Just watched Sex, Clown and Videotape and I'm wondering how many of you know Jimmy and Christine from another Garcia show, Yes, Dear from the early 2000's?

This is the absolute best show that has ever been on television. The characters and the writing are so perfect.

My name is Chris and I run a LawnCare/Pool Cleanup business and my daily/work truck is a 1989 Chevy C-2500. And Burts truck in Raising Hope was a 1990 Chevy C-2500. My truck is the older slightly smaller brother

In season 1, ep 21 Barney has some of the crew making commercials to try and get their stores commercial picked for the public. In Franks commercial, he says he was born in the year of the rat, and by timeline sort that would be 1984. But later in the season finale when we get the flashback to when jimmy was goth and trying to buy beer, Frank won’t sell to him because he says they’re in the same class. We also know Jimmy was born in 1988. This wouldn’t really make sense considering Franks supposed birth year that would mean frank was a Senior and Jimmy was a freshman, but he obviously wasn’t a freshman considering was turning 18 lol. Also in the episode where Jimmy and Frank confront their bully, they were bullied by the same guy obviously, and they took the same bus implying they’re in the same grade.
I know there’s a lot of inconsistent plots throughout the show, but I’m on my billionth rewatch and I just discovered this, so I thought I’d share lol.

Edit: I just remembered when Frank said Jimmy and him were in the same class, it was the episode where Jimmy and Sabrina get engaged, not the season one finale.

... the other was a great Hilary Duff episode.

I'm in the middle of the season 4 and Jimmy & Sabrina barely have screentime anymore, it feel so weird cause they both are the main focus in the previous season and now they became the background

He becomes basically illiterate and unable to understand basic euphemisms and metaphor. It makes him a bit hard to watch at times with the amount he's flanderised in season 4. He was always portrayed as being dumb, but he was never an idiot basically incapable of taking care of himself.

I remember watching Raising Hope with my mom way back when I was in middle school, and there was an episode where Jimmy and the others were making animal shapes out of ground meat for some sort of event at the grocery store. Jimmy was making a pig and it looked more like a cat than a pig and his coworkers were like “You can’t make that look like a cat, no one is going to want to buy that!!” and later on in the episode, a customer walked up to the register and said “I’ll take three pounds of the cat.” I remember when we watched this scene for the first time we both burst out laughing and we were quoting it for years, but I can’t remember for the life of me what episode this was. Since what feels like forever I’ve been hunting for this episode but no one’s re-uploaded it anywhere, ChatGPT won’t give me a straight answer, and Google tells me it doesn’t exist. My mom still remembers this scene so I know I’m not crazy, does anyone know what episode this was??

I first watched Raising Hope when I was a kid and I'm doing a rewatch now, about 12 years later. I noticed that there are quite a few references to incest. Like, more than you'd typically see in a TV show.

First, I noticed how Maw Maw frequently thinks that Jimmy or Burt is her late husband and she'll try to kiss them. It's definitely funny but also very strange. Burt's parents are cousins which is a bit strange. I don't remember if they are 1st, 2nd, or 3rd cousins, but regardless, still a weird joke to make. There is also the episode where Burt gets a vasectomy and Jimmy has to shave his private parts before the procedure. While Jimmy is doing this, Burt gets hard??? What the heck?

I just watched an episode (S2E17) where Burt and Jimmy say that they are "pee pee brothers" and then go into the bathroom together. Weird. In the episode I'm watching right now, Virginia has to go away to watch a teenage girl for some extra money, and Jimmy basically has to pretend to be Paw Paw for a week.

There is also the bit about how Virginia stole Burt away from Delila, her cousin. This really isn't that weird but, on top of everything else, it just feels strange.

Don't get me wrong, I love this show and I think it's hilarious, but I noticed that there are FAR more incest jokes/boundary crossing than I've ever seen before, except for a show like Game of Thrones. Has anyone else every noticed this? Thoughts?

So, I decided to check the show out. I just finished binge watching over the last few weeks.

I really enjoyed it, but overall, I felt season 1 and 2 were the best, with season 3 and 4 still being decent.

Does anyone know any behind the scenes information?

The last season especially REALLY because Martha and Garret's show. Why was Lucas and Shannon sidelined? Were they tired of the show? Did they ask to have their roles reduced? Heck, even in the series finale, Lucas basically had a few lines here and there, and a few lines at the end.

Martha Plimpton was, I'm assuming, the biggest name on the show. Was Raising Hope initially a vehicle for her? The series started off focus on Lucas as he was the father of Hope, but it's still possible because Martha was the bigger name, it was designed for her.

After finishing the series, I decided to go back and rewatch it to compare the seasons, and I just really appreciate the acting choices of Lucas in the earlier episodes.

I guess a big part of the show was the dynamic and tension between Jimmy and Sabrina. Once they did, the writers didn't know what to do with them.

Also, was it just me or did Sabrina let a lot of stuff slide 🤣 When I watched the Valentine's Day episode and Jimmy essentially admitting that he'd manipulated the situation, and Sabrina runs outside the theatre, I was like, oh crap, it's good he came clean and told the truth, but he's most likely set things back with Sabrina. Of course, I was wrong.

Also, Martha and River Phoenix dated back in the day. Towards the end of the series, I noticed a slight resemblance between River Phoenix and Garret Dillahunt. This made me wonder if it was originally a Martha Plimpton vehicle.

I really enjoyed my first time watching, this was a fantastic ensemble cast and they really meshed well together. I was disappointed it was only 4 seasons, but near the end, I could see why.

I'm on my (maybe 5th) rewatch. In the series premier, the grocery store has a different name than Howdy's.

However, in the season 1 finale, the flashbacks are from 5 years earlier, yet the store is still called Howdy's.

Also, I realized there were at least I references to My Name is Earl (not counting the actors!)

Can anyone check S1:E7 and let me know if the first 5 minutes repeats three times. I didn’t see it reported but I’m hoping to get it fixed as you don’t get to see the end of the episode. Sent report to Apple but I’m assuming they’ll need the studio to fix.