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Sabrina Marie Chance (née Collins) is the daughter of Cap Collins and Tamara Collins, cousin of Shelley Collins, wife of Jimmy Chance, adoptive mother of Hope Chance, great granddaughter in-law of Barbara June Thompson and daughter in-law of Burt Chance and Virginia Chance and one of the main characters in Raising Hope. She is portrayed by Shannon Woodward.

Sabrina works as a cashier at the small Natesville grocery store, Howdy's Market. As a source of entertainment while doing her unamusing job, she spends most of her time drawing on cantaloupes and mixing up the cereals and soup cans (her boss, Barney, being unaware of this).

Sabrina immediately catches Jimmy's attention, but much to Jimmy's dismay she has a boyfriend, Wyatt, who is studying finance in New York. Ironically, a large part of seasons one and two consist of Jimmy chasing after Sabrina, whereas in a flashback episode, we realize that she harbored a crush on him before they even met, presumably because of his then-gothic style.

Later, while working for a client, Burt discovers that Sabrina is the daughter of a very wealthy family. Sabrina becomes insecure about herself, comparing her non-achievements to those of her friends and former classmates from high school. Jimmy convinces Sabrina to confront her own shortcomings and embrace her strengths, mending her relationships with her sister and her past friends.

In "Jimmy's Fake Girlfriend", Sabrina breaks up with Wyatt and starts dating Jimmy.

In the season 2 finale "I Want My Baby Back, Baby Back, Baby Back," Jimmy reluctantly leaves Sabrina so he can be with Hope and Lucy in Tibet. After Lucy and Jimmy pass Sabrina on their drive to the airport, Lucy stops the car and asks Jimmy if he loves Sabrina. When he replies that he does, but he is doing this for his daughter, she states that what she's about to do is for Hope, so she can have a "happy family," leading the viewers to believe she's going to give custody of Hope back to Jimmy.

Unexpectedly, Lucy leaps out of the car and begins to chase Sabrina down the street with a knife, but in the process, is hit by a bus driven by the blind musician who attends Jimmy's church.

Personality[]

Sabrina has a very sardonic and sarcastic personality, and during her relationship with Wyatt, Wyatt made her take medication so that her intense fear of spiders would go away (when she was six, a spider laid eggs in her ear while she slept and her mother's buddhist beliefs meant she didn't allow Sabrina to kill them, causing her to wear pantyhose over her head whenever she goes to bed).

Jimmy attempts to help cure her odd phobia, which results in him being bitten by several spiders. However, at the end of the episode, Sabrina and Jimmy are seen happily sharing a bed blanketed by a bed canopy. Jimmy also states that she acted more impulsive and fun without her medication--and that was a good thing, because it made the Chance family like her even more ("Sheer Madness").

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Sabrina seems to be a cool and collected person, having once been described as "smart and insightful" by Virginia. In spite of this calm exterior, Sabrina can become very anxious and jittery, such as when Jimmy asked her to be Hope's legal guardian if anything happened to the Chances ("Mongooses").

Shelley claims that a plus of living with Sabrina is the fact that she keeps backups for everything, including clothes, soaps, and kitchen supplies. After this, Jimmy begins to suspect that the reason why Sabrina has male study partners and makes an effort to look good around them is because they are "backups" for her current boyfriends; for example, when she was dating Wyatt, Jimmy was her backup ("Sabrina's New Jimmy").

Appearance[]

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Sabrina is thought by many characters in the show to be beautiful. In an episode of season 2, she was told that she was pretty, and, as a result, wasn't expected to be smart.

At 5'1, Sabrina is also somewhat short, and occasionally Virginia and Burt will make fun of her height.

In season 1, Sabrina has long hair, but in season 2 she appears with shoulder-length hair. She is also revealed to wear contacts, and has gigantic, black-rimmed glasses which she thinks make her look nerdy. 

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The Chance family also comments on how her humble height will never make her an actress (an inside joke, because Shannon Woodward is, in fact, portraying Sabrina) ("Sabrina Has Money").

Relationship with Jimmy[]

Jimmy had a crush on Sabrina throughout season 1 and most of season 2, but she remained oblivious to his attraction to her. During that period, they became very close friends. Sabrina also occasionally took care of Hope.

In the season 2 episode "Jimmy's Fake Girlfriend," Jimmy confesses his true feelings to Sabrina in a play he wrote and they start a relationship. In the season three premiere "Not Indecent, But Not Quite Decent Enough Proposal", Jimmy proposes to Sabrina and she accepts. They are married later on in the same season in the episode "Modern Wedding."

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