The essential episodes of Home Improvement
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Home Improvement — each pick states its reason.
- 01
Tim decides to rewire the dishwasher against Jill's wishes and ends up blowing more than her fuse.
- 02
The possibility of a mouse in the basement is a minor matter to Tim, but a snake is not such a Mickey Mouse deal.
- 03
Tim cooks up a plan for Mark to get even with his borthers, and offers Tool Time viewers nutrition tips.
- 04
Tim's efforts to wrest a Christmas decoration prize from a neighbor win him a visit from the fire department. Mark is told that Santa has died.
- 05
At a bowling alley, the boys battle a bully while Tim and Jill battle on the lanes in front of an audience of Tool Time fans.
- 06
Tim blames a headache on a talk with Jill's feminist friend & Brad prepares for his first date. During the current episode of Tim's 'Tool TIme' show, he has a encounter of the close kind with a table.
- 07
Tim goes to buy new speakers and ends up with an entertainment center; Tool Time welcomes tool musicians, led by saw player Janeen Rae Heller.
- 08
Brad discovers he has problems with his girlfriend when she brings a date to Tim and Jill's Halloween Party, Tim carves a pumpkin with explosives on 'Tool Time'.
- 09
The tables are turned on Tim at Halloween time as his friends who are tired of being the butt of his pranks, set him up with a obsessive fan.
- 10
Tim criticizes Jill when she scratches her car, then has a major mishap with her car involving a crane on a Tool Time shoot site.
- 11
After a early morning meeting with the new owner of Binford Tools, Tim must choose between his career and friendshi when his new boss want's him to fire Al.
- 12
Tim and Jill revert to childhood to convince Randy and Brad they are not too old for Halloween by scaring the heck out of them when a man named Clifford stops by referring to the incident that happened in their house years in the past. Tim and Al do wallpaper on Tool Time.
- 13
The weird subject matter of Mark's Halloween horror film has Tim and Jill worried; Tim builds a hot rod Jack-O-Lantern; Al has problems after finding out Ilene has become engaged again.
- 14
Tim becomes a murder suspect after Wilson disappears following a Halloween party.
- 15
Tim and Jill share a touching moment at Al's wedding; outtakes from the series eight seasons.
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