Season 2 (1995-1996)
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Season # |
Title | Director | Writer(s) | Original air date |
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| 23 | 1 | "Ready or Not" | Peter O'Fallon | Christopher Keyser & Amy Lippman | September 27, 1995 (1995-09-27) |
| The arrival of Charlie's old girlfriend, Pamela Rush, interrupts Kirsten and Charlie's wedding plans. She claims that Charlie fathered her four-year-old son, Spencer. Meanwhile, Will plays matchmaker for Bailey, who is still grieving over the death of Jill, by tring to set him up on a date with school friend Sarah Reeves. Justin returns from Europe and Julia learns that he wasn't alone. But she has yet to tell him that she spent her summer getting to know Jill's brother, Griffin. | |||||
| 24 | 2 | "Falsies" | Ellen S. Pressman | Mark B. Perry | October 4, 1995 (1995-10-04) |
| Claudia feels out of place during her first day attending junior high school. Will, along with Bailey, checks out a college in the eastern USA. Back in San Francisco, Julia and Justin take action by organizing a school protest to a new rule that prohibits kissing in school, while Griffin continues to show an interest in Julia. Charlie tracks down Pamela. It turns out that Spencer isn't Charlie's son at all and she was desperate for money. Kirsten wonders if he'll be happy with her, knowing that she can never have children. To reassure her, they decide to adopt Owen. | |||||
| 25 | 3 | "Dearly Beloved" | Michael Engler | Lisa Melamed | October 18, 1995 (1995-10-18) |
| After being irritated by the family's interference in her wedding plans, Kirsten and Charlie decide to run off to Reno and elope. Charlie's friend, Dudley, continues to plan their engagement party, despite the happy couple's disappearance. Meanwhile, Bailey decides to run for class vice president. Sarah volunteers to be his campaign manager. But when Sarah ends up doing all the work and Bailey pays less attention, she tells Bailey how she really feels about him. Also, Julia lies to Justin in order to spend time with the loner outcast Griffin. | |||||
| 26 | 4 | "Have No Fear" | Rodman Flender | Melissa Gould | October 25, 1995 (1995-10-25) |
| Joe suffers a heart attack and Charlie takes over management of Salingers. Meanwhile, Julia assumes Griffin will want to have sex with her, but when he asks to sleep with her, it turns out he literally wanted to sleep. Bailey injures a teammate during football practice which causes him to be in fear about injurying another teammate. | |||||
| 27 | 5 | "Change Partners... and Dance" | Ken Topolsky | Susannah Grant | November 1, 1995 (1995-11-01) |
| Claudia breaks her arm while ice-skating, and Ross worries about her future as a violinist. Julia gets Griffin a job at Salinger's Restaurant, but she begins to see how immature and iresponsible Griffin is when skips the first day and Charlie fires him on the second for talking back and slacking off. Meanwhile, Bailey and Sarah's relationship starts to get serious. A fortuneteller tells Kristen that she won't marry Charlie. She convinces him to take dancing classes for their wedding, and they fight. Julia sees Justin with another girl and he is mean to her after learning that she has been spending time with Griffin because of his bad guy reputation, Yet, Julia becomes mad with Griffin for not being romantic. | |||||
| 28 | 6 | "Analogies" | Ellen S. Pressman | Christopher Keyser & Amy Lippman | November 8, 1995 (1995-11-08) |
| Kirsten's parents, Ellie and Gene, arrive suddenly to spend some time with them. Charlie tells Kirsten that she is like her mother, and she says she's not. Claudia doesn't like Griffin, so he tries to win her heart. Julia gets jealous and Griffin tells her that he misses having a little sister, while Claudia develops a crush on him. Determined to get into an out-of-state college to escape from his unhappy life, Bailey gets 900 points at his SATs and his teacher offers him private lessons. He takes it again and make the same points. Charlie tells him how it was when their parents were still alive, so Bailey decides to apply for college, writing about his mom in his essay. | |||||
| 29 | 7 | "Where There's Smoke" | Daniel Attias | Mark B. Perry | November 15, 1995 (1995-11-15) |
| A fire destroys the restaurant. The insurance company refuses to give Charlie the money because they think he did it. Kristen helps him and they get the money, despite her doubts to Charlie's denial about starting the fire. Meanwhile, Will asks Bailey if he can go out with Sarah, and he says 'yes', but later regrets and realizes he still likes her. Griffin steals money from one of the restaurant's employees, and he goes to jail. Julia finally sees that Griffin comes from an abused home, and she asks his militarist and abusive father to help him. Griffin is released and has to go away for six months to a military academy in Louisiana. Also, Claudia meets a new school friend named Jody, who is a troublemaker, and the girl convinces her to smoke and play pranks. | |||||
