
He tries to tell Ben this, but Ben refuses to believe him, saying Junior is no longer credible.Īt a school function, a puppet show goes awry. Disgusted and angered, she threatens to send him to boarding school in Baghdad when she is his mother. However, when Junior learns that LaWanda redecorated his room with a clown theme, which he detests, he swiftly reneges on his promise and retaliates by putting live cockroaches in her dinner. On the way home, a disappointed Ben makes Junior promise to behave. After being taunted by Trixie and Murph for being too short to ride the Crazy Dance, as well as seeing Trixie cheat her way on by wearing platform shoes, Junior tampers with the ride by turning its settings up to maximum speed, causing everyone, including Trixie and Murph, to get sick and vomit all over each other and the entire ride to eventually break down. Meanwhile, Ben takes Junior to a carnival.

While Ben and Junior are gone, she redecorates the house to impress Ben. Around the same time, LaWanda Dunmore ( Laraine Newman), the richest, snootiest, kid-hating woman in Mortville, takes an interest in Ben, while being horrified by Junior's past, which includes the Union Carbide plant explosion.

Ben's second date goes even worse when Junior rewires the doorbell, and the woman gets electrocuted. That evening, Ben's father, Big Ben Healy ( Jack Warden) and his Jack Russell terrier, Nippy, arrive to live with them after he loses all of his money in a bad investment.

Ben reminds Junior they are new in town and must attempt to fit in. Junior also videotapes his irresponsible babysitter having sex with her boyfriend and broadcasts it to the entire neighborhood. He thwarts Ben's first date by phoning her jealous former husband, who storms into the restaurant and picks a fight with Ben. Throughout the film, Junior and Trixie engage in an escalating prank war.īen decides to date again to find a new wife and mother, but Junior is against it. Thorn ( James Tolkan), sits on the toilet. Junior panics and promptly flushes it, and it explodes right when his teacher, Mr. When Junior confronts Trixie for harassing him, Trixie states that she can harass anybody she wants and punctuates her point by giving Junior a lit M-80. Junior, annoyed at Ben's sudden love interest, attempts to vandalize Annie's picture hanging in the hall, only to be foiled by Trixie ( Ivyann Schwan), Annie's daughter, who is as mischievous as Junior. When Ben comes to, he sees the school nurse, Annie Young ( Amy Yasbeck in a different role than in the original film), and becomes smitten with her. Murph retaliates by dropping the school's satellite dish on Junior, but it misses him and hits Ben instead, knocking him out. There, Junior meets Murph (Eric Edwards), the school bully, and gets on his bad side when he tapes him to the chalkboard. Horrified, Igor promptly promotes Junior to sixth grade.

On Junior's first day of third grade, he finds that Igor Peabody ( Gilbert Gottfried), the adoption agent from the first film, is the principal at his new school. Moments after they arrive, dozens of women line up in their front yard, all wanting to date Ben. One year after their previous misadventures, Ben Healy ( John Ritter) and his adopted son Junior ( Michael Oliver) move from Cold River, Illinois to the quiet community of Mortville, Oregon to start over, following Ben and Flo's divorce.
