Recess Jokes That Wouldn't Air Today 

I do love how it's a world-wide phenomenon as well, it's not just the American 5-year-olds.

As someone who photographs school children for a living, it's so far from the truth it becomes hilarious. The kindergarteners are almost always the most well-behaved.

yeah depicting little children who are very aggressive and hard to communicate with as a resemblance to indigenous tribes is hilarious right (im being sarcastic of course)

@@user-iu4of8ww8c no sry it is that funny cuase a joke is a joke get da f over ya self and elogical childish race nonsense there is no races we are all from adam and eve who were in the very middle light brown between black and lightest brown there is no blacks there is no china and so on we are alll the same race just from a diff area which made us look diff

@@abstruseglitch It's so cute that you think kindergartners are like that every single day, and not _only_ because it's Picture Day. When I was in elementary school, I was the PTA's favorite slave-er, "babysitter," because my mom was on the PTA and I was the oldest kid forced to stay after school between 4th and 6th grade. I couldn't break up fights between the tykes, or I'd get in trouble because Zero Tolerance. I couldn't try to find a teacher to break up fights because I'd get in trouble for leaving the tykes alone. I couldn't punish them with timeouts because I wasn't allowed the authority, but got in trouble if they went _"too_ wild," which they _always _*_did._* And when my younger brothers went through elementary school and became the new babysitters-I mean, *slaves* for the PTA, they had just as bad of horror stories. And that's not even *_touching_* the living nightmare that was daycare. I had to go to afterschool daycare during 3rd grade and the kindergartner room was constantly filled with the screams of the damned. Maybe we just lived in a ghetto or something, but kindergartners have always been creatures before they've been humans.

He said lean on not bullying

That would anger a certain party.

​@@KazeShikamaruWho? It sounds fine

​@@KazeShikamaru Both parties in the US have blatantly lied to wage war in the interest of money.

@@JimmyFantage I won't say who but I do agree it sounds fine.

Underrated joke

WAIT HOLY SHIT I KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS NOW

That took me completely off guard its even better because they primed you to think about military history with all the army stuff going on in the episode. I loved this show as a kid and its nice to see looking back that its as good as I remember.

Here I was thinking it was a pedo joke but now, holy crap that's bad xD

@@Vanessomatic being from the place where little boy was constructed (or technically where uranium was enriched for it) I actually got that joke as a kid! (Since they have a museum about it)

genuine question, what do you mean by this? In what way has disney been doing this? Pretty much every single American media export is censored in some way when played overseas, it's not unique to Disney, they just want to make money so they tweak certain aspects to make it more "acceptable" for different countries. (usually censoring queer representation or certain words) Disney certainly is probably more watered down now but not because they're bowing down to China or anything lol

It's simple economics; a market of 1.4 billion is much larger than a market of 330 million. Just be happy Disney media isn't made in Chinese, and dubed to English.

Now they heavily pander bc of greed Which is the obvious main reason

Don't forget about Mikey's voices. Both his speaking and singing voices are dead.

Dabney hun

Sad

I didn't even know they had the same voice actor

1. Did not know they were the same VA! 2. NOT MIKEYYYYYY 😭😭😭😭 Mikey was my favorite when I was a kid…

@@CosplayCore Mikey the kid was voiced by a different actor, but yes, now after looking it up, you are correct. My favorite character however, will always be T.J.

And Mikey's singing voice actor. May all three rest in peace

That was a great movie.

@@TheSmileyK1ngagreed

That was the movie and it was to get rid of summer vacation

@@MonkeyDLooney indeed it was, also recess is what the characters referred to it as.

@@MonkeyDLooney either way

That’s my all time favorite recess quote

Damn you communism!

I love this joke so much!

She is so real for that

We need this joke for kids today, cuz unfortunately it looks like a lot of so called "adults" (If they even identify as that) think they can live in a fantasy world

@@RetroRenegade8706 I heavily agree

@@RetroRenegade8706 Turns out you can be tall bodybuilder called Moe. Unless you are a coward

Its like the 'I'm Spartacus' thing

Either NK or China.

