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Click on the episode name in the index below or scroll down for more details. The episodes are numbered according to the original running order on YTV. w stands for "written by," d for "directed by," y for the year of production, oad for the original air dates on YTV (Canada) and the Family Channel (United States), and i for additional information.
2-1. "Luck Be a Lady This Season"
2-2. "The New Look"
2-3. "Late Night Harry"
2-4. "Turner: The Rebellious Years"
2-5. "Man and Machine"
2-6. "Driving Ms. Idella"
2-7. "Ugly Like Me"
2-8. "The Celebrity Visitor"
2-9. "The Attack of Killer Keifer"
2-10. "Lenny...One Amour Time"
2-11. "Lenny...One Amour Time (Part 2)"
2-12. "A Hatful of Brain"
2-13. "Buried by the Mob"
2-14. "Down & Out in Cedar Springs"
2-15. "Misery Loves Company"
2-16. "Ike's Got It Bad...Real Bad"
2-17. "Turnernator too"
2-18. "Baby Heat"
2-19. "Idella's Breakdown"
2-20. "Turner's Imaginary Friend"
2-21. "Streetcar Named Idella"
2-22. "Sophisticated Lady"
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2-1. "Luck Be a Lady This Season"
w: David Flaherty, John Hemphill, and Michael Short
d: Joe Flaherty
y: 1991
oad: Sep. 4, 1991 (YTV); Sep. 4, 1991 (FC)
Harry is doing the show at home alone, trying to booby-trap the house to guard against burglars. Meanwhile, outside, Fred is reminiscing with the audience about the original pilots for Maniac Mansion: A British-Mexican co-production with a bad entrance and a "Married...with Children" parody. Casey and Idella come in and perform their kitchen scene, which was cut from the script. It turns out that Fred's scene was also cut from the new version of the script, giving Harry almost the whole show, even the commercials. Fred is getting upset about this, and then Ike and Turner show him a script they wrote for Maniac Mansion, heavily influenced by David Lynch. He tells them that they should have written themselves into their script because if they don't, nobody else will. Tina comes by and reminds Fred that the previous season all of the characters had shows focused on them. He realizes that he's been acting silly and cheers up just in time for his entrance. Later, the family decides that in order for the audience to think they're a real family, not just a TV show, Fred should wake up from a bad dream.
2-2. "The New Look"
w: David Flaherty, Michael Short, and John Hemphill
d: John Bell
y: 1991
oad: Sep. 11, 1991 (YTV); Sep. 11, 1991 (FC)
Casey wants to redecorate the mansion but Fred likes it the way it is. He gives in, but then flashes back to when he was sitting on the couch on his 18th birthday and starts having second thoughts. Idella and Turner also want to keep the living room the way it is, but Harry doesn't. The movers come to take the couch away, but Turner won't let them. Casey is upset that Fred is selfishly clinging to his past rather than supporting her, but while she's bawling him out he flashes back to a bad memory on the couch and realizes that the family should start making its own memories. The movers take the couch away, and everyone likes the new living room. Throughout the episode Ike is flying through the air thanks to one of Fred's experiments.
Jayne Eastwood as Katie
Colin Fox as Edward Edison
Gene Mack as Mover #1
Frank McAnulty as Mover #2
2-3. "Late Night Harry"
w: Michael Short
d: Stan Harris
y: 1991
oad: Sep. 18, 1991 (YTV); Sep. 18, 1991 (FC)
Harry is talking to a bee who wants to kill himself because of his unrequited love for his Queen. He tells the bee about something that once happened to him to try to cheer him up. In the story, Harry is watching the Lanny Reese Show, which Idella thinks is a waste of time. He decides to fly over to the studio to a taping of the show, and when one of the guests collapses Harry decides to fly onto the microphone and start telling jokes. Lanny captures him in a glass. The family gets worried when he doesn't come home and Fred goes out to look for him. That night the family watches the show and sees Harry get trapped in the glass. Harry plays dead so that Lanny will remove his hand; he escapes and rejoins the family as they're watching the show. After Harry's finished telling the story, the bee flies into a window but survives.
featuring:
Dan Redican as Lanny Reese
Gerry Salsberg as Smarmy Guy
2-4. "Turner: The Rebellious Years"
w: Michael Short and Lyons N. Wells
d: John Bell
y: 1991
oad: Sep. 25, 1991 (YTV); Sep. 25, 1991 (FC)
Turner is not obeying his mother, and Fred and Casey are arguing about what to do about it. After he breaks a cookie jar Casey sends him to his room without a bedtime story. Ike tells him that he should say he's running away from home to teach his parents a lesson. Then a delayed effect from an experiment Fred was working on shrinks Turner and Buck and they end up in Turner's slipper. Ike thinks Turner really ran away and tells Casey what he did. The family goes out to look for Turner and gets mad at Ike. Just as a stray cat is menacing Turner, the effect wears off and he's returned to normal size. Everyone apologizes to Turner for neglecting him.
