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Season 2

Small Wonder — Season 2

Sep 13, 1986
  • Chewed Out (Smoker's Delight)

    1. Chewed Out (Smoker's Delight)

    Sep 13, 1986

    Jamie learns a sobering lesson in using smoking and chewing tobacco to elevate his freshman status in junior high.

    21m
  • Money, Money, Money

    2. Money, Money, Money

    Sep 20, 1986

    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.

    22m
  • My Mother the Teacher

    3. My Mother the Teacher

    Sep 27, 1986

    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.

    21m
  • Here Comes the Judge

    4. Here Comes the Judge

    Oct 04, 1986

    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.

    21m
  • Home Sweet Homeless

    5. Home Sweet Homeless

    Oct 11, 1986

    Joan's civic project with the homeless prompts Jamie to bring home a bum, who virtually takes over the Lawson household.

    21m
  • Crazy Like a Fox

    6. Crazy Like a Fox

    Oct 18, 1986

    When Jamie is taken by a slick curbside vendor with a bad mini-TV, Ted goes after him for reparations -- and gets conned himself.

    21m
  • The Older Woman

    7. The Older Woman

    Oct 25, 1986

    Jamie pushes Harriet aside in an unrequited crush on her 16-year-old cousin, who teaches him a lesson in respect.

    21m
  • Who's the Boss?

    8. Who's the Boss?

    Nov 01, 1986

    When he's punished for thoughtlessly dropping the family's reservations to Mexico, Jamie dreams that the others are robots under his control.

    21m
  • P-P Paula

    9. P-P Paula

    Nov 08, 1986

    To help Jamie's shy and withdrawn classmate who stutters, Ted programs Vicki to be her speech therapist.

    21m
  • You Gotta Have Heart

    10. You Gotta Have Heart

    Nov 15, 1986

    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.

    21m
  • Little Miss Shopping Mall

    11. Little Miss Shopping Mall

    Nov 22, 1986

    The Lawsons enter Vicki in a mall pageant.

    21m
  • Thanksgiving Story

    12. Thanksgiving Story

    Nov 29, 1986

    To get on a community-sponsored Thanksgiving ski trip for disadvantaged kids, Jamie convinces the sponsors that his parents are separated.

    21m
  • Neighborhood Watch

    13. Neighborhood Watch

    Dec 06, 1986

    After being burglarized (while Vicki's home and they're at a restaurant), the Lawsons join the neighborhood watch.

    21m
  • Moving Up

    14. Moving Up

    Jan 10, 1987

    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.

    21m
  • Top Secret

    15. Top Secret

    Jan 17, 1987

    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.

    21m
  • The Personality Kid

    16. The Personality Kid

    Jan 24, 1987

    Nagged by classmates that Vicki has a wooden personality, Jamie overdoes it in secretly programming her a livelier one.

    21m
  • Matchmaker, Matchmaker

    17. Matchmaker, Matchmaker

    Jan 31, 1987

    To pay for a new bike he bought from the neighborhood bully, Jamie uses Vicki to run a school computerized match-making business.

    21m
  • Little Miss Shopping Mall

    18. Little Miss Shopping Mall

    Feb 07, 1987

    The Lawsons take up the Brindles' snobby challenge and enter Vicki in a mall pageant against Harriet.

    21m
  • Victor/ Vicki-toria

    19. Victor/ Vicki-toria

    Feb 14, 1987

    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.

    21m
  • Look into My Eyes

    20. Look into My Eyes

    Feb 21, 1987

    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.

    21m
  • Wally the Wimp

    21. Wally the Wimp

    Jun 20, 1987

    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.

    21m
  • The Cat's Meow

    22. The Cat's Meow

    May 09, 1987

    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.

    21m
  • Vicki Goodwrench

    23. Vicki Goodwrench

    May 16, 1987

    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.

    21m
  • Double Wedding

    24. Double Wedding

    May 23, 1987

    Ted and Joan decide to have the ceremonial wedding they never had -- until the Brindles butt in.

    21m

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