"Bad Hair Day" is the twenty-second episode of the second season of Recess, which was first broadcast on January 16th, 1999.
Plot[]
Spoiler Warning: Plot twists, ending details, etc. are included in the plot. You have been warned.Summary[]
Mikey is given a bad haircut after getting gum stuck in it, and Vince and T.J. convince everyone that it is a trendy new cut, leading every kid on the playground to want their hair styled the same way.
Main Story[]
Gretchen has to go out of town for an academic event and invites Spinelli to come with her. Meanwhile, Mikey attempts to blow the world's biggest bubblegum bubble but gets thwarted by Captain Sticky, ultimately resulting in the bubblegum getting splattered all over his hair. With that, Mikey worries that he will get punished by his parents (as they had apparently told him he's not allowed to have gum anymore). T.J. offers to give Mikey a haircut, which Mikey agrees to. But when Mikey sees the results, he screams in horror at the worst haircut he's ever been given.
T.J., Vince, Gus and Randall then convince him that it is the official hairstyle of a famous rock band called Dog's Pajamas. Many other students hear of this, and the Diggers plus more and more students line up to get "the Mikey" from T.J. and Vince though Gus acted as a rather obnoxious scheduling manager—including King Bob, who gives them a royal procession. Unfortunately, Spinelli and Gretchen come back and start making fun of the haircuts as soon as they see them.
The girls then explain that it turns out the members of Dog's Pajamas don't have haircuts like the one Mikey got from T.J. In fact, Spinelli, who had recently seen the band on TV, claims that the members have hair trailing all the way down to their butts. Gus manages to quickly escape, but the other two are chased away by an angry mob of their clientele. The girls ask Mikey if they should help T.J. and Vince upon which he says, "Sure...as soon as my hair grows back." The episode ends as the two of them run into the sunset chased by the other kids.
Goofs[]
- Animation/continuity error: When T.J. says "Get out of nothing", his eyebrows disappear.
- Coloring/continuity error: When Dave is explaining about how their new haircuts resembles Dogs' Pajamas, half of Gretchen's bow turns light blue.
- Animation/continuity error: While the Ashleys are reading their books, one of Ashley B.'s hands disappears for a frame.
Trivia[]
Regular[]
- Gretchen got first place at the academic event that she and Spinelli went to.
- Elements of this episode reflect the classic, "The Emperor's New Clothes", most notably at the royal procession at the end.
- Moral: You may look different, but you are still the same person.
Allusions[]
- Ashley A.'s messed up hair is an allusion to Cynthia's botched up hair from Rugrats, which was co-created by Recess co-creator Paul Germain, and had episodes written by co-creator Joe Ansolabehere.
- The episode's title is an allusion to an episode of the DiC dub of Sailor Moon.
- In this episode, T.J., Vince, Gus, and Mikey loosely portray The Three Stooges, even though there are four of them, With T.J. as Moe, Vince as Larry, and Gus and Mikey as Curly, and the episode's plot line is similar to The Three Stooges' animated episode "Hair-Brained Barbers".
- This episode predicts Britney Spears’ shaved hair fiasco in the late 2000’s.
Continuity[]
- In this episode, King Bob is shown to have a third adviser, albeit unnamed. He does not appear after this episode as an adviser, only as a background character.
Cast[]
- T.J. Detweiler - Andrew Lawrence
- Vince LaSalle - Rickey D'Shon Collins
- Ashley Spinelli - Pamela Segall-Adlon
- Gretchen Grundler - Ashley Johnson
- Mikey Blumberg - Jason Davis
- Gus Griswald - Courtland Mead
- Randall Weems/Dave/Morris P. Hingle - Ryan O'Donohue
- Sam/Gordy - Klee Bragger
- King Bob/Buster - Toran Caudell
- Captain Sticky/Bradley - E.G. Daily
- Ashley Armbruster - Anndi McAfee
- Ashley Boulet - Francesca Smith
- Ashley Quinlan/Kid #1 - Rachel Crane
- Jerome/Jordan - Patrick Renna
- School Paper Reporter - Erik von Detten
- King Bob's Advisor - Justin Shenkarow
Transcript[]
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