Recess is an American animated television series created by Paul Germain and Joe Ansolabehere (credited on marketing materials and late-series title cards as "Paul and Joe") and produced by Walt Disney Television Animation, with animation done by Grimsaem, Anivision, Plus One Animation, Sunwoo Animation, and Toon City. The series focuses on six elementary school students and their interaction with other classmates and teachers. The title refers to the recess period during the daily schedule, in the North American tradition of educational schooling, when students are not in lessons and are outside in the schoolyard. During recess, the children form their own society, complete with government and a class structure, set against the backdrop of a regular school.
Six brave fourth-graders at Third Street School make it their mission to protect the other kids on the playground. Despite the rule of King Bob and his minions, who enforce his unwritten laws, T.J, Ashley, Vince, Gus, Gretchen and Mikey seek a rational balance between conformity and individuality.
An unknown group steal a top-secret project from a U.S Army base in the Nevada Desert, whereupon they make their way to secure Third Street Elementary School as base of operations per their leader's instructions. Prior to their arrival, T.J. Detweiler and his friends pull off one last big prank at their school before they break off for Summer vacation#United States. T.J. is shocked that his friends are heading to summer camps, leaving him bored at home. While heading for a play date with the school's snitch Randall, he comes across something strange involving a tractor beam being used within the school, but finds no-one believing his story. Left with no choice, T.J. attempts to convince the school's principal, Peter Prickly, to abandon his time at a golf club to check things out, only to witness him Teleportation when he tries entering the school. Out of options, T.J. blackmails his sister Becky into driving him to each of his friend's summer camp to bring them back and help him investigate more. Although they accuse him of inventing a plot to drag them back, the group witness the tractor beam being used from the school and agree to help him investigate.
In this movie, the ''Recess'' gang remembers how they all met back in kindergarten. It begins with T.J. and four of his gang looking forward to starting a game of croquet with Mikey's new set, but they needed an empty space to do so.
