
2. NOT MIKEYYYYYY 😭😭😭😭
Mikey was my favorite when I was a kid…
@@CosplayCore Mikey the kid was voiced by a different actor, but yes, now after looking it up, you are correct. My favorite character however, will always be T.J.
And Mikey's singing voice actor. May all three rest in peace
To some real ones
"hey tubby, is that your dad?" 🤣
That’s my all time favorite recess quote
Bro they said "the ball is the property of the state", I'm fucking dying 😂
"You don't go around spouting truths like that!"
I loved the one where spinelli calls king bob some dumb kid then cornchip girl goes to say, "my big brother thinks I'm some dumb kid!" Then bobs bodyguard goes and says, "my mom called me some dumb kid just this morning!" That had me laughing so hard
Its like the 'I'm Spartacus' thing
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who thought that was hilarious 😂 I just watched that episode the other day
Recess is a great show because you can enjoy it as a kid and then understand certain dialouge refrences as an adult.
Same thing with Rugrats on Nickelodeon.
@@MichelangeloVA yeah
It’s like that for a lot of cartoons back from the 90s and 00s which makes it great as we’ve watched these shows through both kid and adult eyes
"no gathering no gathering this ball is the property of the state!" I forgot there was a time when Disney did not kowtow to China. No way they would make a joke like that now.
genuine question, what do you mean by this? In what way has disney been doing this? Pretty much every single American media export is censored in some way when played overseas, it's not unique to Disney, they just want to make money so they tweak certain aspects to make it more "acceptable" for different countries. (usually censoring queer representation or certain words) Disney certainly is probably more watered down now but not because they're bowing down to China or anything lol
It's simple economics; a market of 1.4 billion is much larger than a market of 330 million. Just be happy Disney media isn't made in Chinese, and dubed to English.
Now they heavily pander bc of greed
Which is the obvious main reason
Wasn't there a version of the episode where, instead of the kickball getting kicked to China, it was kicked into a Dumpster, but the kids still acted like they were impressed over how far it had gone?
@@BiggestBigBoy More people but less buying per per person.
As a kid I remember the dialouge being pretty witty but this stuff it still pretty sharp!
"And I wanna be a 6ft Tall Body Builder named Moe but we live in something called REALITY".
Beautiful, Absolutely Beautiful. Chef's Kiss 😘
I love this joke so much!
She is so real for that
We need this joke for kids today, cuz unfortunately it looks like a lot of so called "adults" (If they even identify as that) think they can live in a fantasy world
@@RetroRenegade8706 I heavily agree
@@RetroRenegade8706 Turns out you can be tall bodybuilder called Moe. Unless you are a coward
Gus having two Su*cide references flew over my head 💀
The kid is troubled.
Timestamps ???
@@rohandante4:24 and 7:30
😮😮😮 well shoot…I never noticed
Nam changes a man.
"Fatman to littleboy" oooooooohnoooooooooooooooooo
I didn't know I didn't knowwwwww!
The North Korean dodgeball joke had me rolling lololol
Either NK or China.
It’s China because the building you see in the background is very likely a portion of The Forbidden City. (I think that’s the name)
Yeah it's definitely China, and that was the forbidden city in the background
I forgot how many jokes about communism this show had. Was it supposed to be set at the end of the Cold War?
@@DeRien8 recess canonically takes place in the 90’s according to Gus during the episode “first name ashely”
Hey, it’s the 90’s
And as most of these kids are between 8-10, they very likely got a little taste of that from the late 80’s era that the early 90’s carried, also remember their parents who lived through a lot of that mentality as well.
I myself was born right at the start of the 90’s on the dot just about but for our house we were always behind on tech and such (which frankly I think is excellent for growing up as it makes you less addicted to tech and appreciate the old classics)
So though I grow up during the 90-2000’s, my pop culture exposure was 8-10 years older than that most of my “nostalgia” is old timey 80’s stuff.
"you are so dreamy"
"Oh get a hamster"
😂😂😂
15:09 “Give BACK money?! But that’s absolutely UN-American!” 🤣 now THAT had me on the floor!
