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* NeverMyFault: Jimmy. He blames his parents' for not having a higher education, having a successful career or making his own decision in life. While yes Virginia and Burt's parenting were questionable, they are not entirely at fault for Jimmy current life.
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** The divorce ritual of Mike's cult involves the wife kicking the divorcee in the nads.
** Stage three of waking Jimmy up, as Burt reveals, involves a hot drink. Guess where applied?
** Stage three of waking Jimmy up, as Burt reveals, involves a hot drink. Guess where applied?
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** Lampshaded by Cousin Mike in a flashback during "Last Christmas", who mentions his greatest fear is "Dying. Being there one day and gone the next, completely forgotten".
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** A rare case of [[{{Bowdlerise}} bowdlerising]] being a JustifiedTrope. Cause the original videos are [[HarmfulToMinors harmful to EVERYONE]].
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* BumblingDad: Oddly averted. Both Burt and Jimmy are as proficient at parenting as anyone else in the house. [[BigScrewedUpFamily For whatever that's worth]].
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*** There has been a poster for a My Name is Earl movie in one episode. The penultimate episode of season 2 also had a commercial appear for the MNIE TV show. Also, in the first episode, after the news report about Lucy being a serial killer, the news anchor begins to do a lighter side story about how "a small-time crook with a long list of wrongs he was making amends for has finally finished, and [[LeftHanging you'll never guess how it ended!]]"
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* EstrogenBrigadeBait: ''Burt.''
** Lampshaded when he gives grace in the ThanksgivingEpisode:
-->'''Burt:''' O Father, thank you for my great hair, which [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe thou hast not takeneth away]], and for my excellent jawline, and my rock-hard abs...
** Abused in "Everybody Flirts...Sometimes" where it's revealed that he uses his good looks and pool boy status to get bonuses
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** Lampshaded when he gives grace in the ThanksgivingEpisode:
-->'''Burt:''' O Father, thank you for my great hair, which [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe thou hast not takeneth away]], and for my excellent jawline, and my rock-hard abs...
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** Lampshaded when he gives grace in the ThanksgivingEpisode:
-->'''Burt:''' O Father, thank you for my great hair, which [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe thou hast not takeneth away]], and for my excellent jawline, and my rock-hard abs...
** Abused in "Everybody Flirts...Sometimes" where it's revealed that he uses his good looks and pool boy status to get bonuses
-->'''Burt:''' All I'm selling is the dream.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: Splinter removal in "Squeak Means Squeak"
** Lampshaded when he gives grace in the ThanksgivingEpisode:
-->'''Burt:''' O Father, thank you for my great hair, which [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe thou hast not takeneth away]], and for my excellent jawline, and my rock-hard abs...
** Abused in "Everybody Flirts...Sometimes" where it's revealed that he uses his good looks and pool boy status to get bonuses
-->'''Burt:''' All I'm selling is the dream.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: Splinter removal in "Squeak Means Squeak"
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* GilliganCut: Used in the [[BlackComedy darkest]] way possible: Lucy, pregnant in prison, says to Jimmy, "You know what the best part is? [[KarmaHoudini There's no way they're gonna kill the mother of a six-month old baby.]]" ''Cut to'': [[SubvertedTrope Lucy's execution]].
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* GilliganCut: Used in the [[BlackComedy darkest]] way possible: Lucy, pregnant in prison, says to Jimmy, "You know what the best part is? [[KarmaHoudini There's no way they're gonna kill the mother of a six-month old baby.]]" ''Cut to'': [[SubvertedTrope Lucy's execution]].GRatedDrug: Maw-Maw's custom candy bars from "Candy Wars"
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* HappilyAdopted: Invoked by Jimmy; after finding out that his parents gave him up for adoption when they were younger, he figures he would of had a better life with them after finding out how successful his former adopted brother live since his adopted parents "tried harder" in parent raising.[[spoiler: Too bad that if he was raised by them, he be just as racist as them]].
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* [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield Where The Hell Is Natesville?]] Good luck trying to guess what part of the country this show takes place in.
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* NightmareSequence: Jimmy has one in "Killer Hope" wherein Hope has turned into a [[ChildsPlay Chucky-like]] serial killer that murders everyone in the house.
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* [[spoiler:DidNotDieThatWay]]: Virginia was raised by her grandmother, Maw Maw. Maw Maw told Virginia that her mother had died - she claimed she was doing something with a plastic bag on her head, was attacked by bees, and as a result fell over, hitting her head on a lawn ornament and suffocating. Virginia believed this until she was an adult, when she learned that [[spoiler:her mother simply had not wanted to raise a baby and had left her]].
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Twice in the season three premiere. First, Maw Maw removes the dress off the corpse of Sabrina's granny (played by Tippi Hedren). Later, when it's revealed that Sabrina's mom (Melanie Griffith) had her breast implants made into one of the artworks on the kitchen wall (the one that has two scrambled eggs), Burt starts fondling the artwork, and even puts his face on it.
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Although his mother wants him to leave the baby outside the fire department, Jimmy is determined to raise her by himself. With a little help from his parents (and the cute girl at the grocery store), he's slowly learning how to raise [[strike:Princess Beyonce]] Hope.
