This Week on Home Improvement… Tim is about to receive the Car Guy of the Year award, but on the way to the banquet, Heidi goes into birth in the backseat of his car! This week on Grunt Work: Nights… They’re baaaaack! This week Truman and Landen are talking tropes in movies and TV. Gain […]
The post The Tool Man Delivers first appeared on Grunt Work Podcast.This Week on Home Improvement… Jill’s sisters visit to plan their parents 50th wedding anniversary, but none of them can get along. Tim suggests Jill be stern and keep them in line, but none of them can get along. Things seem to go okay until none of them can get along. Jill leaves because none […]
The post Jill and Her Sisters first appeared on Grunt Work Podcast.This Week on Home Improvement… It’s Halloween, and Brad (Zachary Ty Bryan) and Randy’s (Jonathan Taylor Thomas) scary pranks have finally gone too far. In order to teach the boys a lesson, Tim (Tim Allen) convinces Jill (Patricia Richardson) to let him orchestrate a massive, elaborate prank – with a little help from Al (Richard […]
The post I Was a Teenage Taylor first appeared on Grunt Work Podcast.This Week on Home Improvement… When Jill’s Aunt Sharon dies, she leaves her a vast sum of money that she stipulates to spend on herself and on something frivolous. She decides that she wants a sports car. This naturally excites Tim, however when he finds out that she opted for a British Austin Healey, he […]
The post Whose Car Is It Anyway? (with Topé Suicida!) first appeared on Grunt Work Podcast.This Week on Home Improvement… Al is asked to host his own How-To videos and he asks Tim to be his director. Tim quickly agrees, but as soon as they begin filming Al suspects he may have a problem on his hands: with only two days to complete the video, Tim’s grandiose style has caused […]
The post Al’s Video first appeared on Grunt Work Podcast.This Week on Home Improvement… Randy has been assigned a new article for the school newspaper and this time he has a writing partner: Lauren, and boy does he have a crush. Tim is smitten as well as Lauren is a car lover, and the whole family is crushed when they find out that she […]
The post Burnin’ Love first appeared on Grunt Work Podcast.This Week on Home Improvement… Jill asks Tim to join her for a couples therapy workshop at her school, but Tim is resistant to go. His worst nightmares are realized when the session reveals to be a lot of crying and vulnerability, yet it’s Jill who must reckon with the fact that she may criticize […]
The post Workshop Til You Drop first appeared on Grunt Work Podcast.This Week on Home Improvement… Jill finds herself frantic at trying to juggle school and her home life when one petty dispute after another delays her from her school work. The boys can’t seem to mediate their own arguments, and Tim’s rigid routines force her to be flexible—but no more. After speaking with Delores and […]
The post Future Shock first appeared on Grunt Work Podcast.This Week on Home Improvement… Tim Taylor (Tim Allen) and Al Borland (Richard Karn) kick off a new season of Tool Time with a visit to the USS Constellation aircraft carrier to pay tribute to its powerful engines. But back at the Taylor house, there’s a force at work that’s even more poweful than an […]
The post At Sea first appeared on Grunt Work Podcast.This Week on Grunt Work… It’s that time of year again! It’s time for the Season 5 Super Spectacular! That’s right, as we bring this long, long season to a close, we look back on what feels like the last 27 years that we’ve been living in Season 5 of Home Improvement. This episode is […]
The post Season 5 Super Spectacular! first appeared on Grunt Work Podcast.Plot Synopsis When Bigfoot – or A bigfoot, depending on who you ask – is sighted outside a small mountain town, an evil billionaire offers a one million dollar reward for Bigfoot’s capture, dead or alive. A media circus ensues as swarms of hunters arrive to search the woods for the creature, as well as […]
The post Bigfoot: The Unforgettable Encounter (Re-Broadcast) first appeared on Grunt Work Podcast.We are off this week while we prepare and record our Season 5 Super Spectacular! So, in the meantime, enjoy this Patreon Bonus Episode celebrating Grunt Work’s 3-year anniversary! As we swoop through the snowy skies of 1950’s Manhattan, we focus in on a beacon of light glistening over the rest of the city. Is […]
The post Patreon Sampler: The Hudsucker Proxy first appeared on Grunt Work Podcast.When Tom Sawyer (Jonathan Taylor Thomas), a rambunctious scofflaw, met Huckleberry Finn (Brad Renfro), an uncivilized drifter, they became immediate friends. Always scheming and planning, Tom wishes nothing more than to run away and become a captain of a steamboat. Huck already on the run is… good at throwing knives… and finding dead cats… However, […]
The post Tom and Huck (1995) first appeared on Grunt Work Podcast.This Week on Home Improvement… With his 37th birthday approaching, Al Borland (Richard Karn) finds himself facing a midlife crisis. In search of a legacy, he decides to invest his life savings in manufacturing hundreds of copies of his Tool Time board game so he can sell them, get rich and propose to Ilene. But […]
The post Games, Flames & Automobiles first appeared on Grunt Work Podcast.This Week on Home Improvement… When Wilson’s house is burgled, and his precious artifacts stolen, Jill becomes concerned for the safety of the Taylor household. She encourages Tim to install the biggest, most state-of-the-art security system money can buy, and even film a Tool Time episode about it. However, we yet again learn, that More […]
The post Alarmed by Burglars first appeared on Grunt Work Podcast.This Week on Home Improvement… Tim Taylor’s (Tim Allen) mom (Donnie Bartlett) and his old shop teacher Mr. Leonard (Dick O’Neill) are still dating, and things are getting pretty hot and heavy. But when Tim and Jill (Patricia Richardson) catch Mr. Leonard on a date with another woman at a fancy restaurant, he’s furious that […]
The post Shopping Around first appeared on Grunt Work Podcast.This Week on Home Improvement… When the director of Randy’s school rendition of Romeo and Juliet goes into labor, it seems the play is doomed to close before it even begins. But at the behest of Jill, Randy asks Wilson to step in and take the reigns. However, Wilson’s passion for authenticity creates problems with […]
The post Mr. Wilson’s Opus first appeared on Grunt Work Podcast.This Week on Home Improvement… When Randy’s (Jonathan Taylor Thomas’s) doctor finds a lump in his neck, Tim (Tim Allen) and Jill (Patricia Richardson) spend a nerve-wracking 24 hours waiting on the results of a blood test that will tell them whether Randy has a relatively harmless thyroid condition, or cancer. At first they try […]
The post The Longest Day first appeared on Grunt Work Podcast.This Week on Home Improvement… Tim and Brad continue their work on the hot rod, and have a brief disagreement over the type of engine they want to install. But this is only the beginning of their problems. Brad decides it’s time for a haircut, and when Tim suggests he gets something “traditional”, Brad comes […]
The post Engine and a Hair Cut, Two Fights first appeared on Grunt Work Podcast.This Week on Home Improvement… When Bud (Charlie Robinson) invites Tim (Tim Allen) and Jill (Patricia Richardson) to go bowling with him and his wife, Tim is thrilled at the opportunity to curry favor with the boss. He convinces Jill to skip a psychology lecture to join them, and when he learns that Bud is […]
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