The BEST episodes of Designing Women season 2
Every episode of Designing Women season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Designing Women season 2!
Julia Sugarbaker, Mary Jo Shively, Charlene Frazier-Stillfield and Suzanne Sugarbaker are associates at their design firm, Sugarbaker and Associates. Julia is the owner and is very outspoken and strong-willed. Mary Jo is a divorced single-parent whom is just as strong-willed as Julia, but isn't as self-confident. Charlene is the naive and trusting farm girl from Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Suzanne is the self-centered ex-beauty queen whom has a number of wealthy ex-husbands.
#1 - Howard the Date
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/14/1987
It's the mercy date from Hell when the female Sugarbakers staff accompany dateless Howard the nerd to his high-school reunion. Their sympathy quickly wears off when he begins to boast about handling his "four women."
#2 - Heart Attacks
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/1987
Reese's fitness demonstration - arm wrestling an old buddy and sometime-rival -- causes a heart attack, and subsequent different treatment from Julia.
#3 - Stranded
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/7/1987
While Charlene, Julia and Mary Jo get the flu on a trip to St. Louis, a snowstorm forces Suzanne and Anthony to share a motel room in Tennessee.
#4 - Dash Goff, the Writer
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/26/1987
Suzanne's visiting ex, a novelist who loves flowery Southern words and women, is in a writer's slump and contemplating suicide.
#5 - Anthony, Jr.
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1987
Anthony goes to extremes to impress his girlfriends' wealthy parents, inventing a pedigreed family -- then an uninvited dinner guest informs him he is the father of her child.
#6 - I'll Be Home For Christmas
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/21/1987
Charlene and Anthony scheme to outsmart Mary Jo's disbelieving son on Christmas Eve -- until their hired Santa beats them to it, by swiping the Sugarbakers' Christmas gifts.
#7 - Ted Remarries (Ted and Tammy)
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1987
Mary Jo can't face her children being with her ex-husband's new wife, who is spoiling them.
#8 - Half an Air Bubble Off
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/19/1987
When an eccentric client harasses the women with bizarre decorating requests, they decide to matchmake him with Bernice.
#9 - 101 Ways to Decorate a Gas Station
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1987
A scruffy gas-station owner wins free interior decoration from Sugarbakers, Charlene consults a psychic about her future.
#10 - Cruising
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/1987
Suzanne and Mary Jo become romantic rivals while doing a job aboard a cruise ship.
#11 - How Great Thou Art
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/22/1988
Scruples cause Charlene to resign from her church after she loses faith in her minister when he votes against allowing women in the ministry.
#12 - Killing All the Right People
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/1987
News that a friend and fellow decorator is dying of AIDS (and wants Sugarbakers to design his funeral) gets Mary Jo fired up at a PTA debate on sex education and contraception.
#13 - High Rollers
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/8/1988
After Charlene unwittingly puts a bug in Suzanne's ear by relating the success story of Fred Smith, founder of Federal Express, Suzanne flits off to Atlantic City with Charlene and Anthony in hopes of winning a bundle to pay off debts by employing Anthony's gambling expertise.
#14 - Reservations for Eight
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/28/1988
A romantic ski weekend becomes a battle of the sexes when an avalanche sidelines the Sugarbakers ladies and their boyfriends.
#15 - The Incredibly Elite Bona Fide Blue-Blood Beaumont Driving Club
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/15/1988
Suzanne and Julia clash over a posh club's offer of membership when Suzanne discovers discrimination in the club's by laws.
#16 - There's Some Black People Coming to Dinner
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/25/1988
Mary Jo gives Claudia permission to go to a school dance with a black youth, contrary to his father's wishes.
#17 - Second Time Around
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/11/1988
Charlene withdraws after being dumped by her boyfriend Bill, who is still grieving the loss of his first wife.
#18 - Great Expectations
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/4/1988
Anthony is dismayed when an old prison cellmate arrives at Sugarbaker's with a business proposition -- he wants Anthony to become his partner.
#19 - Oh, Brother
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/18/1988
Julia and Suzanne disagree on how to handle the arrival of their half-brother, a recently discharged mental patient with aspirations to stand-up comedy.
#20 - I'll Be Seeing You
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/23/1987
Charlene dreams the Sugarbakers back to WWII and the USO.
#21 - Ted-Bare
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/21/1988
On the brink of marrying a young woman, Ted begins to appreciate ex-wife Mary Jo's maturity, but his sudden attentiveness strikes everyone else as suspicious.
#22 - The Return of Ray Don
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/1/1988
A penniless Suzanne faces stiff fines for back taxes, so after trying to charm Ray Don at the IRS, she sells off her possession and considers marriage to wealthy octogenarian Wilmont Oliver.