Other than the race/ethnicity jokes, most of these jokes could probably slip by today in the right context. SpongeBob has made multiple su*cide jokes over the years, and fat-shaming is a staple of Peppa Pig.
That Fat Man Little Boy joke might not make it
I can see the "great uncle Mary" joke getting a show canned. Trans stuff is the internets current fixation
@@megaspit
Wait why? Wouldn't that be "empowering" or whatever?
@@Vaguer_Weevil sure, unless anything could possibly be taken as negative. Then it's cancel worthy. It's only empowering if you shower then with praise
Maybe I’m just blanking, but when did SpongeBob make suicide jokes?
'Give back money?! That's like so un-American!" Girl's in the know! 😂
"HE GOT A NOTE!!☠️"
And try to stop him to end himself.
Thank you for adding the Subliminal messages joke!! Talk about on the nose considering this was a Disney company cartoon.
Our boys Paul and Joe were snitching on Disney way before anyone else!
You forgot the episode at the old folks home where Gretchen is speaking to one old man “I’m just not getting anywhere... perhaps you would like to discuss the topic of subatomic particles?”
“...now that I’m declassified I would be delighted. I happened to be one of the lead scientists on the Manhattan Project.”
Dude!
Well it's thanks to Michael Eisner that ran the company from 1984 - 2005 that pretty much wanted some sort of mature content included in the company, not just the focus on families and children.
Disney+ even put up a disclaimer on some episodes that their content isn't really up to date with political correctness and how things are portrayed.
Disney can sometimes just suck
Weak
Lmao Disney is going broke
I have it too but I don’t bother after the disclaimer because I felt some shows may be edited. All the episodes are here on UA-cam ❤
One of many reasons why modern Disney is trash lol.
The teacher coming back for the handcuffs caught me off guard 😂😂😂
and a hankerchief!
Coming Up Next…
Alordayne After Dark
(That’s Miss Grotke’s first name. Look it up. It was never used in the show, but only in promotional material.)
Off to one of her freaky hippie meet-ups, I presume. 😂
Mikey's geat uncle Mary... 😂😂😂
Dont ask
💀💀💀
I like to think he had an embarrassing name because his parents wanted a girl and were disappointed over getting a boy. But that's just not the world we live in...
“Your Uncle Mary?”
“Don’t ask.”
😂😂😂
Could be short for Marion (the birth name of John Wayne, for one.)
@@NotABot55 We all know that’s not what the writers were thinking
Meriadoc
I don’t understand
@@GoobieMienetteTransformers...
“Keep moving, keep moving and they’ll never indict you” lmfao
RIP to Principal Prickly. The principal we all wish we had had as kids.
No way Prickly let TJ get away with too much stuff and rarely listened to Randall selfless suggestions.
I didn't even know that the guy who voiced principal prickly passed away not only did he voice principal prickly he also voiced Mikey as well
😊
Fourth grade? What do you feed these kids? DAMN
2:56 "NO GATHERING NO GATHERING, THIS BALL IS PROPERTY OF THE STATE!" I died XDDD
Recess do reruns sometimes, and it still turns out just fine. It gathers dark theories, but that's about it. In fact, there was a drawing of them recently as adults and I must say, it does blow you away how long ago this was.
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Where is this drawing you speak of?
Damn one clip in and I’m already like “Yep. I should’ve binged this show as a kid”
This show was so smart. So much of it's political commentary flew right over our heads, the hierarchical structure is so well written.
Some of these jokes were absolutely savage and I love it
The fact it’s all over the spectrum really makes it long lasting. Actual centrist comedy done right lol
Recess was a great show.
7:38 I just realized, the playground has a barbed wire fence around it...
😂😂😂Whyyy??
@@ADanielle18because school felt like prison to most kids 😂😂
Meanwhile, I was always aware of the barbed wire fence when I grew up watching this show. It became so normalized to me, I had to read this to realize it’s not normal 😂
There's a theory that all the kids are there to be put in the military and develop different military strategies
In-city school in Cincinnati, normal stuff.
