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My Funny Valentines is the twelfth episode of the third season of Recess which was first broadcast on November 13, 1999.

After showing his disdain for Valentine's Day, T.J. creates "funny" Valentines for each of the girls at Third Street School, to much complication after he gives them to them.

Summary

On the day before Valentine's Day, the kids in Miss Grotke's class are decorating their Valentine bags for the next day. Unlike the other kids, T.J. drew a realistic human heart on his bag. Miss Grotke tells him that the other kids might be to scared of his bag to put Valentines in it, but he says that he doesn't mind, as he doesn't like the idea of getting Valentines or giving any. He also tells her that he believes the entire holiday is goofy.

At the end of the day, the Recess Gang walk out of school with Spinelli complimenting T.J. on how it took guts to say what he said in class about Valentine's Day. Mikey on the other hand doesn't agree with anything T.J. said, and says that he thinks it's the most beautiful day of the year. Gretchen adds that the tradition appeals to her, and Gus likes the candy. T.J. shrugs it off, and leads the gang to Kelso's.

Once the gang get to Kelso's, Mikey points out that they're selling Valentines, and leads Vince , Gretchen, and Gus over to the Valentine display. Vince gets excited at seeing the sports Valentines, Gretchen enjoys the space-themed Valentines, and Gus at the Beany McChimp Valentines. T.J. and Spinelli watch them, not believing their excitement, until Gus tells Spinelli that they're selling wrestling-themed Valentines. She goes over to see them and joins the rest of the gang in their excitement. Upset, T.J. goes over to the counter when Mr. Kelso sees him. He asks T.J. what he'll have, and T.J. replies with wanting a strawberry frappe with extra syrup. Mr. Kelso notices that with ordering the extra syrup, something is troubling him. T.J. explains that he's getting ticked off with the gang getting excited at the Valentines. Mr. Kelso explains that when he was a kid, they didn't buy Valentines; they made them. Thanks to this, T.J. gets an idea.

That night, T.J. is sitting in his room, making Valentines. However, he decides to make them into prank Valentines, turning usual Valentine messages into jokes.

The next day, Hank lets T.J. into the classroom early, since it's Valentine's Day. T.J. then proceeds to put the joke cards into each of the girls' bags.

During recess, the student body are looking at their Valentines with enjoyment. Vince congradulates T.J. for boycotting Valentine's Day, but T.J. tells him that at that moment, each girl at their school was opening up a handmade Valentine from him. Although Vince comments T.J. on being a "softy", T.J. explains that all the Valentines had jokes written on them, by showing one of them to Vince, and adds that he hopes the Valentines will show the girls how dumb the holiday is. Then, a girl walks up to T.J. and thanks him for the card, commenting on how sweet he is. Though T.J. is surprised, she explains that no one expected him to give any Valentines out after what he said the previous day, but she was happy that he made a special exception for her, and that she was flattered, much to T.J.'s disbelief. Judy comes up to him next with her card. He tells her there's no hard feelings, but she tells him that she loved the card, and asks him when he's going to "compare her to that summer's day", part of the joke he wrote on the card. T.J. tells her he'll do that next week, and she walks off happily. T.J. feels as if he's in trouble, and Vince tells him to come up with one of his famous plans. T.J. explains that this was one of his famous plans. 

Meanwhile, in the Ashleys' clubhouse, Ashley A. is going through her Valentines, calling each one stupid until she gets to T.J.'s Valentine. The rest of the Ashleys walk in, commenting on how bad their Valentines are. Ashley A. tells them that they've been a little to hard on T.J., and Ashley B. tells her she's been thinking the same thing. Ashley Q. also agrees with them. Ashley A. decides to put his picture on their wall of acceptable boys, but Ashley B.'s not sure if any of them have his picture.

On the playground, Kurst the Worst asks the Diggers if they've seen T.J., with Dave telling her he hasn't. Kurst explains that when they do, she wants to talk to T.J. about the Valentine he gave her, and she calls him a "dear". T.J. and Vince come up out of the Diggers' hole after she walks off, and T.J. thanks them for letting them hide in it. Dave comments on that they need to get out before second recess as he and Sam walk off. T.J. tells Vince that he's upset about how each girl thought the Valentine he gave each of them was special, and that he didn't want them to find out that other girls got Valentines from him, too. Vince tells him that he needs to tell the girls to keep the Valentines "between them". T.J. is confused about how Vince knows about this, and he adds that it's because his parents have cable.

