diff --git a/RecipesBase/.gitignore b/RecipesBase/.gitignore
index 3f02ca741..46a00d5d7 100644
--- a/RecipesBase/.gitignore
+++ b/RecipesBase/.gitignore
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@
 *.jl.*.cov
 *.jl.mem
 Manifest.toml
+dev/
diff --git a/RecipesBase/src/RecipesBase.jl b/RecipesBase/src/RecipesBase.jl
index 2317f4fad..36c9c54b6 100644
--- a/RecipesBase/src/RecipesBase.jl
+++ b/RecipesBase/src/RecipesBase.jl
@@ -185,7 +185,9 @@ function process_recipe_body!(expr::Expr)
                     set_expr
                 end
 
-            # TODO elseif it's a @series macrocall, add a series block and push to the `series` list
+            elseif e.head == :return
+                # To allow `return` in recipes just extract the returned arguments.
+                expr.args[i] = first(e.args)
 
             elseif e.head != :call
                 # we want to recursively replace the arrows, but not inside function calls