2-5. "Man and Machine"
w: Tom Nursall and David Flaherty
d: Stan Harris
y: 1991
oad: Oct. 2, 1991 (YTV); Oct. 2, 1991 (FC)
Fred accidentally creates artificial intelligence, a computer named RD-12, or Artie. Fred dreams he wins a Nobel Prize at the ceremony in Switzerland, but his acceptance speech bombs. He starts cramming Artie's brain with scientific data so that he'll be able to figure out how to change Turner and Harry back, but the family keeps taking up his time by talking to him about everyday things. Artie starts to find science boring and wants to travel the world through the modem. Fred eventually relents and lets him go.
featuring:
Peter Blais as Nobel Presenter
i: Computer equipment provided by IBM Canada Ltd.
2-6. "Driving Ms. Idella"
w: Deborah Divine and Mary Charlotte Wilcox
d: John Bell
y: 1991
oad: Oct. 9, 1991 (YTV); Oct. 9, 1991 (FC)
Casey and Idella are getting on each other's nerves, while their husbands are trying to defuse the situation. While driving back from an auction in Fergus, the two women argue about a dead bird and later have a fight with kitchen utensils. Idella and Harry move out to the Drake Hotel for Women. Harry takes it upon himself to convince Casey to come and visit the hotel. She and Idella make up, and the family is reunited. Idella invites her former roommate Carla for dinner.
featuring:
Robin Duke as the voice of Carla
2-7. "Ugly Like Me"
w: David Flaherty and John Hemphill
d: Dug Rotstein
y: 1991
oad: Oct. 16, 1991 (YTV); Nov. 13, 1991 (FC)
Tina's friend Val is ignoring her. When they go to a movie, Val's date pays more attention to Tina than to Val. Val tells Tina that none of her girlfriends want to be around her and they all think she's stuck up. Later, Fred is feeding a chicken a hormonal supplement designed to give it a stronger nose. After he and Tina talk about her problem, he leaves and she accidentally eats one of the pellets from Fred's experiment. It gives her a giant nose and ears and makes her really ugly. She locks herself in her room and doesn't come out, even to eat. Fred eats one of the pellets too and discovers that the effect eventually wears off. Val comes over to apologize and they make up. Eventually, the effect wears off and Tina has a lot of eating to catch up on.
featuring:
Sarah Stevens as Valerie
Zack Ward as Tim
Cameron Graham as Rico
2-8. "The Celebrity Visitor"
w: Michael Short
d: Perry Rosemond
y: 1991
oad: Oct. 23, 1991 (YTV); Oct. 16, 1991 (FC)
Fred is experimenting with lower limbs and temporarily shrinks his legs. There's a car accident outside the mansion and famous actor Jose Ferrer twists his ankle. He comes to the mansion and the family convinces Fred to try to cure his ankle in the andromeda chamber. The experiment doesn't work, and Jose is turned into a mutant bunny. While he's staying with the Edisons he gets on everybody's nerves by constantly insulting Fred. But Casey tells him that whoever they mutate will always have a home with them. Then some paparazzi sneak a photo of Jose, but he uses his rabbit legs to catch up with them and take away their camera. Finally Fred figures out how to change him back to normal and he leaves to do a guest appearance on a local sitcom.
special guest star:
Jose Ferrer (as Himself)
featuring:
Chris Britton as Reporter
Frank Crudele as Reporter
2-9. "The Attack of Killer Keifer"
w: Tom Nursall and John Hemphill
d: Perry Rosemond
y: 1991
oad: Oct. 30, 1991 (YTV); Oct. 23, 1991 (FC)
While trying to mix oil and water, Fred finds an old book called "My Forbidden Experiments," which was hidden by his grandfather. Casey wants him to get rid of it, but he tries one of the experiments. It creates an alien entity which inhabits Keifer's body. Keifer starts working with Fred on an experiment designed to take the oxygen out of the earth's atmosphere. While watching a science-fiction movie, Keifer cheers for the alien Zarkon instead of the hero, and he looks through Tina's telescope and identifies a star cluster. Fred confronts Keifer, and his face changes to reveal the alien inside him. Fred tricks the alien into the Andromeda Chamber, then changes him back to Keifer. Casey is upset that Fred didn't get rid of the book.
