The Critic: Season 2

TV-PG

1995

Created by Mike Reiss, Al Jean
86%
80%
10 episodes
Comedy

90's cult animated series from Al Jean and Mike Reiss, former writers and showrunners on The Simpsons, centred around hapless New... More

90's cult animated series from Al Jean and Mike Reiss, former writers and showrunners on The Simpsons, centred around hapless New York film critic Jay Sherman (voiced by Jon Lovitz).

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The Critic: Season 2 episodes

Sherman, Woman and Child

Jay's ratings are not doing very well and Duke is... More about to fire him so Jay is feeling depressed. His feelings become better when he meets a new girlfriend named Alice and her daughter Penny. Alice gives Jay tips on how to improve his show and her advice works. Jay wants to get to know Alice better but discovers she has a boyfriend whom she wants to reject but can't.

Siskel & Ebert & Jay & Alice

Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert break up their partnership as... More movie critics, and each of them considers Jay as a potential replacement for the other.

Lady Hawke

When Jeremy Hawke's sister, Olivia Newton Hawke, visits New York,... More Jay meets her and is smitten with her which puts his relationship with Alice on the line when she begins to feel left out. So Jay then must decide who he really loves.

A Song for Margo

Margo gets a new neighbor, Johnny Wrath, who is the... More lead singer in the rock group, "Nuns in a Blender". Margo falls in love with him but doesn't feel the relationship is right when she finds him with another girl. Meanwhile Alice tries to find a suitable preschool for Penny.

From Chunk to Hunk

Jay and Marty begin to feel a little big so... More they enroll in a weight loss camp. Marty loses a remarkable amount of weight which makes him feel more self- confident but when he is placed as the star in a school play, he doesn't feel his skinny self is right for him. Meanwhile, Jay receives a death threat from Belgian actor Jean Paul Le Pope whose movie he panned.

All the Duke's Men

When Jay helps Marty become class president, Duke decides to... More have Jay help him become US President.

Sherman of Arabia

At Marty's slumber party, Jay is asked to tell his... More story in which he got caught up in the Gulf War. Jay tells how he was attending an Iraqi film festival and eventually was thrown in jail where he escaped and lead a troop of men across the desert.

Frankie and Ellie Get Lost

Franklin and Eleanor celebrate their 40th anniversary by going on... More vacation but the plane crashes and Franklin and Eleanor find themselves marooned on an island. Back in New York, Margo and Jay find out about their disappearance and discover they have willed Jay their entire fortune which Jay decides to put to use by cleaning up New York.

Dukerella

Alice's sister, Miranda, comes to visit them which Alice is... More not comfortable with. Miranda must find work in New York so she joins "Mattress in an Hour" delivering mattresses. When everybody attends a party held by Duke, Miranda falls in love with Duke but is shy because of a wrinkle. She runs out on Duke at midnight and Duke must find the woman who fits her slipper. When it turns out to be Doris, Jay must get Duke and Miranda reunited.

I Can't Believe It's a Clip Show

Jay is hosting his 10th anniversary show held at Carnegie... More Hall where he showcases a number of movie clips from old episodes such as Jurassic Park 2, Every Which Way but Lucid, and Rabbi P.I. The show is later held hostage by a number of terrorists who threaten to blow the place up with a bomb tied to Jay's waist. Fortunately, everybody is eventually rescued by Milton Berle.