History Heartwarming / RecessSchoolsOut

** Special note to Ms. Grotke, who adopts a martial arts pose and dives into battle as a ScreamingWarrior. Normally, Ms. Grotke is a NiceGirl of a teacher that goes against the grain to educate her kids. She also proves she would go to battle for them. Even Ms. Finster is impressed and touched.

** It also made it clear that despite their grouchy behaviors towards the students at school, both Prickly and Finster still uphold their genuine ideals of what's truly best for the children, unlike Benedict, who gave it all away to satisfy his ego.

* The rest of T.J.'s friends deciding to stay with him instead of going back to their summer camps, stating they'll have plenty of time to think of the future: they don't have enough time to spend as kids, and want to spend it TJ.

* A little twisted due to coming from an unrepentant villain, but the fact that Benedict is still in love with Miss Finster, even though she has now gotten old and, to be honest, rather ugly. Of course, she still rightfully rejects him because he's still a [[ChildHater kid-hating]] fascist wanting to get rid of recess. Plus, he threatened her kids.

** During the climax, the bald guy goes after T.J. after he and Prickly had previously dumped a vat of chowder on him. But before he can get the chance to beat up the boy, Miss Finster arrives to the rescue by giving the bald guy's face the speed bag treatment, knocking him out. Even T.J. genuinely thanks Finster for this, seeing now that she is capable of compassion and vigilance despite her grouchy behavior.
--->'''T.J.:''' ''[watching Finster taking down the bald guy]'' Thanks, Miss Finster!\\

** This is expanded on in ''Taking The Fifth Grade'', set after the movie. Part of the storyline results in T.J going on a room strike after several poorly thought out new school policies making life miserable for the new fifth graders, and while Prickly is more sympathetic than he would have been in the original series, his hands are tied as he's still beholden to the school board. However, after T.J almost falls off his roof, Prickly saves him, and decides to make a stand with his student, protesting that the new directives are stupid and, ultimately, ineffective. Sure enough, having an adult faculty stand up makes the school board members admit that they had just gone along with the "expert" ideas because they were afraid of getting fired, and the new directives get overturned when everyone involved admits that they hated them the whole time.

* TJ's friends go to his older sister, Becky, to get help, but she's still mad at TJ for blackmailing her into driving him around, and yells "Give me one good reason why I should help! Just one!" Mikey, dead serious, responds with this: "Because he's your little brother, and he ''needs'' you." There's a pause, followed by Becky saying that she'll be right out.

** "You did me a big favor dragging me into this mess. I didn't get into teaching for the promotions, or the pension plans or so I could be at the golf course by 3:45. I... I did it because I wanted to help you kids. I'd forgotten that... until today."

* The gang singing "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt" together.

* A little twisted due to coming from an unrepentant villain, but the fact that Benedict is still in love with Miss Finster, even though she has now gotten old and, to be honest, rather ugly. Of course, she still rightfully rejects him because he's still a kid-hating fascist wanting to get rid of recess. Plus, he threatened her kids.

* Principal Prickly's speech which manages to convince TJ not to give up saving summer vacation, while revealing the fact that Prickly himself was once a carefree kid just like TJ. Doubles as a TearJerker.

** He says this after T.J. calls him out on how he and every adults are like Benedict, wanting to get rid of summer vacation. Afterwards, T.J. apologized for thinking otherwise.

* When T.J.'s walkie-talkie is taken away from him when he's trying to inform the gang about Bennedict's motive to get rid of summer vacation, leaving him LostInTransmission. As soon as his end goes dead, the first one to freak out is Spinelli...[[ShipTease who's been implied to have a crush on T.J.]]

** He says this after T.J. calls him out on how he and every adults are like Benedict, wanting to get rid of summer. Afterwards, he apologized for thinking otherwise.

* Finster at first tells Randall that summer vacation is not a time to snitch, especially late at night when he should be in bed. Then Randall tells her the gang is trying to "break into the school" and she believes him. Cue the two decking out in stealth clothing. To add to it, Randall's snitching leads to Finster finding out about the cancel recess plot, making him the AccidentalHero.

* Finster tells Randall that it's the last day of school, so everyone is off the hook. Well, at least until T.J. and the gang

* The ending. [[spoiler: Before running off to enjoy the rest of the summer with his friends, TJ shares a genuinely tender moment with Principal Prickly--climaxing with Prickly calling him "Teej", and TJ calling Prickly "Pete".]]
** [[spoiler: "You did me a big favor dragging me into this mess. I didn't get into teaching for the promotions, or the pension plans or so I could be at the golf course by 3:45. I... I did it because I wanted to help you kids. I'd forgotten that... until today."]]

** This is expanded on in ''Taking The Fifth Grade'', set after the movie. Part of the storyline results in T.J going on a room strike after several poorly thought out new school policies making life miserable for the new fifth graders, and while Prickly is more sympathetic than he would have been in the original series, his hands are tied as he's still beholdended to the school board. However, after T.J almost falls off his roof, Prickly saves him, and decides to make a stand with his student, protesting that the new directives are stupid and, ultimately, ineffective. Sure enough, having an adult faculty stand up makes the school board members admit that they had just gone along with the "expert" ideas because they were afraid of getting fired, and the new directives get overturned when everyone involved admits that they hated them the whole time.

* When [[spoiler:T.J.'s walkie-talkie is taken away from him when he's trying to inform the gang about Bennedict's motive to get rid of summer vacation, leaving him LostInTransmission. As soon as his end goes dead, the first one to freak out is Spinelli...[[ShipTease who's been implied to have a crush on T.J.]]]]
* A little twisted due to coming from an unrepentant villain, but the fact that Benedict is still in love with Miss Finster, even though she has now gotten old and, to be honest, rather ugly. Of course, she still rightfully rejects him because he's still a kid-hating fascist wanting to get rid of recess.

** [[spoiler: "You did me a big favor dragging me into this, Detweiller. I didn't get into teaching for the promotions or the pension plan or so I could be at the golf course by 3 PM. I... did it because I wanted to help you kids. I'd forgotten that... until today."]]

** Building on that, Finster revealed that she brought all the teacher to save both their students and summer vacation itself.

* A little twisted due to coming from an unrepentant villain, but the fact that Benedict is still in love with Miss Finster, even though she has now gotten old and, to be honest, rather ugly. Of course, she still rejects him because he's still a kid-hating fascist.
** Building on that, the teachers rushing to the defense of both their students and summer vacation itself.
** During the climax, [[spoiler:the bald guy goes after T.J. after he and Prickly had previously dumped a vat of chowder on him. But before he can get to the boy, Miss Finster stops him and gives his face the speed bag treatment, knocking him out.]]
--->'''T.J.:''' Thanks, Miss Finster!\\
'''Miss Finster:''' ''[smiling]'' Just doing my job, Detweiler.

--> '''Prickly:''' I'll let you in on a little secret, Detweiller. Every adult you've ever known was a kid at sometime in his life. You think we don't remember summer vacation? Riding our bikes down the creek. Catching polliwogs in a jar. Camping out under the stars. Well you're wrong! Sometimes I sit there in my office, looking out at you kids in the playground and I think, "They don't know how good they got it. In a few years, they'll be grownups like me and all those good times will be memories for them, too". So go ahead. Put a whoopie-cushion in my chair. Put fake vomit on my carpet. Make fun of my "big, saggy butt". But don't ever say I don't care about summer vacation, 'cause those memories are the last part of childhood I got left.