| 30 | 8 | "Best Laid Plans" | Rodman Flender | Lisa Melamed | November 22, 1995 (1995-11-22) |
| Kirsten prohibits Dudley to give Charlie a bachelor's party, so he asks Bailey if he would do it. Charlie runs into a desperate woman in the hallway of the hotel. They go to the bar and have some drinks, and she asks him to sleep with her. They go up to her room and Bailey sees them. Charlie tells her that he's in love with Kirsten and he won't sleep with her. Bailey is mad at him, but when he finds out what happened, he says their parents would be proud of him. Meanwhile, Justin is mean to Julia for rejecting him for Griffin, and they run into each other at a concert. They see Justin's father with another woman. Claudia's plans to make a special night for Kirsten fail. Charlie is not sure about the wedding and flips a coin for it. | |||||
| 31 | 9 | "The Wedding" | Steve Robman | Christopher Keyser & Amy Lippman | December 13, 1995 (1995-12-13) |
| It's the wedding day but the insecure Charlie is not sure and asks Kristen to wait six more months. Kristen's mother, Ellie, tells Kristen to pressure Charlie, and so she tells him that is now or never. He leaves the house. Just as she is announcing to everybody that the wedding is off, he shows up. He decided to get married in order not to lose her forever. He is waiting for her in the altar, but she never shows up. He goes talk to her and she tells him that they shouldn't get married like this, afraid of what might happen in the future. She gives him the wedding ring back and leaves. Meanwhile, Bailey tells Will that he might love Sarah and she feels the same way, so Will decides to step out of the picture letting them stay together. Also, Julia and Justin get drunk and have sex. | |||||
| 32 | 10 | "Grand Delusions" | Ken Topolsky | Susannah Grant | December 20, 1995 (1995-12-20) |
| Charlie decides to take Claudia with him to Mexico by using his two worthless honeymoon tickets. Charlie meets a woman at the hotel lobby and Claudia gets mad at him, saying that he never loved Kirsten in the first place. She meets a boy whom is the son of the hotel's owner and they kiss. Back in San Francisco, Julia and Justin can't stop having sex, and she gets confused when he is cold to her. Justin tells Julia that he doesn't want to go through the same thing again. Bailey joins Sarah at her grandmother's party. While reading grandma's old letters to her, she finds out that she's adopted. She is very confused about herself and goes to Bailey for comfort. Charlie tells Claudia that he misses Kirsten and they run into her in the house when they get back. | |||||
| 33 | 11 | "Unfair Advantage" | Michael Engler | Mark B. Perry & Lisa Melamed | January 3, 1996 (1996-01-03) |
| A male teacher is hitting on Julia and she feels uncomfortable. He asks her if he can give her a ride home and tries to kiss her. When confronted by Justin, Mr. Peck tells the Principal that Julia is the one harassing him. She gets scared and tries to change classes, but Charlie convinces her to confront him. Sarah gets a credit card and starts to spend a lot of money just to get back at her parents for lying to her. It's her birthday and Bailey takes her to have dinner and they fight. He tells her that her parents love her, no matter what. Claudia is hanging out with Jody and they steal a bottle of rum from the bar and get drunk. Also, Charlie reverts back to his immature and womanizing personality when he flirts with a waitress at the restaurant, but when she tells him that she doesn't want anything with him he gets mad and she quits. | |||||
| 34 | 12 | "Hold On Tight" | Oz Scott | Melissa Gould | January 10, 1996 (1996-01-10) |
| Claudia tells Charlie that Kirsten called. He goes after her, but she just wanted some help with the taxes. They have dinner and end up sleeping together. Meanwhile, Julia wants to move to the attic and Bailey says he should be the one moving there. Bailey sabotages Julia's audition for the lead singer of a band sending Sarah, who gets the job. And in retribution, Julia sabotages Bailey's audition for a job, sending Justin, who also gets the job. The couples have a fight and when Bailey receives a letter that says he was accepted to attend a university in Massachusetts Julia decides to let him have the attic. Elsewhere, Claudia takes off her cast and decides to quit playing the violin. The family discusses her decision and she says she just wants to be normal. She says goodbye to her violin, putting it on the shelf in the basement. | |||||
| 35 | 13 | "Poor Substitutes" | Davis Guggenheim | Christopher Keyser & Amy Lippman | January 17, 1996 (1996-01-17) |
| After a woman mistakes Sarah for someone else's daughter, she decides to try to find her birth mother. They find her in the phone book and Bailey calls her behind Sarah's back and goes to meet her. She's an actress named Robin Merin, and she tells him that she doesn't want to meet her. To protect Sarah's feelings, Bailey tells her that the woman he met was not her mother, killing her hopes. Meanwhile, Charlie tries to potty train Owen so he can go to pre-school. Claudia is shocked when she finds out that Kirsten is dating someone else. She tries to make Kirsten come back to the family, but Kirsten tells her that she has to move on. Justin's friend Allison comes from England to visit him. At first, Julia is jealous, but they really get along. Allison comes on to Julia, who later reveals her secret that she is gay. Julia advises Allison not to run away from her problems. | |||||
