Take a Break is the fourth album by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, released on July 1, 2003, on Fat Wreck Chords independent record label.

Like its predecessor, Blow in the Wind, several tracks lead off with appropriations of classic punk (or related genres like new wave) riffs ("Crazy" incorporates "Six Pack" by Black Flag, "Save the Best for Last" includes "Pretty Vacant" by the Sex Pistols, and "I'll Be There" borrows the intro from the Cars' "Just What I Needed").

[2] Mackenzie Wilson of AllMusic praised Take a Break as superior to the band's previous outing, Blow in the Wind, saying it was rock & roll done "the right way".

[4] Andrew Parks of the Buffalo News praised the "infectious takes" on R&B songs, and the "sly songwriting touches" that the Gimme Gimmes included,[6] while Roger Catlin in the Hartford Courant described it as "giddy fun".

[8] Dan MacEachern of the Moose Jaw Times-Herald and Jeremy Plothow of the Post Register gave negative reviews, each saying that the band's formula had become tired,[10][11] and Mark Robison in the Reno Gazette-Journal wrote that the song selections were uninspired.