* BlackComedyRape: A dog in Shelley's daycare was put in time out for raping a lamp.
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[[quoteright:330:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/raisinghope1_6420.jpg]]
A series by the creator of ''Series/MyNameIsEarl''.
Jimmy Chance is a 23-year-old slacker who works for his father Burt grooming lawns and cleaning out pools. His best friend is his cousin Mike. His mother Virginia works as a maid for "Knock Knock Knock...Housekeeping." His great-grandmother Maw Maw is nearly always delirious and sometimes believes he's her old dead husband. And he's desperately searching for his place in the world.
So when he meets a young woman one day, he thinks it's fate that he falls in love. Until that young woman turns out to be a {{serial killer}} (who kills her boyfriends, natch) and is subsequently arrested and sentenced to the electric chair. Before dying, however, she gives birth to his baby.
Although his mother wants him to leave the baby outside the fire department, Jimmy is determined to raise her by himself. With a little help from his parents (and the cute girl at the grocery store), he's slowly learning how to raise [[strike:Princess Beyonce]] Hope.
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!Tropes used in ''RaisingHope'':
* AlphaBitch: Virginia's cousin Delilah, when they were young. As an adult, she's a RichBitch who isn't actually that rich.
* AutoErotica: The end of Burt and Virginia's first "date".
** And of course Jimmy and Lucy, resulting in Hope and sparking the series.
* BabyTrap: [[spoiler: Inverted ''and'' played sympathetically. Burt poked a hole in a condom, as to purposely knock Virginia up, since he thought she was out of his league. By the time she finds out, she can't get upset about it because she's pretty happy with the end result.]]
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Lucy]]
* BarrierBustingBlow: Performed by Maw Maw at the end of "The Sniffles".
* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Chances.
* BondOneLiner: "Smoke on that, Jerk".
* BookDumb: The Chance family is very impressed when Lucy is able to correctly pronounce Mahmoud Ahmedija...ahmejid...that guy from Iran's name. This probably applies to everyone in the family except Maw Maw, whose lucid moments strongly suggest she's read more books than the rest of the family combined.
** "The Saurus"
--> '''Jimmy''': It's like the dictionary's cousin!
* {{Bowdlerise}}: What Jimmy and Sabrina do to [[AxCrazy Lucy's]] videos for Hope.
** A rare case of [[{{Bowdlerise}} bowdlerising]] being a JustifiedTrope. Cause the original videos are [[HarmfulToMinors harmful to EVERYONE]].
** [[GirlOnGirlIsHot Though Burt seemed to enjoy the dancing one.]]
* BrainBleach: "Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go to the bathroom and wash my eyes."
* BumblingDad: Oddly averted. Both Burt and Jimmy are as proficient at parenting as anyone else in the house. [[BigScrewedUpFamily For whatever that's worth]].
* CallBack: After Virginia writes "DORK" across Jimmy's face to deter him from talking with Sabrina, she offers to use makeup to cover it up. Jimmy says that he tried makeup and it makes him look like a dork. During his goth phase (which was shown in a flashback), Jimmy wore heavy makeup. See Unrequited Love Switcheroo for the implications.
* CampStraight: Barney.
* ChekhovsSkill: In episode three, Maw Maw plays Jenga really well while listening to "[[TheyMightBeGiants Istanbul (Not Constantinople)]]" and later in the episode is able to use that to [[spoiler:rescue Hope from a garage full of stuff Virginia hoarded.]]
* ChristmasEpisode: "Toy Story".
* CloudCuckooLander: Maw Maw, due to her dementia. She has lucid moments, but they're ''very'' few and far between.
** Frank, one of the employees at the store Jimmy and Sabrina work at.
* CoitusUninterruptus: Sabrina offering to watch a movie with them does not deter Shelley's plans to get in Jimmy's pants at all ("She won't see anything, we'll be under a blanket").
* CreditsGag: "and introducing Cloris Leachman."
* CringeComedy: Jimmy's drunk piano performance in "Prodigy"
* {{Crossover}}: [[MyNameIsEarl Patty the Daytime Hooker]] appears as a gambling addict counselor in "Gambling Again".
** [[YouLookFamiliar Which brings up quite a few questions]] because Jason Lee, Jaime Pressly, Eddie Steeples, Ethan Suplee, and Gregg Brinkley have all appeared in both shows playing different characters.
*** There has been a poster for a My Name is Earl movie in one episode. The penultimate episode of season 2 also had a commercial appear for the MNIE TV show. Also, in the first episode, after the news report about Lucy being a serial killer, the news anchor begins to do a lighter side story about how "a small-time crook with a long list of wrongs he was making amends for has finally finished, and [[LeftHanging you'll never guess how it ended!]]"
* CuteAndPsycho: Lucy.
* DeadpanSnarker: Sabrina, in spades. Virginia falls in there, too.
-->'''Sabrina:''' Nice car seat.
-->'''Jimmy:''' Oh yeah, thanks, it's a used one.
-->'''Sabrina:''' I can see that. Who used it, baby Jesus?
* DistinguishingMark: Jimmy has a birthmark on his head that looks like [[strike:a penis]] Florida... with balls.
* DotingParent: Jimmy.