It’s China because the building you see in the background is very likely a portion of The Forbidden City. (I think that’s the name)

Yeah it's definitely China, and that was the forbidden city in the background

I forgot how many jokes about communism this show had. Was it supposed to be set at the end of the Cold War?

@@DeRien8 recess canonically takes place in the 90’s according to Gus during the episode “first name ashely” Hey, it’s the 90’s And as most of these kids are between 8-10, they very likely got a little taste of that from the late 80’s era that the early 90’s carried, also remember their parents who lived through a lot of that mentality as well. I myself was born right at the start of the 90’s on the dot just about but for our house we were always behind on tech and such (which frankly I think is excellent for growing up as it makes you less addicted to tech and appreciate the old classics) So though I grow up during the 90-2000’s, my pop culture exposure was 8-10 years older than that most of my “nostalgia” is old timey 80’s stuff.

Could be short for Marion (the birth name of John Wayne, for one.)

@@NotABot55 We all know that’s not what the writers were thinking

Meriadoc

I don’t understand

​@@GoobieMienetteTransformers...

Disney can sometimes just suck

Weak

Lmao Disney is going broke

I have it too but I don’t bother after the disclaimer because I felt some shows may be edited. All the episodes are here on RU-vid ❤

One of many reasons why modern Disney is trash lol.

Same thing with Rugrats on Nickelodeon.

Well it's thanks to Michael Eisner that ran the company from 1984 - 2005 that pretty much wanted some sort of mature content included in the company, not just the focus on families and children.

That Fat Man Little Boy joke might not make it

I can see the "great uncle Mary" joke getting a show canned. Trans stuff is the internets current fixation

​@@megaspit Wait why? Wouldn't that be "empowering" or whatever?

@@Vaguer_Weevil sure, unless anything could possibly be taken as negative. Then it's cancel worthy. It's only empowering if you shower then with praise

Maybe I’m just blanking, but when did SpongeBob make suicide jokes?

Dont ask

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No way Prickly let TJ get away with too much stuff and rarely listened to Randall selfless suggestions.

I didn't even know that the guy who voiced principal prickly passed away not only did he voice principal prickly he also voiced Mikey as well

😊

But do we need jokes from over two decades ago? jk

@@Bezaliel13 There timeless

@@Bezaliel13yes yes we do

@@ZephyrBW That is no excuse for not making up new jokes.

@@devernepersonal3636 ... Why?

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Still relevant now. Tis the power of everlasting cartoons, baby.

Twitter users

​@@ghoulbuster1😑

You could argue all the kindergartners are a Lord of the Flies reference.

@@bbworks159please shout it at all the people who randomly assume they’re a racist stereotype

I guess the reason people feel that way is because that makes them viewed as savages. They probably have a problem with Lord of the Flies as well

I never knew that, I never read the book

@@kaylatarapaskoski2390 I only saw the movie

@JN-so6wtdon’t know about that. My world was small as a kid. No one in school had constant access to social media, worldwide information, opinions and adult content 24/7. We only knew what was happening around the block and with other kids at school. Is that ignorance? You be the judge, but it was certainly a much happier time. We were socialized on our own, outside of the home, our parents weren’t tracking us or logging in to see if we had homework. We had to be trusted to be responsible for ourselves and our schoolwork and we were trusted to be where we said we were going. Growing up during this shows initial run was the last great time to be a kid. It was so much fun. We are now living in kind of a nihilistic, amoral, atheistic, safety/fitness obsessed (lost our souls so we obsess over our bodies) era where nothing matters, people are generally apathetic, people are reportedly more lonely than every before and kids today have it pretty bad tbh.

​@@BB-ed4om What's wrong with being an atheist?

Bobby Hill was also voiced by Pamela Adlen

😂😂😂Whyyy??

@@ADanielle18because school felt like prison to most kids 😂😂

Meanwhile, I was always aware of the barbed wire fence when I grew up watching this show. It became so normalized to me, I had to read this to realize it’s not normal 😂

There's a theory that all the kids are there to be put in the military and develop different military strategies

In-city school in Cincinnati, normal stuff.

