Season 2

October 28, 1988

Jesse has made his first sale of an advertising jingle. As a result, Jesse tells his father, Nick, that he wants to leave the family exterminating business. Consequently, Nick loses his temper with Jesse and disowns him.

November 4, 1988

"Wake Up, San Francisco" is broadcasting an episode from a horse stable, where D.J. falls in love with a horse named Rocket. D.J. desperately wants Rocket, and the only way she'll get him is if she has enough money to make the payments needed to keep Rocket in the stable. So, D.J. and Kimmy pool their money together and start making Rocket's stable payments, unbeknownst to Danny.

November 11, 1988

When Joey gives Jesse the inspiration Jesse needs to write an advertising jingle that Jesse has been having problems with, the result is that the jingle is bought. This bit of success leads to Jesse making an offer to Joey to be his writing partner.

November 18, 1988

In a radio contest, D.J. wins a "dream night for 2" with the Beach Boys. The problem is, according to the rules of the contest, D.J. is allowed to take only one of the guys with her, and she can't decide who to go with.

November 25, 1988

While Danny and Jesse are out, Joey is left in charge of the girls. D.J. and Stephanie want to stay up late so they can watch a Tiffany concert on TV, so they take advantage of him. When Danny comes home and sees that they are up late watching the concert, he gets upset.

December 9, 1988

Danny invites his new girlfriend, Denise, and her two friends, Zoey and Cheryl, over to the house for a triple date with Jesse and Joey. Meanwhile, while D.J. has convinced Danny she’s mature enough to babysit Stephanie and Michelle, upstairs.

December 16, 1988

While the family is on a flight to Colorado, to spend Christmas with some relatives, a blizzard forces an emergency landing at an unfamiliar airport.

January 6, 1989

Stephanie thinks that D.J. and Michelle are getting all of the attention—it's not easy being the middle child.

January 13, 1989

D.J. has her first boyfriend, Michael Montfort, but she’s crushed when Michael leaves her for Kathy Santoni, because Michael believes Kathy is prettier than D.J. is. Meanwhile, Becky and Danny are hosting a charity event where eligible bachelors are auctioned off to women who want a date with them.

January 20, 1989

Jesse and Joey have just stayed up all night working on their latest jingle for Casa De Pancakes. Unfortunately, D.J. and Kimmy unwittingly erase the jingle from the tape it was recorded on by recording their version of "The Locomotion" on what they thought was a blank tape.

February 3, 1989

Jesse and Joey's latest jingle is such a success that they are offered a fixed job composing jingles for Mr. Malatesta. D.J. and Stephanie fear that if Jesse and Joey take this job, knowing that Danny works at the TV station every day, then no one will be home to take care of them.

February 10, 1989

It's Valentine's Day, and Danny has bought D.J. the royal blue sweater that she wanted. When she wears it to school, at recess, she takes the sweater off so she won't sweat all over it, and the school's gardener runs over it with a lawn mower. D.J. doesn't want Danny to know about this, so she, Kimmy, and Stephanie go to the mall to buy a replacement sweater.

February 17, 1989

It’s been little over a year and a half since Jesse and Joey moved into the house, and they’ve become good friends—which is making Danny feel left out. When Danny talks to Joey about this, it leads to them reminiscing about the day they became friends back in the 5th grade.

February 24, 1989

Becky's sister, Connie Anderson, has arrived for a visit, and she’s brought her son Howie, who is Michelle's age, with her. Michelle and Howie become fast friends, but when it comes time for Connie and Howie to go back home to Valentine, Nebraska, it gives Michelle what seems like an incurable case of heartbreak.

March 10, 1989

D.J. has good grades throughout her report card, except for in Spanish class, where she was given a D. D.J. asks Danny to talk to her Spanish teacher about the grade. When her teacher, Linda, comes over to the house to talk to Danny about it, the conversation ends in a kiss -- right in front of D.J. and some of her friends. This makes D.J. a target for teasing.

March 24, 1989

During Spring cleaning, Jesse learns what "little cause, big effect" means when he accidentally breaks a drawer handle in the kitchen, and ends up having to renovate the kitchen's entire network of cabinets and drawers. Meanwhile, Stephanie is frantic. It seems that Mr. Bear, the stuffed toy that the girls' mother gave her, on the day she brought newborn Michelle home from the hospital, is missing.

April 7, 1989

In college, Joey had a girlfriend named Patty Fogerty, who ended up leaving him for a guy named Michael Winchester. This left Joey devastated, because he wanted to marry her. Now, years later, Patty tracks down Joey's phone number and calls him. Joey invites Patty over to the house. Danny doesn't like this, because he doesn't want to see Joey, once again, get hurt by Patty.

April 14, 1989

It's Jesse's 26th birthday, and it seems that everyone's trying to pull him in every direction at the same time.

April 28, 1989

The family travels to Lake Tahoe, where the girls get lucky gambling and Jesse forces Rebecca's hand in their game of hearts.

May 5, 1989

Jesse and Rebecca decide to get married—unless Danny can get them to eschew the whole idea.