Episode
Small Wonder: Ted's Lay-Off
Overview
United Robotronics cutbacks have the Lawsons scrambling for odd jobs.
Details
- Series
- Small Wonder
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 19
- Air date
- 1986-02-15
- Runtime
- 21 min
Episode context
Ted's Lay-Off is Episode 19 in Season 1 of Small Wonder. It aired on 1986-02-15. The runtime is 21 min.
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Episode 18: The Robot Nappers
When keen-eyed recruitment officers from a rival robotics firm drop by to interview Ted, they suspect Vicki is a robot and plan to "robotnap" her.
Episode 20: Health Nuts
Ted is motivated to get the family into shape when an obese co-worker loses a record amount of weight.
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Episode 21: The Reluctant Halfback
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Episode 16: First Love
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Episode 22: Vaudeville Vicki
When a vaudeville actor thinks Vicki is his long-lost daughter, he drafts her into a show and threatens her adoption.
Episode 15: Babes in the Woods
The Lawsons and Reggie and Harriet take a wilderness camping trip, and get lost.
Episode 23: The Birds, The Bees, and Robots
When timid Ted uses the "stork theory" in answering Jamie's questions about sex, Jamie believes Dad's in serious need of sex education and tries to help him out.
Episode 14: The Burrito Story
Jamie attempts to mass-produce burritos made by Vicki.
Episode 24: Grandpa Lawson's Visit
Ted has the unenviable task of explaining to his unwary Vicki-doting father, who bitterly lost his job to automation, that his new lovely adopted granddaughter is really a robot.
Episode 13: RoboBrat
When overexposure to Harriet infects heuristically mimicking Vicki with Harriet's personality traits and shrieking tantrums, Ted must purge the brat out of her at his factory -- but not before Harriet and Bonnie Brindle wonder where Vicki suddenly vanished to and summon the police.
Episode 12: Brindles Move In
A house fire moves Ted's new boss, Brandon Brindle, into the Lawsons' house, scheming for insurance fraud.