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The Best Episodes of Designing Women Season 2

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Every episode of Designing Women Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Designing Women Season 2!

The Best Episodes of Designing Women Season 2

Julia Sugarbaker, Mary Jo Shively, Charlene Frazier-Stillfield and Suzanne Sugarbaker are associates at their design firm, Sugarbaker and Associates. Julia is the owner and is...

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  1. Background image for 101 Ways to Decorate a Gas Station
    7.4/10(111 votes)

    #1 - 101 Ways to Decorate a Gas Station

    S2:E1

    A scruffy gas-station owner wins free interior decoration from Sugarbakers, Charlene consults a psychic about her future.

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  2. Background image for Ted Remarries
    7.2/10(99 votes)

    #2 - Ted Remarries

    S2:E2

    Mary Jo can't face her children being with her ex-husband's new wife, who is spoiling them.

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  3. Background image for Anthony, Jr.
    6.7/10(95 votes)

    #3 - Anthony, Jr.

    S2:E3

    Anthony goes to extremes to impress his girlfriends' wealthy parents, inventing a pedigreed family -- then an uninvited dinner guest informs him he is the father of her child.

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  4. Background image for Killing All the Right People
    9.4/10(270 votes)

    #4 - Killing All the Right People

    S2:E4

    "Killing All the Right People" is the 26th episode of the sitcom Designing Women. Originally airing on October 5, 1987, as the fourth episode of the second season, it features Tony Goldwyn as Kendall Dobbs, a young man dying of AIDS who asks the women to design his funeral. Series creator Linda Bloodworth-Thomason's mother died of AIDS and her experience with her mother's disease and the prejudice associated with it inspired the episode.

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  5. Background image for Half an Air Bubble Off
    7.3/10(100 votes)

    #5 - Half an Air Bubble Off

    S2:E5

    When an eccentric client harasses the women with bizarre decorating requests, they decide to matchmake him with Bernice.

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  6. Background image for Dash Goff, the Writer
    8.3/10(136 votes)

    #6 - Dash Goff, the Writer

    S2:E6

    Suzanne's visiting ex, a novelist who loves flowery Southern words and women, is in a writer's slump and contemplating suicide.

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  8. Background image for Heart Attacks
    7.5/10(106 votes)

    #7 - Heart Attacks

    S2:E7

    Reese's fitness demonstration - arm wrestling an old buddy and sometime-rival -- causes a heart attack, and subsequent different treatment from Julia.

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  9. Background image for Cruising
    7.7/10(122 votes)

    #8 - Cruising

    S2:E8

    Suzanne and Mary Jo become romantic rivals while doing a job aboard a cruise ship.

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  10. Background image for I'll Be Seeing You
    7.3/10(128 votes)

    #9 - I'll Be Seeing You

    S2:E9

    Charlene dreams the Sugarbakers back to WWII and the USO.

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  11. Background image for Stranded
    8.7/10(134 votes)

    #10 - Stranded

    S2:E10

    While Charlene, Julia and Mary Jo get the flu on a trip to St. Louis, a snowstorm forces Suzanne and Anthony to share a motel room in Tennessee.

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  12. Background image for Howard the Date
    7.4/10(105 votes)

    #11 - Howard the Date

    S2:E11

    It's the mercy date from Hell when the female Sugarbakers staff accompany dateless Howard the nerd to his high-school reunion. Their sympathy quickly wears off when he begins to boast about handling his ""four women.""

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  13. Background image for I'll Be Home For Christmas
    7.8/10(113 votes)

    #12 - I'll Be Home For Christmas

    S2:E12

    Charlene and Anthony scheme to outsmart Mary Jo's disbelieving son on Christmas Eve -- until their hired Santa beats them to it, by swiping the Sugarbakers' Christmas gifts.

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  14. Background image for Great Expectations
    6.7/10(108 votes)

    #13 - Great Expectations

    S2:E13

    Anthony is dismayed when an old prison cellmate arrives at Sugarbaker's with a business proposition -- he wants Anthony to become his partner.

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  15. Background image for Second Time Around
    7.8/10(98 votes)

    #14 - Second Time Around

    S2:E14

    Charlene withdraws after being dumped by her boyfriend Bill, who is still grieving the loss of his first wife.

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  16. Background image for Oh, Brother
    7.4/10(115 votes)

    #15 - Oh, Brother

    S2:E15

    Julia and Suzanne disagree on how to handle the arrival of their half-brother, a recently discharged mental patient with aspirations to stand-up comedy.

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  17. Background image for There's Some Black People Coming to Dinner
    6.7/10(101 votes)

    #16 - There's Some Black People Coming to Dinner

    S2:E16

    Mary Jo gives Claudia permission to go to a school dance with a black youth, contrary to his father's wishes.

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  18. Background image for The Return of Ray Don
    7.8/10(101 votes)

    #17 - The Return of Ray Don

    S2:E17

    A penniless Suzanne faces stiff fines for back taxes, so after trying to charm Ray Don at the IRS, she sells off her possession and considers marriage to wealthy octogenarian Wilmont Oliver.

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  19. Background image for High Rollers
    7.9/10(98 votes)

    #18 - High Rollers

    S2:E18

    After Charlene unwittingly puts a bug in Suzanne's ear by relating the success story of Fred Smith, founder of Federal Express, Suzanne flits off to Atlantic City with Charlene and Anthony in hopes of winning a bundle to pay off debts by employing Anthony's gambling expertise.

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  20. Background image for The Incredibly Elite Bona Fide Blue-Blood Beaumont Driving Club
    7.9/10(101 votes)

    #19 - The Incredibly Elite Bona Fide Blue-Blood Beaumont Driving Club

    S2:E19

    Suzanne and Julia clash over a posh club's offer of membership when Suzanne discovers discrimination in the club's by laws.

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  21. Background image for How Great Thou Art
    7.8/10(139 votes)

    #20 - How Great Thou Art

    S2:E20

    Scruples cause Charlene to resign from her church after she loses faith in her minister when he votes against allowing women in the ministry.

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  22. Background image for Ted-Bare
    6.8/10(91 votes)

    #21 - Ted-Bare

    S2:E21

    On the brink of marrying a young woman, Ted begins to appreciate ex-wife Mary Jo's maturity, but his sudden attentiveness strikes everyone else as suspicious.

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  23. Background image for Reservations for Eight
    8.1/10(140 votes)

    #22 - Reservations for Eight

    S2:E22

    A romantic ski weekend becomes a battle of the sexes when an avalanche sidelines the Sugarbakers ladies and their boyfriends.

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"101 Ways to Decorate a Gas Station" is the best rated episode of "Designing Women" season 2. It scored 7.4/10 based on 111 votes. Directed by Harry Thomason and written by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, it aired on 9/14/1987. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Ted Remarries".