* DumbBlonde: Lucy. She thought being seven month pregnant would of let her get out of being executed[[hottip:*:It didn't]]. [[spoiler: And in the season 2 final, after gaining full custody of Hope and Jimmy, she chased Sabrina with a knife, intend on killing her and getting run over by Smoky Floyd's bus[[hottip:*:And even if she hadn't, she might of gotten arrested for attempted murder and lost custody of Hope]].]]
* EnfantTerrible: In "Killer Hope", the Chances fear Hope [[ItRunsInTheFamily following in]] [[SerialKiller her mother's footsteps]] once she starts retaliating against other kids. Most of the first half of the episode features shots of her venturing into CreepyChild territory.
* EpunymousTitle: ''RaisingHope'' is about raising a baby... named Hope.
* EstrogenBrigadeBait: ''Burt.''
** Lampshaded when he gives grace in the ThanksgivingEpisode:
-->'''Burt:''' O Father, thank you for my great hair, which [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe thou hast not takeneth away]], and for my excellent jawline, and my rock-hard abs...
** Abused in "Everybody Flirts...Sometimes" where it's revealed that he uses his good looks and pool boy status to get bonuses
-->'''Burt:''' All I'm selling is the dream.
* EthnicMenialLabor: Except for Virginia, all the other maids shown are presumably of Hispanic origin. This is used for a throwaway joke when one of them remarks (in Spanish): "I read in Newsweek that in 2028, we are going to outnumber these people."
* [[spoiler: FakingTheDead: Lucy is revealed to still be alive near the end of season two.]]
* ForegoneConclusion: Everyone knew Jason Lee ([[MyNameIsEarl Earl]]) would show up on the show eventually. It was only a matter of time... [[spoiler:He appeared on the November 30th episode...as Smokey Floyd.]]
* ForgottenChildhoodFriend: Sabrina finds herself at the mercy of one (played by Shannon Woodward's [[IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine real life best friend]] KatyPerry, no less) when she's arrested.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Burt's "I'd rather be in Virginia" t-shirt.
** And this exchange:
--> '''Bully'': I got what I really wanted, what I needed the most... a vagina.
*** Yes, the everlonging pervert gets a gender change.
** The Little Beaver's song. The most overt part is the end which references licking little beavers but the whole song is this hidden as a quasi-girl scout song.
---> ''A Little Beaver marches without fear\\
A Beaver's always in the front and not the rear\\
When a Beaver's lost and cold she warms up by rubbing sticks\\
I'll never give up because a Little Beaver can't be licked.''
* GoldenMoment: OnceAnEpisode with Jimmy and one or both of his parents, and occasionally with a voice-over of him repeating [[AnAesop the Aesop]] to Hope. [[TropesAreNotBad But done]] ''[[TropesAreNotBad very]]'' [[TropesAreNotBad well]].
* GoryDiscretionShot: ''Almost'' used during Lucy's electrocution. The camera slowly pans away from her reflection in the viewing room window; Lucy begins to react just before we shift to [[HarmfulToMinors Jimmy covering Hope's face with his hand]].
* GilliganCut: Used in the [[BlackComedy darkest]] way possible: Lucy, pregnant in prison, says to Jimmy, "You know what the best part is? [[KarmaHoudini There's no way they're gonna kill the mother of a six-month old baby.]]" ''Cut to'': [[SubvertedTrope Lucy's execution]].
* GroinAttack: The result of Sabrina catching Wyatt making out with another girl.
* HalfHumanHybrid: According to Jimmy's dream journal, he once had a wet one involving some kind of half-Sabrina, half-dolphin creature.
* HalloweenEpisode: "Happy Halloween".
* HappilyMarried: Burt and Virginia have been together for at least twenty-three years, and this is after Virginia got pregnant at fifteen. That's saying something. When Virginia asks Burt who'd he'd marry if she died, he expressed disgust at even looking at another woman.
* HotDad: Burt, who even makes a hot ''grandfather''.
* HypnoFool: Burt is easily entranced by hand gestures.
* IdiotSavant: About half the family. When Maw-Maw is lucid, she's a great mechanic and has many other skills and piercing insight. Burt, who never finished High School, got a 1540 on his SAT. Apparently he's good at filling in bubbles.
** When he was a teenager, Jimmy was a highly skilled piano player and had a beautiful singing voice...until he got nailed in the head with a putter. [[spoiler: That Burt threw.]]
* ImprovisedWeaponUser: Virginia and the TV. She even mentions it's kinda her go-to thing.
* InTheBlood: While (probably) not dangerous, Lucy's mother is delusional, while her father is a sociopathic psychiatrist who married a patient and still treats her.
* ItsAWonderfulPlot: Season two's ChristmasEpisode (aptly titled [[LampshadeHanging It's A Hopeful Life]]), in which Jimmy hallucinates what his life would be like if he hadn't had that fateful meeting with Lucy. Turns out it would be pretty bad. Played with when Jimmy realizes that this is very similar to that movie... {{Film/Inception}}!
--> "Because I have no idea what's going on!"
* IWantMyJetpack: Burt's first line from season 2 is complaining how it's already 2011, and there still aren't any Jetpacks.
* {{Jerkass}}: Has-been rock star Smokey Floyd.
