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The Best Episodes of Hope & Faith

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Hope, a down-to-earth, happily married mother of three has her tidy world turned upside down when her celebrity sister moves in. Faith was living the Hollywood life as a soap opera star before her character

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Hope & Faith Season 2 Episode 10 - 9012-Uh-Oh
    7.6/10(48 votes)

    #1 - 9012-Uh-Oh

    S2:E10

    Thanksgiving day brings up memories of ten years ago, when Faith hosts a holiday dinner at her Hollywood apartment. She goes to great lengths to impress her parents, Jack and Mary Jo, including posing as Brian Austin Green's girlfriend. Happiness turns to sadness, however, when the family learns of Mary Jo's secret: she is dying.

    Director:Gil Junger
    Writer:Joanna Johnson

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  2. Hope & Faith Season 3 Episode 21 - Faith Knows Squat
    7.5/10(41 votes)

    #2 - Faith Knows Squat

    S3:E21

    After a loud, late-night dancing session by Faith and “The Gooch” pushes Hope and Charley over the edge, they suggest that the couple find their own home. Unfortunately Charley and Hope learn that a local real estate technicality makes Faith the legal owner of her garage apartment – unless she has paid them rent. So Charley tries to squeeze a single rent check out of Faith, but the truth comes out and Faith declares an all-out war on Hope and Charley to keep her place – and they join in an outrageous battle of one-upsmanship.

    Director:Michael Dorn
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Hope & Faith Season 2 Episode 8 - The Dolly Mama
    7.3/10(36 votes)

    #3 - The Dolly Mama

    S2:E8

    To prove to Hope that she can be responsible, Faith practices motherhood on an electronic baby. It's all going well until she accidentaly exchanges the doll for a real infant.

    Director:Gil Junger
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Hope & Faith Season 2 Episode 14 - Another Car Commercial
    7.3/10(34 votes)

    #4 - Another Car Commercial

    S2:E14

    Auto dealer Handsome Hal refuses to exchange Faith's lemon of a car unless she can get former baseball star, Gary ""The Gooch"" Gucharez, to do a commercial. Faith tricks the reluctant Gooch, but later regrets it.

    Director:Gil Junger
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Hope & Faith Season 2 Episode 11 - Do I Look Frat in This?
    7.1/10(34 votes)

    #5 - Do I Look Frat in This?

    S2:E11

    Faith and Sydney get jobs at a clothing store. The young Shanowski decides to lose her virginy to the college-age manager, leading Hope and Fath to crash a frat party to keep Syd from making a big mistake.

    Director:Don Scardino
    Writer:Jennie Snyder Urman

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  6. Hope & Faith Season 2 Episode 15 - Carmen Get It
    7.1/10(32 votes)

    #6 - Carmen Get It

    S2:E15

    Faith feuds with The Gooch's ex-girlfriend, Carmen, for his affection. And, after overhearing a life-altering message for The Gooch, Hope helps Faith scale a mountain to deliver the news to the man she loves.

    Director:Gil Junger
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Hope & Faith Season 1 Episode 14 - The Diner Show
    7.0/10(32 votes)

    #7 - The Diner Show

    S1:E14

    A waitress becomes a colleague of Hope and Faith (they couldn't pay their bill). The reason they're in the diner in the first place: Faith wants to impress a director who's filming on location and eats there every night. Back at home, meanwhile, Charley crashes a party, only he doesn't know it, thanks to Sydney and Hayley's quick guest-disappearing act.

    Director:Gil Junger
    Writer:Andrew Kreisberg

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  8. Hope & Faith Season 2 Episode 17 - O' Sister, Where Art Thou?
    7.0/10(37 votes)

    #8 - O' Sister, Where Art Thou?

