"Lawson and his Crew" is the ninth and final episode of the fifth season of Recess, which was first broadcast on January 6th, 2001.
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The Recess Gang as they appear in this episode.
Plot
Summary
Erwin Lawson becomes jealous because The Recess Gang keeps getting Glory. To make The Recess Gang feel useless, Lawson organizes his own gang.
Main Story
The episode begins with the gang being awarded medals by King Bob for defeating the Superintendent's Plans to make them wear school uniforms. Lawson, angered and jealous, 'fires' Jocko and Chewy to organize a new crew. The clip changes to The Recess Gang discussing how the place would be without them, kids would be playing by King Morty's Depressionaire rules, Randall would be the prince, The Ashleys would have gotten away with rating kids and the Library Kid would have wrecked the playground and herself. Cornchip Girl arrives and informs them that the second and Third Graders were going to war. The gang decides to stop it. When they reach the place, they are stopped by Greg Skeens, who shows them that Lawson and his friends have stopped the war. The gang is astounded. Lawson interrupts and Menlo introduces the group.
Goofs
- Animation/continuity error: When Cornchip Girl mentions that the second and third graders are having a dodgeball war, Gordy, Willy, Megan and Phil, all fourth graders, can be seen amongst the second and third graders.
- Animation/continuity error: When Gus accidentally insults Miss Finster and gets detention, the rest of the gang wait outside for him. However, one of the close-ups has Gus' sleeve in view.
- Crediting error: When this episode first aired on ABC, the episode incorrectly had a 2000 copyright date at the end. Later reruns corrected this to 2001.
Errors
- On Disney+, the title is known as "Lawson and His Crew", with the letter "H" capitalized.
Trivia
- The second part of this episode parodies the theme song at the beginning, with Lawson's gang taking the place of T.J.'s gang.
- This is the second 20-minute episode of the series.
- This was meant to be the final episode of the show (and the movie being the big finale), however, due to the success of the film in the theaters, the show was renewed for one more season, which had the unaired Season 5 Episodes.
- Episodes referenced in this episode (in order) are: "The Rules", "Prince Randall", "The Ratings Game", "The Library Kid", "Dodgeball City", "Teachers Lounge", "The Big Prank", "Tattletale Heart", "No Strings Attached", "Diggers Split Up", "Dance Lessons", "The Voice", "The Substitute", "Principal for a Day", "Lord of the Nerds", "The Barnaby Boys", "The Challenge", "Good Luck Charm", "Fort Tender", "The New Kid", "The Break-Up", and "Operation Stuart".
- Lawson's catchphrases are introduced here: "Now hang on just a minute", "I just got an idea", and "Now that's more like it" and are used to parody the opening of the second part of the episode. ("Soccer Boy" and "Fort Tender").
- This episode marks the final appearances of The Pale Kids, Library Kid, Mr. E, Miss Salimony, and Paul Prickly.
- This is the final episode to premiere on ABC. While the show would be rerun on the channel, the rest of the series would be aired on UPN and in syndication.
- This was the final episode aired before Recess: School's Out was released into theaters, and was released a month before the film's premiere.
- This was the final episode written by Phil Walsh.
- In the French dub, the Ashleys give out lice shots instead of cootie shots; due to the concept of cooties not existing in France.
- In the Latin American dub, The Ashleys give out vulgarity shots inseat cootie or lice shots.
- This episode and their next part is "Lost" from the Latin American dub.
Cast
- T.J. Detweiler - Andrew Lawrence
- Vince LaSalle - Rickey D'Shon Collins
- Ashley Spinelli - Pamela Segall-Adlon
- Gretchen Grundler/Ashley Tomassian - Ashley Johnson
- Mikey Blumberg/Tubby - Jason Davis
- Gus Griswald - Courtland Mead
- Miss Finster - April Winchell
- Miss Grotke - Allyce Beasley
- Principal Prickly - Dabney Coleman
- Randall Weems - Ryan O'Donohue
- Swinger Girl/Ashley Boulet - Francesca Smith
- Captain Sticky - E.G. Daily
- King Bob - Toran Caudell
- Cornchip Girl - Aria Noelle Curzon
- Ashley Armbruster - Anndi McAfee
- Ashley Quinlan - Rachel Crane
- Menlo - Blake Ewing
- Cryer Kid/Phil/Kid #1 - Justin Jon Ross
- Greg Skeens - Danny Cooksey
- Kurst the Worst - Mayim Bialik
- Erwin Lawson/Lazy Kid - Erik von Detten
- Jocko - Michael Shulman
- Chewy - Kenny Blank
Videos
Disney's Recess, Lawson's Version of the Theme Song
Lawson's version of the series' intro.