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The Best Episodes of Small Wonder Season 2

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

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When genius cybernetics engineer Ted Lawson brings home his top-secret invention, a Voice Input Child Identicant or V.I.C.I., life becomes anything but mechanical for the Lawson Family. With his boss and his nosy family living

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Small Wonder Season 2 Episode 1 - Chewed Out (Smoker's Delight)
    7.5/10(35 votes)

    #1 - Chewed Out (Smoker's Delight)

    S2:E1

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

    Director:Leslie H. Martinson
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Small Wonder Season 2 Episode 2 - Money, Money, Money
    7.5/10(35 votes)

    #2 - Money, Money, Money

    S2:E2

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Howard Meyers

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  3. Small Wonder Season 2 Episode 3 - My Mother the Teacher
    7.1/10(34 votes)

    #3 - My Mother the Teacher

    S2:E3

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Small Wonder Season 2 Episode 4 - Here Comes the Judge
    7.7/10(32 votes)

    #4 - Here Comes the Judge

    S2:E4

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Small Wonder Season 2 Episode 5 - Home Sweet Homeless
    7.5/10(33 votes)

    #5 - Home Sweet Homeless

    S2:E5

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Small Wonder Season 2 Episode 6 - Crazy Like a Fox
    7.2/10(30 votes)

    #6 - Crazy Like a Fox

    S2:E6

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

    Director:Peter Baldwin
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Small Wonder Season 2 Episode 7 - The Older Woman
    6.9/10(36 votes)

    #7 - The Older Woman

    S2:E7

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Michael Poryes

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  8. Small Wonder Season 2 Episode 8 - Who's the Boss?
    7.3/10(28 votes)

    #8 - Who's the Boss?

    S2:E8

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Small Wonder Season 2 Episode 9 - P-P Paula
    7.6/10(29 votes)

    #9 - P-P Paula

    S2:E9

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Small Wonder Season 2 Episode 10 - You Gotta Have Heart
    7.4/10(28 votes)

    #10 - You Gotta Have Heart

    S2:E10

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Small Wonder Season 2 Episode 11 - Little Miss Shopping Mall
    7.0/10(30 votes)

    #11 - Little Miss Shopping Mall

    S2:E11

    The Lawsons enter Vicki in a mall pageant.

    Director:Leslie H. Martinson
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Small Wonder Season 2 Episode 12 - Thanksgiving Story
    7.5/10(31 votes)

    #12 - Thanksgiving Story

    S2:E12

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Small Wonder Season 2 Episode 13 - Neighborhood Watch
    7.5/10(30 votes)

    #13 - Neighborhood Watch

    S2:E13

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

    Director:Leslie H. Martinson
    Writer:Jack Gross Jr.

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  14. Small Wonder Season 2 Episode 14 - Moving Up
    7.4/10(28 votes)

    #14 - Moving Up

    S2:E14

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Jerry Ross

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  15. Small Wonder Season 2 Episode 15 - Top Secret
    7.6/10(30 votes)

    #15 - Top Secret

    S2:E15

    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.

    Director:Leslie H. Martinson
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Small Wonder Season 2 Episode 16 - The Personality Kid
    7.1/10(27 votes)

    #16 - The Personality Kid

    S2:E16

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Small Wonder Season 2 Episode 17 - Matchmaker, Matchmaker
    6.9/10(27 votes)

    #17 - Matchmaker, Matchmaker

    S2:E17

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Jerry Ross, Jeffrey Duteil

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  18. Small Wonder Season 2 Episode 18 - Little Miss Shopping Mall
    7.3/10(28 votes)

    #18 - Little Miss Shopping Mall

    S2:E18

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Small Wonder Season 2 Episode 19 - Victor/ Vicki-toria
    6.9/10(27 votes)

    #19 - Victor/ Vicki-toria

    S2:E19

    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.

    Director:Peter Baldwin
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Small Wonder Season 2 Episode 20 - Look into My Eyes
    7.7/10(34 votes)

    #20 - Look into My Eyes

    S2:E20

    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.

    Director:Peter Baldwin
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Small Wonder Season 2 Episode 21 - Wally the Wimp
    7.9/10(40 votes)

    #21 - Wally the Wimp

    S2:E21

    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.

    Director:Peter Baldwin
    Writer:Dick Christie

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  22. Small Wonder Season 2 Episode 22 - The Cat's Meow
    7.4/10(28 votes)

    #22 - The Cat's Meow

    S2:E22

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Donald Ross

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  23. Small Wonder Season 2 Episode 23 - Vicki Goodwrench
    7.3/10(28 votes)

    #23 - Vicki Goodwrench

    S2:E23

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Small Wonder Season 2 Episode 24 - Double Wedding
    7.5/10(28 votes)

    #24 - Double Wedding

    S2:E24

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

    Director:Leslie H. Martinson
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Chewed Out (Smoker's Delight)" is the best rated episode of "Small Wonder" season 2. It scored 7.5/10 based on 35 votes. Directed by Leslie H. Martinson and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/13/1986. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Money, Money, Money".