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Raising Hope Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 2010 - 2011
Episode 1
Pilot
Tue, Sep 21, 201023 mins
When well-meaning 23-year-old Jimmy Chance has a one-night stand with a wanted felon, he ends up being a dad to a bouncing baby girl. Inspired to do the right thing by his daughter, he has to convince his less-than-enthusiastic parents and great-grandmother to help him raise her.
Episode 2
Dead Tooth
Tue, Sep 28, 201021 mins
Jimmy finally masters getting Hope to sleep, with some parental support. Attractive supermarket teller clerk Sabrina has the hots for him, and recommends her ugly cousin Shelley's cheap children - pets and seniors day care center. Alas, her willingness to mind Hope for free ends.
Episode 3
Dream Hoarders
Tue, Oct 5, 201021 mins
When Jimmy "teaches" Hope to crawl, the family must baby-proof the house and find new places to store their belongings. It's soon revealed that Virginia is a hoarder and has been saving junk in the storage shed, which becomes Hope's favorite new hiding place.
Episode 4
Say Cheese
Tue, Oct 12, 201022 mins
Jimmy 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.
Episode 5
Happy Halloween
Tue, Oct 26, 201022 mins
Sabrina's boyfriend can't make it to the deli guy's Halloween party, so Jimmy offers to put on his costume and go in his place. Virginia takes Maw Maw, who is dressed as a cat, trick-or-treating while Burt plots ways to play tricks on Jimmy.
Episode 6
Family Secrets
Tue, Oct 26, 201021 mins
Jimmy's parents would never show Hope the blatantly explicit videotapes her executed ma left as a legacy, but he's determined to respect both girls. He might reconsider when tireless efforts to get the 'worst family secret' from great-granny Maw Maw.
Episode 7
The Sniffles
Tue, Nov 9, 201022 mins
When the doctor refuses to comment on Hope's symptoms, probably just a cold, without insurance data, Jimmy is shocked to learn his family never got some. Trying to buy potentially addictive cough-syrup at the supermarket, inspires Jimmy to seek employment there, as it comes with insurance.
Episode 8
Blue Dots
Tue, Nov 16, 201022 mins
After it becomes painfully clear that Hope starts imitating her canine companions in the day care center, Jimmy decides it's his duty to get her into a prestigious kindergarten, which is way beyond the Chances' means, so their only hope is the single scholarship for the underprivileged.
Episode 9
Meet the Grandparents
Tue, Nov 23, 201022 mins
Jimmy wants Hope's first Thanksgiving to be an all-American traditional family dinner, not the Chances' mere pizza. Jimmy even insists to invites the maternal grandparents, Dr. Dale and his wife Margine, who went crazy out of grief over their daughter's crime and execution.
Episode 10
Burt Rocks
Tue, Nov 30, 201022 mins
Every year, supermarket manager Barney must chose an act for the 'Grocery-Palooza', a free show for the customers. Meanwhile, Jimmy learns that one of the many, lame options is washed-up one-hit 'rock star' Smokey, Burt's teenager musical hero.
Episode 11
Toy Story
Tue, Dec 7, 201030 mins
Jimmy 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, supermarket executive Barney, proves a hard nut.
Episode 12
Romeo and Romeo
Tue, Feb 8, 201130 mins
Jimmy is delighted when he finally meets fellow single father in the supermarket, so he agrees with Justin their kids should get play dates, despite lack of support on the Chase home front. It turns out Justin's far less dysfunctional family is also snobbish, end employs Virginia as cleaner.
Episode 13
A Germ of a Story
Tue, Feb 15, 201121 mins
Jimmy lets hygiene-obsessed Sabrina and her detection use of the store's black-light to identify counterfeit banknotes convince him germs are an omnipresent health treat. Faced with bright blue proof all over the house, the Chances start cleaning like mad, only to find mad Maw Maw undoes it all in no time.
Episode 14
What Up, Cuz?
Tue, Feb 22, 201130 mins
The Chances get caught in Virginia's web of lies when her cousin Delilah, whom she told Maw-Maw was dead, turns up to claim her share of the estate, her business being wiped out by the crisis. Their rivalry started when Delilah, who was spoiled and better at everything else.
Episode 15
Snip Snip
Tue, Mar 1, 201121 mins
Barely reconciled with having to help care for Jimmy's baby, Burt and Virginia realize their unsafe sex is no longer acceptable. Burt defends his manhood but is outvoted, so Jimmy drags him to Dr. Burwitz for a vasectomy and patiently humors him to get the surgery done.
Episode 16
The Cultish Personality
Tue, Mar 8, 201121 mins
The Chances prepare to host once more Burt's cousin Mike, a hopeless loser even by their standards. Yet they find him a changed man, as neat member of a loony sect, one of Tanya's four 'brother-husbands'. Jimmy is inadvertently attracted by their neat, apparently harmonious 'fraternity'.
Episode 17
Mongooses
Tue, Mar 15, 201122 mins
Realizing the three adult Chances are klutzes and a danger to themselves, Jimmy worries whether Hope will be taken care of after an accident. After an attempt to have them teach each other 'survival tricks' collapses in bickering, Jimmy drags his parents to dodgy lawyer Wally Phipps.
Episode 18
Cheaters
Tue, Apr 19, 201122 mins
Jimmy hopes gullible Sabrina's boyfriend Wyatt may be cheating on her in college, so he insists to go with her to Wyatt's frat's wild costume party, but conclusive evidence is perilously hard to find. In order to have contact with generation peers, Maw Maw goes to Dead Tooth's daycare.
Episode 19
Sleep Training
Tue, Apr 26, 201130 mins
Jimmy's initial shrugging of sneers not to pick up Hope whenever she cries turns after his parents explain the theory his sissy shyness stems from a youth of blindly trusting in parental rescue from every danger. Burt must give Hope 'sleep training'.
Episode 20
Everybody Flirts... Sometimes
Tue, May 3, 201122 mins
Jimmy finds that Barney sticks him with dirty chores because Sabrina abuses her female charms. Burt always enjoyed some harmless shirtless flirting with his man-loving customers, but after Virginia gets wind of that and his female clientèle knows she knows, the baton has to be passed on to bachelor Jimmy.
Episode 21
Baby Monitor
Tue, May 10, 201130 mins
Barney 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.
Episode 22
Don't Vote for This Episode
Tue, May 17, 201123 mins
At 23, Jimmy doesn't mind sharing his birthday with Maw Maw, although it was hell when he was a kid and she had lots of friends and he had none. When he turned 18 during his nasty Goth period, she "finally" felt able to throw the Chance trio out of her home.
