The second season of the American television series Raising Hope premiered on September 20, 2011, on Fox. The show moved to its new time slot, airing on Tuesday at 9:30pm ET to make way for the new comedy series New Girl, before moving again to 8:00 pm ET in mid-season. This season contains 22 episodes.
Cast
Main cast Lucas Neff as James "Jimmy" Chance Martha Plimpton as Virginia Chance Garret Dillahunt as Burt Chance Shannon Woodward as Sabrina Collins Gregg Binkley as Barney Hughes Cloris Leachman as Barbara June "Maw Maw" Thompson
Recurring cast Baylie and Rylie Cregut as Hope Chance Kate Micucci as Shelley Todd Giebenhain as Frank Marolla Ryan Doom as Wyatt Gill Bijou Phillips as Lucy Carlyle Eddie Steeples as Tyler, the Gas Man Dan Coscino as Dancin' Dan Carla Jimenez as Rosa Flores Lou Wagner as Wally Phipps
Recurring cast in flashback Greyson Chance as adolescent Jimmy Kelly Heyer as teenage Virginia Cameron Moulene as teenage Burt Laura Avey as teenage Delilah Trace Garcia as 4-year-old Jimmy (credited as Trace!)
Guest cast Stephen Root as Captain Collins Sean Bridgers as Jack Whit Hertford as Ross Amy Sedaris as Delilah Greg Germann as Dale Carlyle Camden Garcia as Trevor Shirley Jones as Christine Chance Lee Majors as Ralph Chance Ethan Suplee as Andrew Andrew Dice Clay as Himself Patton Oswalt as Rubin Fred Willard as Mr. Swift Dale Dickey as Patty Timothy Stack as TV's Tim Stack Ashley Tisdale as Mary-Louise Katy Perry as Rikki Hargrove Mary Birdsong as Mayor Suzie Hellmann Gary Anthony Williams as News Reporter Vivica A. Fox as Sarah Louise David Krumholtz as Carl Travis Van Winkle as Philip Desi Lydic as Uma Jorge Diaz as Randy Anthony Anderson as Neighbor Nancy Grace as Herself Jason Lee as Smokey Floyd Jaime Pressly as Donna Ed Begley, Jr. as Himself Jackie Hoffman as Sylvia Barnes Amy Hill as Judge
Production On January 10, 2011, Fox renewed Raising Hope for a second season with a 22 episode order. From the beginning of this season, Cloris Leachman and Gregg Binkley were both upgraded to series regulars. Episode four aired following The X Factor on Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 9:30pm, instead of its regular time slot of Tuesday at 9:30pm.Exclusive: "Raising Hope," "New Girl" to Get Post-"X Factor" Showcases, The Futon Critic, September 16, 2011. Production for this season ended on February 16, 2012.Garret Dillahunt's Tweet, twitter.com, February 16, 2012. On March 6, 2012, the show moved to 8pm as part of the mid-season two-hour comedy block, although the last two episodes of the season were shown in the original 9:30pm time slot.
Episodes
Ratings
U.S. # Episode Air Date 18-49 (rating/share) Viewers (m) 1 "Prodigy" September 20, 2011 3.1/8 6.73 2 "Sabrina Has Money" September 27, 2011 2.9/7 6.14 3 "Kidnapped" October 4, 2011 2.9/7 6.36 4 "Henderson, Nevada-Adjacent Baby! Henderson, Nevada-Adjacent!" October 5, 2011 2.2/6 5.85 5 "Killer Hope" November 1, 2011 2.5/6 5.37 6 "Jimmy and the Kid" November 8, 2011 2.1/5 4.51 7 "Burt's Parents" November 15, 2011 2.2/5 4.84 8 "Bro-gurt" November 29, 2011 2.4/6 5.34 9 "The Men of New Natesville" December 6, 2011 2.2/5 4.57 10 "It's a Hopeful Life" December 13, 2011 2.3/6 4.98 11 "Mrs. Smartypants" January 17, 2012 2.3/6 5.03 12 "Gambling Again" January 31, 2012 2.0/5 4.62 13 "Tarot Cards" February 7, 2012 2.1/5 4.47 14 "Jimmy's Fake Girlfriend" February 14, 2012 2.1/5 4.58 15 "Sheer Madness" February 21, 2012 2.1/5 4.73 16 "Single White Female Role Model" March 6, 2012 2.1/6 4.74 17 "Spanks Butt, No Spanks" March 13, 2012 1.8/6 4.31 18 "Poking Holes in the Story" March 20, 2012 1.6/5 3.78 19 "Hogging All the Glory" March 27, 2012 1.5/5 3.81 20 "Sabrina's New Jimmy" April 3, 2012 1.6/5 3.93 21 "Inside Probe" April 10, 2012 1.8/5 3.81 22 "I Want My Baby Back, Baby Back, Baby Back" April 17, 2012 1.8/5 3.79
References
External links
List of Raising Hope episodes at MSN TV List of Raising Hope episodes at The Futon Critic