The Best Episodes of Small Wonder Season 2

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.

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Writer: Donald Ross

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

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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.

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

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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.

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.

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Writer: Howard Meyers

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.

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

Director: Leslie H. Martinson

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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

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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.

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Writer: Jerry Ross

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

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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.

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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

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.

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

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To help Jamie's shy and withdrawn classmate who stutters, Ted programs Vicki to be her speech therapist.

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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

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

Director: Leslie H. Martinson

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

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Writer: Michael Poryes

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

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

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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

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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

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

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Writer: Jeffrey Duteil, Jerry Ross