Recess - Yes, Mikey, Santa Does Shave

And now, since I have zero history with Recess the Show, I want to hear yours, and let's start with Robert.

Okay, so with Recess, this is a show that I was at the exact right age to watch this or so because it usually came on.

I remember watching it primarily on Disney's One Saturday Morning, which aired on ABCs every Saturday morning.

And the first time I saw the show, I actually kept doing a lot of comparisons to Hey Arnold, even though the tones are a little different.

I kind of got a similar character vibe where, yeah, the kids are the focus, but the adults still play somewhat of a role in this.

Yeah.

It's just that while Hey Arnold was clearly trying to go for, I guess you could say if Hey Arnold was cool jazz, like the music that it did play, then Recess essentially was the rock and roll equivalent.

Yeah, that's a comparison I was going to make as well.

All right.

And Hey Arnold, well, I guess we will get into this in a little bit, but basically one of the creators of Hey Arnold carried over to be one of the creators of Recess.

Oh, I didn't catch that.

Did he work on Hey Arnold too?

He did.

He co-created it with Craig Bartlett and finished him for Dan Popenmayer.

Okay.

Yeah, so clearly this is a guy who really likes doing a lot of cartoon shows about children and just the fun adventures they have, even if...

Not to say that it's as exaggerated as it could get, like something like Dexter's Laboratory, but at least just within its own rule set or so, that it's doing some kind of exaggeration, since...

Again, a lot of people have always brought up that Recess is essentially a elementary school remake of The Great Escape or Home of Heroes.

I've never

heard that.

But I love that now.

The vibe I got was like every high school movie where they separate everybody into cliques.

It's elementary Saved by the Bell.

I went with elementary Clueless.

Oh, okay.