7.7/10118 votes#1 - The Stars Align
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/10/2001
Ed and Carol's close encounter is interrupted by Bonnie Hane; Ed defends Warren on a charge of criminal negligence after Warren brings a keg of beer to a party and an underage drinker has an bicycle accident on his way home; Nancy quits her job to be a full-time mother.
Director: Kevin Dowling
Writer: Jon Beckerman, Rob Burnett
7.4/10117 votes#2 - Changes
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/17/2001
When a client changes his name and his image, Ed decides to follow his lead; Molly tries to catch the eye of a bowling alley equipment salesman; Mike takes drastic measures to find ""the last straw"" which will end the impasse with Dr. Jerome.
Director: Tim Van Patten
Writer: Jon Beckerman, Rob Burnett
7.4/10117 votes#3 - A Job Well Done
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/24/2001
Carol and the new principal face off on ""The Great Gatsby""; Mike and Nancy debate over whether to try for Baby #2; Phil goes all out to find a missing bowling ball, ""The Devastator"", which magically reappears; Warren reveals to Carol the secret of the class ""Bingo"" game; Molly objects to Ed defending a sleazebag salesman, but Ed maintains that said sleaze has done nothing illegal.
Director: Rob Thompson
Writer: N/A
7.0/10119 votes#4 - Crazy Time
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/31/2001
Ed's on the case after a bitter kid's show host talks a young boy into running away; Molly gives up on wooing Jim; Warren comes up with the worst idea ever on how to impress his classmates.
Director: Kevin Dowling
Writer: Jon Beckerman, Rob Burnett
7.8/10122 votes#5 - Closure
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 11/7/2001
Carol asks Ed to help her friend Sonja, whose husband Andy wants a divorce after discovering that Sonja had advertised herself in a mail-order-bride catalog before they met. Sonja is about to be deported to her native Brazil, since they live in a no-contest divorce state and Andy can get a divorce immediately. As Ed gets more involved in the case, he re-evaluates his own failed marriage and invites Liz to visit him so that they can mend fences. Mike continues to be beleaguered by Dr. Jerome, who refuses to relinquish his practice until Mike reads all the volumes of medical knowledge Dr. Jerome has amassed in his career. He also has a friend pose as a patient who needs an emergency appendectomy but refuses to listen to Mike and walks out of his office. When Dr. Jerome takes Mike along to see a terminally ill patient, Mike realizes that Dr. Jerome isn't such a bad guy after all. Molly and Jim continue to wend their way through the trials and tribulations of dating. After Jim cancels a da
Director: Melanie Mayron
Writer: Tom Spezialy
7.4/10121 votes#6 - Replacements
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/14/2001
Carol is infuriated when Dennis cancels the annual budget meeting for all faculty. The entire faculty bands together to get rid of Dennis, including writing his end of the first semester review. Carol convinces the faculty to give Dennis a chance to prove himself. When he later takes Carol to task for her actions, she investigates further, discovering he was fired. Carol writes him a positive evaluation, which Dennis tears up and returns. Frustrated by his continued rebuffs, she kisses him. A young lawyer, Joe Baxter, fresh out of the corporate world and full of energy, requests to join Ed's ""firm"". He observes Ed for a while, and launches his own ""bowling alley practice"" complete with Kenny, Shirley, and Phil-esque characters in his employ, and going so far as to steal Ed's clients. He advertises himself as the world's first bowling alley lawyer. When push comes to shove, Joe cannot deliver in the court room, and Ed happily regains his status. Ed gets involved in the Carol-Dennis tiff
Director: Timothy Busfield
Writer: Jon Beckerman, Rob Burnett
8.0/10129 votes#7 - The New World
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/21/2001
Ed represents Dennis in a minor fender-bender case, but when the other party's lawyer asks for an exorbiant amount of money, Dennis insists they settle in order to close the case; Ed tries to resurrect the annual Thanksgiving Day parade; Nancy declares war on her fellow ""cookie moms"" when she is sabotaged while launching her own cookie line.
Director: Sandy Smolan
Writer: Chris Dingess
7.6/10116 votes#8 - Goodbye Sadie
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 12/5/2001
Ed represents a teacher who admits to refusing to cast a talented African American in a play--as Abraham Lincoln; Warren gets an image makeover; Molly resists her boyfriend's efforts to get her a new car.
Director: Mel Damski
Writer: Jon Beckerman, Rob Burnett
7.7/10118 votes#9 - Charity Cases
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 12/12/2001
Ed becomes the anti-Claus after a wealthy client gives Stuckeyville a Christmas gift he really can't afford, forcing the bowling-alley bunch to host a frenzied fund-raiser. Meanwhile, Mike fears that he and Nancy are a bad influence on their own daughter; and Carol gets a peek at the other woman in Dennis's life.
Director: Adam Bernstein
Writer: N/A
7.6/10121 votes#10 - Small Town Guys
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 1/9/2002
Hoping to turn the case into a First Amendment issue to be heard by the Supreme Court, a celebrity lawyer offers to help Ed defend an ex-classmate being sued by a woman for embarrassing her on the Internet. Mike resorts to extreme measures after Dr. Jerome decides to postpone his retirement. Warren finds that the class clown who laughs first is the one who get the most laughs.
Director: Kevin Dowling
Writer: Jon Beckerman, Rob Burnett
7.6/10121 votes#11 - Two Days of Freedom
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 1/16/2002
Carol breaks Ed's heart with a lie about her relationship with Dennis, who gives Miss Vessey cause to reconsider romance with him. Meanwhile, a Stuckeyville woman hires Ed to watch over her husband during his very unusual birthday celebration; Phil and Kenny set out to invent a new food; and Warren's first date with Jessica hits a snag.
