As someone who frequently goes back and watches old '90s sitcoms, it always amaze me that amongst all of the major hits from that era, Home Improvement never maintained the huge following or staying power of other multi-season chart toppers like Friends, Frasier, etc.

I think a big reason is because the writing, even from some of the earlier seasons, was pretty lazy. There were never any significant multi-episode story arcs, and even in some of the earlier seasons they jumped the shark. Like the time they shrunk themselves on live TV to 4" tall and went inside a car engine...lol, what?

I'm in season 5 right now, where Al markets his Tool Time game, and the whole premise is absurd. He would be sued by Binford 5 seconds after launching that first commercial for infringing on their intellectual copyright. There's no way in a million years that he would be able to market and personally sell a Tool Time game. Yet the whole episode fixates on the mechanics of his potential financial loss due to manufacturing defects.

It's a fun enough show to go back and watch for nostalgia purposes, but thinking through this lens, and comparing against features of other hit '90s series, it's a bummer that they didn't put in just a bit more effort.

Anybody ever notice that in early seasons Hidie/ Lisa would just introduce Tim and Al from a microphone would just a simple intro? amd in later seasons Hidi would introduce them with ALOT more energy and pizzazz.? Was there a episode where this was addressed with one of them or Tim felt a need for this too start

Never seen this movie(1971) until yesterday. Ernest Borgnine and Jack Elam are brothers in the film. Watched Home Improvement several times over and it was just kind of cool to see them together as the autoworkers especially now knowing they worked together 20 years before. They did another film together in like 1956 Jubal which I have not seen.

This was a catch and release for me, but it was tempting.

Watching some replays and noticed Al has a ring on what is considered the wedding ring finger despite not getting married until the end of the show.

Makes me wonder a couple of things: Did he where it because he was married in real life and didn’t want to take it off? And being in a similar industry i.e. construction of any kind and working with tools it is not good to wear jewelry of any kind on jobsites. The horror stories Ive heard and seen are numerous. In fact most commercial projects I do will not permit jewelry on site. Once youve seen a finger degloved from wearing a ring should immediately stop you from wearing one. Even ballplayers have switched to the rubber ring just in case but even that can turn out bad.

I know theres a chance I’ll get hit with “well Ive never had a problem in 30 years”. Well good for you. I also have never hit my head during jobs unless I was actually wearing a hard hat. Doesn’t stop me from wearing one when asked.

I watch Home Improvement everyday, and lately I had an idea! Instead of Al marrying Trudy, the homely millionaire, I wish they would’ve had Al end up with Jill’s sister Carrie (Richard Karn’s real life wife). Carrie wanted to settle down, and it would’ve been HILARIOUS for Al to excitedly tell Tim that they were going to be BROTHERS! Tim hated when Al was too close to him, and I think that would’ve been top-tier comedy, and could’ve ended the show with everyone as one big family!

For me it's Benny just because of how dumb he is. Case in point:

Tim: "I'm talking about extraterrestrials."

Benny: "Why would a guy need more than two?"

<While witnessing Delores giving Harry "the look"> "Oh my God! I've never seen anything like it. Where's the podiatrist, I'll go pick her up myself."

Benny: "Tim, I hope you don't mind I borrowed your bathrobe."

Jill: "That's my bathrobe."

Benny <proceeding to immediately make the situation worse>: "I should've known, it feels so soft against my body....I'll put it back."

Jill: "Keep it."

I’m rewatching for the 1000th time, and I’m on season 8. Just watched the episode where Brad gets his new car and it gets stolen

Are we to believe that Tim and Brad actually left the jelly on the manifold after buying the car and didn’t immediately clean it??

I’ve been making my way through the series. Some season are better than others, as well as episodes, but now that I’m on season 7, something has subtly changed. All the elements are there, but I don’t feel as engaged. What do you think has changed? Btw, the season doesn’t seem bad, it’s just not as good, at least to me at the beginning of the season.

I've always been interested in how the Season 1 Opening Credits created. Did they use stop-motion animation or or disguised video? Why were the credits designed the way they were?

I am watching home inprovement right now on roku, and it just popped into my head I don't think they ever said what Wilson did for work? Am i messing somthing?