Disney's Recess - Operation Field Trip 

"They're retiring Old Smokey!" "The bear?" "No, the bus." XD

You’re telling me that a class of 9 year olds fixed a broken bus with limited parts in under an hour, but my mechanic takes a week to fix a bumper?

So we're not going to talk about a bunch of 4th graders bodily lifting the back end of a bus.

miss grotke is one of those teachers you look back on when youre an adult and think "she was high all the time" lol

“Earth momma” “something I picked up in the 70’s” yeah miss grotke is groovy.

My big brother Joey majored in autorepair in prison

This show had a lesson taught from almost every episode...sure did set the path right

This episode debuted in 1998. So in canon, "Old Smoky" would have been in service since 1966.

Spinelli is such a well written strong independent woman. She knows about engines, wrestling, can fight and more than hold her own but isn't obnoxious about it. Not making a point to tell everyone how superior she is.

Anyone else realize Finster was breaking like... 5 safety hazards

I love Miss Grotke. "oh, my. That's so...WICKED!"

Everytime Bertha speaks, all I hear is Agnes Skinner, Crazy Cat Lady, Lindsay Naegle and so many other Simpsons characters. Tress MacNeille is hilarious.

"Wave goodbye to your fears and concerns." "Bye fears! By concerns!" I wish it was that easy 😂

"But big daddy!" "Sorry Earth mama, but that's the skinny" 😏

The way that Finster treated the field trip like a military operation is hilarious! That likely explains the title of the episode. LOL

8:22 The diggers once again showing their powers as they used clone jutsu to both help with the bus and manifest the chair at the same time. Truly an episode showcasing the kids mutant prowess from each kid lifting 1000lbs each on the low end to cloning / teleporting digger kids and kids with such unnaturally high iq's they can create a Tony Stark level vehicle from pieces of scrap on a farm.

They fixed a bus axle by replacing it with one from a tractor? The mechanic in me is very triggered right now. lol

miss grotke banged a lot of bus/truck drivers in the 70s

2:32 Spinelli: "If I have to sing that song one more time, I'm gonna play knick-knack on somebody's head!" lol.

What the diggers were referencing is an actual thing. In the Chicago museum of science and industry, there’s a tour of a coal mine the museum was built upon, complete with the original elevator.

Jeepers Kreepers 2 basically took it's plotline from this...

MISOOE: Museum of Industry Science Oceanography Oddities and Energy

I love this show.

B I G D A D D Y

"I love the smell of Diesel fuel in the morning" - Finster...oh dear

Gretch and Spinelli fix the whole damn thing and credit is being given to TJ?

Lol so we jus gonna ignore the fact a group of elementary school kids deadlifted a whole bus😂😂

why do i have the feeling Grotke knew the kids were up to something and merely kept Bertha distracted for them?

This is the only episode I remember I’m rewatching this on Disney+ such a good old show

All that work and JUST a Gold Star? Man that Whomps.

“Ready to roll MS. Finster SIR!” 😂😂😂

This is one of my top ten all time favorite episodes.

They're retirin' old smokey! The bear?! No the bus... LMAO

even many years later I still remember some parts of this episode cause of just how good the show was and how awesome that bus looks. I grew up with this and jackob two two.

This was my favorite episode of Recess while growing up. I remember thinking "I wish my school were that cool..."

9:42 Nobody can do an insane cackle like Tress MacNeille.

I love how Gretchen and Spinelli are the mechanical experts of the outfit. #girlpower

I haven’t seen this show in a long time but even for a 27 year old, that ending is actually funny

I like this episode where all the kids try to make the School bus lady feel better by fixing her old School bus aka Smokey. I would do the same thing to helped and make someone happy. TJ has a good heart to make that School bus lady feel better.

MS. GROTCHE WAS PROBABLY LOOSE IN THE 70s

“Take ‘em to MISOOE Matt!” - The first time I’ve heard Ms. Finster in a happy, energetic attitude since she’s usually a no-nonsense lady

Ms. Grotke is my aspiration as an adult who wants to teach at a school and yoga lol

That turned a bus into a monster bus....only in cartoons. God I want that bus!

I feel that spinelli and Gretchen did most of the work

The bus giving me a mad max vibe. 😁🔥🔥

Ya know they coulda just gone on the other buses

One of the few times Miss Finster was somewhat nice to the kids

Bertha is one sad bus driver, because she's crying about Smokey the school bus. 👍🏼 if you agree and wish to give her a hug and Puffs Plus Lotion facial tissue at the same time.

Movie mistake! At 8:22 One of the diggers is behind TJ, then he’s standing next to the chair with the other one

The final design of the bus got me dying. 😂 There are more parts added than what was on the field.

Everybody in this show was always so extra!

she supposedly has two big brothers. (Joey and Vito who gave her her boots)

if hustler kid was on their bus they could just ask him for a new flywheel.

