Line #5 YMMV/RaisingHope


1	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
2	** "You Can't Always Get What You Want" for the season two finale. [[spoiler: Perfect for both the TearJerker of Lucy winning custody of Hope over the Chances and the Awesome Moment of Lucy getting hit by a bus.]]
3	** Both instances of "Danny's Song".
4	** All three songs in "Burt Mitzvah - The Musical".
5	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: "Burt Mitzvah - The Musical" is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. People (and even ''bagels'') break out into songs and choreographed dancing at the drop of a hat. Somewhat explained when other people who hear about it are skeptical.
6	--> '''Burt/Virginia''': "Well, that's how I remember it."
7	* BaseBreakingCharacter: Lucy. Not the character herself ''per se'', but many people hated the way she was used in the show after it was revealed that [[spoiler:she [[NotQuiteDead wasn't quite dead]], ''twice'']].
8	* BrokenAesop: The "Dream Hoarders" episode tells the viewers that they have to have dreams to get by in life. The problem with this is that Virginia and Burt's dream of getting rich was to buy lottery tickets and hoard away furniture for their dream home, while wasting lots of money and getting a horrible hoarding obsession, respectively.
9	* BrokenBase: The second season finale. It was heavily debated among the fandom whether or not the twist that [[spoiler:Lucy survived her execution]] was a good idea, or if it was well-handled. Not to mention how [[spoiler:she tried to murder Sabrina in her VillainBall moment, just to be [[NotQuiteDead (supposedly)]] killed at the end of the episode]], no matter how funny this scene was to others.
10	* CrossesTheLineTwice: Frank punching his and Jimmy's former bully (who is an apologetic post-op transgender woman)? Not funny. Said transgender woman delivering a CurbstompBattle to Jimmy and Frank at the same time? Hilarious.
11	* DiagnosedByTheAudience: Sabrina Chance compulsively eats dirt, is a perfectionist, and is TerrifiedOfGerms.
12	* EnsembleDarkhorse: Frank for his creepy behavior and HiddenDepths. Shelly is also one even after she was DemotedToExtra.
13	* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In later seasons Burt repeatedly wears a t-shirt that says "I'd rather be in Virginia" with a picture of the state of Virginia on it. No one ever draws attention to it. Burt's wife's name? Virginia.
14	* GrowingTheBeard: Fans agree that the second half of the first season is the point where the series starts growing on its own as the humor gets less cliché and inconsistent.
15	* HarsherInHindsight:
16	** Burt and Virginia have tried to get Maw Maw into a nursing home, but none of them would like to take her. In a later episode, however, she is taken away by Social Service and gets sent to one. After believing she was better off there, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Maw Maw eventually violently assaults several aides and threatens to kill a therapy cat]]. That's ''clearly'' a reason why none of the nursing homes would accept her.
17	** In "Say Cheese", Sabrina states that all of her family pictures are not genuine family moments, and that they all are "fake". As the series progresses, this phrase takes a new whole meaning when her family background gets explored in later seasons.
18	** A season 2 joke has Maw Maw tell (what she thinks is) Death that it isn't going to take her before it takes Creator/BettyWhite. Cloris Leachman would die almost a full year before Betty White, in January of 2021 (to Betty's December of that year).
19	* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: Music/KatyPerry guest-starred in an episode playing a deranged prison guard. Between her acting, the padding, and makeup, a lot of people didn't realize who was actually playing the character, at first sight.
20	* HeartwarmingInHindsight: Every single scene of the Chances with Maw Maw from the first season becomes strangely touching when it is eventually revealed that [[spoiler:they all could live on their own, but decided not to so they could take care of her when she started to present symptoms of dementia, heck, they even ''fought'' to stay with her!]]
21	* HilariousInHindsight:
22	** In one episode of Greg Garcia's ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'', Earl tried to make amends to his former teenage babysitter and her boyfriend who got pregnant when he poked holes in the guy's condom. When he visits them, he finds out that they not only got married (when they were still teenagers), but they actually have a happy marriage, and they even have a slacker son who lives with them. They essentially are the Chance family prototype, with all and the reason that Burt and Virginia got married [[spoiler:(including "poking holes to the condom")]].
23	** There was another episode where Earl was helping Randy to find a girl he had a summer romance with when he was a kid. And it turns out that the girl was [[spoiler:Joy]]. That "summer romance" couple would then guest-star in ''Raising Hope'' as a married couple.
24	* HollywoodHomely: Kate Micucci isn't really any less attractive than Shannon Woodward, despite Shelley supposedly being the ugly duckling of the two cousins. The producers tried to accentuate this in the first season by giving her character a bad tooth. It didn't work.
25	* {{Moe}}: Shelley (she is, after all, played by Creator/KateMicucci).
26	* NightmareFuel: Jimmy's nightmare about Hope killing Virginia and Burt is very surreal. Especially the part where Burt has a Jack-In-The-Box crank in his ear and a clown puppet pops out of his mouth.
27	* TheScrappy: Lucy. Mostly because she came BackFromTheDead one too many times.
28	* ParanoiaFuel: Both in-universe and out, the idea of spiders entering your ear and laying eggs while you sleep.
29	* ShippingBedDeath: Humorously referenced by Burt and Virginia when Jimmy and Sabrina got together, wondering if their relationship would be as interesting now that the UnresolvedSexualTension was resolved. Burt jokes that there is a girl at the copy place with a boyfriend, so he can transfer that same pattern somewhere else. To the show's credit, Jimmy[=/=]Sabrina was never a mainstay of the plot and that same episode went out of its way to demonstrate that there is still plenty of story to tell about the couple.
30	* {{Squick}}:
31	** Maw Maw's entire schtick is based around this. Several examples include a scene of the second episode where Jimmy walks in on Maw Maw attempting to breastfeed Hope, when she ''french-kissed'' him as she was believing him to be her long-dead husband... and where she thinks she's in labor (and Burt ends up helping deliver... ''[[NauseaFuel something]]'').
32	** Burt giving Jimmy a several seconds-long kiss on the lips, then requesting he [[HoYay takes off]] [[ParentalIncest his pants]].
33	** Maw Maw's Magic Brown, which is milk chocolate mixed with loads of bacon grease. Seeing the grease be squeezed from stacks of bacon is stomach churning.
34	* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: From "Burt Mitzvah - The Musical", we have "Rock the Torah", which seems to be the ''Film/StElmosFire'' theme with different lyrics.
35	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Shelly. She has several connections to many characters in the show (she formerly worked at Howdy, she is Sabrina's cousin, she was also Jimmy's one night stand, she run a daycare where Hope was going, etc.) and was a major supporting character in the first season. However, she was later DemotedToExtra and never got ADayInTheLimelight episode of her own.
36	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot:
37	** Sabrina once found out that Jimmy is the goth guy that she had a crush when she first worked at Howdy. It could have been a good plot for an episode or at least a RunningGag, but she never says anything else about it even when there's ''also'' (off-screen) evidence that supports this discovery.

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