The Wonder Years
Season 2
17 listed hours · 1988–1993 · ABC
From the desk
How this season is filed
The Wonder Years premiered after a Super Bowl and then spent six seasons arguing that memory is a form: Daniel Stern’s adult Kevin, a suburban decade, and coming-of-age without a laugh track as alibi.
TV Flash files Season 2 of The Wonder Years (1988–1993) on ABC as a mid listed season (2; 2 of 6) — 17 listed hours, 1988-11-30–1989-05-16 from “Heart of Darkness” (S02E01) to “How I'm Spending My Summer Vacation” (S02E17). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
Desk essentials in this season
- S02E02 Our Miss White
The crush as civic weather. Child-sized performance, adult instrument on the track.
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S02E01 Heart of Darkness
Kevin and Paul befriend a bad boy and lie to their parents to spend the night camping with him.
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S02E02 Our Miss White
Kevin develops a crush on his teacher, Miss White while appearing in a play she wrote about the Civil Rights movement.
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S02E03 Christmas
Kevin and Wayne try to convince their father to buy a color TV for Christmas; Kevin tries to find the perfect gift for Winnie.
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S02E04 Steady as She Goes
Kevin asks Becky Slater to go steady in order to get Winnie to notice him.
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S02E05 Just Between Me and You and Kirk and Paul and Carla and Becky
Kevin tries to figure out who Winnie really likes.
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S02E06 Pottery Will Get You Nowhere
Norma begins taking a pottery class and everyone is supportive in the family expect Jack.
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S02E07 Coda
Kevin gets discouraged during his piano lessons when he compares himself to another student.
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S02E08 Hiroshima, Mon Frere
Wayne continues to antagonize Kevin including ruining his science project.
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S02E09 Loosiers
Paul is humiliated during P.E. class.
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S02E10 Walk Out
Kevin ends up elected to the student council who want to stage a walk out in protest of the Vietnam war.
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S02E11 Nemesis
Kevin worries when he realizes that Becky Slater is looking to get even after breaking up with her.
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S02E12 Fate
Kevin crosses path with the school bully.
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S02E13 Birthday Boy
Paul and Kevin prepare to celebrate their thirteenth birthdays.
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S02E14 Brightwing
Kevin is recruited by Karen to help run errands and ends up skipping school with her to hang at the rock.
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S02E15 Square Dance
Kevin gets paired up with the strangest girl in 7th grade during the P.E. unit on square dancing.
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S02E16 Whose Woods Are These?
Kevin, Winnie and Paul try to save Harper's Woods.
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S02E17 How I'm Spending My Summer Vacation
Kevin's plans for a fun summer are dashed when Paul announces his family is leaving for the summer and he writes a long heartfelt message in Winnie's yearbook.
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