    S2:E17

    Hope & Faith cater a party at a retirement home And Faith inadvertently helps a resident escape. Hope must work through trust issues with her capricious sibling and, in the meantime, help an escapee mend fences with her sister.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Jennie Snyder Urman

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  9. Hope & Faith Season 2 Episode 21 - 21 Lunch Street
    7.0/10(40 votes)

    #9 - 21 Lunch Street

    S2:E21

    Hope and Faith start to work at Sydney's school as lunch ladies, which causes Sydney to freak out. Things go from bad to worse when Hope and Faith begin to spy on Sydney, thinking that Sydney is involved in a romantic relationship with a teacher. Also Hope begings to change the household by eating healthy.

    Director:Scott Ellis
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Hope & Faith Season 2 Episode 3 - Queer as Hope
    6.9/10(34 votes)

    #10 - Queer as Hope

    S2:E3

    When Justin is caught smoking and Hayley steals frogs that are ready to be dissected, Hope starts to worry that everyone will think she's a bad mother. This fear comes to life when Faith tries to rent an apartment from a lesbian landlord by passing herself and Hope as lovers. When their picture ends up in the newspaper with the headline ""local lesbians,"" Hope's bid for three time mother of the year is in jeopardy.

    Director:Don Scardino
    Writer:Joanna Johnson

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  11. Hope & Faith Season 2 Episode 13 - The Gooch
    6.9/10(32 votes)

    #11 - The Gooch

    S2:E13

    Faith is attracted to her new neighbor, Gary ""the Gooch"" Gucharaze, a former baseball player. The notorious ladies' man, however, has no interest in her, leading Faith to go to great lengths to spy on him. The episode brings together Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos, who, noy only played a married couple on All My Children, but are married in real life.

    Director:Gil Junger
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Hope & Faith Season 3 Episode 6 - The Halloween Party
    6.9/10(27 votes)

    #12 - The Halloween Party

    S3:E6

    There's a neighborhood Halloween party contest between Hope and her neighbor Trudy but what can Faith do when she is invited to Trudy's party as the date for Trudy's rather attractive cousin?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Hope & Faith Season 1 Episode 1 - Pilot
    6.8/10(47 votes)

    #13 - Pilot

    S1:E1

    Fallen soap vixen Faith Fairfield creates high drama after moving in with her straitlaced sister and her family.

    Director:Gil Junger
    Writer:Joanna Johnson

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  14. Hope & Faith Season 1 Episode 3 - The Un-Graduate
    6.8/10(37 votes)

    #14 - The Un-Graduate

    S1:E3

    Faith goes back to high-school for her degree after it comes out that she failed French and never actually graduated. But a note passed in class leads Sydney's new beau to think more about Faith than French.

    Director:Gil Junger
    Writer:Andrew Kreisberg

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  15. Hope & Faith Season 1 Episode 7 - Car Commercial
    6.8/10(32 votes)

    #15 - Car Commercial

    S1:E7

    A car dealer hires Faith for one of his wacky TV commercials. It's wackier than she would have liked. Meanwhile, Charley can't remember all of his and Hope's "cutesy, made-up anniversaries."

    Director:Gil Junger
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Hope & Faith Season 1 Episode 9 - Phone Home for the Holidays
    6.8/10(35 votes)

    #16 - Phone Home for the Holidays

    S1:E9

    Hope and Faith's playboy father Jack arrives for Thanksgiving with his latest girlfriend. She's "out of this world," he says to his daughters. She says she was abducted by aliens. Jack also has a surprise for Charley: he has taken up shiatsu massage, and his "favorite" (read: only) son-in-law is "customer numero uno."

    Director:Gil Junger
    Writers:Kat Likkel, John Hoberg

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  17. Hope & Faith Season 1 Episode 10 - Anger Management
    6.8/10(32 votes)

    #17 - Anger Management

    S1:E10

    A "big misunderstanding" (it really is) with the mother of one of the boys in Charley's basketball team lands Hope and Faith in an anger-management class. But does Hope really have a "Faith-management problem"? Meanwhile, Charley might be the anti-handyman, but that's not stopping him from trying to fix the garbage disposal in the kitchen sink.