* KissingCousins: Burt's parents were third cousins, ones with the same last name.
* KilledOffForReal: Lucy. They wrote in a story about her miraculously surviving the execution and being released from jail, only to have her be run over by a bus at the end of the episode.
* KitschyLocalCommercial: The gang has to film a commercial for the store where they work. All of the sample commercials they film have elements of this.
** Virginia is fascinated by a commercial using a typical "Crazy Eddy" sort of spokesman, gone horribly wrong. "I swear, if that guy doesn't actually have Tourette's, he deserves an Oscar."
* {{Malaproper}}: The Chance family use these OnceAnEpisode. Virginia will make a mistake on a word, such as "illusional" when she meant "delusional." Even Burt will join in sometimes, one example: "repulsive shopper."
** "Oh no! She's got old-timer's disease!"
** Lampshaded by Sabrina: "wow, that's two malaprops in a row."
* MamaBear: Virginia Chance. Especially when she has a TV at hand.
* MoodWhiplash: And '''HOW'''.
* MoralDissonance: Jimmy wants Sabrina, even though she has a boyfriend who is at least initially nothing but a nice guy who trusts Jimmy. As time goes on some major character flaws show up.
** Though Jimmy is against actively pursuing her because of her boyfriend.
* NightmareSequence: Jimmy has one in "Killer Hope" wherein Hope has turned into a [[ChildsPlay Chucky-like]] serial killer that murders everyone in the house.
* OhCrap: Jimmy, the Chance Family and Sabrina all have one in part one of the season 2 finale [[spoiler: when they find out Lucy is still alive.]]
* PapaWolf : Don't insult Burt's family in front of him. Smokey Floyd did, and got a guitar to the back of his head.
* PlayingAgainstType: Garret Dillahunt, who is better known for playing sociopaths and other unsavory characters, as the loving yet dumb and harmless Burt Chance.
* {{Promotion to Opening Titles}}: Barney in the second season has been promoted to the picturebook opening and the final 'group' drawing with the Chance family and Sabrina.
* PutOnABus: Cousin Mike, who left in the second episode, joining a {{cult}} with a girl he met.
** TheBusCameBack: "The Cultish Personality".
* RantInducingSlight: After avoiding being hostile during "Killer Hope", Jimmy snaps when he gets a $200 ticket. [[DisproportionateRetribution For having an obstructed view.]]
* RapeAsComedy: A dog in Shelley's daycare was put in time out for raping a lamp.
--> '''Shelley:''' He broke the bulb.
* RichBitch: [[spoiler: Virginia sees her cousin Delila this way.]]
** [[spoiler: Sabrina wants so hard ''not'' to be one because her dislike of her father's lifestyle (there are hints of ParentalAbandonnment in her backstory), that she almost becomes one ''only to rich people''. Her massive insecurity issues turn her into an incredibly rude and insulting person when around her rich friends.]]
* RunningGag: A ton, starting with Burt's problem not thinking of the word "think." Also, Dancin' Dan.
* [[{{Ptitleef829e6819f4}} Screw Politeness, I'm A Senior With Dementia!]]: Maw Maw. Regularly walks around [[{{Squick}} without a shirt]].
** In "Hogging All The Glory" she bluntly asks Sabrina "Who the hell are you? And why are you always in our house" lampshading a common complaint by the fandom.
* SecretlyWealthy: [[spoiler: Sabrina]]
* SerialKiller: Lucy, Hope's mother. Was executed in one of the darkest [[GilliganCut Gilligan Cuts]] on TV.
* ServiceSectorStereotypes: Subverted, Virginia is a maid, Burt a gardener, and Jimmy a former pool cleaner, but they get by (well, just about).
* SlippingAMickey: How Burt finally ends up getting a vasectomy.
* SpeakOfTheDevil: Jimmy believes Dog-Head Man knows when people say his name.
* StartOfDarkness: Lucy apparently used to be a doormat girlfriend to a jerk boyfriend. Then Shelly (who worked at the market 5 years ago) tells her she should "Get rid of him." Lucy takes the advice to heart...and later returns to the store to buy a huge quantity of bleach for cleaning up blood.
* StupidStatementDanceMix: Burt's [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome CMOA]] in "Burt Rocks" is made into one. He loves it.
* ThanksgivingEpisode: "Meet the Grandparents".
* ThoroughlyMistakenIdentity: Maw Maw occasionally thinks Jimmy's her dead husband, to hilariously {{squick}}y effect.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Jimmy's two friends.
* TooDumbToLive: Maw Maw told Virginia that her daughter and Virginia's mother died when, while trying to get honey out of a beehive, she put a plastic bag over her head (to protect herself from the bees) and subsequently suffocated, fell off the ladder, and bashed her head against a porcelain duck. [[spoiler:It later turns out Virginia's mother is actually alive, and this was just a cover story (based on one she read about in ''Reader's Digest'') that Maw Maw told Virginia to spare her the truth (her mother abandoned her).]]
* TurnOutLikeHisFather: In "Killer Hope" Burt and Virginia get worried that Hope will turn out like her mother (a serial killer) when she hits a kid at daycare.
* TrueCompanions: Shelley, Barney, Sabrina, [[ThoseTwoGuys Javier and Marcus]] [[spoiler:seem to make one with the Chances going by the end of "Meet the Grandparents"]].
