Home improvement TV show poster. All of the characters are in a doorway juxtaposed in front of the family fence.

Home Improvement (1991–1999)

Rating: 2/10

Virginia
Binge Biscuit
Published in
2 min readJul 8, 2020

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Fun Facts

  • Pamela Anderson started her TV career here as a recurring character for the first two seasons — she actually only appears a handful of times and has very few lines. Nothing noteworthy
  • Based on Tim Allen’s stand up routine of the same name
  • Cracking up that Jonathon Taylor Thomas and Tim Allen both did movies in ’94 while on this show. Jonathon Taylor Thomas was SIMBA IN THE LION KING and Tim Allen did Santa Claus. Imagine being shown up like that by a kid hahksjdfksk

Opinion

  • Most of the jokes are misogynistic. Like almost every single one. They have Al there just to call them out a little bit but it doesn’t… make Tim seem like he actually hates his wife any less. Damn their marriage SUX
  • I’m actually not going to finish this show. Stopping around season 3, this show sucks the big one.
  • The only thing I actually like about the show is Wilson. I thought the hiding of his face was a smart/cool way to keep watchers intrigued by a boring character
  • No idea why there is so much Santa Claus referencing before the Santa Claus movie even came out. It came out in season 3 of this show and seasons 1 and 2 already have heavy Santa episodes. Whats Tim Allen’s obsession with that lol?? Also if you try to google what his obsession is, basically only the movie comes up. If he does have some weird shit, that was smart if only for the gooping up googling reasons lol

Rating: 2/10

One star goes to just having nostalgia for the show. The other star goes to ingenuity of Wilson’s character.

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