The BEST episodes of Ally McBeal season 2

Every episode of Ally McBeal season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Ally McBeal season 2!

Ally McBeal is a young attorney who joins a prestigious law firm with a highly sexual environment and whose staff includes Ally's ex-boyfriend. The series contains fantasy sequences, flashbacks and voiceovers to reveal what Ally is really thinking. Many episodes contain an appearance by singer Vonda Shepard, who performed the show's theme song.

Last Updated: 11/3/2024Network: FOXStatus: Ended
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Just Looking
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7.79
228 votes

#1 - Just Looking

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/1998

Cage and Fish go undercover at Ling's mud-wrestling club; Ally gets stuck in the unisex toilet; and Georgia finds herself attracted to a man she once dated.

Directors: Vincent Misiano
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Worlds Without Love
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7.72
308 votes

#2 - Worlds Without Love

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/2/1998

A nun sues for damages after she is fired for breaking her vow of celibacy; and Cage's once-thought-dead frog reappears.

Directors: Arvin Brown
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Fools Night Out
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7.65
376 votes

#3 - Fools Night Out

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1998

Ally plays mediator when a minister breaks up with his church's choir singer; and a client sues a plastic surgeon's nurse for misrepresenting her natural breasts as implants.

Directors: Peter MacNicol
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Making Spirits Bright
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7.63
221 votes

#4 - Making Spirits Bright

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/14/1998

As Christmas approaches, Fish's biggest client is fired from his job after he sees a unicorn; and Renee and Matt's relationship heats up.

Directors: Peter MacNicol
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Story of Love
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7.61
337 votes

#5 - Story of Love

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/1998

Ally defends a woman who threw her best friend into a garbage canister after learning she had stolen away her boyfriend; and an accident befalls Cage's beloved frog.

Directors: Tom Moore
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It's My Party
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7.58
374 votes

#6 - It's My Party

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/1998

A judge holds Ally in contempt when she disregards his instructions not to wear short skirts in court; and an editor for a feminist magazine is fired for being of the Baptist faith.

Directors: Jace Alexander
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The Real World
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7.55
376 votes

#7 - The Real World

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1998

Ally finds herself attracted to an eighteen-year-old; and Cage considers hiring an attorney he finds attractive.

Directors: Jonathan Pontell
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They Eat Horses, Don't They?
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7.54
343 votes

#8 - They Eat Horses, Don't They?

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1998

A client sues a radio shock-jock for contributing to sexual harassment at her workplace; and Cage defends a restaurateur who fed a customer horsemeat.

Directors: Mel Damski
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Only the Lonely
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7.47
326 votes

#9 - Only the Lonely

Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/3/1999

A slightly overweight woman claims her employer's policy of allowing workers to wear bathing suits to work amounts to sexual harassment; Elaine is accused of stealing the idea for the face bra from a dead cousin.

Directors: Vincent Misiano
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Love Unlimited
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7.45
276 votes

#10 - Love Unlimited

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/18/1999

Ally represents a woman whose husband wishes to annul their marriage on the grounds that he is a "sexaholic," and was incompetent when he agreed to go through with the wedding.

Directors: Dennie Gordon
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Those Lips, That Hand
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7.41
362 votes

#11 - Those Lips, That Hand

Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/19/1999

Ally defends a man accused of murdering his wife by cutting off her hand. Billy and Georgia represent a life insurance salesman who lost his job because of his bad comb-over.

Directors: Arlene Sanford
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Happy Trails
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7.35
317 votes

#12 - Happy Trails

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/1998

The attorneys react when Judge Boyle suddenly drops dead; a woman with orange-colored skin sues her employer for wrongful termination; Elaine urges Ally to give a persistent and unwanted suitor "the dump;" and more bad luck besets Stefan the frog.

Directors: Jonathan Pontell
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You Never Can Tell
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7.32
313 votes

#13 - You Never Can Tell

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/23/1998

As Thanksgiving approaches... Ling sues an employee for having sexual thoughts about her; and Ally goes to court with her fingers stuck in a bowling ball.

Directors: Adam Nimoy
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Civil War
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7.31
276 votes

#14 - Civil War

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/5/1999

Ally and Cage face off against Fish and Georgia when the firm represents both sides of a date rape case; Nelle represents a sweaty client in trouble with the IRS.

Directors: Billy Dickson
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Let's Dance
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7.28
361 votes

#15 - Let's Dance

Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/26/1999

Cage, Fish, and Nelle defend a law firm that allegedly withheld a female employee's partnership offer after she became pregnant; Ling substitutes for Elaine's partner in a dance contest; Billy and Georgia attend therapy.

Directors: Ben Lewin
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Angels and Blimps
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7.27
304 votes

#16 - Angels and Blimps

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/8/1999

A young leukemia sufferer wishes to sue God; and Fish and Cage defend a client accused of attempted murder.

Directors: Mel Damski
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Love's Illusions
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7.24
303 votes

#17 - Love's Illusions

Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/17/1999

Ally's fantasies interfere with her lawyering, prompting fears that she may be losing her mind; a man who believes his wife never loved him sues for fraud; Fish experiences impotency as he and Ling are about to make love.

Directors: Allan Arkush
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In Dreams
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7.19
249 votes

#18 - In Dreams

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/11/1999

An ailing woman who prefers living in her dreams seeks a court order that would force a hospital to place her in a coma; and Ling informs Fish that Nelle has tired of Cage's lack of sexual aggressiveness.

Directors: Alex Graves
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I Know Him By Heart
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7.13
270 votes

#19 - I Know Him By Heart

Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/24/1999

Ally decides to take a more aggressive approach in her search for a mate; a lesbian who wants to have a baby sues her insurance company when it refuses to cover the fertilization process; Nelle feels threatened by the relationship Cage shares with Ally.

Directors: Jonathan Pontell
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Pyramids on the Nile
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7.13
305 votes

#20 - Pyramids on the Nile

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/15/1999

A company fires two employees for breaking its "date and tell" office policy. Billy grows jealous when he sees Greg and Ally kissing. Ling asks Fish to hire her as counsel.

Directors: Elodie Keene
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Sex, Lies and Politics
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7.09
300 votes

#21 - Sex, Lies and Politics

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/1/1999

Cage and Ling represent a bookstore owner who was driven out of business by a politician who claimed that the store sold pornography. Ally and Billy deal with the aftermath of their kiss.

Directors: Arlene Sanford
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The Green Monster
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6.89
272 votes

#22 - The Green Monster

Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/10/1999

Ally hires a male escort in hopes of making Greg jealous; Fish and Cage represent a woman who destroyed her husband's most cherished possessions after she discovered he was having an affair; Billy objects to Georgia's revealing attire.

Directors: Michael Schultz
Sideshow
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6.35
305 votes

#23 - Sideshow

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/22/1999

Ally consults Tracy for advice now that she and Billy have kissed.

Directors: Alex Graves