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Home Improvement (TV series)

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Post by Heroine of the Dragon » Wed Dec 07, 2022 7:32 am

Have you watched Home Improvement?
What are your favourite episodes?
The series centers on the Taylor family, which consists of Tim (Tim Allen), his wife Jill (Patricia Richardson) and their three sons: Brad (Zachery Ty Bryan), Randy (Jonathan Taylor Thomas), and Mark (Taran Noah Smith). The Taylors live in suburban Detroit, and they have a neighbor named Wilson (Earl Hindman) who is often the go-to guy for solving the Taylors' problems.

Tim loves power tools, cars, and sports. An avid fan of the Detroit professional sports teams, Tim wears Lions, Pistons, Red Wings, and Tigers clothing in numerous instances, and many plots revolve around the teams. He is a former salesman for the fictional Binford Tool company, and he is very much a cocky, overambitious, accident-prone know-it-all. Witty but flippant, Tim jokes around a lot, even at inappropriate times, much to the dismay of his wife. However, Tim can sometimes be serious when necessary. Jill, Tim's wife, is loving and sophisticated, but she is not exempt from dumb moves herself. In later seasons, she returns to college to study psychology. Family life is boisterous for the Taylors, with the two oldest children, Brad and Randy, tormenting the much younger Mark, all while continually testing and pestering each other. Such play happened especially throughout the first three seasons, and it was revisited only occasionally until Jonathan Taylor Thomas left at the beginning of the eighth season. During the show's final season, Brad and Mark became much closer due to Randy's absence.
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Post by Booyakasha » Thu Dec 08, 2022 2:21 pm

I was never much for sitcoms back then. I suppose 'Home Improvement' was better than most--------------I'd rather watch it than, say, 'Friends', but that's not much of a bar.

I've never really been a big fan of Tim Allen's approach to stand-up, and 'Home Improvement' is basically 'Tim Allen Stand-up: The TV Show'. It's not even that I don't like that "men being dumb and doing silly things with tools and engines" humour genre (I'd watch 'Red Green Show' any old time).
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Post by CaptHayfever » Thu Dec 08, 2022 4:05 pm

Didn't watch it much, but even as a kid, I found the kids on that show annoying, and both Tim & Jill obnoxious; Wilson & Al were my favorite characters.

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Post by I REALLY HATE POKEMON! » Thu Dec 08, 2022 8:12 pm

I remember watching it but being pretty indifferent towards the show. I guess I liked it enough to rent the SNES game. I sure was bad at picking games as a kid, best thing about that was the manual being kinda clever and funny.

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Post by Shane » Thu Dec 08, 2022 11:02 pm

I enjoyed that show. Sitcoms were pretty much out of steam by the end of its run, but ABC still had a pretty strong lineup throughout most of the 90s if you liked the genre. It started off after Full House, which for some reason moved from TGIF. I was never particularly a Tim Allen fan per se, but he's been in several things I did like.

I can't say I recall there being a game, but doesn't surprise me that one existed or that wasn't that good, though based on the reviews it wasn't that bad as licensed properties go.
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