featuring:
Mark Wilson as Richard Pratt
Patrick Gillen as Keifer Pratt
i: Morph effect Digital Magic
2-10. "Lenny...One Amour Time"
w: David Flaherty and John Hemphill
d: John Bell
y: 1991
oad: Nov. 6, 1991 (YTV); Oct. 30, 1991 (FC)
Lenny comes over and tells the family that he's getting married to a woman he met in Paris. His fiancee, actress Teri Austin, comes over and they ask the Edisons if they can have the wedding at their house. As Teri is preparing for the wedding, Lenny tells her that he can't marry her because his doctor says he could die at any time. He decides to go through with it anyway, but at the ceremony he drops the ring. They both bend down to pick it up, their heads bump, and Lenny passes out.
special guest star:
Teri Austin (as Herself)
featuring:
Roger Dunn as Preacher
i: Wedding gown by Roksolana Bridal & Evening Wear.
2-11. "Lenny...One Amour Time (Part 2)"
w: David Flaherty and John Hemphill
d: John Bell
y: 1991
oad: Nov. 13, 1991 (YTV); Nov. 6, 1991 (FC)
Lenny is in a coma at the hospital. The doctor tells the family that there's nothing he can do. Teri flashes back to their time in Paris, when she told Lenny that all the other men in her life are dead. Lenny is on the cusp between life and death, and visits the Canadian Entrance to the Pearly Gates. He meets St. Ian, who's upset because he's having trouble keeping track of the number of Canadians entering. Lenny tells him he should use cornstartch, and in return St. Ian lets him go back to earth to marry Teri. He wakes up from his coma and they get married.
special guest star:
Teri Austin (as Herself)
featuring:
Tom Harvey as Dr. Olmstead
i: Episode introduced with clips from "Lenny...One Amour Time" (2-10).
i: Wedding gown by Roksolana Bridal & Evening Wear.
2-12. "A Hatful of Brain"
w: Michael Short
d: John Bell
y: 1991
oad: Nov. 10, 1991 (YTV); Dec. 4, 1991 (FC)
Fred develops a machine to make people smarter, and uses it on Turner. The effect soon wears off. Fred uses the machine on himself, wins at Trivial Pursuit, and impresses his fellow scientists. But he's spending so much time on his work that he starts neglecting the family, snaps at them, and even forgets Turner's name. After an argument with Casey he storms out of the house. The effect wears off while he's away, and he comes home dejected, realizing his mistake. He stops using the machine, loses credibility with his fellow scientists, but regains his family.
featuring:
Ron Hartmann as Dr. Carl Beamish
2-13. "Buried by the Mob"
w: Dave Thomas
d: Perry Rosemond
y: 1991
oad: Nov. 27, 1991 (YTV); Dec. 11, 1991 (FC)
The Edisons' sweaty new neighbour Hudgie deRubertis moves in and tells everyone that he's part of the witness relocation program because he testified against a mob family in New York. Fred looks exactly like mob boss Tony Capolini, so Hudgie wants him to convince the hitmen who are after him to leave him alone. They go out for dinner and Fred manages to convince the hitmen to let Hudgie live, with a little help from both Harry and Hudgie. Finally, Hudgie is moved again, this time to Calcutta. Meanwhile, Harry is skeptical about Fred's idea to make him big again by thinking big.
special guest star:
Dave Thomas (as Hudgie DeRubertis)
featuring:
Silvio Oliviero as Carmine
Boris Khaimovich as Big Tino
Charles Kassatly as Waiter
2-14. "Down & Out in Cedar Springs"
w: Joe Flaherty
d: Perry Rosemond
y: 1991
oad: Dec. 18, 1991 (YTV); Jan. 15, 1992 (FC)
Fred's old friend, actor Eddie O'Donnell, shows up at the mansion completely drunk. After losing out on a role to Alphonso Sheen, Eddie shows up at Tina's school play and makes a scene, embarrassing her. The next morning he's still drunk. Fred tells him that he has to stop drinking. After several days of trying, he manages to get sober. But then he gets turned down even for a supporting role because of his alcoholism. He shows up to a party the Edisons are throwing for him seemingly drunk, but it turns out he's just acting. He thanks Fred for having the courage to call him an alcoholic and being his friend.