** As of the first season finale, one can count in Frank and cousin Mike as well.
* {{Tsundere}}: Virginia's an A-type with a capital A. She's simultaneously responsible for half of the show's [[DeadpanSnarker dry]] [[BrutalHonesty humor]], as well as half of it's HeartwarmingMoments.
* TwoScenesOneDialogue: Used in "Romeo and Romeo". And then just when you think the joke is over, it keeps going and gets to the real punchline of the scene.
* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: Since meeting her in the first episode of the series, Jimmy has harbored feelings for Sabrina, who has a boyfriend. But in the WholeEpisodeFlashback season finale it was shown that Sabrina was an awkward, but {{Adorkable}}, girl with braces who pined after Jimmy when he was going through his {{Goth}} phase. There was even a bit of of DramaticIrony at the end of the episode thrown in for good measure.
-->'''Burt''': Remember when you used to wear all that make-up? You looked like a freak!
-->'''Jimmy''': Shut up! And never ever say anything about that around Sabrina. It's embarrassing.
-->'''Burt''': Don't worry, I wouldn't wanna mess up your chances.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: In the very first episode, when Jimmy and Virginia are changing Hope.
* WholeEpisodeFlashback: "Don't Vote for this Episode" showed what the characters were doing 5 years ago: The Chances had just been tossed out by Maw-Maw, Jimmy was going through a goth phase, Sabrina was a braces-wearing geek with a huge crush on goth Jimmy, Barney was a fatty, Shelly worked at the market, and Lucy was dating the first of her boyfriends/victims.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Jimmy and Sabrina. Made very awkward in that [[MoralDissonance Sabrina has a boyfriend.]]
** [[spoiler:The ending of "Jimmy's Fake Girlfriend" may have just answered this one.]]
* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler: His former bully now being a woman]] doesn't stop Frank from clocking her good.
** CrossesTheLineTwice [[spoiler: when said transgender bully]] proceeds to kick the hell out of both Frank and Jimmy.
* WorldOfNoGrandparents: Inverted, as the Chance family seem to have kids young, Virginia actually lives with her grandmother ''and'' granddaughter.
* WrenchWench: During her longer lucid moments, Maw-Maw is a skilled mechanic. And electrician. When not lucid, she's also a skilled exterminator.
* YouMonster: Jimmy takes the revelation that his father was the masked man who had been scaring him every Halloween since he was a kid (so he could get hugs when Jimmy eventually made his way home) very badly, [[spoiler:and again when he finds out that he staged dropping Hope off at the fire station.]]
** [[spoiler:To be fair, Burt just wanted a hug]]
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A series by the creator of ''Series/MyNameIsEarl''.
Jimmy Chance is a 23-year-old slacker who works for his father Burt grooming lawns and cleaning out pools. His best friend is his cousin Mike. His mother Virginia works as a maid for "Knock Knock Knock...Housekeeping." His great-grandmother Maw Maw is nearly always delirious and sometimes believes he's her old dead husband. And he's desperately searching for his place in the world.
So when he meets a young woman one day, he thinks it's fate that he falls in love. Until that young woman turns out to be a {{serial killer}} (who kills her boyfriends, natch) and is subsequently arrested and sentenced to the electric chair. Before dying, however, she gives birth to his baby.
Although his mother wants him to leave the baby outside the fire department, Jimmy is determined to raise her by himself. With a little help from his parents (and the cute girl at the grocery store), he's slowly learning how to raise [[strike:Princess Beyonce]] Hope.
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!Tropes used in ''RaisingHope'':
* AlphaBitch: Virginia's cousin Delilah, when they were young. As an adult, she's a RichBitch who isn't actually that rich.
* AutoErotica: The end of Burt and Virginia's first "date".
** And of course Jimmy and Lucy, resulting in Hope and sparking the series.
* BabyTrap: [[spoiler: Inverted ''and'' played sympathetically. Burt poked a hole in a condom, as to purposely knock Virginia up, since he thought she was out of his league. By the time she finds out, she can't get upset about it because she's pretty happy with the end result.]]
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Lucy]]
* BarrierBustingBlow: Performed by Maw Maw at the end of "The Sniffles".
* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Chances.
* BondOneLiner: "Smoke on that, Jerk".
* BookDumb: The Chance family is very impressed when Lucy is able to correctly pronounce Mahmoud Ahmedija...ahmejid...that guy from Iran's name. This probably applies to everyone in the family except Maw Maw, whose lucid moments strongly suggest she's read more books than the rest of the family combined.
** "The Saurus"
--> '''Jimmy''': It's like the dictionary's cousin!
* {{Bowdlerise}}: What Jimmy and Sabrina do to [[AxCrazy Lucy's]] videos for Hope.
** A rare case of [[{{Bowdlerise}} bowdlerising]] being a JustifiedTrope. Cause the original videos are [[HarmfulToMinors harmful to EVERYONE]].
** [[GirlOnGirlIsHot Though Burt seemed to enjoy the dancing one.]]
* BrainBleach: "Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go to the bathroom and wash my eyes."
