History Trivia / Recess

* TheWikiRule: [[https://recess.fandom.com/wiki/Recess_Wiki Recess Wiki.]]

* TalkingToHimself:
** Dave and Randall in any scene together, as both are voiced by Ryan O`Donohue. Sam ends up getting Dave's voice actor in ''Taking the Fifth Grade'' as well, due to his original voice actor, Klee Bragger, going through puberty. He does return to voice him at the end of the movie, [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] his voice change.
** Tubby with Mikey in "Kindergarten Derby", as both were voiced by Jason Davis. All of the other kindergarteners are voiced by E.G. Daily, Pamela Segal, Creator/AshleyJohnson (sometimes), Francesca Smith (sometimes), and Creator/KathSoucie, which leads to this trope.
** Mundy and Lazy Kid are voiced by Warren Sroka.

** Ashley T. was voiced by Rachel Crane in season one. Because the creators didn't want any of the Ashleys to be played by the same person, she was replaced, and her new voice actress was actually ''named'' Ashley, Creator/AshleyJohnson, who was already playing Gretchen. However some sources such as [=IMBd=] state that Camille Redbush voiced her.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** In the original 1996 unaired pilot, there was very different animation and character designs. With Spinelli looking like she never grew out of kindergarten! T.J. went through the most drastic change, however. He was skinnier, taller, had darker, messier hair, had a completely different outfit (he didn't even have the baseball hat!), and had green eyes.
** And the oldest character designs (''before'' the pilot) gave the main six characters a more "realistic" look to them. For the pilot and series proper, they were given a more "cutesy" look. T.J. also had a drastically different appearance in the sketches. In those, while he wore something similar to his regular outfit, was even more heavyset (though as usual, not as much as Mikey), and had a different character design (along with the rest, who looked more realistic and not as "cutesy"). They got him a new outfit and slimmed him down for the pilot, only for him to return to his original outfit and put on a few pounds for the series proper.
** Other early drawings of T.J. (using a similar character design that he does in the series proper) gave him gray sneakers (Instead of red) and rounder, completely circular eyes (Instead of semi-circular). Some early drawings even have him as a blonde.
** T.J.'s original name was going to be P.J., as in "Paul and Joe"!
** Vince went through ''ten'' different hairstyles (and a different outfit) before ''finally'' deciding on one.
** From what we've seen from clips of the pilot, Gus wasn't even going to be in the show!
** Cornchip Girl's original name was Frito Girl, but was changed for legal reasons.
** In "The Break In", one of Spinelli's plans to free T.J. from detention was to break in using soda and pop rocks near the door. The line was cut because Pop Rocks was copyrighted.
** There was going to be a scene in "Yope From Norway" where Miss Grotke attempts to speak Norwegian to Yope, but was cut due to time restraints.
** In "The Box", the song T.J. was going to sing in his MadnessMantra was "How Much is That Doggy in the Window?", but was changed to "This Old Man" because the song was copyrighted.
** After the two DTV movies were released, one more was being planned, known as ''Recess: The First Day of School'', which as the title implies, would have been a prequel to the series of how the main five (as Gus would be absent) adjust to fourth grade. For unknown reasons, it was shelved.
** When ABC noticed that the sixty-five episodes the show finished with had extremely high ratings, they wanted another season for the 2002-03 television season. Disney halted production in the middle of the new episodes (apparently having reached their 65-episode limit, which has since been broken by several other series), and three of them were released as ''WesternAnimation/RecessTakingTheFifthGrade''.

* ReferencedBy: ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'': A sketch from "May Cause an Excess of Ham" has Miss Finster bring Mr. Davidson, a prisoner, to school to set the children straight. When Mr. Davidson explains to the children that he was only allowed outside for one hour a day, the children find out it is approximately 319 more hours of recess per year. [[GoneHorriblyRight This inspires the children to commit crimes so they can be sent to prison]].

* DawsonCasting: Unlike the rest of the members of the Recess Gang, Spinelli was the only member ''not'' to be played by a kid, as Pamela Adlon was thirty when she started voicing Spinelli (Recording began in 1996). Ricky D'Shon Collins and Ashley Johnson were borderline voicing Vince and Gretchen - as they were both thirteen during the first season's recording sessions, voicing 9-year-old characters.

* DawsonCasting: Unlike the rest of the members of the Recess Gang, Spinelli was the only member ''not'' to be played by a kid, as Pamela Adlon was thirty when she started voicing Spinelli (Recording began in 1996). Ricky D'Shon Collins was borderline voicing Vince - as he was thirteen during the first season's recording sessions.

* OutOfOrder: On Disney+, several late-series segments have been re-arranged into different episodes from the original domestic airing order. While the show's continuity is generally sparse enough to get away with this, "Randall and His Crew", on D+ as the 25th episode of season 3, references the titular fort of "Fort Tender", listed on D+ as the first segment of episode 38 of that season.

* NamesTheSame:
** Stinky Peterson, a frequent Third Street Urban Legend, shares the exact same name with one of [[WesternAnimation/HeyArnold Arnold's]] friends. Speaking of the football-head, King Bob, wasn't the only King Bob with a unibrow either.
** As well as [[WesternAnimation/{{Minions}} KING BOB!!!]]
** Ms. Finster shares the same surname with [[WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}} Tommy Pickles's best friend]].
** Mikey shares almost the same name as one of the former mayors of New York City, Michael Bloomberg.

* TheMerch: T-shirts, coffee mugs, toys, backpacks, and various other pieces of merchandise. Most of it was only sold at The Disney Store.

* CelebrityVoiceActor: Creator/KateySagal (known for playing Peg Bundy from ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'', Turanga Leela from ''Futurama'', and Gemma Teller from ''Sons of Anarchy''[[note]]though, at the time, she was mostly known for being Peg Bundy[[/note]]) as Flo Spinelli.