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My headcanon Jimmy has an anxiety disorder goes further tonight, as he turns out to sleepwalk when he’s in a new place, with Burt and Virginia being blissfully unaware. Sabrina decides her new mission is to cure Jimmy of the disorder, to put her mind and Jimmy’s at ease. While in the process of working with their issues, Burt discovers something “new” about Virginia: she’s still hoarding and hiding it in a storage unit, and no longer has the money to pay for the storage space, and Virginia’s stuff is about to be auctioned off. This is how Storage Wars

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Remember last week when I said part two would probably be worse? I was so wrong. The start is a Yo Zappa Do worker explaining last week to a studio audience, where Hope was hired to be an actress. The director, an alcoholic who works that side too hard, asks one of the Chance family members to act along with her. Jimmy is chosen, being her real dad. Trevor is as intimidating and rude as always, giving us a suggestion of what’s going down.   Maw Maw admits to Barney her real plan of attack with Wilfred’s ashes: throw them

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Mid-season weddings without much warning for the audience is the new big thing. Yes, just as the title suggests, this is where Jimmy and Sabrina get married. Tamara can’t make it, so she hires the camera crew from Modern Family (is it a documentary in the Natesville universe?) to film the wedding. This disappoints Burt and Virginia; they were going to give the gift of a video. It’s better than Sabrina’s dad’s gift: a dangerous sized cake with dolphins, which Sabrina hates and her sister loves. The new idea comes to fix the problem with Jimmy’s marriage license. The bureau

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(Yes, another review! This is what happens when Ben and Kate gets canceled.) With Jimmy out of the house, the first Chance to move out since Virginia’s mom, she and Burt decide to turn Jimmy’s old room into a scrapbooking room. When Burt gets shocked a few too many times fixing the lights, they go out to find a day laborer to read the instructions for the lighting and make their Charlie work easier. Not that Sabrina and Jimmy are slacking! Back to the old grind after he wedding for them, working at Howdy’s. Barney’s gift of furniture may have been doll size, but

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When a TV show has an abnormal “viewer discretion advised” logo, you know things are going to be great. Of course Jimmy and Sabrina needed a crazy bachelor and bachelorette party. It’s a bit unfortunate it came on after Leslie and Ben did it fabulously on Parks and Recreation, but they had a separate plot and fun moments on their own.Jimmy wanted a very tame party, despite Sabrina wanting to be able to swap crazy stories and Burt wanting exactly what happened in The Hangover to happen, even if he never saw it. At first, that’s what happens. Until Frank decided bringing over

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An episode focused on rings and stones? Engagement rings? Onion rings? Diamonds? Frank’s kidney stone? It sounds insane, added by the fact the episode director was Dan Attias (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia). So, the actual plot…? Sabrina and Jimmy see a semi misogynistic ad on TV for engagement rings, where Sabrina smirks over the stupidity of an engagement ring and society’s expectation to build self worth off of a physical object (shades of Britta Perry in my mind). Burt tells Jimmy that means the ring is more important if she says she doesn’t want one, having done some extra stunt work

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Two questions, both hypothetical: Who watched Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer instead? Second, you know how we don’t see Sabrina parenting Hope very often? So does the rest of the Chance family, except they found out about Sabrina’s dirt eating, too. The concept of step parents never came up, rather just that Sabrina has to start pulling her weight. The plot has been set. Sabrina gets Hope to bed with no hardships. Jimmy, awestruck, questions why he was never able to do that. It’s suggested that Sabrina is more of a father and Jimmy is more of a mother, contrasting every

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The beginning of this episode made me worry it would hit home for me, as I have two very close friends with Crohn’s Disease. Fortunately, it didn’t and Barney was there to help. This week, Howdy’s Market teamed up with the local baseball team (Natesville Radishes…I guess they’re pushing it) and Ricardo again to combat Angry Bowels Syndrome, a victim himself. Making an array of poorly timed word choices a la Tobias Fünke, Jimmy took pity on the man and accepted as a walker. At first, Jimmy looked like a hero, if nothing else a man who wants to make

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Apparently, every small town on TV has some weird thing to be proud of, that gets a minor character to yell the city’s name on a news program (I forget how cool Frank is). For Natesville, it’s their radishes. Something in the soil that is probably illegal makes their radishes awestruckingly large. To celebrate, the town makes a festival every year to show off the coolness of the radish as both a snack and something to throw, and to help small businesses advertise. In addition, there’s a candy selling contest lead by Barney to choose a young pilgrim to be

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The episode starts with a similar theme: Jimmy discovers his parent’s imperfect parenting. Burt and Virginia describe how they would never let a shortcut go by in raising Jimmy as a child, rarely leaving the house when the weather was bad, driving took too long, or there was a risk of long lines. Jimmy accuses them of being lazy, but you have to admit, building a tire swing in your house is a pretty awesome idea. Jimmy, Hope, pretty much any kid I know, would love that! The swing knocked down a picture of Jimmy, which was actually folded back

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There hasn’t been a lot of Hope plots on Raising Hope this season. It’s not that unexpected; Burt said himself there’s only so many things you can do with a baby around. This was in season one, before they were expected to be picked up (they were renewed after episode three, the one Martha Plimpton was nominated for an Emmy). They made it three seasons. Hope is a toddler and all sorts of plots can come up now. This was the first of the season, in which Hope was giving up her pacifier. Jimmy tries doing it cold turkey, since nothing else

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The best ships are the ones where the characters were friends first, and the guy never expected anything out of it, even if he did flirt. This is why Jim/Pam (or Tim/Dawn…I haven’t seen much of the British Office) was so popular, or any number of Community pairings. This rings true for Jimmy and Sabrina. He liked her as the straight woman who occasionally acted a bit neurotic. She liked him as the naive, poor, and unplanned father of a serial killer’s baby. The rule isn’t always true. Burt and Virginia were always lovers and always great together. They knew

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