Yeah me too

We just live in a sensitive society

Same here

Well depends if you are active on twitter or live in a blue state in america I guess. Oh and it depends if you read or watch anything news related.

Same thing I said! Mind you the show is based on the creators real childhood memories 😂 how would one get offended by a satire of someone’s childhood is beyond me smh.

Very well said and really good on you for taking action! 👏

Hoo, boy!

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Do you have to be a worm to work at Wormhole National Park?

Really wish llyod in space was on Disney +

And Pepper Ann, another good show that was ahead of its time in some ways, but mostly pretty light-hearted.

Lloyd in Space*

Lloyd in Space had a gender neutral alien in it, right?

...Do you ever watch newer cartoons? You first wax poetic about how "back then" writers didn't worry about censorship, but then you claim claim you have watched newer cartoons and that the jokes are just bad. But you don't assert that the writers are being stifled by censorship? 🤔 It sounds like you aren't even 30 yet you've decided to be a judgemental old fart already. You don't know anything about the landscape of animation in the late 90s and early 2000s at all if you think they had less censorship- this was the peak of Never Say Die. Of when Batman Beyond had to jump through hoops in production due to violence. When the E10 rating for games was introduced. The fall of the extreme gore fad, and even the tail end of grossout. Shows were getting way more sensitive and PC in this era, all things considered. I really don't think you're watching the right shows or giving new shows an honest chance if you have such an uninformed perspective on animation as a whole. If the jokes in new cartoons are bad and its not because they're obviously avoiding censorship, then maybe its a you problem, and you only give nostalgic cartoons a chance. You are the common denominator here. If you really can't find anything of quality from all the shows out there these days, then that's honestly on you. People consider being a fan of things like movies or animation a *hobby* for a reason- sometimes, things are enriched if you put a bit of effort into it. If these shows mean something to you, learn about them. How they're made, who made them. That's enough of a rabbit hole to lead you to new cartoons, honestly, because you start to want to support those same people, and what they're doing NOW. Because they rarely just make the things you liked when you grew up and then go sitting on their asses when you decide to stop caring.

@@Bird-wz7nx A lot newer stuff, especially in the western entertainment industry aren't made by actual writers or talented creators, but instead are made by activists who got hired not because of their talents, but because of either their skin colour, pronouns, sexuality, etc. Now days, entertainment isn't about making something good, but more about how much political & woke messaging you can shove in people's throats. While I'm not saying all the new stuff from western entertainment is bad, but I do notice that the increase of bad or mediocre western entertainment is becoming more common now, then with actual well made entertainment that is actually made by real passion & hard work. While older entertainment isn't perfect either, it still had better writing and passion put into it, then with newer entertainment. Heck, western entertainment of today has gotten so bad, that more people, including kids are more gearing towards anime & manga, then they do with anything that the west is trying put out these days. Because Japanese entertainment is still about entertaining the audience, instead of whatever the hell the west is trying to pull. Heck, Godzilla Minus One despite it's very limited budget, actually sold really well & did better then any movie modern Hollywood has shown in recent years. And what's worse about modern western entertainment is that people have a hard time to criticise it, without idiots pulling the -inst or -phobe cards just because someone doesn't like something modern or new. It's frustrating and because of that, why many people, myself included are either going back to older entertainment or just watch anime instead. Unless modern western entertainment change their ways, I'm not going to support modern entertainment, unless it's actually something good, but as for now, I could care less about new modern western entertainment.

@@Asaylum117 Some talented writers back then had body colors other than white, pronouns and interests other than the norm, and had to swallow these jokes (which are usually less funny if you know someone who is pigeonholed because of these jokes) to make their shows popular. Today, such artists can finally get by without these jokes for the most part and come up with their own jokes or work on making them funny for a wider audience.

