Home Improvement

7.4
199122m

The daily trials and tribulations of handyman Tim Taylor, a TV show host raising three boys with help from his loyal co-host, domineering wife, and unseen neighbor.

Production

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Trailers & Videos

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Seasons

24 Episodes • Premiered 1991

Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor hosts a DIY show while navigating mishaps at home, often causing more chaos than fixes.

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1. Pilot

7.7

Tim decides to rewire the dishwasher against Jill's wishes and ends up blowing more than her fuse.

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2. Mow Better Blues

7.8

After breaking one of Tim's tools that has been in the family for twenty years, Mark fears that he will be traded in after Brad and Randy make up a story about ""Peter"", their former brother that was traded in after he broke one of Tim's flashlights.

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3. Off Sides

7.4

When she can't find a babysitter, Jill has a magician watch the kids while she and Tim go on their romantic dinner. However, Tim is too distracted by a football game to pay attention to her. Meanwhile, the kids accidentally lock the magician in a trunk.

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4. Satellite on a Hot Tim's Roof

6.2

Tim becomes green with envy while putting up a new satellite dish on the roof when Jill's teacher visits.

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5. Wild Kingdom

7.2

While working in the basement, Tim hears some strange noises. Is it a mouse or is it a creepy crawly snake?

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6. Adventures in Fine Dining

7.6

Tim bets Jill that he can teach the boys some table manners.

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7. Nothing More Than Feelings

6.8

After Jill drove while her oil light was on, Tim shares this with the Tool Time audience and the other guys say their wives don't respect their tools.

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8. Flying Sauces

7.4

Tim cooks up a plan for Mark to get even with his brothers, and offers "Tool Time" viewers nutrition tips.

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9. Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble

7.0

Tim decides to put in another sink in the bathroom so his shaving junk won't be in Jill's way, but the project takes longer than he expects.

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10. Reach Out and Teach Someone

7.3

Tim decides to do a Tool Time special for women to teach plumbing. After being called an idiot by Randy, Brad worries that he will do bad on a test. Tim starts his hotrod.

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11. Look Who's Not Talking

8.0

Jill gets stage fright when she has to deliver a speech in front of women at the Library Association. Tim and Mark dress up as women to help her get over her fear.

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12. Yule Better Watch Out

7.2

Tim competes in the neighborhood Christmas light competition. Mark writes his Christmas list to Santa, but Brad and Randy tell him Santa is dead.

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13. Up Your Alley

8.0

Tim and Jill have a bowling match against eachother and try no to make it competitive, until the K&B Construction guys show up. The boys get in trouble at an arcade.

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14. For Whom the Belch Tolls

8.0

Jill doesn't want Stu Cutler, Tim's old college friend, in the house. So Tim tries to keep him away but when he gives in and Stu comes to the house, he insults Tim and Jill and belches with the boys.

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15. Forever Jung

7.5

Karen visits and Tim must stand up to her. Jennifer invites Brad to her parents' anniversary, so Jill teaches him how to dance.

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16. Jill's Birthday

7.3

Tim gets Jill a lifetime membership to a health care club, until she says she will never exercise again. Brad and Randy spend all of their money on a baseball card, so they make Mark give them a "brother tax" to get Jill a present.

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17. What About Bob?

8.3

Tim cheats to beat Tool Time guest Bob Vila at a trivia game. Randy pulls a prank on Curtis, a geek at school.

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18. Baby, It's Cold Outside

8.3

Mr. Binford ruins Tim and Jill's romantically planned weekend by making them go camping to present Binford's new line of winter camping gear.

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19. Unchained Malady

7.0

Tim gets bad luck after throwing a chain letter from Al out. Randy wrecks his new bike after being dared to do a trick.

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20. Birds of a Feather Flock to Taylor

8.8

Jill tells Tim that he is a bad listener when he doesn't remember her mentioning the opera fundraiser. Brad and Randy try to get Mark to eat a worm while working on a birdhouse.

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21. A Battle of Wheels

7.7

Jill invades man's sacred space--the garage--with her pottery wheel; and Al takes a turn at hosting Tool Time, and finds it isn't as easy as it looks.

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22. Luck Be a Taylor Tonight

7.7

Jill's sister's marital problems disrupt Tim's poker game.

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23. Al's Fair in Love and War

7.3

Tim advises Al about a new woman in Al's life.

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24. Stereo-Typical

7.7

Tim goes to buy new speakers and ends up with an entertainment center; Tool Time welcomes tool musicians, led by saw player Janeen Rae Heller.

Cast

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Tim Allen

Tim Taylor

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Earl Hindman

Wilson Wilson Jr.

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Richard Karn

Al Borland

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Zachery Ty Bryan

Brad Taylor

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Taran Noah Smith

Mark Taylor

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Reviews

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GenerationofSwine

10/10

A lot of it depends on, well, on the writing. For the most part it's really good, but occasionally they lower Tim's IQ to the point where it's a bit unbelievable for anything not animated. It's done for humor, but occasionally they write him as the reason we have to put warning labels on lawn mowers so hair stylists don't try using them...

... and that's a bit much.

Otherwise, the TV show is about family. Family with an over-masculine husband that usually, through trial, error, and good advice learns a valuable lesson with a moral twist that plays to fundamental logic.

And that is really all it is. The humor rests firmly in the trial and error, and the charm is that it's about friends and family and the ties that bring them all together.

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