"Big Ol' Mikey" is the fourteenth episode of the fourth season of Recess, which was first broadcast on September 23rd, 2000.
Plot[]
Summary[]
Gretchen and Galileo conduct a test to find out how tall everyone will be when they are all grown up. After the gang finds out that Mikey is going to be very tall by the end of the year, it causes Mikey to worry about it.
Main story[]
TBA
Timeline[]
- After "The Girl Was Trouble" (after March 30th, 1998), because this episode features Galileo.
Goofs[]
- Animation/continuity error: Right after Spinelli hears about her future height, she raises her eyebrows, causing one of them to be drawn in front of her beanie for a frame.
- Animation/consistency error: When Gretchen hooks up the other gang members to Galileo to estimate their future heights, the cables look much longer while they are connected to Mikey.
- Animation/continuity error: While Gus is imagining Mikey as a giant lumberjack walking beside a huge bovine animal, the animal leaves dirt hoof-prints on the grass, but some prints disappear during the last few frames.
- Animation/continuity error: During the nightmare scene, T.J. comes to talk to Mikey. At this moment, T.J. and the rest of the gang are near the corner. After Mikey responds, they are very far from the corner. After Mikey throws a tower, the corner is not even visible.
- Animation/consistency error: When Mikey locks himself behind bars, there are white and red bars in front of him. Once he is seen from above while he is reciting a poem, the red bars are missing.
- Coloring/continuity error: After Cornchip Girl sees Mikey behind bars, the perspective focuses on her face. Once she is shown shocked, and then while falling, her hair is colored black instead of brown. It returns to normal once she is shown hanging.
- Animation/continuity/timing error: After Gretchen asks Mikey to repeat the test, she is only beside Gus. After Mikey is shown static, T.J., Vince, and Spinelli join them way too fast in the following scene.
Trivia[]
Regular[]
- Moral: It's not your size that measures whether you're a monster or not, but the size of your heart.
- Gretchen is the only member of the gang whose future height is never mentioned.
- Dr. Quilty from "Kids in the Mist" and Pat Patterson from "A Career to Remember" appeared in Mikey's nightmare as terrified citizens.
Continuity[]
- This is the only time blood is shown in the series. It is mildly shown after Cornchip Girl scrapes her knee.
- Mikey's bedroom is shown for the only time in this episode.
Broadcast History[]
- This episode was paired with "The C Note" for Disney syndication; Disney+ and international broadcasts (outside of North America) retain this pairing.
- Said pairing is not known to have aired on ABC Kids.
- This episode was paired with "The Army / Navy Game" for its ABC premiere; UPN syndication retained this pairing.
- This episode was paired with "More Like Gretchen" for ABC syndication following its premiere; "The New Kid" would take its place from 2002-2003 after being pulled from ABC in 2001.
- Following the 9/11 attacks, and its UPN premiere a few days later, this episode would be removed from syndication between 2001 and 2002. This is likely because the episode features scenes of buildings being destroyed. The episode was added back to the rerun rotation starting on Sep 2, 2002, up until the closure of Disney's One Too; it would not be aired on ABC again following its removal, with "The New Kid" being paired in its place.
- The episode "The Great Jungle Gym Stand Off" would also be removed from ABC syndication, although it remained in syndication on UPN.
Cast[]
- T.J. Detweiler - Andrew Lawrence
- Vince LaSalle - Rickey D'Shon Collins
- Ashley Spinelli - Pamela Adlon
- Gretchen Grundler - Ashley Johnson
- Mikey Blumberg - Jason Davis
- Gus Griswold - Courtland Mead
- Principal Prickly - Dabney Coleman
- Cornchip Girl - Aria Noelle Curzon
- Lt. Griswold - Sam McMurray
- Galileo - Jeff Bennett
- Erwin Lawson - Erik Von Detten
- Jocko - Patrick Renna
Transcript[]
Big Ol' Mikey/Transcript
Gallery[]
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