One show I had watched in some form growing up was the
Disney animated series Recess; though it originally aired as part of the One
Saturday Morning block on ABC (before it was rebranded as ABC Kids), I remember
watching it via reruns on Toon Disney (prior to its own rebranding as Disney XD),
which was one of a few formative animation outlets for me as a child. For those
who haven’t seen it, the show revolved around the misadventures of six fourth-graders
(T.J., Vince, Gus, Spinelli, Gretchen and Mikey) as they make the most of the
school year, with a heavy emphasis on what occurs on the playground during the
recess period. During the show’s run, it had received a theatrically-released
movie in 2001 known as Recess: School’s Out, however I never ended up
actually watching it, and even then, I had only seen it in parts when it ran on
TV. After having finally seen the movie in full, on what was coincidentally a
few days off from the 19th anniversary of its US premiere no less,
and spurred in part by the (as of this writing) recent passing of Jason Davis (Mikey),
I found it to be a solid movie that holds up surprisingly well.