special guest star:
Martin Short (as Eddie O'Donnell)
featuring:
Mark Wilson as Richard Pratt
Wendy Hopkins as Allasyn Pratt
Patrick Gillen as Keifer Pratt
Ted Hanlan as Eddie stunt double
Bob Clout as Dr. Feinmenenen
Pixie Bigelow as Mrs. Feinmenenen
Jack Newman as Man at party
Kayla Popp as Woman in theatre
Tommy Earls as Man in theatre
2-15. "Misery Loves Company"
w: Michael Short
d: John Bell
y: 1991
oad: Feb. 12, 1992 (YTV); Jan. 8, 1992 (FC)
The family is heading out to Casey's adoptive parents' 50th Anniversary, but Fred is staying home because he has a sprained toe. As they're about to leave, a woman with amnesia claiming to be Casey's birth mother shows up. She stays with Fred while the rest of the family is away. She is very distrustful of doctors, and puts sleeping powder in Fred's soup. He realizes that she's insane and tries to phone someone to get away. He falls out the window and gets confined to bed. He tries to knock her out with the machine on the bookshelf but she catches him. Just as she's about to fight Fred, the rest of the family comes home. Fred and the woman fall to the ground, and the bump gives her amnesia again and she no longer knows where she is.
featuring:
Araby Lockhart as Dolly
2-16. "Ike's Got It Bad...Real Bad"
w: David Flaherty and John Hemphill
d: John Bell
y: 1991
oad: Feb. 19, 1992 (YTV); Jan. 29, 1992 (FC)
Ike phones Cherie MacNeill, a girl he likes, and makes a date with her for the school dance. When the family finds out, Tina makes fun of him and the adults unsuccessfully try to act normal around him. Casey gives Ike permission to take Cherie to the dance. At home, Fred and Casey reminisce and look at old pictures. At the dance, everything is going well until Cherie tells Ike that she can't see him anymore because she's moving to Haiti the next day. Tina comes in and consoles Ike. Later, he gets over his nerves and is able to talk to girls more calmly. Meanwhile, Harry is upset because Fred can't identify his Gavin McLeod imitation.
featuring:
Niki Holt as Cherie MacNeill
2-17. "Turnernator Too"
w: Michael Short
d: John Bell
y: 1991
oad: Feb. 26, 1992 (YTV); Mar. 4, 1992 (FC)
While Casey is reminiscing about her band days, Tina asks her whether she can go on a ski trip with her friends. Casey says it's OK as long as Fred agrees. Meanwhile, the adults are going to Key West for four days, and their babysitter Mrs. Greenway cancels so Fred asks Tina to babysit Ike and Turner. She agrees as long as he agrees to let her go skiing. Once the adults leave, Ike is acting up and Tina gets Turner to stop him. Once Turner realizes how strong he is he starts bossing Ike and Tina around and doing whatever he wants. Tina pretends to mutate herself in the Andromeda Chamber to give herself super strength. She gets Ike and Tina to clean the house. Then she agrees to tell Turner she mutated Ike too so that he would stop pushing Ike around. When the adults get back, Fred agrees to let Tina go on the ski trip.
2-18. "Baby Heat"
w: Deborah Divine
d: Perry Rosemond
y: 1991
oad: Mar. 4, 1992 (YTV); Mar. 11, 1992 (FC)
Allasyn is looking after her sister's baby, but when she and Richard get a chance to go to Lake Tahoe for a few days, Casey agrees to babysit. Turner's friend tells him that once a new baby comes the family will forget about him. The baby is constantly crying because he has colic. After they finally put the baby to sleep, Turner goes up to his room and accidentally wakes the baby up. Casey gets mad at him and he storms out, crying. But he cheers up and learns to appreciate the baby thanks to a rap video that he imagines. He then helps the baby out and finds out that he has a special gift for making the baby quiet down.
featuring:
Wendy Hopkins as Allasyn Pratt
Jacelyn Holmes as Francesca
Rap Video by Joel Goldberg
Performed by Top Secret
special thanks to:
RP. Rap
Cross
Brain, Mayhem
First D., Pro P.
