Friday, September 9, 2016

Retro fridays and home improvement

Another show from tgif that is my inspiration for retro fridays, Home improvement usually ran on a friday night tgif block,sandwiched between sabrina the teenage witch and boy meets world.It was a sitcom starring tim allen as tim taylor and his wife jill and 3 kids, brad,randy and mark. He had a neighbor named wilson and a best friend name al who is also his co-host in the show within a show tool time

The show revolves around tim's life and he is a great and funny character, he usually tries to enhance something that jill told him not to and/or he finds a way to screw things up. For example one time he was supposed to fix the kitchen fans above the stove, rather then simply making them work, he upgraded them to turbine speed. Jill's spaghetti got sucked up. There are a lot of running gags such as tim messing up al's introduction on tool time, tim always going to wilson for advice(who always has his mouth covered) and getting his quote mixed up in a funny way as he explains it to jill

It's funny seeing the length the producers went to keep wilson's mouth covered, usually he's covered by his fence but over times he has a mask on or a guitar blocking him or a tea cup. The show covers some legitimate serious teen issues such as brad getting a gf and him getting his license and smoking marijuana and mark becoming a goth. It was a family show but it covered mature issues in a friendly manner without seeming too "adult" or too "nice" or too cheesy

They don't make shows like home improvement anymore, it is well worth a view with the only thing dating it is the technology such as the tv and the new gameboy


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