7.5/1029 votes#1 - Root Beer, Women and Song
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1986
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: N/A
Writer: Howard Meyers
- 7.5/1029 votes
#2 - My Mother the Teacher
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1986
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1028 votes
#3 - Vicki for the Defense
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1986
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1026 votes
#4 - Homeless Causes
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/1986
Joan's civic project with the homeless prompts Jamie to bring home a bum, who virtually takes over the Lawson household.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1026 votes
#5 - The Hustle
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/1986
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: N/A
- 7.1/1024 votes
#6 - Jamie's Older Woman
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/1986
Jamie pushes Harriet aside in an unrequited crush on her 16-year-old cousin, who teaches him a lesson in respect.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Poryes
- 7.0/1030 votes
#7 - My Robot Family
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/1/1986
When he's punished for thoughtlessly dropping the family's reservations to Mexico, Jamie dreams that the others are robots under his control.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1022 votes
#8 - The Wonder Worker
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/1986
To help Jamie's shy and withdrawn classmate who stutters, Ted programs Vicki to be her speech therapist.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1023 votes
#9 - Have a Heart
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/15/1986
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1022 votes
#10 - Latchkey Dreams
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/29/1986
To get on a community-sponsored Thanksgiving ski trip for disadvantaged kids, Jamie convinces the sponsors that his parents are separated.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/1023 votes
#11 - Computer Dating
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/6/1986
To pay for a new bike he bought from the neighborhood bully, Jamie uses Vicki to run a school computerized match-making business.
Director: N/A
Writer: Jeffrey Duteil, Jerry Ross
- 7.6/1025 votes
#12 - Smoker's Delight
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/13/1986
Jamie learns a sobering lesson in using smoking and chewing tobacco to elevate his freshman status in junior high.
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1025 votes
#13 - Movin' Up
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/10/1987
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: N/A
Writer: Jerry Ross
- 7.4/1023 votes
#14 - Project Blender
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/17/1987
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: N/A
- 7.6/1025 votes
#15 - Class Comedienne
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/24/1987
Nagged by classmates that Vicki has a wooden personality, Jamie overdoes it in secretly programming her a livelier one.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1022 votes
#16 - Little Miss Shopping Mall
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/7/1987
The Lawsons take up the Brindles' snobby challenge and enter Vicki in a mall pageant against Harriet.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1023 votes
#17 - Victor/ V.I.C.I.
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/14/1987
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: N/A
- 7.2/1023 votes
#18 - Look into My Eyes
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/21/1987
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: N/A
- 6.9/1023 votes
#19 - Pint Sized Pick-Up
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 4/18/1987
While in a store with Jamie looking for a present for her mock birthday party to convince Child Services that they treat her well, Vicki picks up an expensive watch and is picked up for shoplifting.
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1029 votes
#20 - Community Watch and See
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 5/2/1987
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.
- 7.7/1035 votes
#21 - Here Kitty, Kitty!
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/9/1987
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: N/A
Writer: Donald Ross
- 7.4/1023 votes
#22 - Vicki Goodwrench
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 5/16/1987
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1023 votes
#23 - The Wedding
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 5/23/1987
Ted and Joan decide to have the ceremonial wedding they never had -- until the Brindles butt in.
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1023 votes
#24 - Wham-Bam-Body Slam
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 6/20/1987
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
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!
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...
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Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Root Beer, Women and Song" is the best rated episode of "Small Wonder" season 2. It scored 7.5/10 based on 29 votes. Directed by N/A and written by Howard Meyers, it aired on 9/20/1986. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "My Mother the Teacher".