Selena » Wizards of Waverly Place • Season 2
2.01 Smarty Pants
Original Airdate: September 12, 2008
Summary: Alex joins best friend Harper for the Tribeca Quiz Bowl, an academic decathlon. To help give her an edge in the competition Alex wears magical "smarty pants," which give her superior knowledge on everything there is to know. The team is winning, but Alex's cheating could cost Harper the opportunity to academically lose. After she takes off her pants, she realizes that she has skeleton legs because she had the pants on too long. Meanwhile, Max and his friend Alfred think they can sell bottled water from the school's water fountain that everybody says tastes the best.
2.02 Beware Wolf
Original Airdate: September 21, 2008
Summary: Justin falls for a new girl who he met on WizFace, however what he doesn't know is that she is a werewolf, and it is revealed that he took a Centaur to WizProm. When he kisses her, he becomes a werewolf as well. Meanwhile, Max and Alfred start a dog-walking business to earn money for cups on a chain.
2.03 Graphic Novel
Original Airdate: October 5, 2008
Summary: Justin and Max steal Alex's diary only to have it stolen again by Gigi, Alex's arch nemesis. In an attempt to recover the diary, the brothers accidentally place Gigi inside the book and into Alex's secret fairy-tale princess world.
2.04 Racing
Original Airdate: October 12, 2008
Summary: Alex has a crush on a "gear head" type guy Dean and plots to gain his interest by asking Jerry if he can fix up his old junky car.Dean not only fixes the car but enters it in an upcoming race.
NOTE: This episode marks one full year since the show's premiere.
2.05 Alex's Brother, Maximan
Original Airdate: October 19, 2008
Summary: Alex goes on her first date with Dean at the roller rink. She had heard rumors about the corner of the roller rink which they call "Dean's Corner". Rumor is that is where he kisses girls. Alex kisses him after she promises not to leave him but then Justin comes and tells Alex that Max is trying to stop the deli robber. Alex must leave the roller rink to help Max which makes Dean upset. The kids find out the deli robber was just their dad trying to teach them a lesson about working together.
NOTE: This episode will first air in the UK on October 17 as part of Wiz-tober.
2.06 Saving WizTech - Part 1
Original Airdate: October 26, 2008
Summary: WizTech is forced to close since a whole lot of plastic balls have mysteriously appeared, and we find out plastic is a weakness to wizards, so it is up to Justin to save WizTech from closing. The Russo family agree to take in Professor Crumbs and some of WizTech's students, including Hugh Normus, a character from previous two part special Wizard School (see above) and fellow student Ronald Longcape Junior, who quickly develops a magical connection with Alex. Ronald's dad is evil and Ronald tries to prove to Alex and Justin that he is not as evil as his dad. Max teaches Professor Crumbs how to assimilate into the mortal world, and Justin saves the day by finding the solution to reopen WizTech. Ronald turns into Dean and puts the real Dean in a blob of Jello. Ronald acts like Dean and breaks up with Alex and invites her to stay with him in WizTech school. Alex agrees.
NOTE: This episode first aired in the UK on October 17 as part of Wiz-tober.
2.07 Saving WizTech - Part 2
Original Airdate: October 26, 2008
Summary: After enrolling in WizTech, Alex realizes her new crush, Ronald, has kidnapped her former boyfriend, Dean. Alex is turned evil during a game of tether ball. Alex saves Dean from being stuck in Jell-o and Justin, Max and Alex must team up to save WizTech from falling into the hands of evil Ronald and his not really-evil father.
NOTE: This episode first aired in the UK on October 17 as part of Wiz-tober.
2.08 Harper Knows
Original Airdate: November 23, 2008
Summary: The Russo family is on an assignment at PopCon, a popular comic-book and movie convention. They are on the look out for rogue wizards who may be using their magic. Alex and her siblings go as a special wizards-in-training assginment and Harper comes along for the costume contest. Alex begins to feel guilty for lying and keeping secrets, and she's tired from using up all of her energy to keep the secret. Will she be able to keep the secret, or is time for her best friend to know the truth?
2.09 Taxi Dance
Original Airdate: December 7, 2008
Summary: When Cab number 804 is retired, Alex charms it back to life in order for her and her family to continue to cherish the memory that she was born in it. But when the Cab decides to remain by Alex's side at all times, she and Justin must figure out how to get rid of it and together they convince the Cab to go back to work and service others. Harper is starting to learn about wizard magic, and gets scared when Alex uses it. Meanwhile, Max charms a gurney to come to life. The animation spell is used to make the objects come to life and follow and talk to you.
2.10 Baby Cupid
Original Airdate: December 14, 2008
Summary: Jerry and Theresa's anniversary plans are ruined over a fight about magic which prompts Alex to summon Cupid. When Justin reminds her that magic started the fight, Alex tries to hide Cupid from her mom by claiming that he is a life like doll from her Marriage and Family class. Cupid's return gets delayed after Max accidentally breaks his arrow and it strikes Justin. Harper finally asks Justin out and he accepts because he got hit by the love arrow, and Harper is excited until this "new" Justin starts to bug her, and she starts to miss the "old" Justin that didn't return her feelings.
