Season
by Fred Savage, Josh Saviano, Danica McKellar, Dan Lauria, Olivia D'Abo and 15 others
The second season of The Wonder Years aired on ABC from November 30, 1988 to May 16, 1989.
(9 total)
Characters
“In junior high school there were days when you felt like nothing was worth getting out of bed for. But then, you remembered...you were going to see her...Your day was gonna have all these moments...moments that were full of...possibility. When you were sure that something—something...was going to ha…”
— Matthew Carlson, Narrator (Adult Kevin), Daniel Stern, imdb.com
“When you are a little kid, you are a bit of everything—artist, scientist, athlete, scholar. Sometimes, it seems life is like a process of giving those things up, one by one. I guess we all have one thing we regret giving up. One thing we really miss. And we gave up because we were too lazy. We could…”
— Todd W. Langen, Narrator (Adult Kevin), Daniel Stern, imdb.com
“Sometimes...when you're a kid...you lie awake at night and ponder the kinds of questions that grownups have long since stopped asking. Questions like—What did it feel like to be dead? Are time and space really infinite? What was there before the universe began? Why are there people like Wayne?”
— Matthew Carlson, Narrator (Adult Kevin), Daniel Stern, imdb.com
“It's hard to imagine being twelve years old...and going without certain things. Like three months off in the summertime. Or a good bicycle to cruise the neighborhood on. More than anything though, it's hard to imagine being twelve years old...and not having a best-friend like Paul Pfeiffer. Paul was…”
— David M. Stern, Narrator (Adult Kevin), Daniel Stern, imdb.com
“The silence that filled our house that night - was like ice. My dad didn't come home till after midnight. [Next morning, Norma burns her hand on the iron and starts to cry. Jack gently puts his hands on her shoulders. She turns around and they hug] I know it sounds strange - but that was the first t…”
— Matthew Carlson, Narrator (Adult Kevin), Daniel Stern, imdb.com
“As seventh grade wore on, I began to have nightmares. I'm walking into a sort of a—a cave. A long dark tunnel. I think Paul and Winnie are with me. But then—then—they're not. I'm all alone. I don't even want to go into the cave—I'm, I'm terrified. But I just know that I have to keep going—deeper, an…”
— Carol Black, Neal Marlens, Narrator (Adult Kevin), Daniel Stern, imdb.com
“In all the years I spent growing up at my parents' house, I don't think I ever heard them use the word 'relationship'. Not once. 'Indigestion'... 'taxes'... 'damn' - these were words you heard a lot. I guess my mom just expected my dad to be a good man - honest, loyal, a good provider... hopefully p…”
— Matthew Carlson, Narrator (Adult Kevin), Daniel Stern, imdb.com
“Nineteen sixty-eight was a strange and passionate time. Things that had seemed impossible were happening all around us. The events of those days brought every emotion to the surface. We felt things strongly then. And we felt them together. I guess we all got caught up in it. Even me. And Miss White.…”
— Michael J. Weithorn, Narrator (Adult Kevin), Daniel Stern, imdb.com