RAISING HOPE - My Favorite Episodes
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- DirectorRebecca AsherStarsLucas NeffMartha PlimptonGarret DillahuntBored and increasingly desperate for a distraction even they can afford, Burt and Virginia try out various hobbies, until they agree improvisation acting fits them scoundrels. When Jimmy feels Sabrina a lost cause after her engagement with Wyatt, they also advise making her jealous of an imaginary perfect girl. Jimmy fails to wriggle out of a double date, so he needs to hire Mary-Louise from the acting class to play one. That proves harder but also more rewarding then expected.
- DirectorMike MarianoStarsLucas NeffMartha PlimptonGarret DillahuntVirginia plans her father's wedding in exchange for his paying for Hope's college tuition.
- DirectorRebecca AsherStarsLucas NeffMartha PlimptonGarret DillahuntBurt and Virginia get new back-fence neighbors, and Burt is convinced that there is something suspicious about them.
- 2010–201423mTV-148.3 (391)TV EpisodeDirectorEyal GordinStarsLucas NeffMartha PlimptonGarret DillahuntWhen a Social Services worker comes to visit when a complaint is filed against Hope, she becomes more interested in how Maw Maw's being treated; Meanwhile, Sabrina tries to get rid of Jimmy's favorite shirt.
- DirectorEyal GordinStarsLucas NeffMartha PlimptonGarret DillahuntBurt and Virginia repay an old debt.
- DirectorEyal GordinStarsLucas NeffMartha PlimptonGarret DillahuntWatching his 13-year-old self play the piano and singly beautifully, on home video, Jimmy sees through the claim that it was just a pianola, now broken. Virginia owns up to feeling guilty for having strangled Jimmy's talent, estranging him from his schoolmates, until a golf club from the air knocks Jimmy down and the musical talent out of him, later the subject of another confession. After consulting Dr. Finklestein, the Chances try to reconstruct the past, including Maw Maw's cruel and unorthodox tutoring methods, hoping Jimmy's memory may be restored. It seems to do so and Jimmy is bribed into the music school's annual concert, only to find out otherwise, yet there's a consolation prize to his taste.
- DirectorEyal GordinStarsLucas NeffMartha PlimptonGarret DillahuntBarney tells the team he loses each year's annual commercial competition for the store, so now he wants to recruit his employees to compete for this year's submission; unfortunately, flattery and considerations like fair-play, and team spirit, get in the way. As Hope's baby-monitor accidentally tunes into a neighbors house, eavesdropping Burt discovers Andrew is being abused by his tyrannical, impossible-to-please wife, Donna, and wants to help. Virginia is reluctant, not wanting to be seen as a nosy neighbor, but agrees to help (which proves harder then expected).
- DirectorMike MarianoStarsLucas NeffMartha PlimptonGarret DillahuntSurprises are in store for Hope and Jimmy.
- DirectorJace AlexanderStarsLucas NeffMartha PlimptonGarret DillahuntEvery year, supermarket manager Barney must chose an act for the 'Grocery-Palooza', a free show for the customers. Jimmy learns that one of the many, lame options is washed-up one-hit 'rock star' Smokey, Burt's teenager musical hero. The gang moves heaven and earth to see to it that Smokey is hired and Burt as his guitarist, only the life-long dream comes with matching stage-fright.
- DirectorRebecca AsherStarsLucas NeffMartha PlimptonGarret DillahuntJimmy and Sabrina tie the knot.
- DirectorEyal GordinStarsLucas NeffMartha PlimptonGarret DillahuntJimmy is delighted when Sabrina accepts to pay him a visit. None of his family wants to help make a good impression, but she seems charmed by all their dysfunctional family quirks. Mother insists on explaining all the stressed misery caused by the annual Chance family pictures, as it's time for another with baby Hope, but accepts to let Jimmy take her place as organizer.
- DirectorEyal GordinStarsLucas NeffMartha PlimptonGarret DillahuntBased on a block assembly toy, Jimmy and parents proudly assume Hope inherited her serial ma's IQ. Afraid of looking stupid to Sabrina as his daughter outsmarts him, Jimmy decides to return to high-school. Refusing to be left as the family's dumbest, his parents follow suit. Old teacher Mr. Swift remembers all three formerly abusive, unmotivated dropouts and enjoys humiliating them in class. Tutoring by Sabrina, Frank and Mawmaw helps Jimmy, Burt and Virginia, but only enough to pass in a few courses each. To avoid utter failure, they decide to cheat so at least Jimmy gets his G.E.D.
- DirectorTucker GatesStarsLucas NeffMartha PlimptonGarret DillahuntA remarkably recognizable movie forces the Chances to have a look at their own family life. For Jimmy, Maw-Maw's spirit takes him on a frightening journey to an alternative future, if he hadn't met Hope's mother and hence remained childless. the consequences prove surprisingly grave for just about every relative and even his supermarket colleagues.
- DirectorEyal GordinStarsLucas NeffMartha PlimptonGarret DillahuntIn a revolutionary mood, Sabrina starts a wide protest, but once the police arrives her followers invoke excuses one by one, even Jimmy deserts. Stubbornly provoking arrest, she lands in a prison. Her block is handled by jealous, frustrated jailer Rikki Hargrove, who feels deserted by her since their girl scouts days and seizes her chance to make Sabrina sweat. Hell-bent on preserving mayor Suzie Hellmann as Hope's sole female role model, Virginia saves the corrupt crazy bitch's bacon. As a reward, Burt extracts three wishes for the family. He squanders his on a stop sign, she hers on a cooler park for the barrio, but when Jimmy tries to use his to free Sabrina, Suzie, dumped by businessman Richard Galleria, demands a date with the cute Chance and turns on the family when politely turned down for fidelity's sake.
- DirectorMichael FrescoStarsLucas NeffMartha PlimptonGarret DillahuntWhen Jimmy returns to work, he hires Sabrina's cousin Shelley - a/k/a "Dead Tooth" - to babysit Hope. Meanwhile, Burt tries to get Virginia to quit smoking.
- DirectorMichael FrescoStarsLucas NeffMartha PlimptonGarret DillahuntJimmy refuses to let Burt sell the last of the stock of hottest toy he arranges each Christmas, demanding it for Hope, remembering how hard it was to sit by the pile himself. Burt's promise is as worthless as ever, and when he finally agrees, the only childless client, supermarket executive Barney, proves a hard nut. Jimmy ultimately allows Virginia to sign up Hope, and thus all the Chances, for the annual live church nativity crib, despite his trauma having been dragged to every performance just so she could get on stage, as a way to fight the stigma of serial killer's child. However they didn't count on the Asian new parishioners.
- DirectorEyal GordinStarsLucas NeffMartha PlimptonGarret DillahuntSabrina goes green.
- DirectorMike MarianoStarsLucas NeffMartha PlimptonGarret DillahuntBurt wants to be elected the interim Mayor of Natesville so that Virginia will have the honor of plugging in the town Christmas tree. But being mayor turns Burt into a Grinch.
- DirectorEyal GordinStarsLucas NeffMartha PlimptonGarret DillahuntA thirteen-year-old kid makes a run for Sabrina, which drives Jimmy absolutely crazy. Meanwhile, Maw Maw swallows her gold tooth and Burt and Virginia contemplate retrieving it.