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Tubby is a red-haired, overweight kindergartener. His main duty in his kindergarten class is to chase big kids out from among them. The big kids have no trouble escaping him because he is so slow. He can produce the best burps in 3rd Street except for the brief time when Jared Smith, who could burp better than Tubby, moved there.

Personality[]

Tubby is very dedicated and has a strong sense of right and wrong. This is illustrated in "Kindergarten Derby" when Tubby expresses his wish to show everyone that fat people are just as good as skinny people. He decided that people would appreciate fat people if he could win the derby, and so he dedicated himself to training with the help of Mikey. While he was training, he noticed how the other kindergarteners were being treated like cattle by the big kids. In response to this terrible treatment and as a tribute to his trainer, Mikey (who had been the only kid in the history of 3rd Street to not finish the race), Tubby's wish, as granted by King Bob for winning the derby, was to end the tradition of the Kindergarten derby.

Tubby also expressed a very forgiving nature in episode, "Here Comes Mr. Perfect", when he decided to forgive Jared Smith for out-burping him and break the lock-out on Jared that had been instigated by TJ for Jared being better than everyone else. He proved to be a leader in this instance as everyone else in the school decided to follow suit and befriend Jared as well.

He is voiced by Jason Davis, who also voiced Mikey throughout the series.


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Media
Recess (Videography) • Recess: School's Out (Soundtrack) • Recess: All Growed DownRecess: Taking the Fifth GradeRecess: Miracle on Third Street"Lax" (Lilo & Stitch: The Series crossover episode)"Codename: Electric Haircut" (Fillmore! crossover episode)
Characters
T.J. DetweilerVince LaSalleAshley SpinelliMikey BlumbergGretchen GrundlerGus GriswaldCaptain BradleyCornchip GirlThe KindergartnersThe DiggersHustler KidErwin LawsonMiss GrotkeMuriel FinsterBecky DetweilerDr. Phillium BenedictMenloBrockPeter PricklyKojakMiss SalamoneButchAshley ArmbrusterAshley BouletAshley QuinlanAshley TomassianFenwickBrandon the SingerGelmanKing BobChuckoJockoRandall WeemsKing Freddie IICheaySpencerThe MegansThe BrittanysThe TylersBob and Flo Spinelli
Episodes
Season One: "The Break In/The New Kid" • "The Experiment/The Great Jungle Gym Standoff" • "Jinxed/Officer Mikey" • "First Name Ashley/To Finster with Love" • "King Gus/Big Brother Chad" • "My Fair Gretchen/Speedy, We Hardly Knew Ye" • "I Will Kick No More Forever/The Kid Came Back" • "The Pest/The Legend of Big Kid" • "The Box/The Trial" • "Teacher's Lounge/Randall's Reform" • "Rainy Days/The Great Can Drive" • "The Voice/Kids in the Mist" • "Parents' Night/Swing on Thru to the Other Side"

Season Two: "The Break-up/The Hypnotist" • "Mama's Girl/Outcast Ashley" • "The Game/The Lost Ball" • "Gus' Last Stand/Operation Field Trip" • "The Challenge/Wild Child" • "The Substitute/Gretchen and the Secret of Yo" • "The Girl Was Trouble/Copycat Kid" • "Operation Stuart/Pharaoh Bob" • "The Story of Whomps/Weekend at Muriel's" • "Economics of Recess/Omega Kids" • "Yes, Mikey, Santa Does Shave" • "Bad Hair Day/Dance Lessons" • "Principal for a Day/The Beauty Contest"
Season Three: "The Big Prank/Hustler's Apprentice" • "Kindergarten Derby/A Career to Remember" • "A Genius Among Us/The Spy Who Came in from the Playground" • "Partners in Crime/The Bet" • "The First Picture Show/Gus' Fortune" • "Recess is Cancelled/Tattletale Heart" • "One Stayed Clean/Rumor Mill" • "The Madness of King Bob/Call Me Guy" • "Prickly is Leaving/Randall's Friends" • "Dodgeball City/Space Cadet" • "The Shiner/Stand Up Randall" • "The Biggest Trouble Ever/The Rules" • "Gus and Misdemeanors/A Science Fair to Remember" • "Mikey's Pants/Here Comes Mr. Perfect" • "Good Luck Charm/Diggers Split Up" • "That Stinking Feeling/Lord of the Nerds" • "Schoolworld/Bachelor Gus" • "The Dude/Bonky Fever" • "The Candidates/This Brain for Hire" • "The Barnaby Boys/Buried Treasure" • "My Funny Valentines/The Ratings Game" • "Yope from Norway/The Library Kid" • "Spinelli's Masterpiece/Nobody Doesn't Like T.J." • "A Great State Fair/The A.V. Kid" • "Don't Ask Me/The Secret Life of Grotke" • "The Fuss Over Finster/Soccer Boy"
Season Four: "Fort Tender/Germ Warfare" • "More Like Gretchen/Prince Randall" • "Me No Know/Good Ole T.J." • "Old Folks Home/Some Friend" • "Chez Vince/Tucked in Mikey" • "Beyond a Reasonable Scout/The Army/Navy Game" • "The C Note/Big Ol' Mikey" • "The Coolest Heatwave Ever/Mundy, Mundy" • "Lawson and his Crew" • "All the Principal's Men/No Strings Attached" • "The Principals of Golf/Kurst the Not So Bad" • "Lost Leader/League of Randalls" • "Terrifying Tales of Recess"

Locations
Third Street SchoolOld RustyFifth and Sixth Grader ClubAshley's ClubhouseKing's Jungle Gym
Songs
We Shall Not Be MovedBorn to Be WildGreen TambourineDancing in the Street