Jimmy likes to brag at work about what a genius Hope is. Sabrina tells him that her Dad was always threatened by how smart Sabrina was. Jimmy gets worried...at some point soon, Hope will be smarter than him.
Virginia and Burt tell Jimmy he can embrace that he doesn't come from the smartest gene pool. Hope just has the fortune of having half a gene pool from someone really smart.
Jimmy decides to go back to school to get his GED but the teacher turns out to be one of his least favorite HS teachers when he dropped out to be a famous artist like Ed Hardy.
The teacher recognizes him immediately as his goth persona, Drakkar Noir. The teacher takes pleasure in using Jimmy as an example of what a failure is. Jimmy asks him to stop but the teacher (the lovable Fred Willard) is enjoying it too much.
Jimmy thinks about asking Sabrina to tutor him but his parents tell him it's a bad idea. "Girls like guys who are dumb and handsome, not really dumb and pleasant looking. And we have worked REALLY hard to keep Sabrina from finding out how stupid you are." Jimmy realizes how often he relies on his parents even when they give him the wrong answer. Insert hilarious caper/capers mix-up scene here. Whenever Sabrina says something smart to him, he uses the phone to call his parents, a human Google machine so they can look it all up for him on the internet. They try and quiz him on math but they're too dumb to even come up with a question. They turn to Maw Maw who for an instant is a math genius.
In the bedroom, Virginia wants Burt to come watch a stupid show with her but she catches him reading one of Jimmy's textbooks to try to get smarter. Virginia isn't havin it as she refuses to become the stupidest of the 3. So she warns him to "Put down the book and go watch TV. And nothing smart, no PBS and no NBC sitcoms." Jimmy finds them and they think they should all get their GED but that won't work because then Jimmy will be the dumbest one again.
Back at school, all 3 Chances are now there and Burt and Virginia also remember the teacher they hated when they dropped out when Virginia got knocked up with Jimmy. And he, of course, remembers them too. He's in heaven. Burt and Jimmy compete in the class but they all give nothing but stupid answers and it becomes clear that need a tutor...Sabrina. Jimmy confesses how stupid they really he is but she tells him to stop being so hard on himself. Burt turns to Barney but instead finds Frank. Virginia finds lucid Maw Maw so they all have tutors. They all work hard and are doing well but they're still not the brightest. Sabrina tries practical learning, Frank teaches Burt to picture movies and Maw Maw teaches Virginia through song. It works and they all begin to learn.
They all get ready to take the test to see who is the smartest. Hope is the only one that passes and they all fail. But they realize that Hope may truly be a genius or they're all just real idiots.
They're all chatting around the table and realize, even though they failed, they all learned something and between the 3 of them they can make up one smart person who can teach Hope, like a learning A-Team. Their first duty as the A-Team is to stick it to their HS teacher by having Jimmy pass the GED. Since each of them was good at one thing, they all put Jimmy's name on the section they were good at. And it worked and he gets a 90% to get his GED and his parents get the lowest scores ever on the GED. Jimmy puts "Chance Family" on his diploma as Hope writes E=MC2 on the refrigerator with baby magnets.
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