* BumblingDad: Oddly averted. Both Burt and Jimmy are as proficient at parenting as anyone else in the house. [[BigScrewedUpFamily For whatever that's worth]].
* CallBack: After Virginia writes "DORK" across Jimmy's face to deter him from talking with Sabrina, she offers to use makeup to cover it up. Jimmy says that he tried makeup and it makes him look like a dork. During his goth phase (which was shown in a flashback), Jimmy wore heavy makeup. See Unrequited Love Switcheroo for the implications.
* CampStraight: Barney.
* ChekhovsSkill: In episode three, Maw Maw plays Jenga really well while listening to "[[TheyMightBeGiants Istanbul (Not Constantinople)]]" and later in the episode is able to use that to [[spoiler:rescue Hope from a garage full of stuff Virginia hoarded.]]
* ChristmasEpisode: "Toy Story".
* CloudCuckooLander: Maw Maw, due to her dementia. She has lucid moments, but they're ''very'' few and far between.
** Frank, one of the employees at the store Jimmy and Sabrina work at.
* CoitusUninterruptus: Sabrina offering to watch a movie with them does not deter Shelley's plans to get in Jimmy's pants at all ("She won't see anything, we'll be under a blanket").
* CreditsGag: "and introducing Cloris Leachman."
* CringeComedy: Jimmy's drunk piano performance in "Prodigy"
* {{Crossover}}: [[MyNameIsEarl Patty the Daytime Hooker]] appears as a gambling addict counselor in "Gambling Again".
** [[YouLookFamiliar Which brings up quite a few questions]] because Jason Lee, Jaime Pressly, Eddie Steeples, Ethan Suplee, and Gregg Brinkley have all appeared in both shows playing different characters.
*** There has been a poster for a My Name is Earl movie in one episode. The penultimate episode of season 2 also had a commercial appear for the MNIE TV show. Also, in the first episode, after the news report about Lucy being a serial killer, the news anchor begins to do a lighter side story about how "a small-time crook with a long list of wrongs he was making amends for has finally finished, and [[LeftHanging you'll never guess how it ended!]]"
* CuteAndPsycho: Lucy.
* DeadpanSnarker: Sabrina, in spades. Virginia falls in there, too.
-->'''Sabrina:''' Nice car seat.
-->'''Jimmy:''' Oh yeah, thanks, it's a used one.
-->'''Sabrina:''' I can see that. Who used it, baby Jesus?
* DistinguishingMark: Jimmy has a birthmark on his head that looks like [[strike:a penis]] Florida... with balls.
* DotingParent: Jimmy.
* DumbBlonde: Lucy. She thought being seven month pregnant would of let her get out of being executed[[hottip:*:It didn't]]. [[spoiler: And in the season 2 final, after gaining full custody of Hope and Jimmy, she chased Sabrina with a knife, intend on killing her and getting run over by Smoky Floyd's bus[[hottip:*:And even if she hadn't, she might of gotten arrested for attempted murder and lost custody of Hope]].]]
* EnfantTerrible: In "Killer Hope", the Chances fear Hope [[ItRunsInTheFamily following in]] [[SerialKiller her mother's footsteps]] once she starts retaliating against other kids. Most of the first half of the episode features shots of her venturing into CreepyChild territory.
* EpunymousTitle: ''RaisingHope'' is about raising a baby... named Hope.
* EstrogenBrigadeBait: ''Burt.''
** Lampshaded when he gives grace in the ThanksgivingEpisode:
-->'''Burt:''' O Father, thank you for my great hair, which [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe thou hast not takeneth away]], and for my excellent jawline, and my rock-hard abs...
** Abused in "Everybody Flirts...Sometimes" where it's revealed that he uses his good looks and pool boy status to get bonuses
-->'''Burt:''' All I'm selling is the dream.
* EthnicMenialLabor: Except for Virginia, all the other maids shown are presumably of Hispanic origin. This is used for a throwaway joke when one of them remarks (in Spanish): "I read in Newsweek that in 2028, we are going to outnumber these people."
* [[spoiler: FakingTheDead: Lucy is revealed to still be alive near the end of season two.]]
* ForegoneConclusion: Everyone knew Jason Lee ([[MyNameIsEarl Earl]]) would show up on the show eventually. It was only a matter of time... [[spoiler:He appeared on the November 30th episode...as Smokey Floyd.]]
* ForgottenChildhoodFriend: Sabrina finds herself at the mercy of one (played by Shannon Woodward's [[IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine real life best friend]] KatyPerry, no less) when she's arrested.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Burt's "I'd rather be in Virginia" t-shirt.
** And this exchange:
--> '''Bully'': I got what I really wanted, what I needed the most... a vagina.
*** Yes, the everlonging pervert gets a gender change.
** The Little Beaver's song. The most overt part is the end which references licking little beavers but the whole song is this hidden as a quasi-girl scout song.
---> ''A Little Beaver marches without fear\\
A Beaver's always in the front and not the rear\\
When a Beaver's lost and cold she warms up by rubbing sticks\\
I'll never give up because a Little Beaver can't be licked.''
* GoldenMoment: OnceAnEpisode with Jimmy and one or both of his parents, and occasionally with a voice-over of him repeating [[AnAesop the Aesop]] to Hope. [[TropesAreNotBad But done]] ''[[TropesAreNotBad very]]'' [[TropesAreNotBad well]].