2.11 Make it Happen
Original Airdate: January 1, 2009
Summary: Jerry instructs his kids to each select an alternate career in the event that they do not become wizards. He ends up disappointed with their choices when Max chooses to be a magician, and Alex and Justin decide to form a band. In the end, he appraises them for following their dreams because he didn't follow his own, which was to be a bull rider.
2.12 Fairy Tale
Original Airdate: Janury 25, 2009
Summary: Justin casts Harper as Tinkerbell when he directs a school production of "Peter Pan," but Alex must play the role when Harper becomes injured. Alex then gets a real fairy to play her part, but she gets busted.
2.13 Fashion Week
Original Airdate: February 15, 2009
Summary: Alex helps Harper care for a famous designer's couture gown during fashion week, but she accidentally ruins it and must resort to magic to fix things.
2.14 Helping Hand
Original Airdate: February 16, 2009
Summary: Justin invents a "helping hand" designed to assist elderly people in order to earn an official spell certificate, but Alex wears the device out by having it do her chores before Justin can present it to the spell superintendent.
2.15 Art Teacher
Original Airdate: March 1, 2009
Summary: Alex bonds with a new art teacher, who turns out to be a teenager, Jenny, under a spell. Alex changes her back into a teenager, but with no teacher art class is cancelled. Alex manages to convince Mr. Laritate of how important art is, and he promises to get them a new teacher. Meanwhile, Max gets out of gym class by inventing a disease called Mono-oranegeosis, which makes him unable to see the color orange. This fake disease gets him sympathy from celebrities like Dwayne Johnson and Misty Mae-Treanor.
2.16 Future Harper
Original Airdate: March 15, 2009
Summary: Alex, Justin and Max discover that a famous author (Rachel Dratch) is using their lives as the premise for her best-selling book series, Charmed and Dangerous. However, the wizards are shocked learning that the author, H.J. Darling, is really Harper from the future. She traveled back in time to write about wizards, since in the future they have been outed and are not so interesting. Alex is enraged that Harper has been writing books about her without permission. Future Harper tells Justin that he must convince Alex to give Past Harper permission to write the series. In the end of the episode, Selena Gomez and Rob Reiner comically talk about the importance of reading.
2.17 Alex Does Good
Original Airdate: April 5, 2009
Summary: When Alex is sent to the principal's office for the umpteenth time, Mr. Laritate makes her join the "Happy Helpers Club" under the threat of suspension. However, Alex is disgusted when she discovers that the club actually only does mundane everyday tasks for other people (pushing an elevator button, for example) rather than actual good deeds, and they are only doing said deeds for rewards. Alex talks to her older friend, Maggie, who gives her advice. Meanwhile, Max goes on his first date, and learns the importance of being yourself.
2.18 Hugh's Not Normous
Original Airdate: April 12, 2009
Summary: Jerry tells Alex that she must be nice to people. When Hugh Normous, a young giant, shows up at the lair, having run away from home, Alex decides to "be nice" by hiding him from her parents while she helps to locate his birth parents. Meanwhile, Max tried to get back at Alex for all her cruel pranks.
2.19 Don't Rain On Justin's Parade - Earth
Original Airdate: April 19, 2009
Summary: When Justin attempts to use Magic to make his mentor Baxter Knight's weather predictions come true, he angers Mother Nature and winds up with his own personal rain cloud. Meanwhile, Alex partners up with Mr. Laritate as Deputy Russo and suddenly turns "good". Justin asks her for help, and the two are lectured by Mother Nature on the importance of helping the environment.
2.20 Family Game Night
Original Airdate: April 26, 2009
Summary: In order to pass a history test, Alex switches brains with Harper. There is a glitch, however, and the two cannot switch back. Justin is harassed by a girl, Daphne, who insists they are dating. To drive her away, Justin invites to Daphne to Russo Family Game Night, an infamous event that usually "ends in crime scene tape" due to the Russos' loud fighting. Meanwhile, Alex and Harper are still having trouble with the body switching spell - Alex winds up with two brains in her head, while a brainless Harper is tied up in Alex's bedroom. Needless to say, the game night ends in disaster, much to Justin's delight.
2.21 Justin's New Girlfriend
Original Airdate: May 2, 2009
Summary: Harper and Justin bond over a silent movie festival. Alex makes fun of them by saying that they're dating. However, determined to keep her brother and best friend from dating, Alex sabotages their relationship. It all escalades into a black-and-white costumed chase scene, after which Justin tells Harper that he enjoys attending movies with her as long as she isn't chasing after him.
2.22 My Tutor, Tutor
Original Airdate: May 29, 2009
Summary: Alex and Justin start bonding with Max's new tutor, Tutor. But when they find out that she is going to leave when Max is done, they purposely cause their little brother to fail just so Tutor will stay. At the end they found out she is a half-elf and that is why they both liked her.
2.23 Paint By Committee
Original Airdate: June 26, 2009
Summary: Alex is chosen to paint a mural for her school. But when the committee pitches ideas that do not match her ideas for the mural she uses magic on the mural so when they look at it they see whatever they want to, but when Justin finds out that Alex used magic he uses magic to put her mural on the wall. The committee is unhappy with her decision, but she says that she is going to go her own way with the mural.
