Season 2

September 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.

September 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.

October 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.

October 11, 1986

Joan's civic project with the homeless prompts Jamie to bring home a bum, who virtually takes over the Lawson household.

October 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.

October 25, 1986

Jamie pushes Harriet aside in an unrequited crush on her 16-year-old cousin, who teaches him a lesson in respect.

November 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.

November 8, 1986

To help Jamie's shy and withdrawn classmate who stutters, Ted programs Vicki to be her speech therapist.

November 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.

November 29, 1986

To get on a community-sponsored Thanksgiving ski trip for disadvantaged kids, Jamie convinces the sponsors that his parents are separated.

December 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.

December 13, 1986

Jamie learns a sobering lesson in using smoking and chewing tobacco to elevate his freshman status in junior high.

January 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.

January 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.

January 24, 1987

Nagged by classmates that Vicki has a wooden personality, Jamie overdoes it in secretly programming her a livelier one.

February 7, 1987

The Lawsons take up the Brindles' snobby challenge and enter Vicki in a mall pageant against Harriet.

February 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.

February 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.

April 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.

May 2, 1987

After being burglarized (while Vicki's home and they're at a restaurant), the Lawsons join the neighborhood watch.

May 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.

May 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.

May 23, 1987

Ted and Joan decide to have the ceremonial wedding they never had -- until the Brindles butt in.

June 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.