* GoryDiscretionShot: ''Almost'' used during Lucy's electrocution. The camera slowly pans away from her reflection in the viewing room window; Lucy begins to react just before we shift to [[HarmfulToMinors Jimmy covering Hope's face with his hand]].
* GilliganCut: Used in the [[BlackComedy darkest]] way possible: Lucy, pregnant in prison, says to Jimmy, "You know what the best part is? [[KarmaHoudini There's no way they're gonna kill the mother of a six-month old baby.]]" ''Cut to'': [[SubvertedTrope Lucy's execution]].
* GroinAttack: The result of Sabrina catching Wyatt making out with another girl.
* HalfHumanHybrid: According to Jimmy's dream journal, he once had a wet one involving some kind of half-Sabrina, half-dolphin creature.
* HalloweenEpisode: "Happy Halloween".
* HappilyMarried: Burt and Virginia have been together for at least twenty-three years, and this is after Virginia got pregnant at fifteen. That's saying something. When Virginia asks Burt who'd he'd marry if she died, he expressed disgust at even looking at another woman.
* HotDad: Burt, who even makes a hot ''grandfather''.
* HypnoFool: Burt is easily entranced by hand gestures.
* IdiotSavant: About half the family. When Maw-Maw is lucid, she's a great mechanic and has many other skills and piercing insight. Burt, who never finished High School, got a 1540 on his SAT. Apparently he's good at filling in bubbles.
** When he was a teenager, Jimmy was a highly skilled piano player and had a beautiful singing voice...until he got nailed in the head with a putter. [[spoiler: That Burt threw.]]
* ImprovisedWeaponUser: Virginia and the TV. She even mentions it's kinda her go-to thing.
* InTheBlood: While (probably) not dangerous, Lucy's mother is delusional, while her father is a sociopathic psychiatrist who married a patient and still treats her.
* ItsAWonderfulPlot: Season two's ChristmasEpisode (aptly titled [[LampshadeHanging It's A Hopeful Life]]), in which Jimmy hallucinates what his life would be like if he hadn't had that fateful meeting with Lucy. Turns out it would be pretty bad. Played with when Jimmy realizes that this is very similar to that movie... {{Film/Inception}}!
--> "Because I have no idea what's going on!"
* IWantMyJetpack: Burt's first line from season 2 is complaining how it's already 2011, and there still aren't any Jetpacks.
* {{Jerkass}}: Has-been rock star Smokey Floyd.
* KissingCousins: Burt's parents were third cousins, ones with the same last name.
* KilledOffForReal: Lucy. They wrote in a story about her miraculously surviving the execution and being released from jail, only to have her be run over by a bus at the end of the episode.
* KitschyLocalCommercial: The gang has to film a commercial for the store where they work. All of the sample commercials they film have elements of this.
** Virginia is fascinated by a commercial using a typical "Crazy Eddy" sort of spokesman, gone horribly wrong. "I swear, if that guy doesn't actually have Tourette's, he deserves an Oscar."
* {{Malaproper}}: The Chance family use these OnceAnEpisode. Virginia will make a mistake on a word, such as "illusional" when she meant "delusional." Even Burt will join in sometimes, one example: "repulsive shopper."
** "Oh no! She's got old-timer's disease!"
** Lampshaded by Sabrina: "wow, that's two malaprops in a row."
* MamaBear: Virginia Chance. Especially when she has a TV at hand.
* MoodWhiplash: And '''HOW'''.
* MoralDissonance: Jimmy wants Sabrina, even though she has a boyfriend who is at least initially nothing but a nice guy who trusts Jimmy. As time goes on some major character flaws show up.
** Though Jimmy is against actively pursuing her because of her boyfriend.
* NightmareSequence: Jimmy has one in "Killer Hope" wherein Hope has turned into a [[ChildsPlay Chucky-like]] serial killer that murders everyone in the house.
* OhCrap: Jimmy, the Chance Family and Sabrina all have one in part one of the season 2 finale [[spoiler: when they find out Lucy is still alive.]]
* PapaWolf : Don't insult Burt's family in front of him. Smokey Floyd did, and got a guitar to the back of his head.
* PlayingAgainstType: Garret Dillahunt, who is better known for playing sociopaths and other unsavory characters, as the loving yet dumb and harmless Burt Chance.
* {{Promotion to Opening Titles}}: Barney in the second season has been promoted to the picturebook opening and the final 'group' drawing with the Chance family and Sabrina.
* PutOnABus: Cousin Mike, who left in the second episode, joining a {{cult}} with a girl he met.
** TheBusCameBack: "The Cultish Personality".
* RantInducingSlight: After avoiding being hostile during "Killer Hope", Jimmy snaps when he gets a $200 ticket. [[DisproportionateRetribution For having an obstructed view.]]
* RapeAsComedy: A dog in Shelley's daycare was put in time out for raping a lamp.
--> '''Shelley:''' He broke the bulb.
* RichBitch: [[spoiler: Virginia sees her cousin Delila this way.]]
