History Fridge / Recess

* In "The Candidates," when Gretchen protests that kickball has nothing to do with being a good president, she exclaims "Why, [[UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt FDR]] couldn't play a lick!" Of course he couldn't – [[CrossesTheLineTwice he used a wheelchair.]]

* Miss Finster's heart-to-heart with Spinelli in "That Sinking Feeling" comes after the events of "The Trial". Finster remembers Spinelli helping her cat out of the tree and wants to make her feel better when she sees her looking depressed.

!!FridgeLogic
* Both Mikey and Randall have deeper voices as Kindergartners than they do as 4th Graders in older episodes. Obviously, it's because ''Recess: All Grown Down'' was made at the end of the series, after the voice actors' voices changed, but that still makes one wonder why they didn't have someone else fill in the role.
* If Gus looks cool without his glasses, why doesn't he get contacts instead? He'd be able to see and people would like him.
** Most parents don't allow their children to wear contacts until they're around fourteen or fifteen.
* If everyone got sick from eating the tacos in "The Omega Kids" why didn't they just cancel school?
** They would probably have to wait until the end of the day to see if any children who didn't get sick showed up. The gang showed up so school was back on.
** Miss Grotke ''does'' kind of call things off on the first day, letting the kids just play in class. Then she has them catch up on schoolwork the other days.
* In ''WesternAnimation/RecessSchoolsOut'' the school is closed for the summer, hence [[spoiler: why Phillium Benedict uses it to perform his experiment on getting rid of recess.]] Where do kids who have summer school go?
** Possibly the kids who had summer school went to a different school for that, if they even hold summer school at all. Many districts just send all the summer school kids to one school.
** Wouldn't there at least be custodians working throughout the summer?
*** Presumably they do but less regularly than during school, since there are no children to clean up after, and the place wouldn't need day to day maintenance. The Prickly impostor may have dismissed them for the summer with whatever excuse Benedict could think of.
* In some episodes the Ashley's are shown to be in Miss Grotke's class("Gus Fortune") while in other episodes they are in another class("The Great Can Drive").
** Maybe they just are in that class for one subject. It happens sometimes in school.
** Maybe the fourth grade is particularly big this year and they split the year into two, with Miss Furley's class as the other one. Then at whatever point, the Ashleys were switched to Miss Grotke's class.
* In "Hustler's Apprentice" Hustler Kid does not want Gus to sell counterfeit passes because they might get a kid in trouble, which would make sense, but in "First Name Ashley" Hustler Kid had no problem selling kids fake I.D.s and Social Security Cards, which could just as easily get kids in trouble, if anything fake I.D.s would get a kid in FAR more serious trouble then a fake hall pass, so when you remember that, Hustler Kid unintentionally comes off as a hypocrite.
** Probably because the fake Ashley ID cards are obviously a joke. If the teacher catches a child with that, they're not going to bust them for fraud - they'll laugh it off as an innocent joke, especially if they find that every other kid is carrying one. [[FridgeBrilliance It's possible he didn't mind doing it just for the sake of saving Spinelli from the Ashleys]], or the cards didn't resemble real [=IDs=] and were just child friendly versions.
** It's most likely that , all those "fake" [=IDs=] are indeed fake , as for "gag prop" grade fake.....the kind you can pick up at local halloween prop store , or as for today , cosplay shop.(Which no adult will take it seriously.) While the counterfeit passes are indeed against school policy , and will indeed get kids into troubles.
* The ChristmasEpisode takes place after "The Voice," complete with references and a flashback. Yet Mikey's singing performance in "The Voice" is at the Spring Fling assembly. A typical school semester runs from September to June – Christmas obviously never comes after spring. So if the whole series takes place while the main cast is in fourth grade, how can Mikey have sung at the Spring Fling before singing at the Christmas pageant?
** For that matter, within "The Voice," the school is celebrating "van Buren's Birthday" at the beginning and the Spring Fling is two weeks later. But how does that make sense? Martin van Buren was born on December 5.

* Gus's corruption in "King Gus" is even worse in light of "Dodgeball City." Before the events of the series, he gave up dodgeball out of guilt that he accidentally hurt a little kid with a ball he threw. Yet as king, when the other kids revolt against them, he has his supporters throw balls at them!

