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Wilson then tells Tim that he once had a friend who didn't respond to a chain letter who happened to be a naval officer...in Borneo. Wilson then tells Tim that he once had a friend who didn't respond to a chain letter who happened to be a naval officer... Jill's mom was also supposedly enormous, which made for a joke that she'd lost a lot of weight and was played by a waif thin actress. One time when Tim goes to Wilson for advice, Wilson is in the middle of training for a biathlon, specifically saying that he's a biathlete.
Subverted, believe it or not, when Tim races his hot rod against Bob Vila's. Tim loses the race, but he tells Jill that he could have won if he'd pushed his car into the redline. He didn't do it because he spent three years building his hot rod and wasn't about to wreck it over a low-stakes race. Arguably one of THE sitcoms of The '90s, and still popular in syndication. The series ran for eight seasons, from September 17, 1991 to May 25, 1999.
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Too bad she still manages to make her way to Tim and Jill's house, much to Jill's chagrin. The Unwanted Glasses Plot with Mark is about how he doesn't want to look like a dork and Jill says it'll be okay even if he has glasses. Pretty quickly he changed to contact lenses, so those who don't want glasses for fear of looking nerdy got very little out of it before the character is not a dork again.
Tim would then try to relate Wilson's advice, mangle it badly, and finally put the advice and his viewpoint into understandable words of his own. It also occasionally showed Jill in the wrong, and with her own visit to Wilson she would realize she needs to make the effort to understand and empathize with Tim, too. By nature of featuring a nuclear family and the trials and tribulations of its growth , it also had more than a few Very Special Episodes. All of these themes ended up Anvilicious at times, although a bit more subdued than other shows of its type.
"We'll be right back after these messages from Binford Tropes!":
When him and Al were filling in for a cooking show on the same network, Tim actually takes the time to study up on what they're cooking, with the end result being that Tim and Al's roles are reversed, with Al screwing up and Time getting everything right. When Mark comes down with chickenpox, Tim (who's never had it) has to move in with Al temporarily. Hilarity Ensues, natch, but then Tim explains why he always makes fun of Al - he considers him to be like one of his brothers.Also featured is a neighbor that Al has a crush on, who he tries to impress by saying he hosts Tool Time and Tim is his assistant. Though annoyed, Tim begrudgingly goes along with it - only to later let it slip by accident that he's the host. When Al's about to come clean over lying, Tim intervenes by calling Tool Time "our show." Ashley Judd was originally cast as the Tool Girl, which was supposed to be a much bigger role (a college student majoring in psychology who acted as a stand-in for Jill on the Tool Time set), but she pulled out only days before the pilot was shot.
Tim hears this as "bi athlete" and tells him that whatever he does behind closed doors is his own business. Al's Mom was like this as well, although she only appeared in a few episodes. She was apparently so large actually seeing her wouldn't do it justice and the only time we see her is an arm holding a loaf of French bread and we only hear her speak in mumbles and groans.
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Also in the episode where Al takes over a cooking show as a favor and Tim is reduced to playing second banana they essentially swap schticks and Al becomes the Small Name, Big Ego while Tim is the quieter, competent, Deadpan Snarker sidekick. Perhaps Fridge Brilliance, as Jill's famously bad cooking means that Tim might have learned cookery in self-defense. He was shown studying up for the complicated specialty dish Al wanted to prepare with Jill. In "Some Like It Hot Rod", Jill almost ruins Tim's chance of getting his hot rod in a big magazine by not covering the hot rod when it starts snowing, wrecking the interior, soaking the carpet and fogging up the gauges. When Tim finds out and gets mad, she claims that it's not her fault and pins the blame on Tim for not bringing the hot rod out of the garage. However, she eventually realizes that she was wrong to blame Tim when she was indeed at fault.
In season 8 Zachary Ty Bryan and Richard Karn had worked up to a "With... And..." respectively. Kind of related to D.I.Y. Disaster, Do-It-Yourself Plumbing Project, and Doom It Yourself, as though Tim and his friends are actually incredibly competent at conventional repairs and projects, when they seek "More Power!", Hilarity Ensues.