** [[spoiler: Sabrina wants so hard ''not'' to be one because her dislike of her father's lifestyle (there are hints of ParentalAbandonnment in her backstory), that she almost becomes one ''only to rich people''. Her massive insecurity issues turn her into an incredibly rude and insulting person when around her rich friends.]]
* RunningGag: A ton, starting with Burt's problem not thinking of the word "think." Also, Dancin' Dan.
* [[{{Ptitleef829e6819f4}} Screw Politeness, I'm A Senior With Dementia!]]: Maw Maw. Regularly walks around [[{{Squick}} without a shirt]].
** In "Hogging All The Glory" she bluntly asks Sabrina "Who the hell are you? And why are you always in our house" lampshading a common complaint by the fandom.
* SecretlyWealthy: [[spoiler: Sabrina]]
* SerialKiller: Lucy, Hope's mother. Was executed in one of the darkest [[GilliganCut Gilligan Cuts]] on TV.
* ServiceSectorStereotypes: Subverted, Virginia is a maid, Burt a gardener, and Jimmy a former pool cleaner, but they get by (well, just about).
* SlippingAMickey: How Burt finally ends up getting a vasectomy.
* SpeakOfTheDevil: Jimmy believes Dog-Head Man knows when people say his name.
* StartOfDarkness: Lucy apparently used to be a doormat girlfriend to a jerk boyfriend. Then Shelly (who worked at the market 5 years ago) tells her she should "Get rid of him." Lucy takes the advice to heart...and later returns to the store to buy a huge quantity of bleach for cleaning up blood.
* StupidStatementDanceMix: Burt's [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome CMOA]] in "Burt Rocks" is made into one. He loves it.
* ThanksgivingEpisode: "Meet the Grandparents".
* ThoroughlyMistakenIdentity: Maw Maw occasionally thinks Jimmy's her dead husband, to hilariously {{squick}}y effect.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Jimmy's two friends.
* TooDumbToLive: Maw Maw told Virginia that her daughter and Virginia's mother died when, while trying to get honey out of a beehive, she put a plastic bag over her head (to protect herself from the bees) and subsequently suffocated, fell off the ladder, and bashed her head against a porcelain duck. [[spoiler:It later turns out Virginia's mother is actually alive, and this was just a cover story (based on one she read about in ''Reader's Digest'') that Maw Maw told Virginia to spare her the truth (her mother abandoned her).]]
* TurnOutLikeHisFather: In "Killer Hope" Burt and Virginia get worried that Hope will turn out like her mother (a serial killer) when she hits a kid at daycare.
* TrueCompanions: Shelley, Barney, Sabrina, [[ThoseTwoGuys Javier and Marcus]] [[spoiler:seem to make one with the Chances going by the end of "Meet the Grandparents"]].
** As of the first season finale, one can count in Frank and cousin Mike as well.
* {{Tsundere}}: Virginia's an A-type with a capital A. She's simultaneously responsible for half of the show's [[DeadpanSnarker dry]] [[BrutalHonesty humor]], as well as half of it's HeartwarmingMoments.
* TwoScenesOneDialogue: Used in "Romeo and Romeo". And then just when you think the joke is over, it keeps going and gets to the real punchline of the scene.
* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: Since meeting her in the first episode of the series, Jimmy has harbored feelings for Sabrina, who has a boyfriend. But in the WholeEpisodeFlashback season finale it was shown that Sabrina was an awkward, but {{Adorkable}}, girl with braces who pined after Jimmy when he was going through his {{Goth}} phase. There was even a bit of of DramaticIrony at the end of the episode thrown in for good measure.
-->'''Burt''': Remember when you used to wear all that make-up? You looked like a freak!
-->'''Jimmy''': Shut up! And never ever say anything about that around Sabrina. It's embarrassing.
-->'''Burt''': Don't worry, I wouldn't wanna mess up your chances.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: In the very first episode, when Jimmy and Virginia are changing Hope.
* WholeEpisodeFlashback: "Don't Vote for this Episode" showed what the characters were doing 5 years ago: The Chances had just been tossed out by Maw-Maw, Jimmy was going through a goth phase, Sabrina was a braces-wearing geek with a huge crush on goth Jimmy, Barney was a fatty, Shelly worked at the market, and Lucy was dating the first of her boyfriends/victims.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Jimmy and Sabrina. Made very awkward in that [[MoralDissonance Sabrina has a boyfriend.]]
** [[spoiler:The ending of "Jimmy's Fake Girlfriend" may have just answered this one.]]
* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler: His former bully now being a woman]] doesn't stop Frank from clocking her good.
** CrossesTheLineTwice [[spoiler: when said transgender bully]] proceeds to kick the hell out of both Frank and Jimmy.
* WorldOfNoGrandparents: Inverted, as the Chance family seem to have kids young, Virginia actually lives with her grandmother ''and'' granddaughter.
* WrenchWench: During her longer lucid moments, Maw-Maw is a skilled mechanic. And electrician. When not lucid, she's also a skilled exterminator.
* YouMonster: Jimmy takes the revelation that his father was the masked man who had been scaring him every Halloween since he was a kid (so he could get hugs when Jimmy eventually made his way home) very badly, [[spoiler:and again when he finds out that he staged dropping Hope off at the fire station.]]
** [[spoiler:To be fair, Burt just wanted a hug]]
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