The Bernie Mac Show: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of The Bernie Mac Show Season 1.
- Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
- Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
- Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
Keep It on the Short Grass
Sep 18, 2002 · 22 min
It's Bernie who acts like a kid when Wanda teams with him in a charity golf tournament. Bernie sees it as a grudge match against the host, Matt Damon, who has been claiming he cons
Goodbye Dolly
Sep 25, 2002 · 22 min
When Bryana loses her doll after a day at the beach, Bernie begins a midnight odyssey to retrieve it. After a grueling search, Bernie finds the doll, but realizes he must wean Brya
Carfool
Oct 30, 2002 · 22 min
Bernie is delighted that the kids are in a carpool because it means he will only have to drive them to school two days a week. The delight is short-lived when the carpool becomes m
Mac Local 137
Nov 6, 2002 · 22 min
Bernie is sick of the kids tearing up the house, so he decides to make them clean up everything they've ruined. The kids go along with the plan until they realize Bernie isn't payi
Welcome to the Jungle
Nov 13, 2002 · 22 min
Jordan's homework of caring for a snake has Bryanna clamoring for her own pet. Wildlife expert Jules Sylvester counsels Bernie.
Bernie Mac Dance Party
Nov 20, 2002 · 22 min
Vanessa is slow to invite Bernie to a father-daughter dance, but quick to treat him like a stranger once there.
Tryptophan-tasy
Nov 27, 2002 · 22 min
To ensure he has enough turkey at Thanksgiving, Bernie makes his own personal, no-kids-allowed bird—which comes out undercooked, thanks to Jordan. But Bernie plows through anyway
The United Front
Dec 4, 2002 · 22 min
Bernie enlists Wanda to join him in a "united front" to be tougher on the kids, but she doesn't like getting the same cold shoulder they give him.
The Sweet Life
Dec 11, 2002 · 22 min
Don Rickles plays a neighbor who dispenses some unorthodox advice when Bernie is told he has high cholesterol. Though it's a sore shoulder and badgering from Wanda that sends Berni
Sin Cup
Jan 15, 2003 · 22 min
Bernie and Jordan square off in a battle not quite of biblical proportions, but certainly of biblical content, as the youngster craftily uses the Good Book for manipulation when he
Bernie Mac Rope-a-Dope
Feb 5, 2003 · 22 min
Wesley Snipes takes a genial comic spin as Wanda's easygoing boss, Duke, who invites the couple to a dinner party. Feeling as if the kids are ""turning my brain into mush,"" Bernie
Magic Jordan
Feb 12, 2003 · 22 min
Jordan plans to impress one of Vanessa's friends with magic.
Raging Election
Feb 26, 2003 · 22 min
Bernie and Wanda attend Vanessa's parent night at her school. They are shocked to find that her teacher likes her, and thinks she is not being challenged enough, so he suggests she
Leaving Los Angeles
Mar 12, 2003 · 22 min
After taking the kids to the movies, Las Vegas-bound Bernie is further delayed by scenes that grow out of what they saw there, but weren't supposed to see.
Pink Gold
Mar 19, 2003 · 22 min
Chris Rock and Jay Leno guest star, as Bernie takes a long-standing grudge against Rock all the way to The Tonight Show. Upset after seeing Rock get preferential treatment at a d
Chess Wars
Apr 9, 2003 · 22 min
Bernie uses principles of chess to check the kids' desires, but Jordan's no pawn as he moves to achieve his goal: a paintball gun!
The Incredible Bulk
Apr 16, 2003 · 22 min
Tired of having to run to the store all the time for the kids, Bernie Mac's friends introduce him to Cost Depot. At first this solution is so simple/fun but it soon gets very addic
Maid Man
Apr 23, 2003 · 22 min
Bernie Mac gets a maid for himself only but the kids use the maid behind his back.
Nut Job
Apr 30, 2003 · 22 min
After enrolling his kids in a slew of extracurricular activities, Bernie suddenly finds his own free time disappearing when he is selected to be an activities suprvisor.
The Other Sister
May 7, 2003 · 22 min
Bernie's sister, Benita, comes to visit, and all havoc starts. She first tells Bryana that she cannot play Snow White in the school play because she is black. She also buys a cell
Meet The Grandparents
May 7, 2003 · 22 min
Wanda's parents, Lloyd and Leora, visit the Mac household. Bernie and Wanda first think the visit will be good for the kids. But Lloyd and Leora start to give them more then they b
For a Few Dollars More
May 14, 2003 · 22 min
Bernie finds out Jordan has never had a birthday party. He can't believe his mom never gave him one. He decides to give Jordan a very special 10th birthday. Jordan gets excited and