Just Shoot Me! (season 2)

Just Shoot Me! (season 2)
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	25
Release
Original network	NBC
Original release	September 23, 1997 – May 12, 1998
Season chronology

The second season of Just Shoot Me! aired Tuesdays at 9:30-10:00 pm (EST) on NBC from September 23, 1997 to May 12, 1998.

Episodes

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
7	1	"The Experiment"	Leonard R. Garner, Jr.	Sivert Glarum & Michael Jamin	September 23, 1997
Maya concocts an experiment to prove that good looking people have an unfair advantage in the job market, but she then proves the prejudice when she starts dating the good looking guy. Nina thought she and Elliot were going to play a practical joke on Finch, but in the end Finch and Elliot play one on her. Meanwhile, Jack desperately struggles to assemble a baby bungalow for his daughter Hannah.
8	2	"The Assistant"	Leonard R. Garner, Jr.	Andrew Gordon & Eileen Conn	September 30, 1997
Maya's new assistant, Cindy (Cheri Oteri), is not only annoying but also incompetent; however, Maya refuses to admit to Jack that she hired the wrong person. As Nina is preparing for a radio debate with a feminist intellectual, Elliot and Finch devise a plan to humiliate her and make a word-a-day calendar with made-up words.
9	3	"Old Boyfriends"	Lee Shallat Chemel	Steven Levitan	October 28, 1997
Maya is dating an older man; when Jack finds out, he has a problem accepting it. Nina flashes a window cleaner who as a result falls off the scaffolding and ends up in hospital.
10	4	"La Cage"	Lee Shallat Chemel	Jack Burditt	November 4, 1997
Finch is happily surprised by the advances of a supermodel (Guest starring Stephanie Romanov), despite Elliot's warnings that she's crazy.
11	5	"King Lear Jet"	Lee Shallat Chemel	Danny Zuker	November 11, 1997
Jack has obtained two tickets to the Royal Shakespeare Company production in London. With a lot of flattery, Nina and Elliot are given the tickets much to Maya's annoyance.
12	6	"My Dinner with Woody"	John Fortenberry	Steven Levitan	November 18, 1997
Maya writes an article on her hero "Woody Allen", She then receives a phone call from Woody himself. When she meets him, she realizes that he is a copycat. She stays with him and lives out a fantasy of life as a Woody Allen movie.
13	7	"Twice Burned"	John Fortenberry	Pam Brady	November 25, 1997
Jack is desperate to get his daughter Hannah into Woodbridge, the best school in the city, but his application is turned down: he forgot that Maya, as a student of the school, burned down one of its wings. Elliot and Nina discover they share a fascination with blues singer/songwriter Cholera Joe Hopper, but cannot agree as to the lyrics of one of the songs. The two try to track down any of the living relatives of Cholera to find out what the correct lyrics are.
14	8	"Sweet Charity"	Leonard R. Garner, Jr.	Marsh McCall	December 9, 1997
Maya convinces Jack to get Blush Magazine involved in some charity work. Elliot has a problem when the delivery guy invents a nickname for everyone in the office but him.
15	9	"Jesus, It's Christmas"	John Fortenberry	Sivert Glarum & Michael Jamin	December 16, 1997
Maya suggests that Blush management pool their resources to give a gift to someone less fortunate in place of exchanging gifts. Meanwhile Finch tries to finagle his way onto a photo shoot in the Caribbean.
16	10	"Elliott the Geek"	Pamela Fryman	Marsh McCall	January 6, 1998
On finding out about the death of his high school teacher, Elliot intends to take vengeance for being picked on in school and impress his former persecutors with his success and glamor. At the funeral, he realizes however what the real lesson of the late teacher was and abandons the intention. Meanwhile, Jack is giving Finch some tips as to how to exert power over others using psychological techniques. When Finch is drunk with his newly gained power and thinks the pupil has outgrown the master, Jack puts him back in his place.
17	11	"Sewer!"	Ken Levine	Andrew Gordon & Eileen Conn	January 13, 1998
Maya tries to compete with her old college roommate's (guest star Lisa Edelstein) globetrotting journalistic ventures by spending a night in a sewer in hope of getting her first hard-hitting news story in a year.
18	12	"In the Company of Maya"	Gail Mancuso	Pam Brady	January 20, 1998
