The Girl Was Trouble

"The Girl Was Trouble" is the first segment of the twentieth episode of Recess.
==Synopsis==
When Gretchen is called into the principal's office for committing a string of offenses, she recounts the story of how she committed those crimes to get her Galileo handheld computer back.
==Plot==
Miss Finster lines up all the students at Third Street to root out a troublemaker who had apparently left a trail of vandalism in their wake before announcing that the culprit is Gretchen Grundler. The Gang is shocked, especially when Gretchen admits to the deed and is called away to wait by the principal's office. She sits next to Sue Bob Murphy, another noted troublemaker who is lightly amused that she is there and straight up asks what landed her in this situation. Gretchen reveals that on her birthday she received a handheld supercomputer called Galileo which features an AI of a frog character that interacts with her.
While playing kickball, Gretchen sets Galileo to the side, but upon returning to her seat finds that someone has stolen him. Panicked, the Gang search everywhere until Gretchen realizes that she never checked the lost and found. She approaches Menlo who has never seen her Galileo end up in the box, but did see graffiti artist Greg Skeens possessing an item that looked like it. Gretchen finds Skeens who admits to taking it, but swapped it. He refuses to say until Gretchen helps him come up with a nasty word to describe Finster. Gretchen seeks out Conrad Mundy who is in the bathroom trying to get paper to stick to the ceiling. Gretchen helps him and he tells her that he traded Galileo with Kurst the Worst.
Gretchen finds Kurst stealing food from the back of the cafeteria and tries to get answers, but she refuses. The two get into a fight, but Kurst escapes, leading to what has currently transpired. Miss Lemon reveals that Finster put the clues together to figure out that she was behind the recent messes. Feeling pity for her, Sue Bob reveals that she got Galileo back from Kurst and gives him back to Gretchen. She gets called in to see Principal Prickly who plans to cancel her recess until he begins to have trouble with his computer. Gretchen helps him out and he forgets about the recess punishment, though he does order her to clean up the messes she made.
==Cast==
*Andrew Lawrence as T.J. Detweiler
*Rickey D'Shon Collins as Vince LaSalle
*Pamela Adlon as Ashley Spinelli
*Ashley Johnson as Gretchen Grundler
*Jason Davis as Mikey Blumberg
*Courtland Mead as Gus Griswald
*April Winchell as Muriel Finster
*Allyce Beasley as Miss Grotke
*Dabney Coleman as Peter Prickly
*Ryan O'Donohue as Randall Weems, Kid #1
*Tress MacNeille as Miss Lemon
*Blake Ewing as Menlo
*Christine Cavanaugh as Sue Bob Murphy
*Erik von Detten as Lazy Kid
*Matthew Bartilson as Greg Skeens
*Warren Sroka as Conrad Mundy
*Mayim Bialik as Kurst the Worst
*Eric Idle as Galileo
==Trivia==
*This episode is done in a film noir style.
*This episode marks the first appearance of Galileo.
*The other members of The Recess Gang did not play a major role in this episode
*Spinelli only has one line of dialogue in this episode, which is "Tell [Miss Finster], Gretchen!"
==External links==
*The Girl Was Trouble at the Recess Wiki
Category:Recess episodes