Hot in Cleveland season 4

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Hot in Cleveland
Season 4
DVD cover
No. of episodes24
Release
Original networkTV Land
Original releaseNovember 28, 2012 (2012-11-28) –
September 4, 2013 (2013-09-04)
Season chronology
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List of episodes

The fourth season of the TV Land original sitcom Hot in Cleveland premiered on November 28, 2012[1] and concluded September 4, 2013. It consisted of 24 episodes, split into 12-episode winter and summer segments. The series stars Valerie Bertinelli, Wendie Malick, Jane Leeves, and Betty White.

Plot

Picking up from where the last season's cliffhanger left off, the baby left on the girls' doorstep turns out to be Wilbur, Owen's son from a one-night stand. Although Owen seemingly decides to put him up for adoption as he doesn't know how to raise him, it's a decision neither he nor the girls are happy with, and Elka's new boyfriend Pierre calls them out on it. Joy then offers to help Owen raise his son if he relocates permanently to Cleveland, which he agrees to. This storyline spawns several more season-long storylines; while Victoria babysits Wilbur and takes him to a baby audition, she manages to land a leading part in a movie directed by Woody Allen. After having somehow misplaced the baby on the way back, the girls go back to the movie studio retrieve him. Whilst there, Melanie reprimands a spiteful actress and talks about the perks of living in Cleveland, which gets her noticed by PR director Chloe, who gives her a job at a PR firm. Things soon get complicated when Melanie finds out that her new boss, Alec, who she ends up falling in love with, is Chloe's ex-husband, and Melanie finds herself trying to control her feelings for Alec as Chloe is still in love with and wants to get back together with him even though he is dating someone else and is preparing to go on vacation with his new girlfriend. To cope, Melanie invents a lie involving a fake boyfriend, actor Emmett Lawson. However, after the encounter with Emmett in person, Alec overhears Melanie's reaction and realizes that she lied and has feelings for him, which Melanie doesn't realize he did until he's gone and Victoria points it out. After several attempts to clarify herself to Alec while he is on vacation, Melanie is surprised when Alec returns and admits that he has feelings for her, though he insists that Chloe shouldn't know yet. However, he accidentally blurts it out while Melanie is trying to save Chloe from falling off the ledge of the workplace building. Chloe accepts the relationship and leaves the firm, and Melanie and Alec begin to form a stable relationship. Eventually, Melanie begins to wonder where their relationship is going when Alec keeps returning her toothbrush that she left at his apartment. After much discussion, they decide to move in together, and Melanie moves out of the house into Alec's apartment.

Speaking of Emmett, who is Victoria's co-star in her movie, although she is suspicious of his motives, the two develop chemistry between each other, especially when rumors circulate of a secret relationship between them. Although they initially play along with the false rumors, this relationship quickly becomes real as the two fall in love with each other. The relationship is cemented near the end of filming, when Emmett invites Victoria on a romantic trip to Morocco with him after filming concludes. On the night of their departure, Emmett plans to propose to Victoria. However, just as he does so, police officers arrest him for tax fraud, which Emmett's business manager had committed under shady deals for which Emmett blindly signed contracts which implicated him as well. Victoria nevertheless accepts his proposal, and hires a wedding planner for their wedding in prison. However, she struggles to cope with the fact that Emmett is in jail and does not know how long he will be there. On the day of her bachelorette party, she suffers an accident and takes it as a sign she needs to figure out what went wrong in her previous marriages before she marries Emmett. After condescending advice from most of her exes, the one ex who truly broke her heart tells her that she puts emotional walls up around the people she loves most and makes them feel like they are not needed when they need to be. Realizing that he is right and fearing she will do this to Emmett, Victoria decides to break off her engagement to him, but Melanie and Joy stop her from doing so, noting that she is already open and happy with him. After Victoria realizes she needs Emmett, she decides to stay with him.