| 36 | 14 | "Strange Bedfellows" | Steve Robman | Mark B. Perry | January 24, 1996 (1996-01-24) |
| Claudia is caught smoking, and her math teacher, Emily, advises Charlie to make a deal with her. The deal is that Claudia won't smoke if Charlie doesn't get involved with her teacher, which he does. Claudia walks on them making out and she starts to smoke. Charlie dumps her, but when Emily gets back by giving Claudia a hard time in class, Jody asks her to get Charlie and Emily back together. Meanwhile, Will has a new girlfriend, named Gina, who is really talkagive and annoying, and he breaks up with her because Bailey doesn't like her. He regrets it and Bailey apologizes. They get back together and Bailey tries to like her for Will despite the fact that Gina is still annoying. Also, Justin's mother is pregnant and Justin worries about his father's affair. | |||||
| 37 | 15 | "Benefactors" | Daniel Attias | Susannah Grant | January 31, 1996 (1996-01-31) |
| One of Charlie's regular restaurant clients, an attractive and wealthy woman named Kathleen Isley, tries to seduce him, but he refuses. On Charlie and Emily's second date, she says she thinks it's too soon to sleep with Charlie, so he betrays her when he has sex with her Kathleen behind Emily's back. Meanwhile, Julia is having problems in her computer class, and asks a student to be her tutor. She doesn't want any help from Justin, so they make a deal: an 'A' for a date. Elsehwere, Bailey gets a $40,000 scholarship to attend a college in New Hampshire from an elderly stranger. During dinner, his benefactor asks too much about Bailey's parents. The next day Bailey goes to the cemetery and finds yellow roses by his mother's grave. After confronting him, Bailey figures that the man who is helping him is in fact his maternal grandfather Jacob 'Jake' Gordon. Bailey asks him to meet the others, but he refuses claiming that he does not want to associate himself with his daughter's children. As a result, Bailey tells him that he doesn't want anything from him. He surprises everybody at the end when he introduces himself during family dinner at Salinger's. | |||||
| 38 | 16 | "Comings and Goings" | Ken Topolsky | Melissa Gould | February 7, 1996 (1996-02-07) |
| Emily finds out about Charlie's affair with Kathleen and they break up. Kathleen tells him that she doesn't want to be just another woman he has sex with and then rejects the next day, and wants to take their relationship ahead. Meanwhile, Sarah is mad at Bailey because he didn't tell her about his college plans by planning to move away to college to start his life over. Robin Merin meets Sarah and tells her that she's leaving in two days for an acting job in Hollywood. Sarah asks her to stay, and Robin gives Sarah her cat, promising that she'll be back. Also, Claudia is trying to get closer to her grandfather Jake, and she asks him to move into the house. Julia tells her how much their mother hated him for abandoning her and their grandmother. Jake tells Julia that he wants to be a part of the family, and so she accepts him, thinking that their mother would have done the same. | |||||
| 39 | 17 | "Valentine's Day" | David Semel | P.K. Simonds | February 14, 1996 (1996-02-14) |
| It's Valentine's Day. Bailey has unromantic plans to attend a Monster Truck Rally, and Sarah doesn't like it. An old friend (Ivan Sergi) of hers comes back from Paraguay and Bailey gets jealous. They go to a bar and he reads a poem that Bailey thinks was written for Sarah. Bailey punches him and realizes he was wrong. He tries to be romantic to Sarah to make up for his mistake. Meanwhile, Kathleen loans money to Charlie so he can hire a new chef to grow the business. Charlie takes her for a romantic weekend after she is demoted from her job at a local TV station. Griffin comes back and decides not to go back to military school. Julia asks Justin to help him, although he doesn't like Griffin, whom he sees as a loser (as does everyone else). Seeing that Justin has feelings for Julia, Griffin tells her that he's in love with her and takes off to return to military school. Justin asks Julia to be his fiancée and she tells him that she's late and might be pregnant. | |||||
| 40 | 18 | "Before and After" | Steve Robman | Christopher Keyser & Amy Lippman | February 21, 1996 (1996-02-21) |
| Julia is pregnant. She's not sure if she wants to have an abortion. Charlie finds her pregnancy test in the trash and talks to her. Claudia finds out and gets shocked. Bailey and Sarah plan on sleeping together, but she makes it too special. Bailey asks her to make it simple, but Julia's news scares them. Julia tries to talk with Sarah about her pregnancy, but Sarah says that if her mom decided to have an abortion, she wouldn't be there. Julia has a miscarriage. Claudia apologizes to Julia. | |||||