You got to admit, the writers came up with some interesting story lines for the show.

What’s even crazier than these kids fixin up this bus, is that the two adults supervising didn’t notice what these kids were doing.

I always found it funny that TJ was shouting encouragement on top of the tractor as the kids dragged it therefore making it harder to move

“Ooohhhh Ratchet.” 😂

SPINELLI'S BROTHER WENT TO PRISON AND HER PARENTS ARE SPIES AND SHE LIKES WRESTLING MY KIND OF GIRL

“Smokey burst into flames?” I burst out laughing!!!

I cannot believe how strong mikey is he can life the back end of a school bus without a spotter. Wow

"I love the smell of diesel fuel in the morning" lol finster

imagine them returning to school in that

I never watched this show before but I’m glad I get to find it

9 year olds managed to fix up an old bus with parts found from a barn, yet it takes me hours to put together a lego model of the Millenium Falcon.

That wasn't Menlo's real voice, that was Randall's voice actor. I don't think the kid was meant to be Menlo, but the artists drew him there, anyway.

i know every episode!! My childhood cartoons are here right here and with like 20 million other GOOD ones ^^

Love how Finster runs the whole thing like a military invasion op. I can tell this level of organization, chaos, and mass movement of people is what she lives for.

6:09 that made me smile. Nice one Gretch!

"If i hear that song one more time i'm gonna play nick nack on someones head!" lol always made me laugh.

TJ should’ve shared that chair with Spinelli

8:22 Okay...so the diggers can bend time?

4:26 Menlow's a skinwalker who doesn't realize it's in a 4th grader's body and not a kindergartener

I remember one Recess show where Gretchen rigged the intercom so TJ would sound just like Principal Prickly, the look on Ms. Finster's face was priceless when "Prickly" said this ice cream was to be eaten immediately, and to ignore what Ms. Finster said about ice cream or anything, and he wanted them all to know he had a fat, saggy butt which he liked to scratch every hour, on the hour. That was comedy gold!😂😂😂

everytime we went on a field trip to another city or town in middle school, i would think of this episode. lol. only cause i live in one of the prairie provinces in Canada. :) i would imagine us being sort of stuck on the side of the road for a long time. lol this would be from like grade one, maybe kindergarten, to grade five.... good times.....i had, and still do have an active imagination.

01:57 WOAH! HOW MANY SCHOOL BUSES DO THEY HAVE?! Our primary school only had three!

Big Daddy, this is Earth Mama. We got a cranky-jack that just won't blow. Do ya copy? Over. We copy, Earth Mama. We goin' get a new kitty-crate out to ya asap.

7:45 you mean to tell me that a group of about 15 kids lifted a 12 ton bus?

TJ can totally replace Nick Fury

04:26 I WANT MY MOMMY! Oh my gosh! 😂 I thought that guy was mature!

"Catcha on the path, Kath!" - Oh the irony!

I thought I was watching Jeepers Creepers 2 the animated movie at first.

Damn, I always forget just how old this show is when one of Ashley's says that gift shop being able to accept Credit Card is a benefit

I was looking for this particular episode!!! I watched this episode when I was kid!! I don't recall other episodes but this !! More or less 15 years passed by.

I swear Ms. G gotta have a wild past. "But Big Daddy...."

My class would NOT have sang "this old man" we would've sang "100 bottles of beer"

"I love the smell of disel fuel in the morning." God...that sounds sexy.

I never realized Menlo said "I want my mommy!" When the kids were panicking. 😂😅 And Ashley, you're a kid too; so telling TJ he's just a kid isn't an insult.

06:06 Spinelli: my big brother major in auto repair in prison

"I love the smell of desiel fuel in the morning" yep that's a army reference all right, fucking 5am that's all u can smell was the trucks driving by the barracks

Did she say 900k?? That bus been through hell

Miss Lemon: BAACK EM UP! BAAAAAAACK EM UP! Omg she sounds like a sheep!😂🐑

why didnt the ashley have their dads fly them to the trip or buy the class a new bus

her millage is at almost 900K!!!!!!!!! WTF

Thought I was watching jeepers creepers for a second lol

This dialogue is so good, it's so well-detailed and intricate. You don't see anything like this in kids shows nowadays.

The dialogue in this episode is too much! 😂 Gretchen: regular or ratchet? Spinelli: ooh ratchet And did she say her Brother is in prison? I wanna know for what now.

If I have to sing that song one more time, I'll play Nic-Nac on somebody's head!

Did anyone else notice Mrs. Grotkee's harry legs.

it's probably because when a boy hasn't had his voice broken yet squeeks alot because his voice is higher then it would be, so that's also why sometimes boys can scream like girls

Menlo's voice sounded weird