The world needs jokes like more now then ever
But do we need jokes from over two decades ago? jk
@@Bezaliel13 There timeless
@@Bezaliel13yes yes we do
@@ZephyrBW
That is no excuse for not making up new jokes.
@@devernepersonal3636
... Why?
this show was so fuckin funny. my absolute favorite jokes in the whole show are "kids today don't know the joys of a good gherkin. seems they're more taken with their video games and sequel movies." and "yeah, right. Gus couldn't cream corn."
Yooooo "Earth mamma" and "big daddy" was crazyyyyy wurk 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
13:31 ok now thats a joke that went WAAAAAAAAAAAY over my head, least the handcuffs you might notice as a kid as something weird she would have
You can tell the writers grew up in the cold war era
I remember watching this show when I was little and a lot of what it was about flew over my head.
Now, I’m watching these clips out of context and I feel like this show is like the kid version of King of the Hill. It’s got a similar art style, brand of commentary humor, and feel to it that reminds me of King of the Hill and I think that’s really funny.
Bobby Hill was also voiced by Pamela Adlen
Fr. It's so fucking funny.
This show was my childhood on 1 Saturday morning and Lloyd and Space. ❤
Do you have to be a worm to work at Wormhole National Park?
Really wish llyod in space was on Disney +
And Pepper Ann, another good show that was ahead of its time in some ways, but mostly pretty light-hearted.
Lloyd in Space*
Lloyd in Space had a gender neutral alien in it, right?
"My new nose"
Oh wow!😂
I also worked in a nursery beiefly, can confirm recess is accurate!
The kindergarteners in this show remind me of some modern adults.
Still relevant now. Tis the power of everlasting cartoons, baby.
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Yea... ..liberals
7:12 It helps that Lilo and Stitch came out around the time I was watching this show, so I was sort of familiar with these sort of hawaiian traditions.
It's reasons like this why I always prefer 90's & 2000's animated shows. Because back then, especially when it came to kids shows, they had actual good writers and they were able to write jokes that got over kids heads without worrying about offending someone. Now days, a lot of jokes in modern kids shows, I just groan in frustration, because of how bad they are written, while older kids shows didn't treat it's general audience like idiots. And as years go by, even older viewers can appreciate and enjoy these older shows. Just because something is old, doesn't always make it bad. Heck, I'm 29 and I still enjoy watching older kids shows even to this very day. And if I ever have kids of my own, I would definitely want them to experience watching the animated shows I grew up with, including Recess as well.
...Do you ever watch newer cartoons?
You first wax poetic about how "back then" writers didn't worry about censorship, but then you claim claim you have watched newer cartoons and that the jokes are just bad.
But you don't assert that the writers are being stifled by censorship? 🤔
It sounds like you aren't even 30 yet you've decided to be a judgemental old fart already.
You don't know anything about the landscape of animation in the late 90s and early 2000s at all if you think they had less censorship- this was the peak of Never Say Die.
Of when Batman Beyond had to jump through hoops in production due to violence. When the E10 rating for games was introduced. The fall of the extreme gore fad, and even the tail end of grossout.
Shows were getting way more sensitive and PC in this era, all things considered.
I really don't think you're watching the right shows or giving new shows an honest chance if you have such an uninformed perspective on animation as a whole.
If the jokes in new cartoons are bad and its not because they're obviously avoiding censorship, then maybe its a you problem, and you only give nostalgic cartoons a chance. You are the common denominator here.
If you really can't find anything of quality from all the shows out there these days, then that's honestly on you.
People consider being a fan of things like movies or animation a *hobby* for a reason- sometimes, things are enriched if you put a bit of effort into it.
If these shows mean something to you, learn about them. How they're made, who made them.
That's enough of a rabbit hole to lead you to new cartoons, honestly, because you start to want to support those same people, and what they're doing NOW.
Because they rarely just make the things you liked when you grew up and then go sitting on their asses when you decide to stop caring.
