After Burt takes a bad fall and ends up in a wheelchair, he becomes obsessed with his new "back-fence" neighbors, Gary and Gina. Convinced that Gary has murdered his wife with an axe, Burt enlists Virginia to help him spy on them using a telescope—mimicking the telephoto lens used by Jimmy Stewart's character in Rear Window . Because the Chances have a history of making "loony" calls to the police, the department only sends auxiliary officer Barney to investigate.
In the Raising Hope episode "" (Season 4, Episode 7), which aired on December 6, 2013, the show delivers a comprehensive tribute to the films of Alfred Hitchcock , specifically the 1954 classic Rear Window . Plot Summary "Raising Hope" Murder, She Hoped(2013)
Virginia wears a black and white dress nearly identical to the one worn by Grace Kelly in Rear Window . Her other outfits throughout the episode also mirror various Hitchcock leading ladies. After Burt takes a bad fall and ends