The BEST episodes of The Critic season 2
Every episode of The Critic season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Critic season 2!
A down-on-his-luck film critic named Jay Sherman who gets no respect at home or at work, reviews pathetic movies in his spare time.
#1 - Siskel & Ebert & Jay & Alice
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/12/1995
After Jay attends the Academy Awards ceremony, Siskel and Ebert have a fight on the plane ride home and split up. Jay sees his golden opportunity to be a partner to either Siskel or Ebert but feels they weren't right to be apart so he tries to get them reunited.
#2 - All the Duke's Men
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/23/1995
When Jay helps Marty become class president, Duke decides to have Jay help him become US President.
#3 - Sherman, Woman and Child
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/5/1995
Jay's ratings are not doing very well and Duke is about to fire him so Jay is feeling depressed. His feelings become better when he meets a new girlfriend named Alice and her daughter Penny. Alice gives Jay tips on how to improve his show and her advice works. Jay wants to get to know Alice better but discovers she has a boyfriend whom she wants to reject but can't.
#4 - Dukerella
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/14/1995
Alice's sister, Miranda, comes to visit them which Alice is not comfortable with. Miranda must find work in New York so she joins "Mattress in an Hour" delivering mattresses. When everybody attends a party held by Duke, Miranda falls in love with Duke but is shy because of a wrinkle. She runs out on Duke at midnight and Duke must find the woman who fits her slipper. When it turns out to be Doris, Jay must get Duke and Miranda reunited.
#5 - Lady Hawke
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/19/1995
When Jeremy Hawke's sister, Olivia Newton Hawke, visits New York, Jay meets her and is smitten with her which puts his relationship with Alice on the line when she begins to feel left out. So Jay then must decide who he really loves.
#6 - From Chunk to Hunk
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/2/1995
Jay and Marty begin to feel a little big so they enroll in a weight loss camp. Marty loses a remarkable amount of weight which makes him feel more self- confident but when he is placed as the star in a school play, he doesn't feel his skinny self is right for him. Meanwhile, Jay receives a death threat from Belgian actor Jean Paul Le Pope whose movie he panned.
#7 - Frankie and Ellie Get Lost
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/7/1995
Franklin and Eleanor celebrate their 40th anniversary by going on vacation but the plane crashes and Franklin and Eleanor find themselves marooned on an island. Back in New York, Margo and Jay find out about their disappearance and discover they have willed Jay their entire fortune which Jay decides to put to use by cleaning up New York.
#8 - Sherman of Arabia
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/30/1995
At Marty's slumber party, Jay is asked to tell his story in which he got caught up in the Gulf War. Jay tells how he was attending an Iraqi film festival and eventually was thrown in jail where he escaped and lead a troop of men across the desert.
#9 - A Song for Margo
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/26/1995
Margo gets a new neighbor, Johnny Wrath, who is the lead singer in the rock group, "Nuns in a Blender". Margo falls in love with him but doesn't feel the relationship is right when she finds him with another girl. Meanwhile Alice tries to find a suitable preschool for Penny.
#10 - I Can't Believe It's a Clip Show
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/21/1995
Jay is hosting his 10th anniversary show held at Carnegie Hall where he showcases a number of movie clips from old episodes such as Jurassic Park 2, Every Which Way but Lucid, and Rabbi P.I. The show is later held hostage by a number of terrorists who threaten to blow the place up with a bomb tied to Jay's waist. Fortunately, everybody is eventually rescued by Milton Berle.