Yet another episode has Tim being tasked with going out in public with Al to meet a woman who connects with Al via an online matchmaking service. Wilson tries to help Tim relax by quoting the title of a KC & the Sunshine Band ("Shake Your Booty" in this case), but Tim isn't impressed. Discussed when Tim found some hints that Al and Heidi might have slept together when Heidi's marriage was in trouble, Tim just could not fathom a girl like her having interest in a guy like Al. The message at the end was to just let some things go, though at the end (they didn't actually have sex) Heidi did kiss Al and said he was exactly the kind of guy she could fall for. Every Binford product mentioned is model 6100, from innovative power tools to generic doorknobs. Whenever Tim says something particularly insensitive on Tool Time, Al displays the show's mailing address so people can write in with complaints.
Pete Bilker used screwdrivers as drumsticks, a set of trash cans and gas cans as drums, plus a set of circular saw blades as mounted crash cymbals ; Jones was a long time session drummer before taking up acting. Part of Tim's backstory is that he was a traveling salesman for Binford Tools. Ego justified, and also helpful as studies show that people with more confidence are better at selling product. Also, a game of Scrabble with Jill, Tim, and Randy had Jill play "lacks", with Tim adding "Ex" for "Exlacks" which the others point out is spelled wrong and brand names aren't allowed . Al might not be as prolific as Tim in this department, but he makes his share of puns too, such as telling the Tool Time audience about a roofing product that's guaranteed to work "every shingle time."
The season 5 episode "Room Without a View" has Tim and the Tool Time crew build a new bedroom for Randy in the basement when it's clear he and Mark have grown up too much to share one. Unfortunately, he wasn't prepared for the strange noises in the night and slept in the living room in fright. An early episode had the crew doing a massive remodeling job on the Taylors' home installing a Jacuzzi. A five day project ended up taking nearly a month because of set-backs and poor planning, starting off with Ted busting a gas line doing demolition with a 20 pound sledgehammer.
She admits to Wilson she does have a problem admitting when she screws up. Done intentionally in-universe when Tim shares the Tool Time pilot episode with his audience for an anniversary. Tim has a beard, Al doesn't, and the intro is played on piano by Ms. Binford, who has to prompt the audience to respond to 'Do you know what time it is? Also in the episode where Al takes over a cooking show as a favor and Tim is reduced to playing second banana, they essentially swap schticks and Al becomes the Small Name, Big Ego type while Tim is the quieter, competent, Deadpan Snarker sidekick. The season 5 episode "Shopping Around" sees Tim accidentally shoot his old shop teacher Mr. Leonard, who's guest-starring on Tool Time, in the butt with a nail gun. Which tells the story of a naval officer in Borneo who didn't respond to the letter and was later abducted and beheaded by natives.
In the Season 3 Christmas episode, Tim says that a mini-propane lighter would be a perfect stocking stuffer for a tool guy. Much later, at church when they hand around the candles, the pastor refuses to give one to Tim. In "Room Without A View", Tim wants to build a bedroom in the basement and Jill complains that every time he renovates, there's "a big hole in the wall and two paramedics." Tim retorts that he won't make any holes in the wall and that it "might be kinda cool to see Dave and Biff again." Jill's Mom was also supposedly enormous, which made for a joke that she lost so much weight and was played by a waif thin actress. Also "You can address those complaint letters to Tim Taylor, care of Tool Time, at-"Al even keeps a sign with the address ready at all time, making the sign itself part of this catch phrase.
Is called "The Psycho-Physiological Indices of Amorous Connections Among Termites of the Southwest". He mentions in a few episodes that it sold only four copies, and one was to himself. Also "You can address those complaint letters to Tim Taylor, care of Tool Time, at-" Al even keeps a sign with the address ready at all time, making the sign itself part of this catch phrase. Various random people often tell Tim that they like Tool Time and that they really love Al.
The season 3 episode "Arrivederci, Binford" had Tim say farewell to his Show In A Show's corporate sponsor's recently deceased CEO by giving him a 21 nail gun salute. The guns come loose from their anchoring and start firing all over the stage, forcing him and Al to seek cover for fear of being nailed. When him and Al were filling in for a cooking show on the same network, Tim actually takes the time to study up on what they're cooking, with the end result being that Tim and Al's roles are reversed, with Al screwing up and Tim getting everything right.
Originally, another character was to be Tim's assistant, but actor Stephen Tobolowsky was busy with another project. When the series was picked up, Karn stayed on as a recurring guest star as Tobolowsky was still busy elsewhere. Soon enough, all parties agreed that between Tobolowsky's busy workload and Karn and Tim Allen's playing off each other so well, it was best to simply retain Al. Home Improvement is an American sitcom starring Tim Allen as Tim Taylor and his family, consisting of his wife Jill and their three sons Brad, Randy, and Mark.
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