Boston Common Season 2, Episode 16: Extra Credit

1

Everything's Coming Up Sub-Rosas

Wyleen discovers a there is a secret woman's society on campus and decides she needs to join them. Butterfield schedules to meet with Leonard about something.

30 min

2

Conspiracy of Dunces

Tasha detects that Joy might be a bit jealous of Boyd. Wyleen learns about conspiracy theories and hidden agendas from Professor Reed. Leonard gives up his job at the cafeteria to go on unemployment and spend his time in the park, where he makes new friends.

30 min

3

This Ain't No Party, This Ain't No Disco ...

Tasha suggests to Jack that he recruit Boyd to organize a surprise party for Joy's birthday, a date he'd forgotten. President Butterfield tries to inform Leonard that his funding has been cut.

30 min

4

Mercury Retrograde

Tasha sets Boyd up on a blind date. Joy accidentally calls Jack "Boyd". Leonard helps Tasha move into her newly painted office. Wyleen, still working for Professor Reed, must listen to him deal with losing Joy.

30 min

5

The War Room

Wyleen decides to run for president of the freshman class.

30 min

6

Trustee and Sympathy

Boyd searches for the name of the landlord of their building, since the heat has been off for the past two days. The college entertains an obnoxious alumnus, who is funding the establishment of a new media center.

30 min

7

A Triage Grows in Boston

Boyd and Wyleen host the Pritchett family barbecue. Joy seems to get very tired, every time her pending wedding to Jack is mentioned. Leonard has a part-time job delivering meals to shut-ins and his first stop won't let him go. Wyleen is struck on the head by a flying pork chop that brings them to the hospital.

30 min

8

Gobble, Gobble, Aggch!

Wyleen and Boyd decide to hold a get-together for Thanksgiving. Wyleen invites Cookie in hopes of getting a part in the spring play. Jack and Joy try to spend their holiday working at a homeless shelter that is filled mostly with yuppie volunteers.

30 min

9

Coming Clean

Boyd struggles to pay Wyleen's tuition for next semester. To raise funds, he gets a part time job working as a janitor. Leonard and Wyleen also take janitorial positions. Jack learns about the finer points of the student body and relationships from Professor Weaver.

30 min

10

Arts and Craftiness

Leonard is traveling home to his mother's for the holidays and his joke about a bomb at airport security gets him and Wyleen held for questioning. Tasha performance review is coming up. Jack would like Joy to take her art work a little more seriously.

30 min

11

The Finals Curtain

Trying to study for her finals, Wyleen is fighting a cold, Boyd's interruptions and Jack's cryptic messages about the content of the final. Boyd cons the campus radio station manager into letting them use the station equipment. Instead of cutting a tape, Boyd lets Leonard rave out over the air about the blues he's feeling.

30 min

12

Soup to Nuts

Everybody wants to have lunch with Boyd so they can get his advice. Wyleen wants to him to be there when she has lunch with the newly reformed Cookie. Joy wants advice about her pending wedding to Jack. Tasha wants assistance with her husband Darrell. Leonard worries about talking about radio in front of Jack's students.

30 min

13

A Night in Camelot

Boyd and Jack discover a pair of shoes that might have once belonged to JFK. After displaying their lack of knowledge, Tasha tells Boyd they should try to get some culture. Everyone else is imagining what they can do with the money from the sale of the shoes.

30 min

14

Commander-in-Grief

When a new president is selected for the college, Boyd loses a job. Cookie expresses an interest in Leonard.

30 min

15

His and Herpes

Wyleen develops a large cold sore on her upper lip. Boyd frets over the color of his teeth as he begins to work his new job. The crisis center is in danger of losing its funding, Boyd's first case as student liaison. Joy and Jack discuss their relationship.

30 min

16

Extra Credit

The college rolls out a new credit card program that it locates in the student union. Wyleen's been approved and begins to spend and spend. Leonard is caught in the middle of Jack and Joy's separation as well as Boyd and Tasha's disagreement about their need for office space.

30 min

17

The Occidental Purists

Wyleen gets the lead in the play The Tea Ceremony. Joy arranges a date for Tasha and also tries to fix her hair. Leonard reluctantly agrees to become the editor for Jack's new book, but becomes a replacement for Joy.

30 min

18

Heres to You, Mrs. Byrnes

Joy's mother comes for a visit and takes more of a liking to Boyd than is comfortable for him. Leonard needs an insurance physical and gets an appointment with Tasha's gynecologist. Wyleen is also going there because she is thinking about making the next step in her relationship with Drake.

30 min

19

I.D. Endow

Boyd and others are against a tuition increase proposed by Cross. Wyleen wants to borrow money to obtain a fake ID. Leonard's guest for his radio show is Tasha's estranged grandfather.

30 min

20

To Bare is Human

A men's magazine want to do a layout featuring the women of Harrington. Leonard gets a date with a former centerfold. Cross takes Joy out to dinner at the same time Jack takes the editor of the men's magazine.

30 min

21

A Cross to Bear

Cross is going to be featured on a public television program called American Mind as a prominent educator. Boyd is tired of paying for everything and wants Wyleen to get a job.

30 min

22

Sophomore's Choice

Cross gets on Tasha for disciplining the son of a major college benefactor. Wyleen tells Boyd it is time for him to move out. He looks for a place to stay and winds up with Tasha. Joy is hired by Cross as a professor in Jack's department.

30 min