@@farusofaura2280 If you seriously think modern humour is funnier then older humour, then you truly don't understand comedy at all. While yes, some older writers were diverse, at least back in the day, it wasn't treated like a commercial/promotional item & it didn't become their core identity or personality. Most modern writers basically self insert themselves and pretty much are preaching about their own identities, rather then making fictional characters that have their own soul & lives that live in their own fictional world. For example, one of my favourite writers is Dwayne McDuffie and he was black. But I didn't care about his skin colour or his pronouns or whatever. His writing skills is what made me admire him and because of him, we got to have great shows like Justice League Unlimited, Static Shock, Ben 10 Alien Force Seasons 1 & 2. And he even worked on a few DC animated films in the past. And I guarantee you, if he was alive today and saw what has become of animated shows now days, he would be very disappointed. I'm pretty certain he is rolling in his grave right now, knowing how bad or mediocre today's western entertainment writing has become.

@@farusofaura2280 too bad they dont have any talent to write jokes tho

Right 😂

It's.... complicated. Back then everyone was fascinated with China in many shows.

Because China is on the other side of the world; it's literally just to emphasize distance while still remaining within the setting of Earth.

Because Disney wasn't constantly sucking off China back then.

Murica 😂😂😂😂

Fat Man and Little Boy?

Yes

Bombs" since a warhead is basically fired like a rocket. While the things that destroyed two major cities in Japan. Were dropped like what else? A bomb

"Get a hamster"

​@ZefDavenport lmao

You are not the only one.

Classic series.

Ruuun!

I didn't.

@@TheSmileyK1ng Note to self: don't watch compilations at nearly 4 AM - you'll miss something. 😂😂

how is "midget" bad anyway? like,what else does it refer to if not just a little person? it's not like they have long history or being oppressed (best i can think of is being in circuses and freak shows but,like...so were a lot of people with a lot of (and sometimes way worse) medical issues). sure it can SOUND bad if you say it like that but so can literally anything else.

@@JT5555 Personally, I don't see how it is offensive either.

I just watched it so no lol

Frank Grimes is.

Girls sitting around a doll chanting 'whatever'?

More like 4:12

Because prison

Why do schools looks like prisons?

Have you seen the kindergarteners

@@Katya_Lastochkabecause society is a prison and school is the first exposure

@@DuskLegend there i already a wooden fence around their play area.

The diggers are two kids who love to make extremely large, long, and complicated tunnels.

@@bluej.studios4523 *_T H E W H A T_*

Wazzap my diggersz ... 😂😂😂😂😂

Which one is Gretchen?

​@@blueflare3848the tall one with red hair and glasses

@@janette2691 The nerdy one.

Where did you get that information?! Recess had ended production before that actress was even born! 😂

Some people would find the Kindergarteners acting like savages racist. The thing is they aren't based off any particular tribe, that tribe cliche has been used to depicted tribes/natives on multiple continents so since it doesn't really represent anything in particular I don't view it as racist.

@@mattwolf7698 I could definitely see it done today, maybe differently in some ways but I still think it could be done. But there were some straight up normal scenes in this video lol

@@mattwolf7698 I would not even say that it built off human history, it goes from a small tribe to a recess kingdom the children are not even at the upper lvl. The joke has nothing to do with what people think it does.

I’m intrigued. Why, tho? Just curious.

@@Sebastian-bu7oj Essentially you are not allowed to tell someone who is at beast a 5 foot girl that she can never be a 6 foot bodybuilder named Moe. If she wants it then its possible regardless of reality.

​@@Sebastian-bu7ojskittle-haired people

Yup. Reality and truth are too offensive for some types of people these days lol.

Waaaahhhh

Most Twitter users and TikTok users basically grew up to be Randall lol

Yeah it’s sad

Different era

@@watchforever1724 better era

It was a handful who got empowered through social media. like 5% were loud enough to get mainstream attention, which dominated the 95% who arent as batshit looney.

Me too. It was a great show.

Sadly it won't what happened to all the Saturday morning cartoons, they're all gone. Why? Because it's stupid cowards like RU-vid, forcing their agenda and their vendetta in the form of an algorithm down throats when the only algorithm that mattered is that youth like bright colored stories and not black and white numbers that are better used for accounting.

It was Spineli doing the voiceover

It got reconned.

@@Neku628I guess he has both?😅