Jazz, Strategy
Black Jack
Alex Bell, Celeste Pang
Corey Chalters, Tobi Reid
James De Keyser, Will Calvin Rosemond
Avalon McLean-Smits, Nicholas Short
2-19. "Idella's Breakdown"
w: Michael Short
d: Dug Rotstein
y: 1992
oad: Mar. 18, 1992 (YTV); Apr. 1, 1992 (FC)
Idella goes to see a psychiatrist, Dr. Fontana Blue, because she's having trouble with Harry. She flashes back to when her three aunts were telling her she needed to find a man who's steadfast, hardworking, and knowledgeable. Dr. Blue comes over to stay at the mansion for a few days in order to observe Idella in her natural environment. She clashes with Fred, who wants to keep Harry's condition a secret. In order to help Idella, Harry volunteers to go public. But then Idella says that that won't be necessary as she just needed to get her feelings out in the open. After Dr. Blue leaves, one of her patients, David Cronenberg, comes to the mansion looking for her and Harry tries to get himself the lead role in The Fly 3.
special guest star:
Andrea Martin (as Dr. Fontana Blue)
special appearance by:
David Cronenberg (as Himself)
featuring:
Bunty Webb as Aunt Pearl
Billie Mae Richards as Aunt Winnie
uncredited:
Jayne Eastwood as the voice of Aunt Hildie
2-20. "Turner's Imaginary Friend"
w: Alan Templeton, Mary Crawford
d: Perry Rosemond
y: 1992
oad: Mar. 25, 1992 (YTV); Mar. 25, 1992 (FC)
Fred performs an experiment from his grandfather's book "My Forbidden Experiments." It doesn't appear to work, so he goes upstairs to watch TV. But after he leaves, a pixie named Falslag is summoned from another dimension. Turner is the only one who can see him. Over the night Falslag ransacks the kitchen, the family blames Turner, and when he says that it was Falslag they think he's invented an imaginary friend. Turner gives Falslag the silent treatment, and Falslag apologizes. Falslag goes down to the lab to try to get back to his own dimension, but he's almost sucked into a wormhole. Turner manages to pull him out. Fred, Casey, and Idella come down and blame Turner for turning the machine on, until he tells them to clap their hands and believe and Falslag appears to them. Fred then tries to get Falslag back home.
special guest star:
Ben Gordon (as Falslag)
2-21. "Streetcar Named Idella"
w: David Flaherty, John Hemphill
d: John Hemphill
y: 1991
oad: Apr. 1, 1992 (YTV); Mar. 18, 1992 (FC)
Idella's Aunt Hildie is coming to visit, but Idella doesn't want her to. She tells the family a story about when she was younger and Hildie kept trying to set her up. Hildie was bitter because her husband Pietro left her 18 years earlier. When Hildie brought several gentleman callers over for dinner Idella scared them away with her glass eyeball collection. Then Idella ran away to New Orleans and married. Hildie came to visit and was disgusted with Harry. She wanted Idella to come back home with her but Idella refused, so Hildie left angry. As Idella finishes telling the family this story, Hildie shows up with Pietro, who finally came back to her. Hildie apologizes to Idella and says that she's a changed woman.
special guest star:
Jayne Eastwood (as Hildie Muckle)
featuring:
Robert Cochrane as The Gentleman Caller
uncredited (other gentleman callers):
Mike McMurray (gaffer)
Tim Bider (art director)
"Zero" (stand-in)
Peter Fletcher (props master)
Stephan Fanfara (editor)
2-22. "Sophisticated Lady"
w: Joe Flaherty
d: Joe Flaherty
y: 1992
oad: Apr. 8, 1992 (YTV); Apr. 15, 1992 (FC)
In the future, Tina's daughter Tess is avoiding her friend Buella in order to hang out with a new snobby group. Tina tells her daughter a story about something similar that happened to her when she was young. In the story, some of Tina's rich friends want to have a fashion show in the mansion, and Tina is adopting their snobbish mannerisms and getting on everybody's nerves. When the committee comes over to view the mansion, Tina is embarassed by her family and wants them out of the way. But they keep bothering her anyway: Ike has orange skin, Turner is dressing up like a woman, Casey loses a tooth in a candy apple, Idella is yelling at Harry, and Fred's mutated guinea pig fats is on the loose. The committee turns Tina down, but she realizes that she's been acting snobbish and apologizes to Fred. Tina's story has an effect on Tess, who takes a call from Buella.
featuring:
Gudrun Flaherty as Tess
Nikki de Boer as Holly
Dawn Greenhalgh as Mrs. Carruthers
Peter Langley as Mr. Carruthers
Gord Forbes as Roscoe
Stephen Sealy as Model #1
Keith Griffiths as Model #2
i: The scenes from the future take place on March 19, 2021.