* TheReveal at the end of "The Trial" is much more disturbing from an adult perspective than from a kid's. Randall [[spoiler: hit himself on the head with a rock to frame Spinelli for throwing it at him, just because he was jealous that Miss Finster praised her.]] It's only dumb luck that he didn't [[spoiler: seriously injure or even kill himself since that stone was tiny compared to the big one he wanted to use.]] That boy needs therapy!
** Well it was thankfully only a small rock, since he says deciding not to use a heavy one.

* Hypnosis cannot force people to do things against their will. Thus in the episode "The Hypnotist", when Principal Prickly is hypnotized into thinking he's a six-year-old, it reveals a subconscious desire to want to be a kid again.

* Considering the fact that in the film, it's shown that Prickly and Benedict were faculty at Third Street School in [[TheSixties 1967]] (Summer of Love), and that it's been thirty years since Benedict was fired from his position as principal for his extremist idea on banning recess, it can be inferred that the film is set either during sammer vacation in 1998, fitting with the fact that the show originally debuted in late August / early September of 1997, right around when schools in the [=US=] and Canada begin their school years.

** Probably because the fake Ashley ID cards are obviously a joke. If the teacher catches a child with that, they're not going to bust them for fraud - they'll laugh it off as an innocent joke, especially if they find that every other kid is carrying one. It's possible he didn't mind doing it just for the sake of saving Spinelli from the Ashleys, or the cards didn't resemble real [=IDs=] and were just child friendly versions.

!!!FridgeHorror

* In the film Gus gives Spinelli command of the “Special Forces” (aka The Kindergarters). This makes sense since not only is Spinelli considered the toughest kid in school but were their leader briefly during the episode “The Break-Up”.

* Gus [[TyrantTakesTheHelm has a habit of letting]] [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity power go to his head]] as shown in the episodes "King Gus" and "Hustler's Apprentice". If he follows in his father's footsteps and joins the military, [[TheNeidermeyer who knows how much damage]] [[GungHolierThanThou he can due as a commander]] [[GeneralRipper of military forces.]] One can only hope that being friends with the gang has snapped him out of it, since he does much better when leading the kids against Benedict.

* Considering Gus's dad is in the military, he's more than likely going to move away from Third Street at some point and leave the best friends he's ever had, like he's had to several times before.

* TheReveal at the end of "The Trial" is much more disturbing from an adult perspective than from a kid's. Randall [[spoiler: hit himself on the head with a rock to frame Spinelli for throwing it at him, just because he was jealous that Miss Finster praised her.]] It's only dumb luck that he didn't [[spoiler: seriously injure or even kill himself.]] That boy needs therapy!

* Gus [[TyrantTakesTheHelm has a habit of letting]] [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity power go to his head]] as shown in the episodes "King Gus" and "Hustler's Apprentice". If he follows in his father's footsteps and joins the military, [[TheNeidermeyer who knows how much damage]] [[GungHolierThanThou he can due as a commander]] [[GeneralRipper of military forces.]]

** It's most likely that , all those "fake" IDs are indeed fake , as for "gag prop" grade fake.....the kind you can pick up at local halloween prop store , or as for today , cosplay shop.(Which no adult will take it seriously.) While the counterfeit passes are indeed against school policy , and will indeed get kids into troubles.

* in one episode where Gus was designated King Bob's substitute, his first act as king involved him settling a conflict that he solved by floundering through and ultimately botching a JudgmentOfSolomon, this perfectly foreshadowed his brief reign becoming tyrannical and ultimately self destructive.

* in one episode where Gus was designated King Bob's substitute, his first act as king involved him settling a conflict that he solved by floundering through and ultimately botching JudgementOfSolomon, this perfectly foreshadowed his brief reign becoming tyrannical and ultimately self destructive.

* In ''Mikey's Pants'', Gretchen gives Mikey pants made from a titanium alloy that the Soviet Union used on their spaceships... but the pants rip anyways. However, the Soviet Union not only went through a lot of shortages but also tended to have faulty technology, what with Soviet televisions literally [http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19910721&slug=1295639 exploding]. Either a material shortage or terrible production left Mikey with defective pants. (Plus, why would the Soviet Union spend resources from its space program, that is, its greatest strength, on mundane ''pants''?)

* In "The Big Prank," Randall gets pranked with oatmeal in the beginning of the episode by T.J. You think he'll be quick to tell Ms. Finster about this but he decides to go to King Bob instead. Why he do this? Because he knows that Ms. Finster would just give T.J. detention which is something he literally sleeps through. By going to King Bob, Randall knows that King Bob may give T.J. a punishment that is more humiliating or painful (like being given a swirly or taken to the dodge ball wall).