@@Birdsflight44 A lot newer stuff, especially in the western entertainment industry aren't made by actual writers or talented creators, but instead are made by activists who got hired not because of their talents, but because of either their skin colour, pronouns, sexuality, etc. Now days, entertainment isn't about making something good, but more about how much political & woke messaging you can shove in people's throats. While I'm not saying all the new stuff from western entertainment is bad, but I do notice that the increase of bad or mediocre western entertainment is becoming more common now, then with actual well made entertainment that is actually made by real passion & hard work. While older entertainment isn't perfect either, it still had better writing and passion put into it, then with newer entertainment. Heck, western entertainment of today has gotten so bad, that more people, including kids are more gearing towards anime & manga, then they do with anything that the west is trying put out these days. Because Japanese entertainment is still about entertaining the audience, instead of whatever the hell the west is trying to pull. Heck, Godzilla Minus One despite it's very limited budget, actually sold really well & did better then any movie modern Hollywood has shown in recent years. And what's worse about modern western entertainment is that people have a hard time to criticise it, without idiots pulling the -inst or -phobe cards just because someone doesn't like something modern or new. It's frustrating and because of that, why many people, myself included are either going back to older entertainment or just watch anime instead. Unless modern western entertainment change their ways, I'm not going to support modern entertainment, unless it's actually something good, but as for now, I could care less about new modern western entertainment.
@@Asaylum117 Some talented writers back then had body colors other than white, pronouns and interests other than the norm, and had to swallow these jokes (which are usually less funny if you know someone who is pigeonholed because of these jokes) to make their shows popular. Today, such artists can finally get by without these jokes for the most part and come up with their own jokes or work on making them funny for a wider audience.
@@farusofaura2280 If you seriously think modern humour is funnier then older humour, then you truly don't understand comedy at all. While yes, some older writers were diverse, at least back in the day, it wasn't treated like a commercial/promotional item & it didn't become their core identity or personality. Most modern writers basically self insert themselves and pretty much are preaching about their own identities, rather then making fictional characters that have their own soul & lives that live in their own fictional world. For example, one of my favourite writers is Dwayne McDuffie and he was black. But I didn't care about his skin colour or his pronouns or whatever. His writing skills is what made me admire him and because of him, we got to have great shows like Justice League Unlimited, Static Shock, Ben 10 Alien Force Seasons 1 & 2. And he even worked on a few DC animated films in the past. And I guarantee you, if he was alive today and saw what has become of animated shows now days, he would be very disappointed. I'm pretty certain he is rolling in his grave right now, knowing how bad or mediocre today's western entertainment writing has become.
@@farusofaura2280 too bad they dont have any talent to write jokes tho
I feel like the only jokes that wouldn’t fly too much today are the stereotypical jokes against other nationalities and the use of out of vogue words like midget. Otherwise, plenty of modern cartoons still make suicide and under the radar sexual jokes.
"4th grade; what do you feed these kids Prickly " 😂 idk why that was the one that got me
Why were there so many China jokes lmao??
Right 😂
It's.... complicated. Back then everyone was fascinated with China in many shows.
Because China is on the other side of the world; it's literally just to emphasize distance while still remaining within the setting of Earth.
Because Disney wasn't constantly sucking off China back then.
Murica 😂😂😂😂
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OH NOOO!!!
You just brought back a terrifying memory I thought I deleted forever.
I must have missed all the jokes that wouldn't air today, because I didn't see anything wrong with any of them.
Yeah me too
We just live in a sensitive society
Same here
Well depends if you are active on twitter or live in a blue state in america I guess. Oh and it depends if you read or watch anything news related.
Same thing I said! Mind you the show is based on the creators real childhood memories 😂 how would one get offended by a satire of someone’s childhood is beyond me smh.
WTF that scene with finster on the polisher is insane lol
I was today years old when I finally realized Guru Kid is a "Lord of the Flies" reference.
You could argue all the kindergartners are a Lord of the Flies reference.
@@bbworks159please shout it at all the people who randomly assume they’re a racist stereotype
I guess the reason people feel that way is because that makes them viewed as savages. They probably have a problem with Lord of the Flies as well
I never knew that, I never read the book
@@kaylatarapaskoski2390 I only saw the movie
The dialogue in this series was something else
"I appreciate your insane spiritual gifts"💀
Seems like a lot of these jokes are mainly about the Chinese, Kindergarten Tribesmen and Gus being bullied.
