Season 2
Episodes
S2 · E1 · 13 Sept 1986 · 21 min
Chewed Out (Smoker's Delight)
Jamie learns a sobering lesson in using smoking and chewing tobacco to elevate his freshman status in junior high.
S2 · E2 · 20 Sept 1986 · 22 min
Money, Money, Money
Still out to flatter the redoubtable Jessica, Jamie takes her out to an expensive restaurant while tightwad Ted puts Vicki in charge of household expenses.
S2 · E3 · 27 Sept 1986 · 21 min
My Mother the Teacher
Jamie tries to recover his respect in class when his mother comes in as substitute teacher by trying to humiliate her out of her job.
S2 · E4 · 4 Oct 1986 · 21 min
Here Comes the Judge
Playing a judge in a class simulation of a courtroom, Jamie dispenses uneven justice and gets impeached, while parking-ticket-skipping role model Ted tries to get himself arrested.
S2 · E5 · 11 Oct 1986 · 21 min
Home Sweet Homeless
Joan's civic project with the homeless prompts Jamie to bring home a bum, who virtually takes over the Lawson household.
S2 · E6 · 18 Oct 1986 · 21 min
Crazy Like a Fox
When Jamie is taken by a slick curbside vendor with a bad mini-TV, Ted goes after him for reparations -- and gets conned himself.
S2 · E7 · 25 Oct 1986 · 21 min
The Older Woman
Jamie pushes Harriet aside in an unrequited crush on her 16-year-old cousin, who teaches him a lesson in respect.
S2 · E8 · 1 Nov 1986 · 21 min
Who's the Boss?
When he's punished for thoughtlessly dropping the family's reservations to Mexico, Jamie dreams that the others are robots under his control.
S2 · E9 · 8 Nov 1986 · 21 min
P-P Paula
To help Jamie's shy and withdrawn classmate who stutters, Ted programs Vicki to be her speech therapist.
S2 · E10 · 15 Nov 1986 · 21 min
You Gotta Have Heart
Jamie tries to show Vicki the meaning of compassion by sharing, which she does -- including the dress off her back, while the Brindles move in with their marital dispute.
S2 · E11 · 22 Nov 1986 · 21 min
Little Miss Shopping Mall
The Lawsons enter Vicki in a mall pageant.
S2 · E12 · 29 Nov 1986 · 21 min
Thanksgiving Story
To get on a community-sponsored Thanksgiving ski trip for disadvantaged kids, Jamie convinces the sponsors that his parents are separated.
S2 · E13 · 6 Dec 1986 · 21 min
Neighborhood Watch
After being burglarized (while Vicki's home and they're at a restaurant), the Lawsons join the neighborhood watch.
S2 · E14 · 10 Jan 1987 · 21 min
Moving Up
While Vicki learns to spend a day without duties or instructions, Ted's new prestigious job offer in Massachusetts tests the family's taste to social climb vs. its price of morality.
S2 · E15 · 17 Jan 1987 · 21 min
Top Secret
To make his dad's ""button-pusher"" job seem important to his friends, Jamie hints that Ted is head of a top-secret project -- which even Ted's jealous boss, Brandon, believes.
S2 · E16 · 24 Jan 1987 · 21 min
The Personality Kid
Nagged by classmates that Vicki has a wooden personality, Jamie overdoes it in secretly programming her a livelier one.
S2 · E17 · 31 Jan 1987 · 21 min
Matchmaker, Matchmaker
To pay for a new bike he bought from the neighborhood bully, Jamie uses Vicki to run a school computerized match-making business.
S2 · E18 · 7 Feb 1987 · 21 min
Little Miss Shopping Mall
The Lawsons take up the Brindles' snobby challenge and enter Vicki in a mall pageant against Harriet.
S2 · E19 · 14 Feb 1987 · 21 min
Victor/ Vicki-toria
To help his Little League team's rock-bottom status, Jamie disguises Vicki as a boy to use her robotic abilities to bat for the pennant.
S2 · E20 · 21 Feb 1987 · 21 min
Look into My Eyes
After Vicki watches a TV hypnotist turn volunteers into clowns and animals, she starts practicing her new mesmerizing ""skill"" on the Lawsons with hysterical results.
S2 · E21 · 20 Jun 1987 · 21 min
Wally the Wimp
Joan invites Wally Crandal, a former 90-pound weakling college classmate, over for dinner to meet his former school tormentor: Ted, who rigs Vicki to play even crueler tricks. Only Ted's unaware that Wally's grown into a top pro wrestler.
S2 · E22 · 9 May 1987 · 21 min
The Cat's Meow
To train Vicki to be more affectionate, Ted buys her a toy cat that only makes her mimic Jamie's past jealousy and run away.
S2 · E23 · 16 May 1987 · 21 min
Vicki Goodwrench
During Jamie's part-time gas station job, Vicki fine-tunes a car to go 50 miles a gallon, causing oil companies and oil sheiks alike to drop by the Lawsons' door.
S2 · E24 · 23 May 1987 · 21 min
Double Wedding
Ted and Joan decide to have the ceremonial wedding they never had -- until the Brindles butt in.
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