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Raising Hope Season 2 Episode 10

It's a Hopeful Life

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AIRED: 12/13/11

While watching a movie at the cinema, the Chance family comes to the stunning realization that the plot of an upcoming movie is quite similar to their own life. Meanwhile, Jimmy travels into a state of mind where he had never met Lucy and therefore never had Hope.moreless

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Lucas Neff	Jimmy Chance
Martha Plimpton	Virginia Chance
Garret Dillahunt	Burt Chance
Shannon Woodward	Sabrina Collins
Gregg Binkley	Barney Hughes
Cloris Leachman	Maw Maw

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Abdul Goznobi	Mr. Singh	Guest Star
Sue Nelson	Mother	Guest Star
Jeff Holman (I)	Father	Guest Star
Bijou Phillips	Lucy Carlyle	Recurring Role
Rylie Cregut	Hope Chance	Recurring Role
Baylie Cregut	Hope Chance	Recurring Role

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- Maw Maw: (to Jimmy) Truth is, you did me a favor. Oh, Heaven's great. But it's awfully hot there, there are a lot of fires everywhere, and last night, at karaoke, Idi Amin and Hitler did a great version of "Ebony and Ivory."
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- Jimmy: Oh, this is just like that movie Inception. I have absolutely no idea what is going on.
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- Jimmy: Oh, mom, you're huge! Are you having an allergic reaction or something?
  Virginia: Yeah, I'm allergic to fast food. If I eat more than 350 chicken nuggets a day, I blow up like a balloon.
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- Virginia: If the whole world sees this, we're gonna be famous in the bad way, like that no-name actor from Lost who married that sixteen-year-old girl!
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- Virginia: Trailers are the best part. I enjoy Jack Black, thirty seconds at a time.
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- Original International Air Dates:
  Canada: December 13, 2011 on Citytv
  Czech Republic: April 10, 2012 on HBO
  United Kingdom: September 16, 2012 on Sky1/Sky1 HD
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- The episode title alludes to the famous film It's a Wonderful Life by Frank Capra, about a man who wishes he'd never been born. Similarly, Jimmy wonders "what if" Hope had never been conceived.
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- A sign outside the theater is advertising My Name Is Earl: The Movie. My Name Is Earl was a TV show on NBC from 2005 to 2009. It was also created by Greg Garcia, the creator of Raising Hope.
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