| 41 | 19 | "Altered States" | Michael Engler | Susannah Grant | February 28, 1996 (1996-02-28) |
| Julia doesn't want to go to back to school following her miscarage, and when she does she feels awful and guilty. She lies to Justin and Charlie and runs away to New Orleans to meet Griffin at his military academy. They spend time together, talking about what happened to her, and he tells her to go back home. Meanwhile, Bailey is jealous about Sarah for wearing tight clothes in her shows and for hanging out too much with her new band. They fight because she thinks he's controlling her too much. Elsewhere, Kathleen wants to be more in Charlie's life despite the fact that Bailey and Claudia do not like her very much due to her posessive nature. She invites the whole family to go to Hawaii for a vacation, and Charlie gets mad at her because he wants to keep it casual. He finally tells Kathleen that he doesn't love her and she attempts suicide which makes him decide to stay with her for the time being. | |||||
| 42 | 20 | "Happily Ever After" | Rodman Flender | P.K. Simonds & Lisa Melamed & Melissa Gould | March 20, 1996 (1996-03-20) |
| Jake is missing during a business trip and Bailey worries about him never coming back. Jake does comes back and apologizes, but Bailey can't get over it. A woman calls Jake at the house, saying she's his daughter and is getting married. Bailey investigates and learns that Jake has another daughter from a second marriage whom he also walked out on just like he did with the Saliniger's mother. Bailey, trying to protect his family, kicks Jake out of the house, which divides the family. Later Bailey talks to him and asks him not to disappear entirely. Meanwhile, Kathleen wins a TV award and declares on television that she loves Charlie, who makes up a story about getting back with Kirsten just to dump her. Kathleen finds out the lie and decides to get back at Charlie, saying that she'll buy the restaurant and close it down as payback. | |||||
| 43 | 21 | "Spring Breaks: Part 1" | Daniel Attias | Mark B. Perry | March 27, 1996 (1996-03-27) |
| Bailey is feeling distant from Sarah because she is spending all her free time with the band. She and Matt get robbed at an alley and they end up in the hospital. Matt kisses Sarah and she tells Bailey. They have a fight and she says she has to be more on her own. Meanwhile, Julia joins a photography class after Justin turns it down and she meets a boy named Ian. They are taking pictures on the street when she spots Justin strolling with another girl, Corey (guest star Kate Hudson). Corey flirts with Justin and Ian kisses Julia. Claudia is getting tired of Jody after she drags Claudia to a party where she is pressured to make out with a boy. Claudia tells Jody she wants things to be the way they were, and not hanging out with boys all the time. Also, Joe arrives back in town and is worried because they might lose the restaurant after Charlie reveals that Kathleen has put together an investment group to buy the building housing it in order to close it down in retribution for their breakup. The angry and frustrated Charlie goes out, gets drunk and gets arrested, and Joe is forced to bail Charlie out of jail. Everyone unfairly blames Charlie for what is happening to the restaurant (yet no one thinks about blaming Kathleen). Claudia tells Charlie she won't forgive him because the restaurant was a piece of their parents. At the end, Charlie goes to Kirsten asking her to get back together, but it's too late. She tells him that she's getting married to Michael the next week. | |||||
| 44 | 22 | "Spring Breaks: Part 2" | Steve Robman | Christopher Keyser & Amy Lippman | March 27, 1996 (1996-03-27) |
| The scorned and victictive Kathleen is taking the restaurant to close it down to make Charlie suffer for breaking up with her, and Charlie is forced to ask Jake to help him after Joe and all the siblings (still unfairly blaming Charlie for Kathleen turning against them by closing down the restaurant) turn their backs on him. At the same time, Charlie continues to try to win back Kirsten and he eventually shows up at her wedding and she runs away with him. Meanwhile, Bailey breaks up with Sarah because he doesn't want her to feel sorry for him as he plans to leave town after graduation for college (without saying goodbye to anyone) to start his life over. Jake tells Bailey that he has to decide what to do with his college money: save the restaurant by bribing Kathleen's investment group not to buy the building housing the restaurant, or go to college. Bailey reluntantly decides to save the restaurant and stay in town to be close to Sarah. Also, Julia and Justin decide to break up. Claudia becomes more tired of Jody and her boyfriend, so they split up. Claudia asks Ross to be her tutor as she starts playing the violin again. |
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