Realizing she wants to set a good example for her grandson, Joy decides to enrol at college, taking up a course in economics. However she quickly feels left out of place due to her age, especially upon learning that Elka goes to the same college and is one of the popular kids, though Elka hesitantly helps her feel more welcome at the college. A storyline running in parallel with this is the fact that Elka and her friend Mamie-Sue are running a shady venture together. Although Joy is suspicious of this when she sees the cash Elka has been hiding, she doesn't find out more information until she takes an internship at a private investigation firm run by Detective Bob Moore. They both spy on Elka where she hands out pills to a crowd of strangers for cash, and then Joy confronts Elka on seeing the stash of drugs in the oven, where Elka confesses that she and Mamie are running an illegal drug business. Although Joy contemplates turning in Elka to the police, she ultimately decides to help Elka and Mamie quickly sell off all of their unsold drug stock (including the large inventory in the basement), with the help of Victoria and Melanie. Their efforts occur as part of the show's first live episode, where they successfully manage to do so as well as avoid trouble with a former drug lord and a major mob boss.

Also, when Joy's mother Philippa is visiting Cleveland for Wilbur's christening, Joy asks Owen to lie about his entire life to appease her mother. When both begin to slip on the lie, a huge argument breaks out during the christening, when Philippa reveals that the man who got Joy pregnant was planning to propose but that she made him leave instead, believing he wasn't right for Joy. Whilst Joy is initially furious with Philippa because of the revelation, she eventually agrees that what her mother did was for the best, and that it wouldn't have worked out anyway. When Joy celebrates Wilbur's birthday, this causes Melanie and Alec to think about the idea of having kids together. Although Alec is eager to raise kids, Melanie is concerned that she is too old for motherhood and they decide to shelve the idea. However, Melanie later decides to break up with Alec to give him a chance at fatherhood, and she quits her job and moves out of his apartment and back into the house with the girls.

On their wedding day, due to the new prison warden's budget and security constraints, Victoria and Emmett marry in a small prison cell ceremony, with an ordained minister, though on their wedding night in a private prison trailer, Emmett reveals that more charges have been filed against him that could see him incarcerated for up to ten years. Meanwhile, the minister, a man working at press magazine who Victoria arranged to secretly photograph the wedding, turns out to be Simon, the man who left Joy while she was pregnant with Owen. Though Joy is angry with him for abandoning her, Simon expresses regret over this and reconciles with Joy, vowing to return soon to be there for her and their family. The season ends on a double cliffhanger as Victoria wakes up to find Emmett gone and Melanie is stunned to find out that she is pregnant.

Cast

Production

Hot in Cleveland was renewed for a 24-episode fourth season on January 12, 2012.[2] The summer premiere on June 19, 2013 aired live at 10:00 PM EDT/9:00 PM CDT (live-to-tape in the Mountain and Pacific time zones).[3]

Heather Locklear, Jay Harrington, and Alan Dale all had recurring roles in season four. Locklear joined in the role of Chloe Summerlin, a former Miss Ohio who hires Melanie to work at her PR firm. Harrington plays as Alec, Summerlin's ex-husband who also works at the PR firm, and Dale plays Emmett Lawson, Victoria's movie co-star and love interest. Regis Philbin, Georgia Engel, and Michael McMillian also reprise their roles in season four.[4] Engel is reunited with Fred Willard, her former TV husband on Everybody Loves Raymond, in the season's fifth episode.[5] Eddie Cibrian guest stars in season four as a fireman and Joy's love interest.[6] Juliet Mills reprises her season 1 role as Joy's hyper-critical mother, Philipa.

