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"First Name Ashley" is the seventh episode of the first season of Recess, which was first broadcast on October 4th, 1997.

Plot



Summary

After Randall reveals that Spinelli's first name is actually Ashley, she is forced to join The Ashleys. The Ashleys make her pretty and make her work as their servant.

Main Story

Randall tries to find some dirt on the other students, but he fails. Finster gives him one more chance threatening to replace him and he finds Spinelli's permanent record, apparently with some real dirt: her first name, Ashley, which he eventually reveals after she refuses to answer to all of his demands.

This prompts the Ashleys to force her to join. Spinelli angrily refuses at first, but is forced to join in after hearing from the playground's constitution that any girl named Ashley must be initiated into the Ashley group by another Ashley, much to her dismay. At that point, the Ashleys try to girl her up and make her a servant, which demoralizes her. Her friends have had enough, and they, along with several other students, temporarily change their names to Ashley in order to force the Ashleys to kick them out with Spinelli. Once Spinelli is free to go, she chases after Randall for making her angry.

Timeline

  • February 17th, 1998

Goofs

  • Animation/continuity error: While the Ashleys are sitting in front of their lunchboxes at the cafeteria, Ashley T. is initially very close to the table corner. Once perspective changes, she is sitting much closer to the other Ashleys.
  • Animation error: While Ashley A. is talking to the other Ashleys about the change, her eyebrows are thicker than usual; the same error happens during the end of the talk, as Ashley B. and Ashley Q. also has thick eyebrows as well.
  • Coloring error: When Spinelli is running and says, "You'll never take me alive!", both Ashley B. and Ashley T.'s lips are lighter than usual.
  • Animation error: When Ashley A. and Ashley Q. are painting Spinelli's nails while Spinelli says, "No-o! No-o-o!", her eyebrows disappear for many frames.
  • Dialogue error: After the Ashleys present Spinelli as Ashley S., Randall makes fun of Spinelli for wearing a dress. However, Spinelli is usually wearing a dress in each episode.
  • Coloring error: When Spinelli calls each member of the gang (excluding Gretchen) "Ashley", Gus' belt is gray.
  • Coloring/animation error: When Ashley T. says, "They're destroying our clubhouse," her lips turn light pink a few times.
  • Animation/coloring error: In some last scenes of Ashley A., she has blonde eyebrows.

Trivia

Regular

  • Spinelli's first name, Ashley, is revealed in this episode. Before the episode aired, Disney was very secretive about it; and left her first name off of their official website and tie-in material.
  • The Ashleys mention that the name "Ashley" is only a girl's name. The name can also be used for boys, and was once mainly used for boys when the name was first used.
  • The video the Ashleys force Spinelli to watch is a spoof of the popular girls' toy line My Little Pony, instead called My Fuzzy Unicorn. When the episode first aired, the toyline started its second era, or "G2" to collectors.
  • Ashley A.'s lunchbox has Hello Kitty on it.
  • Gretchen's last name is revealed to be Grundler in this episode.
  • According to Randall, this episode takes place on February 17, 1998, even though it was originally broadcast a few months before then.
  • This episode was shown in selected cinemas before Disney's 1998 feature film Mulan
  • Gretchen‘s voice actress’ first name is Ashley.

Continuity

  • This is one of the only episodes where Spinelli is seen having at least one eyelash; the others being "Mama's Girl" and "Prickly Is Leaving". However, this episode and "Prickly Is Leaving" are the only episodes where it had Spinelli to have two eyelashes on each eye, as "Mama's Girl" had her to have only one eyelash on one of her eyes briefly during her eye zoom (though, this is an animation error).
  • This was the first episode to be written by Holly Huckins.
  • This is the only episode where Spinelli is shown crying.
  • This is the only episode where Ashley T. speaks more than twice.
  • Hustler Kid speaks for the first time in this episode.
  • Spinelli's older brother, Joey, is mentioned for the first time in this episode.
  • Douglas is mentioned in this episode, but he will not physically debut until "Randall's Reform".

Allusions

  • Randall's line when he finds Spinelli's file, "Why with dirt like this, I could, dare I say it? Rule the playground!", is an allusion to one of Ringo's lines in the 1965 film starring The Beatles, Help! , where he says, "With a ring like that, I could, dare I say it? Rule the world!".
  • Ashley A.'s line about ending up with guys named "Paul" or "Joe" in middle school is an allusion to the series creators, Paul Germain and Joe Ansolabehere.

International Information

  • In the Latin Spanish dub, the names Ashley A. was talking about are changed to "Juan" and "Pedro" respectively, but those names are not English versions of Paul and Joe.
    • However, in the Castilian Spanish dub, the names are kept.

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