Episode
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition: Boys Hope/Girls Hope
Overview
Ty Pennington and his design team, including new designers Xzibit and Jillian Harris, traveled to Baltimore, Maryland, to surprise the students of Boys Hope/Girls Hope in a unique way and reveal to them that their lives were about to change. For the first time in the history of the show, the recipients were surprised on live television when the "EM: HE" team greeted the students with the good news. Another first in the show's 170-plus episode history came unannounced, courtesy of Mother Nature, when an epic rainstorm threatened to knock the 11,000 square foot build off its strict seven-day schedule
Details
- Series
- Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
- Season
- Season 8
- Episode
- Episode 1
- Air date
- 2010-09-26
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
Boys Hope/Girls Hope is Episode 1 in Season 8 of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. It aired on 2010-09-26. The runtime is 60 min.
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