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3rd Rock from the Sun Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
26 Episodes 1996 - 1997
Episode 1
See Dick Continue to Run
Sun, Sep 22, 199622 mins
With Dick locked in the basement in an invisible box, his replacement becomes the leader of the Solomons. He is much stricter than Dick and seems to have some kind of weird plan. Harry and Tommy feel they should disobey his orders, but Sally insists that he, like it or not, still is their leader and that disobeying him would be mutiny.
Episode 2
See Dick Continue to Run, Continued
Sun, Sep 22, 199622 mins
After a lot of trying, Tommy frees Dick from his invisible box. Meanwhile, Dick's replacement has a date with Mary. When Dick hears about this, he no longer has the strength to try to fight the other Dick. After the whole team has smacked him in the face, he realizes he should be strong and face his opponent. A fight follows and the good Dick wins it. At least, that's what the Solomons think.
Episode 3
Hotel Dick
Sun, Sep 29, 199622 mins
Aghast by the way aliens are portrayed in a film the Solomons have seen, Harry feels they should tell the humans the truth about aliens. Harry considers a science fiction convention to be the perfect place and the Solomons go to the convention. It's their first time in a hotel and after they find out about room service, Harry, Tommy and Sally adore hotels. At the same time, Dick is feeling bad because he feels he should tell Mary he's an alien, but can't.
Episode 4
Big Angry Virgin from Outer Space
Sun, Oct 6, 199622 mins
August wonders what Tommy would do if she'd somehow end up disfigured. Harry starts video dating and makes a little film about himself. Mr. Randall told Sally she's not perfect and Sally promises him to change. It turns out not all changes are for the better and Mr. Randall and Sally end up having a fight. Luckily, Dick claims to have a solution for their problem.
Episode 5
Much Ado About Dick
Sun, Oct 13, 199622 mins
Mary doesn't want people to know she and Dick are having a relationship because she's afraid people won't take her seriously once they find out she and Dick are a couple. Dick doesn't understand why it's so important what other people think of you and feels like he's lost her. Dr. Sutor advises him to ignore Mary in order to get her back. Sally meets officer Don again and she wants to join the police.
Episode 6
Dick the Vote
Sun, Oct 27, 199622 mins
After accidentally locking himself to a tree in a park when activists are protesting there, people think Harry is an activist. He even gets asked to run for city council and accepts the offer. However, his opponent tries to dig up dirt on him. Meanwhile, Dick learns politics can be very complex and he's not sure he'll vote for Harry or the other guy.
Episode 7
Fourth and Dick
Sun, Nov 3, 199622 mins
Homecoming weekend is just a few days away and everybody has their mind on the big game the school's football team will be playing. Except for Dick, who doesn't see what all the fuss is about. Meanwhile, Harry gets a job as a security officer during the game, Tommy has a crush on his glee club teacher and Sally realizes she has no friends and makes Nina her best friend.
Episode 8
World's Greatest Dick
Sun, Nov 10, 199622 mins
Tommy's mentor advices Dick to send him to a school for gifted students. This he does, knowing Tommy really doesn't want to go. In a bar, Sally meets a rather masculine guy named Glenn and they obviously feel attracted to each other. Sally however hasn't yet learned everything there is to know about the two sexes it turns out. Harry in the meantime tries to conjure, but it's still a long way to being a Houdini.
Episode 9
My Mother the Alien
Sun, Nov 17, 199622 mins
Mrs. Dubcek asks the Solomons to babysit her grandson. At first Sally dislikes the whole idea of babysitting but it doesn't take long for her to totally fall in love with the kid. This can't be said of Harry, Tommy and Dick, who are driven mad by the power and influence the child has. Mary goes away for three days and Dick persuades her to let him take care of her fishes.
Episode 10
Gobble, Gobble, Dick, Dick
Sun, Nov 24, 199622 mins
The Solomons are afraid the end of the world has come because there are lots of traffic jams and people are hoarding food in the supermarket. It turns out it's all because of Thanksgiving. The Solomons haven't got a clue what Thanksgiving is but try to cover this up by giving a Thanksgiving dinner, helped by Mary, Mrs. Dubcek and her daughter Vicki, who has an eye for Harry. Tommy and Dick have a disagreement and Tommy runs away.
Episode 11
Dick Jokes
Sun, Dec 8, 199622 mins
Dick is jealous when Mary asks another professor and not him to host a college fund-raiser she organizes. Mary asked this professor because he's funny which leads to Dick trying to find out the secret of being funny so Mary lets him host the fund-raiser. Meanwhile, Sally is building a shelf for her shoes and Harry is mourning about his lost coat.
Episode 12
Jolly Old St. Dick
Sun, Dec 15, 199622 mins
It's the first Christmas for the Solomons. Dick is enthusiastic at first, but after being halted by a cop while trying to take a Christmas tree from somebodies garden, he considers Christmas to be a sham. Meanwhile, Harry gets a job working as a mall Santa's helper and Sally becomes a gift wrapper. August told Tommy she's got a Christmas gift for him and now Tommy desperately needs to find her a good gift.
Episode 13
Proud Dick
Sun, Jan 5, 199722 mins
Mary has a new parking place that's much closer to the entrance of the university. Dick feels he should have gotten the spot and tells the president of the university that he will quit his job if he won't get a better parking place. To Dick's surprise, the president let's him go and Dick ends up working at Rusty's Burgers. Meanwhile, Harry has lost his memory because he was blown of the roof by a storm and feels threatened by the others when he finds out they are aliens.