Danny Pudi, William Shatner, Brian Baumgartner, and Shirley Jones all have roles in the special live episode ("It's Alive") that kicks off the second half of the season. Carol Burnett and Tim Conway guest star this season, with Conway returning as Elka's ex-boyfriend Nick, and Burnett playing Penny, Victoria's mother.[7] Jean Smart appears on the same episode as Burnett, as Victoria's sister, Bess.[8] Mary Tyler Moore, Valerie Harper, and Cloris Leachman appear in an episode about Elka and Mamie reuniting with members of their 1963 championship bowling team.[9] The three actresses reunite with White and Engel, with whom they all starred on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Moore plays a different character than the one she portrayed in the season 2 premiere episode. The same episode features Jesse Tyler Ferguson as a famous avant-garde film director.[10] Craig Ferguson appears in the season finale as Owen's father, who ran out on a 15-year-old Joy after getting her pregnant.[11]

Release

Season four was released in Region 1 on December 3, 2013. The DVD includes all 24 episodes on 3 discs.[12]

Episodes

Main article: List of Hot in Cleveland episodes
No.
overall		No. in
season		TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateProd.
code		U.S. viewers
(millions)
571"That Changes Everything"David TrainerRachel SweetNovember 28, 2012 (2012-11-28)4011.70[13]
582"A Midwinter Night's Sex Comedy"David TrainerSteve JoeDecember 5, 2012 (2012-12-05)4021.44[14]
593"Method Man"David TrainerSebastian JonesDecember 12, 2012 (2012-12-12)4031.20[15]
604"GILFs"David TrainerSam Johnson & Chris MarcilDecember 19, 2012 (2012-12-19)4041.21[16]
615"A Box Full of Puppies"Dennis CappsSuzanne MartinDecember 26, 2012 (2012-12-26)4051.34[17]
626"Cleveland Fantasy-Con"Joe RegalbutoChuck Ranberg & Anne Flett-GiordanoJanuary 2, 2013 (2013-01-02)4061.15[18]
637"Magic Diet Candy"Joe RegalbutoSebastian JonesJanuary 9, 2013 (2013-01-09)4071.33[19]
648"Extras"Andy CadiffSuzanne MartinJanuary 16, 2013 (2013-01-16)4081.07[20]
659"The Conversation"Andy CadiffSteve JoeJanuary 23, 2013 (2013-01-23)4091.33[21]
6610"The Anger Games"Andy CadiffSam Johnson & Chris MarcilJanuary 30, 2013 (2013-01-30)4101.40[22]
6711"Fast and Furious"Andy CadiffAlex HerschlagFebruary 6, 2013 (2013-02-06)4111.29[23]
6812"What Now, My Love?"David TrainerRachel SweetFebruary 13, 2013 (2013-02-13)4121.29[24]
6913"It's Alive"Andy CadiffJoe KeenanJune 19, 2013 (2013-06-19)4131.69[25]
7014"Canoga Falls"Andy CadiffSebastian JonesJune 26, 2013 (2013-06-26)4211.34[26]
7115"The Proposal"Andy CadiffChuck Ranberg & Anne Flett-GiordanoJuly 10, 2013 (2013-07-10)4141.12[27]
7216"Pony Up"Andy CadiffJessica Wood & Jameson LyonsJuly 17, 2013 (2013-07-17)4181.28[28]
7317"No Glove, No Love"Andy CadiffAlex HerschlagJuly 24, 2013 (2013-07-24)4171.12[29]
7418"The Fixer"Andy CadiffChuck Ranberg & Anne Flett-GiordanoJuly 31, 2013 (2013-07-31)4151.28[30]
7519"Look Who's Hot Now"N/AN/AAugust 7, 2013 (2013-08-07)4221.31[31]
7620"Cleveland Indians"Andy CadiffJoe KeenanAugust 14, 2013 (2013-08-14)4161.20[32]
7721"Corpse Bride"Andy CadiffLisa SlopeyAugust 21, 2013 (2013-08-21)4191.28[33]
7822"All My Exes"Andy CadiffSam Johnson & Chris MarcilAugust 28, 2013 (2013-08-28)4201.22[34]
7923"Love Is All Around"Andy CadiffSteve JoeSeptember 4, 2013 (2013-09-04)4231.75[35]
8024"The Man That Got Away"Andy CadiffRachel SweetSeptember 4, 2013 (2013-09-04)4241.90[35]

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General references

External links

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