    Director:Gil Junger
    Writer:Mark Driscoll

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  18. Hope & Faith Season 1 Episode 12 - The Wedding
    6.8/10(32 votes)

    #18 - The Wedding

    S1:E12

    Charley's brother Andrew is getting married, and their mother fears that Hope will ruin the nuptials. There's a history here: She blames Hope for wrecking Andrew's first wedding (the bride ran out of the church following a poem Hope read), and this one won't go smoothly, either.

    Director:Gil Junger
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Hope & Faith Season 1 Episode 13 - Madam President
    6.8/10(36 votes)

    #19 - Madam President

    S1:E13

    The opposition to Hope's campaign for president of the Glen Falls Neighborhood Association is Faith-based: she insulted a man, so he runs against her. He'll find a potent campaign weapon. Meanwhile, Charley tries to engineer Sydney's social life.

    Director:Gil Junger
    Writer:Mark Driscoll

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  20. Hope & Faith Season 1 Episode 24 - Daytime Emmys (1)
    6.8/10(35 votes)

    #20 - Daytime Emmys (1)

    S1:E24

    Faith's surprise Daytime Emmy nomination sends the Fairfields to New York City for a reunion with Faith's "The Sacred and the Sinful" colleagues. They're not her friends.

    Director:Gil Junger
    Writer:Jennie Snyder Urman

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  21. Hope & Faith Season 2 Episode 4 - Hold the Phone
    6.8/10(32 votes)

    #21 - Hold the Phone

    S2:E4

    Charley's life becomes a living hell when Faith starts working as the receptionist in his orthodontics practice. When tensions mount, they make a bet for their most prized possessions and manage to ruin Hayley's science fair.

    Director:Don Scardino
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Hope & Faith Season 2 Episode 12 - Aru-bah Humbug
    6.8/10(30 votes)

    #22 - Aru-bah Humbug

    S2:E12

    Faith accidentally says that ""Santa"" is not real, and Justin overhears it. So Faith wants Justin to believe in him by climbing in the chimney, but those plans go sour when Faith gets stuck in the chimney.

    Director:Don Scardino
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Hope & Faith Season 2 Episode 16 - Catering-a-ding-ding
    6.8/10(33 votes)

    #23 - Catering-a-ding-ding

    S2:E16

    Wanting an an investor for her screenplay, Faith talks Hope in to starting there own Catering Business. So for there first gig the gals cater a party honoring Glen Falls' richest resident. When the singer is delayed, Faith pulls double duty to provide the entertainment, as she and nephew Justin perform a duet. So at the end Faith comes to her senses and gives up on acting.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Hope & Faith Season 2 Episode 19 - Wife Swap (1)
    6.8/10(42 votes)

    #24 - Wife Swap (1)

    S2:E19

    Part 1 Hope's life goes out of control when Faith submits Hope as a ""Wife Swap"" candidate. Hope gets switched with Cynthia (special guest-star Wynonna Judd.) Cynthia is a rich, spoiled, self-indulgent, Manhattanite. When Hope gets used to the fabulous life, Cynthia finds housework abhorrent -- but not nearly as abhorrent as living with Hope's sister, Faith.

    Director:Dennis Dugan
    Writers:Joanna Johnson, Jennie Snyder Urman

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  25. Hope & Faith Season 2 Episode 20 - Wife Swap (2)
    6.8/10(35 votes)

    #25 - Wife Swap (2)

    S2:E20

    Part 2 Hope finds it difficult living in an upscale Manhattan apartment with spoiled children, a work-alcoholic ""husband"". Also Faith finds it difficult that, Cynthia's live-in sister who does ALL the housework and won't let Hope life a finger. Meanwhile Faith's world is turned upside-down when she's ordered to do mundane, household chores by Cynthia.

    Director:Dennis Dugan
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"9012-Uh-Oh" is the best rated episode of "Hope & Faith". It scored 7.6/10 based on 48 votes. Directed by Gil Junger and written by Joanna Johnson, it aired on 11/26/2004. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Faith Knows Squat".