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Raising Hope Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 2012 - 2013
Episode 1
Not Indecent, But Not Quite Decent Enough Proposal
Tue, Oct 2, 201222 mins
The chances meet Sabrina's family.
Episode 2
Throw Maw Maw from the House, Part One
Tue, Oct 9, 201223 mins
A complaint is filed against the way the Chance family treats Maw- maw in her own home. They try to convince or show the social worker that all is in good faith and to general satisfaction, but fail, so a residential alternative is ordered.
Episode 3
Throw Maw Maw from the House, Part Two
Tue, Oct 16, 201222 mins
Virginia feels terribly guilty for letting Maw-maw down, so the Chance couples resolve to free her from the residential home back to her and their house. The plan rests on Jimmy, posing as a great illusionist, smuggling in his parents. When they see the professional, devoted staff at work, Virginia changes her mind and they leave. Later, the social worker calls for their help as Maw-Maw is holding her and other cats hostage.
Episode 4
If a Ham Falls in the Woods
Tue, Oct 23, 201222 mins
When Burt and Virginia hear about the rich man-holiday trappings of reverend Bob's parish retreats for future couples, they arrange to go along with Jimmy and Sabrina. The seniors do better in the weird tests, based on long experience which each-other's quirks, while Sabrina can't stand loosing badly almost non-stop. As a consequence, they also miss out on the luxury bungalows and must sleep in a tacky mobile home. A parental attempt to lift their spirits again goes dangerously wrong, yet under stress true love can shine trough.
Episode 5
Don't Ask, Don't Tell Me What to Do
Tue, Oct 30, 201222 mins
It's Halloween party time. Burt promises to teach Jimmy how to party and takes him to what turns out to be a gay nightclub. Burt really takes to it, and Virginia agrees he can have a boys' night out when she plays cards with women. Still, she gets jealously curious enough to sneak in dressed as a man.
Episode 6
What Up, Bro?
Tue, Nov 13, 201222 mins
When Jimmy finds out that his parents initially gave him up for adoption but soon repented, he wants to meet his 'other' family, especially as it includes the big brother he always wanted, Brad Jenkins, now a successful real estate broker. On home advice, he poses as a rich potential client, but gets on so well with Brad that he eagerly accepts a country club invitation with his parents, who soon give the game away, after which the Jenkins' snob masks fall.
Episode 7
Candy Wars
Tue, Nov 20, 201222 mins
Jimmy and Sabrina are surprised to find his parents unwilling to help Hope win the place of honor on the pageant float at Natesville's annual radish festival, Jimmy's first public moment of glory as a kid, by selling most candy. They learn it's because the rivalry with Virginia's Latina cleaning colleague Roas's family escalated to a near-civil war. Finding Rosa's grandkid in the running against the solemn peace pledge, Maw-maw is mobilizes to produce her secret, irresistible chocolate with bacon fat, but the feared escalation sets a new record.
Episode 8
The Walk for the Runs
Tue, Nov 27, 201222 mins
Barney calls on his staff to help with a charity run for his bravely-disclosed bowl syndrome. Jimmy steps up, but hoped his parents wouldn't tells Sabrina he had the 'runs' as a child, whenever they asked him to settle their endless bickering. After bumping into her as bitter ex Wyatt's family in a sushi bar, Sabrina is hell-bent on keeping even his gifts, notably an ice-makes, and concludes a bet on whether he or Jimmy will win the charity run, stirring excessive parental support.
Episode 9
Squeak Means Squeak
Tue, Dec 4, 201222 mins
Jimmy complains that Sabrina never does any of the difficult parenting work with Hope, but she seizes an opportunity when Jimmy and Barney join Natesville's auxiliary police force for the day. Meanwhile, Virginia and Burt try to catch a squirrel that's be
Episode 10
The Last Christmas
Tue, Dec 11, 201221 mins
For two years, the Chance boys indulged Victoria's superstitious belief that the world would end when the Mayan calender runs out, hording apocalyptic survival supplies. Now the day arrives, but it's just before Christmas, and Jimie refuses to miss out on Hope's first. The compromise is to hold an early Christmas, and the real if the world survives. Ultimately Burt misses out on his prize for pretending, a love night to end all time, when Jimie gives the game away. Victoria persists that time is ending, even grumpy when it doesn't, but when Rosa, who inspired her and spend the 'last day' at Disneyworld, returns broke, the provisions are still put to good use.
Episode 11
Credit Where Credit Is Due
Tue, Jan 8, 201322 mins
Jimmy's rust bucket being too unsafe to drive Hope around, Sabrina convinces him to buy a new car, even if that means his first-ever loan. The Chance parents however talk him out of taking a loan, snapping up the second-hand DeLorean they all consider a dream car as Jimmy's budget only stretches to another near-wreck. Sabrina gets him eager to borrow after all, but then they find his credit rating is 'no way', due to 'identity heft' by his parents when he was a toddler. So the family confronts credit rating official Dennis Powers, who hates their irresponsible type but loves children and DeLoreans.
