Season 2
Episodes • 1987

1. 101 Ways to Decorate a Gas Station
30 minA scruffy gas-station owner wins free interior decoration from Sugarbakers, Charlene consults a psychic about her future.
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2. Ted Remarries
30 minMary Jo can't face her children being with her ex-husband's new wife, who is spoiling them.
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3. Anthony, Jr.
30 minAnthony goes to extremes to impress his girlfriends' wealthy parents, inventing a pedigreed family -- then an uninvited dinner guest informs him he is the father of her child.
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4. Killing All the Right People
30 min"Killing All the Right People" is the 26th episode of the sitcom Designing Women. Originally airing on October 5, 1987, as the fourth episode of the second season, it features Tony Goldwyn as Kendall Dobbs, a young man dying of AIDS who asks the women to design his funeral. Series creator Linda Bloodworth-Thomason's mother died of AIDS and her experience with her mother's disease and the prejudice associated with it inspired the episode.
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5. Half an Air Bubble Off
30 minWhen an eccentric client harasses the women with bizarre decorating requests, they decide to matchmake him with Bernice.
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6. Dash Goff, the Writer
30 minSuzanne's visiting ex, a novelist who loves flowery Southern words and women, is in a writer's slump and contemplating suicide.
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7. Heart Attacks
30 minReese's fitness demonstration - arm wrestling an old buddy and sometime-rival -- causes a heart attack, and subsequent different treatment from Julia.
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8. Cruising
30 minSuzanne and Mary Jo become romantic rivals while doing a job aboard a cruise ship.
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10. Stranded
30 minWhile Charlene, Julia and Mary Jo get the flu on a trip to St. Louis, a snowstorm forces Suzanne and Anthony to share a motel room in Tennessee.
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11. Howard the Date
30 minIt's the mercy date from Hell when the female Sugarbakers staff accompany dateless Howard the nerd to his high-school reunion. Their sympathy quickly wears off when he begins to boast about handling his ""four women.""
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12. I'll Be Home For Christmas
30 minCharlene and Anthony scheme to outsmart Mary Jo's disbelieving son on Christmas Eve -- until their hired Santa beats them to it, by swiping the Sugarbakers' Christmas gifts.
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13. Great Expectations
30 minAnthony is dismayed when an old prison cellmate arrives at Sugarbaker's with a business proposition -- he wants Anthony to become his partner.
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14. Second Time Around
30 minCharlene withdraws after being dumped by her boyfriend Bill, who is still grieving the loss of his first wife.
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15. Oh, Brother
30 minJulia and Suzanne disagree on how to handle the arrival of their half-brother, a recently discharged mental patient with aspirations to stand-up comedy.
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16. There's Some Black People Coming to Dinner
30 minMary Jo gives Claudia permission to go to a school dance with a black youth, contrary to his father's wishes.
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17. The Return of Ray Don
30 minA penniless Suzanne faces stiff fines for back taxes, so after trying to charm Ray Don at the IRS, she sells off her possession and considers marriage to wealthy octogenarian Wilmont Oliver.
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18. High Rollers
30 minAfter Charlene unwittingly puts a bug in Suzanne's ear by relating the success story of Fred Smith, founder of Federal Express, Suzanne flits off to Atlantic City with Charlene and Anthony in hopes of winning a bundle to pay off debts by employing Anthony's gambling expertise.
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19. The Incredibly Elite Bona Fide Blue-Blood Beaumont Driving Club
30 minSuzanne and Julia clash over a posh club's offer of membership when Suzanne discovers discrimination in the club's by laws.
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20. How Great Thou Art
30 minScruples cause Charlene to resign from her church after she loses faith in her minister when he votes against allowing women in the ministry.
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21. Ted-Bare
30 minOn the brink of marrying a young woman, Ted begins to appreciate ex-wife Mary Jo's maturity, but his sudden attentiveness strikes everyone else as suspicious.
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22. Reservations for Eight
30 minA romantic ski weekend becomes a battle of the sexes when an avalanche sidelines the Sugarbakers ladies and their boyfriends.
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