Maya develops a crush on a writer she works with and believing that he likes her to she uses some of Nina's tips to lead him on. Elliot dates an fledgling actress and is embarrassed that her initial break comes in the form of doing an ad for hemorrhoid medication.
19	13	"Pass the Salt"	Leonard R. Garner, Jr.	Jack Burditt	January 27, 1998
Finch's father comes to town for a firefighters' convention, and to bond with his son, whom he is now sure is gay.
20	14	"The Walk"	Darryl Bates	Andrew Gordon & Eileen Conn	February 3, 1998
When Jack loses his temper for no apparent reason Maya, Elliot, Finch and Nina try to find out why. Finch tries to seduce coworker Courtney by following Elliot's advice to think of romance as a tango.
21	15	"Nina in the Cantina"	Pamela Fryman	Sivert Glarum & Michael Jamin	February 24, 1998
Nina thinks she is the Nina in the song title and regales Maya with the story of her most romantic evening. Maya lets slip at an interview with the singer she knows Nina and arranges a meeting between the two only to find out that Nina's love is not the singer.
22	16	"College or Collagen"	Pamela Fryman	Marsh McCall	February 26, 1998
Mentoring seems to be going really well for Maya- her protégé; Karey is doing well in her first year of college. However, Karey comes to a crossroads wondering what to do with her life. Meanwhile, Finch replaces Allie as Jack's bridge partner and then becomes jealous when Jack wants to play again with her.
23	17	"Nina's Bikini"	Pamela Fryman	Sivert Glarum & Michael Jamin	March 5, 1998
Nina's famous bikini is going to be put in the Model cafe and Jack has Elliott take boudoir photos of him as an anniversary present for his wife.
24	18	"The Kiss"	Darryl Bates	Tom Maxwell & Don Woodard	March 19, 1998
Maya agrees to pose as Elliott's wife in order to get him a great deal on an apartment. Meanwhile, Jack discovers that Finch has been renting out his parking space.
25	19	"Bravefinch"	Leonard R. Garner, Jr.	Andrew Gordon & Eileen Conn	March 26, 1998
Jack hires a personal assistant when Finch complains about doing petty errands. Meanwhile, Maya's interview is ruined when she thinks a nicotine patch is a band-aid.
26	20	"Jack's Old Partner"	Leonard R. Garner, Jr.	Marsh McCall	April 9, 1998
While writing his memoirs, Jack is unable to write the chapter where he fires his old business partner, Herb. Believing guilt to be the cause of his writer's block, Jack re-employs Herb, only to remember why he fired him all those years ago. Nina tries to evade an IRS audit, first by hiring Finch, then by using Elliot to romantically distract the auditor.
27	21	"Amblushed"	Pamela Fryman	Pam Brady	April 16, 1998
Jack persuades Maya to go and make a speech to a group neglecting to add that the group want to know why the magazine denigrates women; Maya then defends herself but insults her co-workers. Nina decides she wants to stage a comeback as a model, and Elliot decides to cover her in gold paint for the photo shoot.
28	22	"The Emperor"	Jean Sagal	Don Woodard & Tom Maxwell and Sivert Glarum & Michael Jamin	April 23, 1998
Nina decides not to go to a designers party and Maya goes in her place making some very choice comments regarding the designer and losing the magazine advertising revenue. She then tries to redeem the situation. At Jack's suggerstion, Eliot starts dating a certain Meredith Baker; yet, Jack's meddling in their relationship make Eliott look creepy.
29	23	"Rescue Me"	Steven Levitan	Steven Levitan	April 30, 1998
An office blood drive turns into a storytelling session, as Finch, Elliott, and Nina tell Maya how her father rescued them from desperate situations.
30	24	"Eve of Destruction"	Pamela Fryman	Jack Burditt and Pam Brady	May 5, 1998
Maya's mother visits the magazine and she and Jack get into a fight about a painting. Elliot, Finch, and Nina get nervous when it appears Jack has brought in an efficiency consultant who seems intent on shaking things up.
31	25	"War and Sleaze"	Leonard R. Garner, Jr.	Marsh McCall	May 12, 1998
Nina proposes a double date for her and Maya, and Maya senses trouble. She is then proven right when her date, after throwing his back out in her apartment, is revealed to be a United States Congressman - and a married one. Meanwhile, the magazine staff participates in a paintball match where Finch unwittingly eliminates Jack three minutes into the war.