An ABC sitcom airing from 1991-1999 and one of the most cleverly written sitcoms of the decade. Comedian
Tim Allen starred as
Tim Taylor, a
chauvinist,
handyman husband and father of three mischeivous sons who hosted a Detroit cable tool show called
Tool Time, and just could help himself to giving "more power" to machinery. Much of the show also focused on the of the rest of
the Taylor family:
Timâs wife Jill is a feminist and aspiring psychologist, the loner and very astute neighbor Wilson Wilson always provides advice for Tim, and Timâs sons are mischeivious but good kids. Tim is very masculine and chauvinist (he even gets disgusted at just the thought of going to the opera), a handyman, clumsy, loved to make jokes about Alâs flannel shirts and overweight mother, always rewiring gadgets, was always competing with his next door neighbor
Doc Johnson for the neighborhoodâs best Christmas lights, seeking advice from his other neighbor Wilson Wilson (Wilson Wilson is not a typo)
Spoofs from the show:
1. Timâs frequent jokes about Alâs flannel shirst and overweight mom.
2. always seeking advice from his next door neighbor Wilson Wilson, only to screw it up
3. Wilsonâs face is always hidden
4. always rewiring things to give it âmore powerââŚonly to have it explode
5. his wife Jill canât cook
6. Tim has an obsession with Sears
7. always competes with Doc Johnson, a 80-year old retired proctologist, for the neighborhoodâs best Christmas lights
8. Tim is so clumsy that he dropped a
steel beam on his wifeâs car, fell though a
portapotty, glued his head to a table, had a hammer frozen to his tongue, fell through the roof on a project house, blew up a friendâs house and blew up the dishwasher
9. always building a hot rod in the garage
10. frequently grunts when exited or perplexed
11. Bob Villa is his biggest competition
12. Tim often hits his head on a basement pipe above the stairs
13. frequently made jokes about his mother-in-law â
Nannaâsâ weight but stopped when he saw how thin she had become
14. Always wants Tool Time to take a
commercial break when he gets injured
15. Tim frequently gets sick eating Polish food from "Stanâs" Polish restaurant in Hamtramk
16. Tim is well-known at the emergency room, even to the point of having his own cup labeled âTimâ
17. Tim often wears sweatshirts from a Michigan college.
18. Tim's three sons' are always bullied by Vinny McGern
Home Improvement was probably the best
scripted show from the
1990s and won
numerous Emmys.