"Stand Up Randall" is the eighth episode of the third season of Recess, which was first broadcast on October 2nd, 1999.
Plot[]
Spoiler Warning: Plot twists, ending details, etc. are included in the plot. You have been warned.Summary[]
Randall suddenly becomes popular as the playground comedian, which the other kids love at first, but things go sour after the gang find that the jokes turn to targeting Mikey.
Main Story[]
The gang are hanging out during recess. Vince and T.J. are lying in the grass, Gretchen is beside them reading, Mikey and Spinelli are sitting against a tree, and Gus is watching the playground. T.J. asks him what is going on around the playground as Gus looks through an empty paper towel roll. He notes that King Bob is bossing his staff around - typical, Guru Kid's legs fell asleep, and he is trying to wake them up - standard, and Artie Kid is drawing another masterpiece on the blacktop. Mikey compliments him in his usual poetry fashion before Gus spots Randall coming along. Gus explains Randall is messing up the piece, wagging his finger in the usual "no chalk masterpieces on the pavement" speech, and then runs off to tell Miss Finster. Spinelli and T.J. comment on his behavior, saying that it's no wonder he has no friends.
On the playground, Miss Finster is observing a flat ball, deeming it "perfectly good". Randall tattles on Artie Kid as Miss Finster pats him on the head, telling him 'Good work' and directs him to go get the hose from the office - and tells him to get something out of last year's Lost and Found box while he is there. On his way in, Randall is surrounded by a group of angry kids near the door pelting him with rotten food, booing and jeering him and calling him a tattletale, snitch, loser, and 'Tattle Loser' yelled out by Lawson. He laments about his life to Menlo as he goes through the box, coming up with junk items. Menlo is annoyed by him carelessly throwing items and asks for him to try keep the box neat. Randall then comes across "The Big Book of Jokes". He decides to keep it, saying a kid like him could use a few laughs. That night, he is reading the book under the covers with a flashlight, laughing loudly at the jokes, deeming them "milk out of the nose funny". Leonard, his dad, comes in and says that "his mom had said to not read after bedtime, then runs out to tell his wife." Randall gets worried, but still laughs as he holds the book closed.
Randall begins to tell jokes from the joke book, which the other kids love at first. However, things turn sour when he begins to make Mikey the butt of his jokes. At this point, the gang buy more copies of the book and intervene, stopping Randall.
Goofs[]
- Continuity/coloring error: Before finding the book of jokes, Randall is hit with a tomato, causing his left shoulder to be stained in red. After he gets into the room with Menlo, the stain is green. When Randall holds the book of jokes, the stain is red again.
Trivia[]
Regular[]
Moral: Jokes can be funny but that is only if the other person is laughing. Randall at first was saying funny jokes from a book. But the Recess Gang later had to stop Randall after they found out that he made fun of Mikey of him being fat which was not nice.
- This episode has the most writers out of all of the episodes of the show, with four writers.
- When Randall is at his house laughing over the joke book, Leonard steps in and called him "Junior". Usually children, particularly boys are named "Junior" when named after a parent. However, Randall is not named after his father. This could possibly just be a nickname for him.
- Artie Kid's masterpiece in the beginning resembles "Starry Night", one of Vincent Van Gogh's most famous art pieces.
Continuity[]
- Both Leonard Weems and Artie Kid make their first appearances in this episode.
International Information[]
- This episode was paired up with "The Shiner" outside the US.
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 Finster - April Winchell
- Randall Weems/Dave/Tracey - Ryan O'Donohue
- King Bob - Toran Caudell
- Ashley Armbruster/Kid #2/Kid #3 - Anndi McAfee
- Ashley Boulet/Upside-Down Girl - Francesca Smith
- Ashley Quinlan - Rachel Crane
- Menlo - Blake Ewing
- Cornchip Girl - Aria Noelle Curzon
- Erwin Lawson/Kid #1 - Erik von Detten
- Barry/Kid #5 - Klee Bragger
- Leonard Weems - David Lander
- Kid #4 - Justin Jon Ross
- Kid #5 - E.G. Daily
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