The BEST episodes of Small Wonder season 2
Every episode of Small Wonder season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Small Wonder season 2!
When genius cybernetics engineer Ted Lawson (Dick Christie) brings home his top secret invention, a Voice Input Child Identicant or V.I.C.I. (Tiffany Brissette), life becomes anything but mechanic for the Lawson family. With Ted’s boss and nosy family next door, his family must pass off Vickie as a real child. It’s easy for his wife Joan (Marla Pennington) who can’t help dotting on her like a real daughter, but harder for his precocious son Jamie (Jerry Supiran) who uses Vickie to do his homework and ward off Harriet (Emily Schulman), the annoying red headed girl who has a crush on him. Also starring Edie McClurg (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Hogan Family) as Harriet’s busybody mom.
#1 - Here Comes the Judge
Season 2 - Episode 4 - 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.
#2 - Who's the Boss?
Season 2 - Episode 8 - 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.
#3 - Neighborhood Watch
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 5/2/1987
After being burglarized (while Vicki's home and they're at a restaurant), the Lawsons join the neighborhood watch.
#4 - The Shoplifter
Season 2 - Episode 11 - 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.
#5 - Chewed Out (Smoker's Delight)
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/1986
Jamie learns a sobering lesson in using smoking and chewing tobacco to elevate his freshman status in junior high.
#6 - Top Secret
Season 2 - Episode 15 - 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.
#7 - P-P-P Paula
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/8/1986
To help Jamie's shy and withdrawn classmate who stutters, Ted programs Vicki to be her speech therapist.
#8 - Little Miss Shopping Mall
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/7/1987
The Lawsons take up the Brindles' snobby challenge and enter Vicki in a mall pageant against Harriet.
#9 - Money, Money, Money
Season 2 - Episode 2 - 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.
#10 - My Mother the Teacher
Season 2 - Episode 3 - 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.
#11 - Wally the Wimp
Season 2 - Episode 21 - 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.
#12 - Crazy Like a Fox
Season 2 - Episode 6 - 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.
#13 - Thanksgiving Story
Season 2 - Episode 12 - 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.
#14 - Home Sweet Homeless
Season 2 - Episode 5 - 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.
#15 - You Gotta Have Heart
Season 2 - Episode 10 - 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.
#16 - Vicki Goodwrench
Season 2 - Episode 23 - 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.
#17 - Double Wedding
Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/23/1987
Ted and Joan decide to have the ceremonial wedding they never had -- until the Brindles butt in.
#18 - The Older Woman
Season 2 - Episode 7 - 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.
#19 - Movin' Up
Season 2 - Episode 14 - 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.
#21 - Look into My Eyes
Season 2 - Episode 20 - 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.
#22 - Victor/Vicki-toria
Season 2 - Episode 19 - 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.
#23 - Matchmaker, Matchmaker
Season 2 - Episode 17 - 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.
#24 - The Cat's Meow
Season 2 - Episode 22 - 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.