Director: Adam Bernstein
Writer: Jon Beckerman, Rob Burnett
7.8/10122 votes#12 - Ends and Means
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/30/2002
Ed represents a woman who embezzled money from her insurance company employer to pay for a claimant's liver transplant, and breaches his own ethics to keep her out of jail. Nancy tries and fails at a new career as a substitute teacher, and realizes that she'd like to become a guidance counselor. For once, Phil gets it right when he turns a child's birthday party at the Stuckeybowl into a celebrity roast, which ends up being a bigger hit than Ed anticipated.
Director: Kevin Dowling
Writer: Tom Spezialy
7.7/10127 votes#13 - Youth Bandits
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 2/6/2002
Ed and Carol disagree about the propriety of reuniting Ed's high school garage band to play at the funeral of the band's songwriter; Warren spends a blissfull week dating Jessica and immortalizes the event with an infinity tattoo; Molly tutors Phil in chemistry so that he can pass his G.E.D. exam.
Director: Juan José Campanella
Writer: Jon Beckerman, Rob Burnett
7.7/10122 votes#14 - Things To Do Today
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/27/2002
A beautiful, off-beat woman blows into town and sweeps Ed off his feet, while encouraging him to face his fears and live life to the fullest; everyone gets more than they bargained for when Carol gives her students a journalism assignment to videotape and report a news-breaking story at Stuckeyville High; Ed discovers an unpleasant truth about Jim and forces him to tell Molly, who is devastated by the revelation.
Director: James Frawley
Writer: Jon Beckerman, Rob Burnett
7.4/10117 votes#15 - Nice Guys Finish Last
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 3/6/2002
Ed helps a wimpy lawyer negotiate with a trucking company that is disturbing Stuckeyville's peace by routing its rigs through town; Carol regrets asking Dennis to critique one of her short stories; Molly rebuffs Jim's attempts to explain his behavior.
Director: Arvin Brown
Writer: Kevin Etten
7.4/10116 votes#16 - Wheel of Justice
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 3/27/2002
Ed winds up behind bars and in over his head after his favorite judge displays some outlandish courtroom behavior; Phil runs a boot camp for clowns to find the perfect one for a Stuckeybowl celebration; Mike becomes the object of derision after a marketer takes over the ads for his new private practice.
Director: Mel Damski
Writer: Jon Beckerman, Rob Burnett
7.6/10122 votes#17 - Lloyd
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 4/3/2002
Ed's fast-talking big brother blows into town and ropes Ed into a risky plan to glam up Stuckeybowl; Nancy's Internet chat buddy turns out to be a little younger, but a lot older-acting than she expected; and Warren finally sees Diane in a new light after he fails to make headway with a college girl.
Director: Timothy Busfield
Writer: Jon Beckerman, Rob Burnett
7.3/10120 votes#18 - Trust
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 4/10/2002
Mike is sued for sexual harassment by a nurse at his office, and he reluctantly agrees to let Ed represent him. The long-time friends have a short-term but serious falling-out when a deposition reveals that Mike has withheld evidence that could destroy his case, because he didn't trust Ed to trust in his innocence. After her short story is rejected for publication, Carol takes Molly's advice to sharpen her writing skills by freelancing for Stuckeyville's newspaper, only to be dogged by frustration at every turn at the complete lack of anything in Stuckeyville that's even remotely newsworthy. In another one of his harebrained schemes, Phil tries to start a union at Stuckeybowl after Ed refuses to allow him to raid the snack bar refrigerator for a party in his motel room.
Director: Guy Ferland
Writer: Yahlin Chang
7.3/10125 votes#19 - The Shot
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 4/24/2002
On the 15th anniversary of his missing the foul shot that led to Stuckeyville High's losing the championship, Ed looks to rewrite history by reenacting the moment and making the shot this time around; Molly is torn when Jim offers to leave his wife for her; Phil teaches Shirley how to flirt with a shy delivery guy.
Director: Gloria Muzio
Writer: Jon Beckerman, Rob Burnett
7.6/10118 votes#20 - Power of the Person
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 5/1/2002
Ed agrees to coach the Stuckeyville High ""Quiz Bowl"" team and clashes with Dennis over a team member who's scholastically challenged; Dennis falls off the wagon; Phil tries to promote a boxing match; Warren sets out on a religious search to find the courage to transform his life.
Director: Timothy Busfield
Writer: Jon Beckerman, Rob Burnett
7.9/10120 votes#21 - Memory Lane
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/8/2002
The news that Dennis and Carol have moved in together has Ed scrambling to find the perfect way to revisit the past and win her back; Dennis decides to run for president of the senior class after disapproving of the frontrunner; Warren embarks on his first real date with Diane, only to find that the feelings they have aren't exactly romantic.
Director: Rob Thompson
Writer: Jon Beckerman, Rob Burnett
8.2/10119 votes#22 - Last Chance
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 5/15/2002
Ed wrestles with his nervousness about taking what he believes to be his last chance to tell Carol exactly how he feels after he discovers that she and Dennis are going away for the summer together and that Dennis plans to propose during the trip; Warren and Mark compete for Diane's affection; Stuckeyvillians vie for the title of ""The Most Talented Person in Stuckeyville"".
Director: Timothy Busfield
Writer: Jon Beckerman, Rob Burnett
The Best Episodes of Ed Season 2
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After his wife leaves him and he's fired from his job at a high-profile New York city law firm, Ed Stevens moves back to his...
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Network:NBC
Season 2 Ratings Summary
"The Stars Align" is the best rated episode of "Ed" season 2. It scored 7.7/10 based on 118 votes. Directed by Kevin Dowling and written by Jon Beckerman, Rob Burnett, it aired on 10/10/2001. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Changes".