Episode 12
Lord of the Ring
Tue, Jan 15, 201322 mins
Jimmy can't afford a precious engagement ring, as even Burt advises, but since Sabrina claims to want none, thinks he can make up by proposing in an original way, alas advised by Frank. Virginia wants to give him her ring, but didn't expect Burt would ask about it, unlike many times she pawned it, and pretends it's stolen, but Burt brings in horny officer Ross. With Jimmy looking there for an affordable ring, the pawnshop gets extremely busy.
Episode 13
What Happens at Howdy's Doesn't Stay at Howdy's
Tue, Jan 22, 201322 mins
Groom Jimmy, Burt and assorted irresponsible mates have a wild bachelor party as Howdy's, which gets way out of hand. Frank ends up with a valid gay marriage license, which he uses to prevent Jimmy from marrying in his view less loving Sabrina. Wally Phipps is hired a s lawyer both to demand and prevent an annulment. Jimmy ends up signing up for a trial period, after which he may choose, but finds Frank free of Sabrina's flaws and far more accommodating to his own, unlike his family.
Episode 14
Modern Wedding
Tue, Jan 29, 201322 mins
Jimmy's wedding day his finally arrived, but as the camera team hired by his mother in law, who refuses to attend, records, the Chance family and their festively bumbling Howdies team aren't nearly ready. After bickering with Burt over a fit wedding present, Virginia finds she failed to arrange the marriage license in time. Worse, Jimmy is still married as Lucy survived a second time and is held at home by her father Dale, but escapes just now and wants to grab Jimmy back or kill the couple.
Episode 15
Yo Zappa Do: Part 1
Tue, Jan 29, 201322 mins
The Chance parents reach the limit of do it self when even Burt is electrocuted too often trying to do electrical wiring with a Spanish-only manual. So they go hire an illegal Hispanic, but bump into former sports star Ricardo, now homeless, who quickly gets himself 'invited' and practically takes over the household. Barney donates air-miles so the newlywed can go on honeymoon to California, but Jimmy can't overcome his flying phobia, so Barney promises to drive them and put them up at his stepson's Hollywood villa, as Trevor, once Jimmy's juvenile rival for Sabrina, is now a TV star. In L.A., everybody gets disappointed.
Episode 16
Yo Zappa Do: Part 2
Tue, Feb 5, 201321 mins
Jimmy gets to play an embarrassing part next to Hope, who seems on her way, despite Virginia's excessive merchandising, to outshine star 'magician' Trevor, whose revenge is merciless. Meanwhile Barey accompanies Maw Maw on her mission of revenge on the whore who seduced her late husband, but she's deceased, so her widower becomes her target while Barney falls in love with their granddaughter.
Episode 17
Sex, Clown and Videotape
Tue, Feb 5, 201322 mins
When Burt and Virginia discover that their storage locker is up for auction, they also realize they have misplaced a personal and incriminating home video that has fallen into the hands of another couple. Sabrina tries to get to the bottom of Jimmy?s epic sleepwalking habit.
Episode 18
Arbor Daze
Tue, Feb 19, 201322 mins
The Chance's show Sabrina their preferred, generally-neglected public holiday: Arbor Day, like many celebrated in freaky way since Jimmy was a gifts-bereft toddler, yet pleasured by their daft costumes and Beverly Hills 90210 series 2 marathon. When she rages at the eco-criminal finale, stealing saplings, she makes Jimmy promise to abandon it. Later she comes to reconsider, learning even more about both families' traditions.
Episode 19
Making the Band
Tue, Feb 26, 201322 mins
Jimmy and Sabrina plan Hope's 3rd birthday party; rockstar Smokey Floyd returns from rehab and tells Burt & Virginia that he has a list of all the wrongs he's done to people, and that they're on it. So, the three of them form a rock band with neighbors Donna & Andrew, delivery man Tyler, birthday performer Valentina, and Barney.
Episode 20
The Old Girl
Tue, Feb 26, 201322 mins
When foxy Rachel, a girl from Jimmie's childhood, turns up to visit, the Chance parents reluctantly come to realize it's no longer possible to hide from Jimmie how they constantly 'protected' him against a broken heart, and themselves from nursing it, by preventively scaring off girls 'out of his league'.
Episode 21
Burt Mitzvah: The Musical
Thu, Mar 28, 201322 mins
When Burt's parents arrive for another uneasy visit, his mother Christine claims to have discovered being a Jewess and having embraced the Hebrew faith, hence demands her son does so by having a belated Bar Mitzhva. Burts accepts after consulting local Jewish acquaintances, even Virgina learns some kosher cooking. Rabbi Zwerin gives the idiot a crash course, but on the very day his parents admit having invented the whole thing to win back the gifts they gave to others as guests over the years at weddings and such events.
Episode 22
Mother's Day
Thu, Mar 28, 201322 mins
On Mother's Day, the Chance boys set out to treat their mothers and even track down Maw-Maw's Norma June, whom they ignored being alive, eagerly helped by Barney, but find the crone no less amnesiac and vicious. Virginia is jealous of Sabrina getting the present 'from Hope', feeling she's raising her granddaughter with the boys, but comes to realize that Sabrina is worse off with such a useless mother of her own.