7.9/10329 votes#1 - Everything's Coming Up Sub-Rosas
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/1996
Wyleen discovers a there is a secret woman's society on campus and decides she needs to join them. Butterfield schedules to meet with Leonard about something.
Director: James Hampton
Writer: Kari Lizer
- 7.9/10326 votes
#2 - Conspiracy of Dunces
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/6/1996
Tasha detects that Joy might be a bit jealous of Boyd. Wyleen learns about conspiracy theories and hidden agendas from Professor Reed. Leonard gives up his job at the cafeteria to go on unemployment and spend his time in the park, where he makes new friends.
Director: Rod Daniel
Writer: Bill Canterbury
- 7.9/10327 votes
#3 - This Ain't No Party, This Ain't No Disco ...
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/13/1996
Tasha suggests to Jack that he recruit Boyd to organize a surprise party for Joy's birthday, a date he'd forgotten. President Butterfield tries to inform Leonard that his funding has been cut.
Director: James Hampton
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/10326 votes
#4 - Mercury Retrograde
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/20/1996
Tasha sets Boyd up on a blind date. Joy accidentally calls Jack "Boyd". Leonard helps Tasha move into her newly painted office. Wyleen, still working for Professor Reed, must listen to him deal with losing Joy.
Director: Rod Daniel
Writer: Kari Lizer
- 8.0/10327 votes
#5 - The War Room
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/27/1996
Wyleen decides to run for president of the freshman class.
Director: Max Tash
Writer: Michael Feldman
- 8.0/10326 votes
#6 - Trustee and Sympathy
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/1996
Boyd searches for the name of the landlord of their building, since the heat has been off for the past two days. The college entertains an obnoxious alumnus, who is funding the establishment of a new media center.
Director: Brian K. Roberts
Writer: Eric Preven, Ari Posner
- 8.4/10328 votes
#7 - A Triage Grows in Boston
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/1996
Boyd and Wyleen host the Pritchett family barbecue. Joy seems to get very tired, every time her pending wedding to Jack is mentioned. Leonard has a part-time job delivering meals to shut-ins and his first stop won't let him go. Wyleen is struck on the head by a flying pork chop that brings them to the hospital.
Director: Max Tash
Writer: Bill Canterbury
- 7.5/10326 votes
#8 - Gobble, Gobble, Aggch!
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/1996
Wyleen and Boyd decide to hold a get-together for Thanksgiving. Wyleen invites Cookie in hopes of getting a part in the spring play. Jack and Joy try to spend their holiday working at a homeless shelter that is filled mostly with yuppie volunteers.
Director: Brian K. Roberts
Writer: Bill Canterbury
- 7.1/10332 votes
#9 - Coming Clean
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/20/1996
Boyd struggles to pay Wyleen's tuition for next semester. To raise funds, he gets a part time job working as a janitor. Leonard and Wyleen also take janitorial positions. Jack learns about the finer points of the student body and relationships from Professor Weaver.
Director: James Hampton
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/10329 votes
#10 - Arts and Craftiness
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/8/1996
Leonard is traveling home to his mother's for the holidays and his joke about a bomb at airport security gets him and Wyleen held for questioning. Tasha performance review is coming up. Jack would like Joy to take her art work a little more seriously.
Director: James Hampton
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/10329 votes
#11 - The Finals Curtain
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/15/1996
Trying to study for her finals, Wyleen is fighting a cold, Boyd's interruptions and Jack's cryptic messages about the content of the final. Boyd cons the campus radio station manager into letting them use the station equipment. Instead of cutting a tape, Boyd lets Leonard rave out over the air about the blues he's feeling.
Director: James Hampton
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/10330 votes
#12 - Soup to Nuts
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/5/1997
Everybody wants to have lunch with Boyd so they can get his advice. Wyleen wants to him to be there when she has lunch with the newly reformed Cookie. Joy wants advice about her pending wedding to Jack. Tasha wants assistance with her husband Darrell. Leonard worries about talking about radio in front of Jack's students.
Director: Philip Charles MacKenzie
Writer: Max Mutchnick, David Kohan
- 6.9/10328 votes
#13 - A Night in Camelot
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 2/16/1997
Boyd and Jack discover a pair of shoes that might have once belonged to JFK. After displaying their lack of knowledge, Tasha tells Boyd they should try to get some culture. Everyone else is imagining what they can do with the money from the sale of the shoes.
Director: Philip Charles MacKenzie
Writer: Eric Preven, Ari Posner
- 8.0/10328 votes
#14 - Commander-in-Grief
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 3/9/1997
When a new president is selected for the college, Boyd loses a job. Cookie expresses an interest in Leonard.
Director: James Widdoes
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/10330 votes
#15 - His and Herpes
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 3/16/1997
Wyleen develops a large cold sore on her upper lip. Boyd frets over the color of his teeth as he begins to work his new job. The crisis center is in danger of losing its funding, Boyd's first case as student liaison. Joy and Jack discuss their relationship.
Director: James Widdoes
Writer: Kari Lizer
- 7.9/10327 votes
#16 - Extra Credit
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 3/23/1997
The college rolls out a new credit card program that it locates in the student union. Wyleen's been approved and begins to spend and spend. Leonard is caught in the middle of Jack and Joy's separation as well as Boyd and Tasha's disagreement about their need for office space.
Director: Tom Moore
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/10326 votes
#17 - The Occidental Purists
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 4/6/1997
Wyleen gets the lead in the play The Tea Ceremony. Joy arranges a date for Tasha and also tries to fix her hair. Leonard reluctantly agrees to become the editor for Jack's new book, but becomes a replacement for Joy.
Director: Philip Charles MacKenzie
Writer: Bill Canterbury
- 7.8/10328 votes
#18 - Heres to You, Mrs. Byrnes
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 4/7/1997
Joy's mother comes for a visit and takes more of a liking to Boyd than is comfortable for him. Leonard needs an insurance physical and gets an appointment with Tasha's gynecologist. Wyleen is also going there because she is thinking about making the next step in her relationship with Drake.
Director: Linda Day
Writer: Max Mutchnick, David Kohan
- 7.8/10326 votes
#19 - I.D. Endow
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 4/13/1997
Boyd and others are against a tuition increase proposed by Cross. Wyleen wants to borrow money to obtain a fake ID. Leonard's guest for his radio show is Tasha's estranged grandfather.
Director: Philip Charles MacKenzie
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/10326 votes
#20 - To Bare is Human
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 4/14/1997
A men's magazine want to do a layout featuring the women of Harrington. Leonard gets a date with a former centerfold. Cross takes Joy out to dinner at the same time Jack takes the editor of the men's magazine.
Director: David Trainer
Writer: Michael Feldman
- 7.6/10326 votes
#21 - A Cross to Bear
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 4/20/1997
Cross is going to be featured on a public television program called American Mind as a prominent educator. Boyd is tired of paying for everything and wants Wyleen to get a job.
Director: James Hampton
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/10327 votes
#22 - Sophomore's Choice
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 4/27/1997
Cross gets on Tasha for disciplining the son of a major college benefactor. Wyleen tells Boyd it is time for him to move out. He looks for a place to stay and winds up with Tasha. Joy is hired by Cross as a professor in Jack's department.
Director: James Hampton
Writer: Max Mutchnick, David Kohan
The Best Episodes of Boston Common Season 2
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Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Everything's Coming Up Sub-Rosas" is the best rated episode of "Boston Common" season 2. It scored 7.9/10 based on 329 votes. Directed by James Hampton and written by Kari Lizer, it aired on 9/29/1996. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Conspiracy of Dunces".