Home Improvement

Jill has a job interview and tells Tim not to touch and wreck the dishwasher in the meantime. Nevertheless he does, gets an electrical shock, and destroys the dishwasher. Jill doesn’t get the job. Taking Wilson’s advice, Tim apologizes in a subtle manner on his next Tool Time episode, and Jill forgives him.

After Mark breaks one of Tim’s oldest tools, he fears the worst when Brad and Randy take control of his guilt and fabricate a story about the traded son "Peter". Tim modifies his riding lawnmower.

Jill can’t find a babysitter, so she hires a magician, and he messes up during a trick and locks himself in a trunk. During Tim and her romantic dinner, Tim is distracted by a Detroit Lions game.

Tim tries to put up a satellite that has 200 channels, and is jealous when Jill’s teacher comes to the house and promptly starts making romantic advances on Jill.

Tim hears a rustling in the basement and dismisses it as a rat, but Wilson thinks it’s a snake, which Tim has a strong paranoia about.

Jill makes a bet with Tim that he cannot teach the kids some manners after they are kicked out of Wacky Jack’s Pizza Pagoda. If Tim cannot teach the boys manners, he will be attending the opera for an entire year with Jill.

Jill drives with the oil light on and Tim expresses this on Tool Time and Jill gets angry at Tim. Randy believes his hands are just like a girl’s hands.

Workers from the K&B Construction Site come and show how to cook food using tools. Brad and Randy make up a story to Mark that everybody around him are aliens. To get back at the boys, Tim, Jill, and Mark dress as aliens and scare them.

Tim tries to renovate his and Jill’s bathroom, and involves Tool Time to make it free. The project turns out to take longer than expected, taking 18 days, much to Jill’s dismay. Brad attempts to ask out Jennifer.

Tim and Jill get in an argument after Tim tries to teach her plumbing. To prove he can be a reasonable teacher, Tim invites women on Tool Time to teach plumbing. Meanwhile, Brad thinks he’ll do terribly on a test when Randy calls him an idiot. Tim begins working on his hot rod.

Jill has to present a speech to the Library Association, and is beginning to have stage-fright. Tim and Mark dress up as women to help her practice while trying to clean the house.

Tim is competing in the neighborhood’s annual Christmas Decoration Contest, and is trying to outdo his rival, Doc Johnson. Brad and Randy tell Mark that Santa Claus is dead but a mysterious Santa gives him his wish. Brad and Randy participate in a Christmas play as meager parts.

It’s family night, and Tim decides to take the family bowling. Jill believes Tim gets too competitive during bowling, so they don’t keep score, but soon it turns into an all out brawl. Brad and Randy encounter an arcade bully.

Stu Cutler, Tim’s old college buddy, comes to town, and visits the Taylors. Unfortunately, Stu starts to annoy Tim and Jill and is stuck in the past of when he and Tim were in college, and Tim has to set him straight.

Karen, Jill’s friend, visits, and Tim has to tolerate and stand up to her constant comments about his masculinity and tool show. Because of this stress, Tim accidentally glues his forehead to a table. Meanwhile, Jill teaches Brad how to dance, for Jennifer’s parents’ anniversary.

When Tim finally thinks he has the perfect birthday gift for Jill, it backfires, and he must find a new one. In order to fund Jill’s present after blowing their money on a baseball card, Brad and Randy lie to Mark about a "Little Brother’s Tax" and they take all his money.

Bob Vila is going to be a guest on Tool Time, and is going to participate in a game called, "Stump the Toolman", with Tim. Randy gets in trouble for picking on a kid at school, and Jill forces him to invite the boy over, only to realize he is as annoying as Randy claims.

Tim and Jill’s romantic getaway is ruined when John Binford demands Tim take his family camping using the new Binford camping gear, and share clips of their time, on Tool Time. The trip doesn’t go quite as Tim planned it would. Brad competes with another boy for Jennifer’s Valentine’s Day heart.

Tim throws out a chain letter from Al, and receives bad luck continuously. Randy breaks his bike after participating in a dare. Tim dyes his hands green and Jill beats him to a pulp, giving him a black eye and a disfigured face.

When Jill tells Tim they’re going to an opera fundraiser, he has no recollection of Jill mentioning it. This prompts an all out argument between the two. All the while, Tim helps Mark build an elaborate bird house.

Jill begins pottery class, and begins to practice in the garage where Tim is working on his hot rod. This causes friction between the couple, but it all gets worked out, in part because of Wilson’s advice. Meanwhile, after embarrassing Al following a mistake during an episode, Tim lets Al be the host of Tool Time for a day.

Tim’s all-men-poker-night is ruined when Jill’s sister Robin and her husband Charlie come and have a big fight, thus causing disruptions in the game.

Al wants to ask Greta Post out, but screws up, so Jill suggests he invite her to a barbecue that Tim could put up, and Tim gives Al advice that leads him to lose Greta. Tim tries to get a foothold on Jill’s college diary. Jill discovers something about the effects of Jenifer and the boy’s manners.

Tim purchases a new stereo set, which causes many complications with the volume and Jill’s paranoia for new gadgets.