History Radar / Recess

* In "Thanksgiving" Swinger Girl mentions getting her cans from a Swingers Convention.

** There's also a reference to the "Cannibalism taboo" in "Girl Gone Bad".

* "Teacher's Lounge" has a rather dark one, in Gretchen's fantasy of the Teacher's Lounge being a high-tech lab where the teachers make all sorts of amazing discovery, Pricky's amazing find is that "The Donner Party did run out of condiments", for those who don't know, the Donner Party was a group of pioneers that had to resort to cannibalism to survive a brutal winter.
** There's also a reference to the "Cannibalism taboo" in another episode

-->'''Prickly:''' "Oh, that's just ''unseemly!''

* The episode "The Story of Whomps" is about T.J. inventing a substitute swear word ("whomps") so he wouldn't have to use a real bad word ([[InformedObscenity which led to the school board thinking it was an actual swear]] until the head of the school board agreed with T.J. that it was just a substitute swear word and that anyone who thinks it's obscene has a dirty mind).

** Here's another one from the same episode
-->'''T.J.:''' Ol' Rusty was here when my big brother was in school!
-->'''Spinelli:''' Ol' Rusty was here when my mom was in school!
-->'''Mikey:''' Heck, Ol' Rusty was here when my great-uncle Mary was in school!
-->'''Vince:''' Your uncle ''Mary?''
-->'''Gretchen:''' Don't ask.
** So either Mikey's great-uncle was a male-to-female transsexual or he was given a girl's name and (for reasons unknown) decided not to change it.
*** This can also double as a ShoutOut to TheDarkIsRising - "Over Sea Under Stone" begins with the kids visiting their Great-Uncle Merry.

* "First Name Ashley" contains an obvious ShoutOut to ''Film/AClockworkOrange'', a movie notorious for its depictions of extreme violence (both sexual and non-sexual) and premiered with an X rating (which, back in the early 1970s, was the equivalent of the modern-day R and NC-17 rating and was not associated with pornography, even though most movies rated X in the late 1960s into the 1970s did have sexual content that was too strong for the PG rating[[note]]remember: the PG-13 rating didn't come along until the mid-1980s. Prior to that, the American movie ratings were G, PG, and X[[/note]]).

* T.J. actually invented a substitute swear word so he wouldn't have to use a real bad word ([[InformedObscenity which led to the school board thinking it was an actual swear]]).

* "First Name Ashley" contains an obvious ShoutOut to ''Film/AClockworkOrange'', '''an X-rated movie.'''

* Principal Prickly's brother, a principal at another school, boasts a much larger flagpole in front of his school.
-->'''Prickly:''' "Oh, that's just ''unseemly!''
** CompensatingForSomething
* In "The Fuss Over Finster" when Miss Finster is being wheeled into an ambulance on a gernie, she is yelling at T.J. to "get those terrible thoughts" out of his head.

* "First Name Ashley" contains an obvious ShoutOut to ''Film/AClockworkOrange'', '''and X-rated movie.'''

* "First Name Ashley" contains an obvious ShoutOut to ''Film/AClockworkOrange'', ''and X-rated movie.''

* In "The Fuss Over Finster" when Miss Finster is being wheeled into an ambulance on a gernie, she is yelling at TJ to "get those terrible thoughts" out of his head.

** While minor compared to most examples, there was also a fairly long cut of Finster starring at Hank's visable butt crack.

* T.J actually invented a substitute swear word so he wouldn't have to use a real bad word ([[InformedObscenity which led to the school board thinking it was an actual swear]]).

--->'''Spinelli:''' Last one on Ole' Rusty has to give Ms. Finster a sponge bath!
--->'''Randall:''' Hey, that's my job!

--->'''T.J.:''' Ol' Rusty was here when my big brother was in school!
--->'''Spinelli:''' Ol' Rusty was here when my mom was in school!
--->'''Mikey:''' Heck, Ol' Rusty was here when my great-uncle Mary was in school!
--->'''Vince:''' Your uncle ''Mary?''
--->'''Gretchen:''' Don't ask.

--->'''Prickly:''' "Oh, that's just ''unseemly!''