Episode 14
Romeo & Juliet & Dick
Sun, Jan 12, 199722 mins
Tommy's school performs Romeo and Juliet and after finding out August wants the part of Juliet, Tommy enlists Dick as the director of the play so he can become Romeo. However, Dick takes the task too seriously and makes Tommy the prop guy. Mrs. Dubcek is expecting friends and when she drinks a sleeping potion Tommy made, Harry ends up impersonating her. Meanwhile, Mary has 1,500 dollars worth of parking fines and Sally promises her Officer Don will fix it.
Episode 15
Guilty as Dick
Sun, Feb 2, 199722 mins
While helping Mary with something, Dick sprains his ankle. Dick sees the advantages of using Mary's feeling of guilt to get her to nurture him. Tommy tries to sell chocolate to get the school band to Washington. Nobody buys anything until Sally accompanies him. Harry is sick and tired of not having a room of his own and builds himself a tree house.
Episode 16
A Dick on One Knee
Sun, Feb 16, 199722 mins
Sally meets Michel, a cute French guy who asks her to marry him. Sally says yes and the Solomons start preparing the marriage. Mary thinks Sally might be rushing into it but Sally has set her mind on the wedding. The wedding makes Dick and Mary consider the next step in their relationship. Tommy turns out to be good at arranging flowers, styling and making clothes which makes August wonder about his sexual disposition.
Episode 17
Same Old Song and Dick
Sun, Mar 9, 199722 mins
Dick tries to spice up his relationship with Mary because he feels they are in a rut. Sally and Harry switch functions after a quarrel. Harry really likes doing the housework and the fact he now has a function, not realizing he's not very good at it though. Sally feels miserable just watching TV all day and wants her old job back. Tommy is agitated by the fact August is perfect.
Episode 18
I Brake for Dick
Sun, Mar 16, 199722 mins
Dick has run over a chipmunk and is very shocked by this. He starts being a vegetarian, orders the Solomons not to use anything that's made of animals and throw the things that are made of animals away. Meanwhile, Harry wants to be a boy scout and Tommy has trouble with August. He didn't ask her for Spring Dance and now she's mad with him. He considers writing to an advice columnist.
Episode 19
Dick Behaving Badly
Sun, Mar 23, 199722 mins
What everybody already knew, finally gets to Dick: Mary has him henpecked! He asks Harry to learn how to become a real man that doesn't take orders from his woman and they end in a strip club where the guys of Dick's class have a bachelor party while Dick should actually be at a party at Mary's house he himself organized. Meanwhile Sally and Tommy are frantically playing monopoly.
Episode 20
Dickmalion
Sun, Apr 13, 199722 mins
Mary is trying to be part of Rutherford's high society and thanks to Dick, she is given an opportunity. Meanwhile, Tommy meets a girl (Lorna) at school who shows interest in him. On the other hand, there are two bullies at school who regularly beat him. Since they like it so much on TV, Sally and Harry try wrestling themselves.
Episode 21
Sensitive Dick
Sun, Apr 27, 199722 mins
When Dick is, once again, very harsh to his students, they file an official complaint against him. He starts taking sensitivity classes and the disciplinary committee awaits him. Harry's fling Vicki is back and asks him to accompany her to her high school reunion. Meanwhile Officer Don tries to teach Tommy how to drive.
Episode 22
Will Work for Dick
Sun, May 4, 199722 mins
Dick insults Nina once again and she has had it with him. She quits. Dick gives Harry the job but he's no good at the job. However, Dick is too stubborn to apologize to Nina and goes on without a secretary. After she hears Mary and Nina talk about their childhood ballet, Sally decides to take ballet lessons to get a youth. She also starts playing with Barbies and forces Tommy to play with her.
Episode 23
Fifteen Minutes of Dick
Sun, May 11, 199722 mins
The Solomons have been given the most crappy place in a restaurant in favor of Mark Hamill, who gets a nice place in the middle. Sally goes to him, fights him and becomes a local hero. Sally gets her fifteen minutes of fame with Harry as her assistant. Dick, who is proudly telling everybody he's in the school yearbook, is jealous at her instant fame while Tommy gets in trouble with the school bullies because of his sister's fame.
Episode 24
Dick and the Single Girl
Sun, May 11, 199723 mins
At a farewell party for shy librarian Sonja Mary feels sorry for her because nobody showed up and she invites her over to her place. Dick and Sonja talk all night about physics and when Mary has had enough of it and goes to bed, Dick goes to Sonja's place to continue the conversation and ends up sleeping there. Meanwhile, Tommy and Harry are writing an episode of The X-files and officer Don finds out why Sally is attracted to him.
Episode 25
A Nightmare on Dick Street: Part 1
Sun, May 18, 199750 mins
Mary tells Dick she's planning on going to Borneo for a year. Dick doesn't want her to go and plans to ask her to marry him. The anxiety leads to his first nightmare and he and the other aliens think he's gone mad. A psychologist gives him pills that make him mellow. Later Sally also has a nightmare and also ends up high on pills. Tommy and Harry desperately try to contact the Big Giant Head so they can go back to their home planet for emergency maintenance.
Episode 26
A Nightmare on Dick Street: Part 2
Sun, May 18, 199721 mins
Tommy is the third of the family to have a nightmare but luckily doesn't take the pills Dick and Sally are on. When Dick and Sally are sober again they're informed they are all going back to the home planet for emergency maintenance. Dick however doesn't want to go back because he wants to stay with Mary.