The Hypnotist (Recess episode)

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The Hypnotist is the 14th episode in Season 2 of the Disney ABC show Recess.

[edit] Synopsis

A travelling hypnotist comes to Third Street School, and wows the students by promising to regress their cranky teacher Miss Finster to her childhood. Unfortunately, for some reason, the trick fails to work and everyone is disappointed. However, shortly afterwards, Principal Prickley starts acting very oddly. It turns out he was watching the hypnotist too closely, and now believes he is a little boy with no memory of being headmaster. T.J. and friends initially take full advantage of this confusion, convincing "Petie" it would be a splendid joke to implement a series of new school rules, including ice cream sundaes at every meal. However, the faculty quickly realise that Prickley is not his usual self, and shut him in the office while an emergency meeting is held. As Petie's behaviour spirals out of control, T.J. decides to return him to his grown-up state with a little amateur hypnotism (involving Gretchen and a pencil). Everything is back to normal within the afternoon, but T.J. and friends will never see their headmaster in quite the same way again.