The Best Episodes of The PJs Season 2

During a teachers' strike, Thurgood joins Juicy and Calvin in home schooling after it's revealed he never got his diploma.

Director: Mike Johnson

Writer: Saladin K. Patterson

The law's on Smokey's side when he claims squatter's rights after Thurgood lets him spend a night in a vacant apartment to ride out a storm.

Director: Mike Wellins

Writer: Ilana Wernick

Snoop Dogg plays a rap artist whose interest in the rhymes of Calvin and Juicy prompt Thurgood to become their manager.

Director: Chel White

Writer: Kyra Keene, Janine Sherman Barrois

Matchmaker Muriel pairs Haiti Lady with Walter. They fight like cats and dogs, which acts like a mutual aphrodisiac. But that may be the extent of their relationship.

Director: Neema Barnette

Writer: Lester Lewis

Thurgood turns the boiler room into a beauty shop for Muriel, whose gossip doesn't match Bebe's--until she dishes dirt on Thurgood.

Director: Sean Burns

Writer: Marc Wilmore

Thurgood wants Jimmy hired to replace his late (and lax) supervisor. But a group effort to fill out the application backfires, and Thurgood's new boss is...bossy.

Director: Peter Boyd Maclean

Writer: Lester Lewis

When HUD refuses to grant the building a new water filter, Thurgood and the tenants break into the office to steal one, but find something else even more valuable.

Director: Paul Harrod

Writer: Michael Price

Thurgood undergoes a religious transformation after receiving an electrical shock, followed by a vision of a black Jesus. So, he decides to become a preacher.

Director: Marv Newland

Writer: David Flebotte

After capturing a thieving rat, Thurgood enters the rodent in the Friday night rat fights, where their success is short-lived.

Director: Marv Newland

Writer: Bobby Gaylor

Thurgood revives the project's defunct radio station, and it takes off after he and Smokey inadvertently form a comedy team. But Smokey proves to be more popular, and that doesn't help Thurgood's ego.

Director: Mike Dietz

Writer: Bill Freiberger

Thurgood is unsure of the facts when he wakes up with Bebe after a night of heavy drinking.

Director: John Logue

Writer: Steve Tompkins, Larry Wilmore

Stressed from caring for his parents, Juicy finds solace building a treehouse with Thurgood, who becomes mediator between boy and father.

Director: Mike Johnson

Writer: Jonathan Goldstein

After Muriel finds he's a descendant of Thomas Jefferson, Thurgood decides to run for political office, but his ideals are compromised by some shady new "friends."

Director: Sean Burns

Writer: Ilana Wernick

The Stubbses take in Mrs. Avery after authorities threaten to send her to a rest home following her shotgun attack on the mailman.

Director: Rich Zim

Writer: Michael Price

Walter arranges a brief jail stay to get free dental care for Thurgood, who assaults the dentist and lands on probation, overseen by Walter.

Director: John Logue

Writer: Reid Harrison

Jackie Chan guest stars as his film shoots in the neighborhood. Thurgood is made responsible for protecting the area's image in the movie.

Director: Lyndon Barrois

Writer: Ron Corcillo, A.J. Poulin

A former wrestler-turned-politician comes to help Juicy after Thurgood's demonstration of his wrestling moves puts the boy in a bind.

Director: Bill Jarcho

Writer: Jim Patterson, Steve Leff