Seasons & episodes
S1 · E9L.A. Jay 1994-06-22 · 22 min
Jay is offered to write the screenplay for a new movie, Ghostchasers III, so he takes a break from his show to go to L.A. to write the new movie and experience Hollywood life but the movie producer isn't satisfied with Jay's script.
S1 · E10Dr. Jay 1994-06-29 · 22 min
Jay's boss, Duke, has just made a new invention, "Phillips-o-Vision" which alters movies to make them more "like-able". Jay is disgusted with Duke's invention but when Duke is discovered to have a fatal disease, Jay must find a cure for Duke's ailment.
S1 · E11A Day at the Races and a Night at the Opera 1994-07-06 · 22 min
After Marty fails to win an event at his school field day, he is feeling very low so Jay tries to improve his self-confidence by getting him interested in playing guitar and putting him in the school talent show. Meanwhile, Them Magazine names Jay "the wittiest man alive" so Duke offers to pay everyone who doesn't laugh at Jay's show $100 which doesn't go over very well.
S1 · E12Uneasy Rider 1994-07-13 · 22 min
After refusing to plug chewing tobacco on his show, Jay quits his job and becomes a truck driver.
S1 · E13A Pig Boy and His Dog 1994-07-20 · 22 min
"A Pig-Boy and His Dog" is the 13th episode of The Critic. This was the final episode to air on ABC.
S2 · E1Sherman, Woman and Child 1995-03-05 · 22 min
Jay's ratings are not doing very well and Duke is about to fire him so Jay is feeling depressed. His feelings become better when he meets a new girlfriend named Alice and her daughter Penny. Alice gives Jay tips on how to improve his show and her advice works. Jay wants to get to know Alice better but discovers she has a boyfriend whom she wants to reject but can't.
S2 · E2Siskel & Ebert & Jay & Alice 1995-03-12 · 22 min
After Jay attends the Academy Awards, Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert break up and each rope Jay to be their new partner.
S2 · E3Lady Hawke 1995-03-19 · 22 min
When Jeremy Hawke's sister, Olivia Newton Hawke, visits New York, Jay meets her and is smitten with her which puts his relationship with Alice on the line when she begins to feel left out. So Jay then must decide who he really loves.
S2 · E4A Song for Margo 1995-03-26 · 22 min
Margo gets a new neighbor, Johnny Wrath, who is the lead singer in the rock group, "Nuns in a Blender". Margo falls in love with him but doesn't feel the relationship is right when she finds him with another girl. Meanwhile Alice tries to find a suitable preschool for Penny.
S2 · E5From Chunk to Hunk 1995-04-02 · 22 min
Jay and Marty begin to feel a little big so they enroll in a weight loss camp. Marty loses a remarkable amount of weight which makes him feel more self- confident but when he is placed as the star in a school play, he doesn't feel his skinny self is right for him. Meanwhile, Jay receives a death threat from Belgian actor Jean Paul Le Pope whose movie he panned.
S2 · E6All the Duke's Men 1995-04-23 · 22 min
When Jay helps Marty become class president, Duke decides to have Jay help him become US President.
S2 · E7Sherman of Arabia 1995-04-30 · 22 min
At Marty's slumber party, Jay is asked to tell his story in which he got caught up in the Gulf War. Jay tells how he was attending an Iraqi film festival and eventually was thrown in jail where he escaped and lead a troop of men across the desert.
S2 · E8Frankie and Ellie Get Lost 1995-05-07 · 22 min
Franklin and Eleanor celebrate their 40th anniversary by going on vacation but the plane crashes and Franklin and Eleanor find themselves marooned on an island. Back in New York, Margo and Jay find out about their disappearance and discover they have willed Jay their entire fortune which Jay decides to put to use by cleaning up New York.
S2 · E9Dukerella 1995-05-14 · 22 min
Alice's sister, Miranda, comes to visit them which Alice is not comfortable with. Miranda must find work in New York so she joins "Mattress in an Hour" delivering mattresses. When everybody attends a party held by Duke, Miranda falls in love with Duke but is shy because of a wrinkle. She runs out on Duke at midnight and Duke must find the woman who fits her slipper. When it turns out to be Doris, Jay must get Duke and Miranda reunited.
S2 · E10I Can't Believe It's a Clip Show 1995-05-21 · 22 min
Jay is hosting his 10th anniversary show held at Carnegie Hall where he showcases a number of movie clips from old episodes such as Jurassic Park 2, Every Which Way but Lucid, and Rabbi P.I. The show is later held hostage by a number of terrorists who threaten to blow the place up with a bomb tied to Jay's waist. Fortunately, everybody is eventually rescued by Milton Berle.