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Season 2
September 27, 1960

Season 2

01. Who Needs Elvis?

Dobie joins the school band solely to be close to piccolo player Esme Lauterbach, who is interested in Maynard.

September 27, 1960

02. You Ain't Nothin' But a Houn' Dog

Maynard enters Dobie's old school essay My Dog in a newspaper Father's Day contest, but changes it to My Dad.

October 4, 1960

03. Baby Talk

Maynard finds an abandoned baby in the park.

October 18, 1960

04. Dobie Goes Beatnik

Thelonius Monk comes to town and invites Maynard to sit in on bongos. But Herbert needs a favor which will require Dobie and Maynard to switch identities.

October 25, 1960

05. The Mystic Powers of Maynard G. Krebs

Maynard has temporary ESP, which will allow him to predict the winner of the Kennedy-Nixon presidential election.

November 1, 1960

06. The Face That Stopped the Clock

Maynard takes a job selling clock-statues at an army surplus store.

November 15, 1960

07. Maynard G. Krebs: Boy Millionaire

Maynard finds a purse full of cash.

November 22, 1960

08. Around My Room in 80 Days

Dobie and Maynard help a classmate to not drop out of school.

November 29, 1960

09. Drag Strip Dobie

Zelda helps Dobie build a hot rod so that he can impress a girl by beating Chatsworth in a car race.

December 6, 1960

10. Jangle Bells

Dobie choses going to a huge Christmas party with Chatsworth rather than a small one with Maynard and feels guilty enough to have a Scrooge-like dream.

December 20, 1960

11. Parlez-Vous English

Dobie meets a pretty fatalistically morose French girl who savors the negative things in life. She thinks Dobie is an oaf and Dobie hates her bleak attitude. Yet, she keeps coming around.

December 27, 1960

12. The Day the Teachers Disappeared

All the teachers come down with the flu and parents have to take over the classes.

30min
January 3, 1961

13. What's My Lion?

A lion escapes from a zoo and becomes attached to Maynard.

January 10, 1961

14. The Big Question

In order to graduate, Dobie and Maynard must write an essay on the subject of Whither Are We Drifting?

January 24, 1961

15. Have You Stopped Beating Your Wife?

Dobie tries to get his father to spend more time with Mrs. Gillis.

January 31, 1961

16. The Bitter Feud of Dobie and Maynard

Maynard is convinced that he is dragging Dobie down in life so he tries to antagonize Dobie into ending their friendship.

February 7, 1961

17. Zelda, Get Off My Back

Zelda decides she's tired of being rejected by Dobie and turns her attentions to Chatsworth.

February 14, 1961

18. I Was a High School Scrooge

Dobie, Maynard and Zelda think an old Central High star athlete is a bum, while he is actually a big executive.

30min
February 21, 1961

19. Will Success Spoil Dobie's Mother?

Winnie wins a date with Hollywood starlet Merilee Maribou and gives the prize to Dobie.

February 28, 1961

20. The Second Childhood of Herbert T. Gillis

It's Dobie's graduation and Herbert, feeling embrassed that he never graduated, goes to night school to earn his diploma.

March 7, 1961

21. Dobie Versus the Machine

Dobie and Maynard, out of high school, don't know what to do with themselves and seek professional help. In the end they decide to enlist in the army.

March 14, 1961

22. Baby Shoes

Herbert, Winifred and Zelda reminisce as Dobie and Maynard prepare to leave for the army.

March 21, 1961

23. I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier, Sailor, or Marine

Maynard misses the bus on his first day in the Army, but Chatsworth fills him in for him.

March 28, 1961

24. The Chicken Corporal

Being put in charge of his squad's barracks goes to Dobie's head and his friendship with Maynard suffers.

April 4, 1961

25. The Solid Gold Dog Tag

Despite opposition from his mother, Chatsworth decides to join Dobie and Maynard in the Army.

April 11, 1961

26. The Battle of Maynard's Beard

The Army orders Maynard to shave off his beard.

April 18, 1961

27. Spaceville

Maynard and a chimp get launched into space.

30min
April 25, 1961

28. Like Mother, Like Daughter, Like Wow

Dobie's mother becomes jealous when she learns that the attractive widowed mother of Dobie's latest girlfriend is an old flame of Mr. Gillis.

May 2, 1961

29. Dobie Plays Cupid

Dobie tries to improve Maynard's confidence with girls.

May 9, 1961

30. Like Father, Like Son, Like Trouble

Dobie gets cast in the army play and while in costume, leads an army officer's daughter to believe he is an army official.

May 16, 1961

31. Be It Ever So Humble

Dobie and Maynard get weekend passes, but Zelda has been telling all the girls back home that she and Dobie are engaged.

May 23, 1961

32. Aah, Yer Fadder Wears Army Shoes

Dobie exaggerates his dad's war record to impress a girl from a long military family.

May 30, 1961

33. Everything But the Truth

Zelda invents a secret engagement to try and impress some sorority girls.

June 6, 1961

34. Goodbye Mister Pomfritt, Hello Mr. Chips

Dobie and Maynard organize a tribute to Mr. Pomfritt, hoping to convince him not to leave Central High.

June 13, 1961

35. Take Me to Your Leader

Dobie, Maynard, and Zelda believe that the store's beautiful blonde next patron is secretly an alien.

June 20, 1961

36. This Ain't The Way We Used to Do It

Offended by what he sees a laxity in today's army, ex-sergeant Herbert Gillis puts his son's squad through some rugged training exercises before they graduate.

June 27, 1961