At the same time, The Ashleys have put all the other pictures of "acceptable boys" together to make a picture of T.J.. Ashley A. tells them that she found him acceptable due to the Valentine he gave her. But the other Ashleys noted that he made one for each of them, too. Ashley B., Ashley Q., and Ashley T. get into an agrument over who got the better Valentine, until Ashley A. explains that T.J.'s in trouble for giving each of them a special Valentine. 

Over by the swingset, T.J. tells Swinger Girl that he's glad she liked his Valentine, but he wants it to be between him and her, as well as Vince. Suddenly, Ashley A. calls all the girls of the playground over to their clubhouse, and  Swinger Girl leaves. T.J. compliments Vince on his plan.

After all the girls gathered to the clubhouse, Ashley A. tells all the girls that T.J. gave each of them a "special" Valentine, much to their dismay. The first girl was upset because T.J. said she was "special", and Swinger Girl was upset because he told her to keep it between them. Ashley A. decides that they should all give T.J. a makeover as his punishment, and they all agree with her. Over by the swingset, T.J. wonders what all the girls are talking about, until he hears them chanting, "Get T.J.!". Vince yells at T.J. to run, which they do as the girls chase after them.

In order to get away from the girls, T.J. and Vince run behind one of the wall ball walls. Right as T.J. is explaining his escape plan, Spinelli finds him and thanks him for the Valentine, noting how special he made it by dotting the "i"s in her name with little skulls. As he tells her to keep it between them, Gretchen arrives and thanks him for her Valentine. Spinelli gets disappointed with T.J., thinking that all this time, she was the first string on his team. He reassures her that she is, until Gretchen wonders about her, with him saying both of them are first string. T.J. tries to get Vince to help him, but he tells him that he "knows nothing". Over by the monkey bars, the girls wonder where T.J. is, with Spinelli pointing out his hiding place to them. They proceed to chase after him, with T.J. and Vince heading to the boys' room to hide.

After running into the boys' room, Gus and Mikey walk out of their seperate stalls at the same time, apparently playing some sort of game. When Mikey asks them what game they've been playing, T.J. says it's, "Hide from girls". Gus asks if he and Mikey can play, when Vince explains T.J.'s situation with the cards. Afraid of the girls trapping them inside, Gus and Mikey begin to leave, until they notice that it's too late. On the other side of the door, it's shown that Gretchen and Spinelli lead the girls there. Vince tells T.J. that Chad told him that girls can stay mad for up to seven years, with T.J. in a panic. Mikey suggests that he should apoligize to the girls, which he does. As the girls bang on the door, Vince holds out the white flag and comes out, saying that he comes in peace. Ashley A. asks for T.J., and he explains that he'll be out in a minute, but the girls have to hear him out before doing anything else. T.J. walks out of the bathroom and apoligizes to all the girls. After hearing it, they forgive him, and he explains all the hard work he put into the Valentines, and the girls agree with him. Then he explains how long it took him to come up with all the jokes, which causes all the girls to stop and notice that he wasn't sincere at all about the cards. Spinelli orders them to go after him, and they begin chasing him again. Vince thinks that next year, T.J. should buy his cards like a normal kid, with Gus adding that T.J. will never be a normal kid.

Trivia

  • This episode and "That Stinking Feeling" are considered the Valentine's Day episodes of the series, however, the episodes didn't air anywhere near the Holiday. 
  • The episode's title is a refrence to the movie, My Funny Valentine.
  • This episode was cut from the Italian dub.
  • This is the first episode in which the Ashleys (and a few other girls) crush on T.J, as no other girls, other than Spinelli, have crushed on him before.
  • The first girl who talks to T.J. about her valentine is voiced by E.G. Daily when she first speaks, however, later in the episode, she's voiced by Mayim Bialik.
  • This episode was paired up with "The Ratings Game" outside the US.
  • The heart design on Ashley B.'s valentine bag resembles the heart background shown at the end of every episode of The Powerpuff Girls.

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
  • Miss Grotke - Allyce Beasley
  • Hank - Paul Dooley
  • Dave - Ryan O'Donohue
  • Swinger Girl/Ashley Boulet - Francesca Smith
  • Ashley Armbruster - Anndi McAfee
  • Ashley Quinlan/Judy - Rachel Crane
  • Kristen "Kurst the Worst" Kurst/Kid #2 - Mayim Bialik
  • Aaron Kelso - Paul Willson
  • Kid #1 - E.G. Daily