10:46 getting into "a" relationship(s) in Persona
11:00 valentines day in Persona
Hoo, boy!
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As a kid i always felt a little sorry for Mikey for getting all the fat kid jokes since i was the fat kid in my school
But now i'm thankful they were there, it made me uncomfort, it made me want to take action and now at 22 i feel i'm doing pretty good
You do need criticism to know what to improve
Someone who cannot handle advice is someone you should propably get far from
Very well said and really good on you for taking action! 👏
To be fair, Mikes seems pretty chill with the jokes. He makes a few of them about himself too.
This was a favorite cartoon of mine when I was a child and became a comfort show during a rewatch as a teen. The characters, episodes, pop culture jokes, and main character TJ’s leadership is all so nostalgic!
Wait, were their codenames the nuclear warheads dropped on Japan?
Fat Man and Little Boy?
Yes
Bombs" since a warhead is basically fired like a rocket. While the things that destroyed two major cities in Japan. Were dropped like what else? A bomb
This show and writing were WAY ahead of it's time!
VERY underrated series! One of the best!
It's been years since I saw a few of the episodes, yet here is the proof that this series was ahead of its time.
Adults running the networks wouldn't air these, but that won't stop real schools and real life from *always* being just as unhinged. One way or another.
"Fat man to Little boy" oh man thats pure gold
I had no idea how good this cartoon was. HAHA, great!
The amount of time they reference Communism and being Patriotic Lmao
The show was based on the creators childhood in cold-war era 70s America, so yeah. Patriotism was all the rage.
What an absolute gem of a show! I miss this
"Tubby hungry!" 😆
Ruuun!
Tubby like ninja 😂😂
13:05 I didn't know Joel was a voice actor on recess before joining Vinesauce
FINNSTER ON THE FLOOR BUFFER? 😭😭😭
8:29 is absolutely, shockingly unhinged
0:56 Trivia: when streaming on Disney+, the episode has been edited and the word, “midget” has been removed from Bob’s dialogue.
Am I the only one who wondered if the "Great uncle merry" joke was also a reference to "Over Sea Under Stone"
You are not the only one.
Classic series.
“Hey tubby, that your daddy?” is a core memory for me lol
Gus is Michael Douglas from _Falling Down._
Frank Grimes is.
I was like, 'but there is nothing wrong with-' and then the dodgeball landing in China KILLED ME.
I feel like a buncha these would still work lol
You know what I wish i was older when this was out a lot of theses flew over my head but it still was a favorite 😂😂
I will never forget The Box
_"What happened to the diggers anyway?"_
*_T H E W H A T ? !_*
The diggers are two kids who love to make extremely large, long, and complicated tunnels.
@@bluej.studios4523 *_T H E W H A T_*
Wazzap my diggersz ... 😂😂😂😂😂
People making all these comments here forgot how liberal this show was back in the day. This show made jabs about American racism and right-wing politics a lot. Ms. Grotke was based a heck 90% of the time in her dialogue lol.
I think the reason people in the comments like it so much is because the jabs much more readily went both ways than they do today.
@youthoughtaboutit6946 Uhhhhhh. No, they were not. Hate to break it to everyone, but all the shows from the 90s were super liberal trash as most media in the present day. Recess, Pepper Ann, Simpsons, Rugrats, etc.
@@SweetyMiki I think you just have a different definition of "liberal". The liberal of the past is the right-wing conservatism now. For example: Skin colour isnot important. it is the personality and action that matter" is right-wing nowadays.
Times change bro, being blatantly racist is the new liberal.
@@BlackCroft666 this show came out today those sane right wingers would be complaining about wokeness
Naw, naw, naw 13:33 ... Why TF don't I remember this scene?!
I'm amused at how a bunch of these aren't even jokes, they are just cultural things that happened to be around at the time. Biggest example is when the teacher starts using trucker speech. 6:04
I need to rewatch this show. Its giving me that cozy nostalgic feeling.
