7.7/10324 votes#1 - Blax, Snake, Home
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/2011
Alex and Dave to decide that they should be honest with each other. Penny buys a new condo and declares that it's "The Year of Penny", the year where everything will start going her way. Max tries to find out why Brad hasn't been hanging out with him lately.
Director: Anthony Russo
Writer: Josh Bycel
7.6/10305 votes#2 - Baby Steps
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/5/2011
Alex's new T-shirts intended for children end up being a hit with with teenagers. Jane searches for the child she believes was conceived from an egg she donated years ago. Max starts working at Dave's food truck.
Director: Tristram Shapeero
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/10297 votes
#3 - Yesandwitch
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/2011
Penny's mom Dana visits, however, Penny learns that her mom's inspiring upbeat attitude is hiding some bad news, which leads Penny to decide to give her mom a reality check. Max plays tour guide to some tourists in his new limo with the help of Brad and Jane.
Director: Joe Russo
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/10291 votes
#4 - Secrets and Limos
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/2011
Jane convinces Penny to make a vision board to visualize the path to her dreams, although everything doesn't go according to plan. Brad finds it hard to relate to his stern boss until the guy sees Max's limo. Dave is reluctant to let the gang to meet his new girlfriend.
Director: Anthony Russo
Writer: Hilary Winston
- 8.0/10320 votes
#5 - Spooky Endings
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/2011
Penny, Max, Dave and Alex head to a Halloween warehouse party, where their costumes don't have the effect they anticipated. Meanwhile, Jane and Brad spend their Halloween house sitting for some friends in the suburbs.
Director: Fred Savage
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/10272 votes
#6 - Lying Around
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/2/2011
Brad discovers that Jane's old sorority sister is coming for a visit, so he lies and says he has a work retreat out of town, when he's actually on "staycation" in a fancy hotel in the city. Penny becomes jealous when Alex dates her former boyfriend Liam, and Max and Dave make a commercial to promote the "Steak Me Home Tonight" food truck.
Director: Fred Savage
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/10332 votes
#7 - The Code War
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/16/2011
When Max's high school girlfriend Angie, the girl he dated before he realized he was gay, returns to town, Penny (who was Max's girlfriend in college) starts to feel jealous. Meanwhile, Alex starts to develop an unusual crush on Max. When Dave starts dating Angie, Max becomes angry and declares a "code war". Jane finds out that Brad has a "work wife", so she sets out to obtain a "work husband".
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/10270 votes#8 - Full Court Dress
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/23/2011
Jane needs a dress to wear to her charity event, but she's a little leery when Alex offers to design one for her. Penny helps a panicked Max babysit his niece and nephew, and Dave and Brad's new friendship with their oddball mailman, Drew, isn't quite what they had hoped for.
Director: Victor Nelli Jr.
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/10264 votes
#9 - Grinches Be Crazy
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 12/7/2011
Max agrees to dress up as Santa for Penny's charity event. Jane accidently gives housekeeper Gita the envelope stuffed with money for their big Xmas getaway to Turks & Caicos, instead of the $200 Christmas tip she had planned. Dave cashes in all the homemade coupons Alex gave him as gifts from past Christmases.
Director: Jeff Melman
Writer: Hilary Winston
- 7.5/10275 votes
#10 - The Shrink, the Dare, Her Date and Her Brother
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 1/4/2012
Dave has a surprising reaction when his shrink starts dating Penny. Max and Jane's fight over a sweater leads to a strange competition, and Alex and Brad bond when they discover a shared interest.
Director: Jeff Melman
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/10274 votes
#11 - Meat the Parrots
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 1/11/2012
Dave's father comes to town to introduce his new girlfriend, who turns out to be Penny's mother, Dana. Alex decides to adopt a pet parrot that turns out to be not so charming. Alex enlists Brad and Max's help, as she is convinced the Chinese restaurant next door is a front for a brothel.
Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10280 votes
#12 - Makin' Changes
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/18/2012
Jane encourages Penny to find a man and then change him to suit her expectations. Alex stages an intervention to stop Dave from his obsession with V-neck shirts.
Director: Michael Patrick Jann
Writer: Gil Ozeri, Jackie Clarke
- 8.2/10309 votes
#13 - The St. Valentine's Day Maxssacre
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 2/8/2012
Penny has a new boyfriend she wants to dump and Dave is afraid his new girlfriend is about to dump him. Alex goes looking for a party in the sketchy part of town, and Brad's hopes for a perfect night out for Jane are dashed when a dental appointment goes terribly wrong. Max picks up a couple with his limo only to find that one of the passengers is Grant, the boyfriend he broke up with a year ago.
Director: Joe Russo
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/10265 votes
#14 - Everybody Loves Grant
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/15/2012
When the whole gang, with the exception of Dave, falls in love with Grant, Max wonders if he really is good enough to date the "perfect" guy. Meanwhile, Dave sets out to prove he's way cooler than Max's new boyfriend.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/10271 votes
#15 - The Butterfly Effect Effect
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/22/2012
The friends wait for Brad and Jane's annual "Spring Smackdown," their yearly blowout of a domestic squabble, to let them know when Max will come out of hibernation and when winter will end.
Director: Victor Nelli Jr.
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/10304 votes
#16 - Cocktails & Dreams
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/29/2012
Dave gets a liquor license for his food truck, making it a new hot spot. The gang avoids Dave because his signature drink gives them sex dreams about him.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/10271 votes
#17 - The Kerkovich Way
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 3/7/2012
A panicked Alex enlists Jane's help in convincing Dave that something he's certain happened never did using "The Kerkovich Way," an ancient Serbian memory-wiping technique passed down through the Kerkovich clan. Meanwhile, Penny and Max are determined to finally beat an annoyingly perfect couple in the annual Rosalita's Run and Scavenger Hunt.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/10262 votes
#18 - Party of Six
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 3/14/2012
After years of bad luck every time the gang celebrates Penny's birthday, the gang starts to believe the day is cursed.
Director: Fred Goss
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/10252 votes
#19 - You Snooze, You Bruise
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 3/21/2012
Dave finds himself bullied at the gym by Corey, and former bully Alex coaches him on how to fight back. Meanwhile, the residents at Brad and Jane's condo are fed up with Jane being too controlling as president of their home owners' association, and rise up to challenge her for the job.
Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/10284 votes
#20 - Big White Lies
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 3/28/2012
Things spiral out of control after Penny tells a white lie to avoid an irritating childhood friend. Dave and Max's lonely and jealous landlord falls for Alex.
Director: Gail Mancuso
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/10286 votes
#21 - Four Weddings and a Funeral (Minus Three Weddings and One Funeral)
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 4/4/2012
The gang find themselves at yet another wedding, this time the nuptials of Derrick and Eric. Brad struggles to tell Jane something important, Jane tries to find a way to help Eric hide the fact that the pricey reception must be downscaled, and Max tries to find the courage to perform with his old all-male Madonna cover band. Meanwhile, a dateless Penny is sad that she's at another wedding, alone, until she meets cute guy Chris via Skype.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Happy Endings Season 2
Every episode of Happy Endings Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Happy Endings Season 2!
A fresh and funny take on modern friendship and what one urban family will do to stay friends after the perfect couple who brought them...
Genres:ComedyDrama
Network:ABC
Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Blax, Snake, Home" is the best rated episode of "Happy Endings" season 2. It scored 7.7/10 based on 324 votes. Directed by Anthony Russo and written by Josh Bycel, it aired on 9/28/2011. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Baby Steps".