History Series / HomeImprovement

** The Taylor family's address in Royal Oak is 510 Glenview Road. There is a street named Glenview in Royal Oak, but it is an ''Avenue'', and its addresses only go as low as the 2200 range (the 500 range is at Park Avenue heading north from the baseline at 11 Mile Road and at 5th Street heading south, and Glenview Avenue intersects neither).

*** In one episode, Tim receives a chain letter [[spoiler:from Al]] which tells the story of a naval officer in Borneo who didn't respond to the letter and was later abducted and beheaded by natives. Wilson then tells Tim that he once had a friend who didn't respond to a chain letter who happened to be a naval officer...in Borneo.

* DoomItYourself: On ''Tool Time'' anyway. When he's not playing it up for the camera Tim can be quite effective at fixing things.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Randy walks into the bedroom he and Mark share before leaving upon learning that Jill is in the midst of telling Mark a story late in "A Marked Man".

* DropTheHammer: During the FlashBack to the pilot episode of ''Tool Time'', Tim wields a sledgehammer while Al holds a stake steady. Tim stops the clip at this point, but considering the fact that Al has high confidence toward Tim's tool-handling competence during that time (but not so much after fasting forward to the present), we can safely assume this is what happens next.
** The pilot resurfaces in a clip show of ''Tool Time'' episodes that Tim is watching while dealing with the consequences of eating Polish food. This time it plays all the way through as the camera pans away from the television screen; the audience doesn't see or hear the impact of the hammer, but we do hear Al's reaction including his questioning how Tim got a television show in the first place.
** An early episode had the crew doing a massive remodeling job on the Taylors' home installing a Jacuzzi. A five day project ended up taking nearly a month because of set-backs and poor planning, starting off with Ted busting a gas line doing demolition with a 20 pound sledgehammer.

-->'''Mark''': I have a woman -- Mommy.
-->'''Randy''': Your mommy can't be your woman, doofus.
-->'''Tim''': A lot of men pay a psychiatrist a lot of money to figure that one out.

-->'''Al''': "Also useful in case Superman wants to take a peek at your underwear."
-->'''Tim''': "No problem there. I'm not wearing any."

Kind of related to DIYDisaster, DoItYourselfPlumbingProject, and DoomItYourself, as though Tim and his friends are actually incredibly competent at conventional repairs and projects, when they seek "[[TimTaylorTechnology More power!]]", ''HilarityEnsues.''

** #A527-#A551/#A392 = Season 5 (For some reason, "Tanks for the Memories" was number #A392.)

* ArtisticLicenseFilmProduction: ''Tool Time'' takes a few liberties with how such a show would be run and is inconsistent on if it is filmed live, delayed or a few days later. They have a StudioAudience most of the time but also do some remote episodes. The show doesn't seem to have a director or writers, and while they sometimes spitball ideas for future episodes off set it doesn't appear that they have a dress rehearsal. Tim will sometimes mention crew members by name when he wants a particular camera shot or sound effect, and in general seems that he, Al and even Heidi are just winging the entire episode with nothing more than an outline. An outline they often discard due to pranks of AmusingInjuries. Tim deals with various Binford executives throughout the show but they are explicitly the chief sponsor and not especially involved with the production of the show. There's only one episode (season 6's "Totally Tool Time") where we meet an on-set producer who's in charge of actually organizing things behind the scenes, something that's otherwise never brought up.

* ArtisticLicenseFilmProduction: Throughout the show it's a little nebulous how exactly ''Tool Time'' is supposed to work. The show doesn't seem to have a director or writers (although there's often dialogue that's clearly meant to be scripted in-universe), and there are only very few instances where pre-planning for anything is brought up. Also, while Tim deals with various Binford executives and producers throughout the show, their appearances are scattered, and it often seems like he runs the whole show. There's only one episode (season 6's "Totally Tool Time") where we meet an on-set producer who's in charge of actually organizing things behind the scenes, something that's otherwise never brought up.

** Al. Originally, another character (Glen) was to be Tim's assistant, but actor Creator/StephenTobolowsky was busy with another project. To give him time to finish, producers hired Richard Karn for the pilot. When the series was picked up, Karn stayed on as a recurring guest star as Tobolowsky was still busy elsewhere. Soon enough, all parties agreed that between Tobolowsky's busy workload and Karn and Tim Allen's playing off each other so well, it was best to simply retain Al. Karn was added to the main cast by Season 2.

* TimTaylorTechnology: TropeNamer, and famous enough to avoid the recent trend of more generalized trope names.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: After losing her journalism job, Jill decides to go BackToSchool and study for a psychology degree. Rather than becoming a season-long arc, she rather realistically spends the entire rest of the series (several years InUniverse and out) working as a full-time student. It takes even more time as she proves to not be exactly a perfect student, and several times passes by the skin of her teeth.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Randy walks into the bedroom he and Mark share before leaving upon learning that Jill is in the midst of telling Mark a storylate in "A Marked Man".

''Home Improvement'' is an American {{sitcom}} starring Creator/TimAllen as [[TheDanza Tim Taylor]] and his family, consisting of his wife Jill and their three sons Brad, Randy, and Mark. Tim tried to balance his home life raising three rambunctious, growing sons and a wife whose aims and goal in life seemed to change every other season with his responsibilities as host of his mildly successful [[ShowWithinAShow home improvement show]] ''Tool Time'' with his sardonic sidekick Al (often implied to be the real star of ''Tool Time'', at least [[EnsembleDarkhorse in the fans' eyes]]). Of course, as the archetypal BumblingDad, it could be said the show was mostly about Tim's ([[ButtMonkey usually fruitless]]) search for respect in the world.

Kind of related to DIYDisaster, DoItYourselfPlumbingProject, and DoomItYourself, as though Tim and his friends are actually incredibly competent at conventional repairs and projects, when they seek "[[TimTaylorTechnology More Power!]]", ''HilarityEnsues.''

** Tim's "More Power", familiar grunt and "Oh no!" with the grunt -- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ9Xk0Lln5Y usually]] after some kind of accident.

** It also seemed that whenever Tim would focus on the actual build and not trying to add "More Power!!" things would work out just fine.

* ObnoxiousInLaws: Jill's father rarely calls Tim by his name, usually just "Hey you!" In the early seasons he also took a lot of pot-shots at Jill's mother for being overweight, only for her first appearance on the show to reveal she had slimmed down considerably. Jill also mentions most of her family did not want her to marry him, and he avoids being around her sisters for any considerable amount of time.

* NotSoFakePropWeapon: In a HalloweenEpisode, youngest son Mark, who is currently going a goth phase, makes a movie where he wants to film chopping off Tim and Jill's heads. Tim realizes in the last second that the machete is real, not a hard rubber one. Later, during the outro, Jill and Tim's heads are in the basket and Jill mentions she doesn't have any more back-pain.

** On ''Tool Time'', Tim always wore a dress shirt and blazer. One episode he & Al wore Hawaiian shirts as they were working with lathes and advocated not working on such machines with ties, then he wound up demonstrating why when the ''shirt'' got caught in the lathe.

** FridgeBrilliance kicks in when you realize Tim knows exactly what to do & what to say in that situation because he lost his father too (albeit when he was much younger) and knows how it feels and what needs to be done in that situation. In fact any time death is brought up (especially that of a parent) Tim is often the most comforting and sensitive of the two. Tim's own mother admitted that when her husband passed away Tim and his brothers took care of most of the arrangements.

* RaisedLighterTribute: When the guys from K&B Construction come on ''Tool Time'' and play their tools as instruments, Tim, Al & Lisa use grill lighters.