All jokes aside.....why the hell is the school surrounded by BARB WIRE FENCE?
Because prison
Why do schools looks like prisons?
Have you seen the kindergarteners
@@Katya_Lastochkabecause society is a prison and school is the first exposure
@@DuskLegend there i already a wooden fence around their play area.
Every 90s cartoon had a designated fat kid who was the butt of endless jokes. Usually that kid was a bully, or at least not the brightest crayon in the box. Recess was refreshing in that Mikey was intelligent, sensitive, and creative.
But Mikey was still kinda bullied or, otherwise, taken advantage of because everyone saw his sweet, sensitive nature as a weakness. And he was more naïve than actually dumb. So, yeah, he still was the bullied fat kid that you see in a lot of 1990s cartoons, but they at least fleshed out his character more, like how his mom looks exactly like him and his father is a short and skinny hippie.
I’m so glad you included the China joke with the kickball but Disney of course wouldn’t do that today
5:36 That’s Tony Jay!
0:55 Fun fact: If you watch the official Disney XD upload, they (very crudely) cut this line to say "The girl's right."
Ah, feck sake
Im so glad i could recognize most of these scenes
11:08 what are you doing Ms Finster? 😥
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@6:37 "Ooo. Ratchet."
That... Almost felt like sexual tension and I don't know how to feel about that.
Haha😂 gross
4:14 confirmed representation, no reboot required.
Gretchen & Spinelli were always my favorites.
“Look, shiny metal! Do you like the shiny metal? If you help us, we will GIVE you the shiny metal”
Literally none of these jokes are even remotely offensive
That wont stop people from seeing it that way
On the whole normally I'd agree, but when viewed through the lens of modernity which is heavily colored by identity politics and today's extreme leftist sociopolitical ideology, there are quite a few jokes and setups/scenarios that could very well be seen as sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, and fatphobic; the most common "offenses" being racism and fatphobia respectively based on my observations, followed closely by a bit of sexism. Would I agree with the outrage in any case? Absolutely not. I for one actually possess a sense of humor and I find this kind of consistently obsessive need for victimhood to be absurd and nothing more than a bunch of poorly veiled narcissism at best. It's utterly tiresome and ultimately incredibly damaging to the overall fabric of society, especially when it comes to our use of language and how this constant exposure to manufactured outrage causes words to lose their true meaning and greater contextual gravity over time. For example the word "trauma" is thrown around so often these days in reference to such insignificant struggles and minor inconveniences that it no longer holds the more powerful implications that it once did. We've begun to change the meaning of words like "assault" and phrases like "acts of violence" which have historically been used to refer to criminal acts to include mere mean words and offensive speech. We've begun to shift the meaning of something so heinous as "sexual assault" which has otherwise exclusively been used in reference to certain forms of non-consentual *physical* contact to include non-physical acts such as "leering" (which is merely looking at someone for an uncomfortable period of time). These are just a few examples but the point is that these are clear signs of some very concerning trends within our culture indicating that we are beginning to travel down a very dangerous path indeed, and that something has just got to give before we reach a point from which there is no return. It may seem like a minor issue, perhaps even a silly or irrational fear right now in the grand scheme but believe me when I say that it is only a matter of time, and that this issue is an insidious one because it masks itself as something relatively surface level and innocuous while having deeply reverberating effects and far-reaching implications throughout all of western society.
@@jaketheripper7385 I did a Review of a german movie some time ago called turkish for beginners which was from early 2000s and I realized that this obsessive need to look for any kind of offensive things in todays age does way more harm than good as it hyperfocuses on everyones differences in a way that causes friction. Yes Comedy can go to far but overall its intendet as good natured riffing similar to how Friends to it between one another which uses eqch others inherit differences for Something constructive
America has no left wing. Identity politics is aligned with neoliberal centrism, not leftism. Leftism is focused on workers and wages, not sjw buzzwords. If this had come out in the late 80s, the pearl clutching Reaganites would have been trying to censor it too.