2.24 Wizard for a Day
Original Airdate: July 10, 2009
Summary: It is Jerry's birthday so Justin gives him a magical pencil holder and Max was going to go with his annual cat, but decides to go with Justin's pencil sharpener. When Alex looks for a gift better that Justin's she goes to the wizard world and gets the Merlin hat which grants any wish for a day. Jerry wishes for a box of pencils and for a Milky Way Milkshake from the Asteroid Belt. Alex then thinks that his wishes are silly so she uses the hat to turn the Sub Station into the Asteroid Belt. It brings in a lot of customers and Jerry makes their shift go up and makes them wear goofy costumes. A day later, the aliens heard that the milky way milkshake machine has reopened and wants to take it. Justin then uses one of the alien's laser guns to get rid of the hat which makes everything disappear.
2.25 Cast-Away (To Another Show)
Original Airdate: July 17, 2009
Summary: Justin is excited to meet London Tipton when he wins an essay contest prize: a cruise on the SS Tipton. Theresa and Jerry say Alex can't go because of her 14 absent assignments. Alex (who eventually sneaks away, but is caught and agrees to take classes on board) and Max join Justin onboard, where Alex bonds with new friend Bailey Pickett, but soon gets in hot water when she uses magic to bring Harper aboard. Meanwhile, Max and Zack, (who has developed a massive crush on Alex), compete in a series of outrageous challenges. Alex says that she is Ashley Olsen so she won't get caught skipping classes. But gets caught after mistaking her name and telling Mr. Moseby that her real name is Ashley Simpson. In the 2nd episode, Double Crossed, when Alex gets sick of Justin's attitude, she puts blue dye in the hot tub to prank him. At the end of the episode, Alex is caught when Justin pours water on her hand. When it turns blue, Alex gets exposed and must not do any more pranks while on the cruise. Max plays with a Magic Bag is making fun of Felix The Cat who also has a magic bag.
2.26 Wizards vs. Vampires on Waverly Place
Original Airdate: July 24, 2009
Summary: When a new sandwich shop (the Late Nite Bite) opens in Waverly Place, Justin falls in love with the owner's daughter, Juliet Van Heusen. But when the Russos finds out that they are vampires both parents say they can't date. Meanwhile, Alex tries to get rid of Max because of his annoying impressions and tries to send him to an underwater camp for the summer, but her plan blows up when Justin finally tells his parents about him and Juliet. In the end, both parents allow their children to date each other again.
2.27 Wizards vs. Vampires: Tasty Bites
Original Airdate: July 31, 2009
Summary: When Juliet comes over for Dinner at the Russo Family's house, she convinces them that Vampires are "health" conscious, so they start eating Healthy. Upset 'bout the Healthiness, Alex and Harper both get part time shifts at the Late Nite Bite where they over hear Alucard & Cindy talk' 'bout how younger vampires get humans to eat healthy before drnking their "delicious" blood. Alex runs off and tells Justin. As Justin thinks it, Juliet knows her parents' plot of biting Alex. When Justin, Juliet, Theresa and Jerry intervenes, Max comes in with Pumpkin Scent. And Juliet explains a vampire's "Worst Fear," than "Garlic."
2.28 Wizards vs. Vampires: Dream Date
Original Airdate: August 7, 2009
Summary: When Dean moves away, Alex decides to show up in Dean's dreams. A few months later he comes back. When Alex goes on their date, Dean pays more attention to the arcade than her, and Alex attempts to break up with him. She pretends to be a slob so that Dean breaks up with her, but he said it was no big deal after she blurted it out. Alex goes into his dreams one more time to find out how Dean really feels. Meanwhile, when Juliet asks Justin to go on vacation with her and her family, he doesn't want to go and lies to her.
2.29 Wizards & Vampires vs. Zombies
Original Airdate: August 8, 2009
Summary: Justin promises Juliet an unforgettable prom date. But when Alex organizes a zombie-themed anti-prom, Alex gives Max flyers to hand out and he accidentally sends the zombie prom flyers to the wizard world with a permission slip to test out a no fear ring, and real zombies arrive. Meanwhile, Harper and Zeke go to the prom together. At the prom Justin serenades Juliet and asks her to go steady with him. After that Max, Alex, Harper, Justin, Zeke, and Juliet get in a dance off with the zombies to get them to leave. In the end Justin and Juliet have a special moment together, slow dancing and kissing after Juliet agrees to go steady with Justin.
2.30 Retest
Original Airdate: August 21, 2009
Summary: Jerry and his siblings, Kelbo and Megan (Jerry revealed to the kids they have an aunt), need to retake the Wizard test that, in their teen years, determined who got to keep their powers. When Alex, Justin and Max see how competitive the contest gets, they realize the same test could eventually tear their family apart as well. Through the entire episode each one of them gets compared to a relative. Max to Kelbo, Alex to Megan, Justin to their dad, and Harper to their Mom. In the end Justin says Alex is nothing like Megan because Alex apologized and that's something Megan never learned to do.








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