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DVD Home Improvement - The Complete Second Season
Someday someone's going to write an academic thesis titled, "The Guy Behind the Fence: Home Improvement and Tim Allen's Deconstruction of Manliness." You wouldn't think masculinity was a rich enough topic to provide fodder for 25 episodes of a sitcom--let alone eight years of one--yet in almost every episode Wilson (Earl Hindman), the never-fully-seen neighbor of TV host Tim Taylor (Allen), spins out some new bit of earthy wisdom (fondly parodying the homilies of Iron John author Robert Bly), which gives Tim some skewed perspective on his latest domestic muddle.
The second season of Home Improvement had a few recurring plotlines (Tim's show, Tool Time, gets a female producer, played by a pre-News Radio Vicki Lewis), but most episodes follow the classic sitcom format of introducing a problem and resolving it in twenty minutes, with plenty of punchlines along the way. Tim's wife Jill (Patricia Richardson) gets annoyed because Tim can't keep from glancing at other women (in this case, future Tool Time babe Debbe Dunning); Tim wants his youngest son Mark (Taran Noah Smith) to take karate classes because other boys keep pushing Mark around; when Jill gets a job at a women's magazine, she creates a spouse-compatibility quiz that inspires Tim to create a quiz of his own. The competitive urge--be it with his long-suffering assistant Al (Richard Karn) or over neighborhood Christmas lights--constantly gets Tim into trouble, culminating in a riding lawn mower race with real-life home improvement guru Bob Vila. Like most sitcoms, Home Improvement offers comfort food comedy; despite minor conflicts, the Taylors' family life is dependably functional and warm. Fortunately, Allen's humor has just enough sting to keep from sinking into treacly sentimentality. The cast also includes Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Zachery Ty Bryan as Tim's older sons and Pamela Anderson, who left after this season to become an international sex symbol on Baywatch. --Bret Fetzer
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More Power ! More Fun ! More Entertainment ! RRRRRRR !
As a huge fan of the program since it began in 1991, this is the ultimate in entertainment and fun. Without going into detail about each episode as others have done so well, it's the "how to and how not to" of lessons in being a family, as so many episodes mimic real life family situations. From the wisdom and counsel of Wilson Wilson Jr. given Tim from across the fence, to the everyday problems encountered by most families and couples in a relationship, to Tim's inclination, with all good intentions, to royally mess things up, to Tim and Al hijinks, to the often hilarious outtakes at the end of each show, this a fun way to spend time in front of the tube. My hope is all eight seasons will be available soon, as I plan to spend a part of my retirement with these most enjoyable offerings. Here's hoping those of you who buy these enjoy them as much as I do. Oh, do I ever tire of watching these over and over? I don't think so Tim. MORE POWER !!!
Episode List
1. Read My Hips
2. Rites and Wrongs of Passage
3. Overactive Glance
4. Groin Pulls
5. Heavy Meddle
6. The Haunting of Taylor House
7. Roomie for Improvement
8. May the Beat Man WIn
9. Where There's a Will, There's a Way
10. Let's Did Lunch
11. Abandoned Family
12. I'm Scheming a White Christmas
13. Bell Bottom BLues
14. Howard's End
15. Dances with Tools
16. You're Driving ME Crazy, You're Driving Me Nuts
17. Bye Bye Birdie
18. Karate Or Not, Here I Come
19. Shooting Three To Make Tutu
20 Much Ado About Nana
21. Ex Marks the Spot
22. To Build or Not To Build
23. Birth of a Hotrod
24. The Great Race
A Good Representation of the Second Season
When it comes to shows like "Home Improvement" that are aired in syndication seemingly a dozen times a day in any given market (when you account for cable and local station airings), it becomes very important for the DVD presentation to provide something extra.
Thankfully, this set provides the most important thing first: UNCUT episodes. As most fans by now know, most if not all shows are edited down when put into syndication. Usually, a couple of minutes are trimmed. This, as well as the first and presumably all seasons sets of "Home Improvement" feature unedited shows as they originally aired. This is important, because over the course of a season's worth of episodes, about two episode's worth of running time is cut when two minutes are clipped from each episode.
Visually, this set looks as good as it possibly could. Early 90's videotape. It sounds just fine as well.
There really aren't any extras on this set. The "First Season" set had three commentary tracks. This set has none.
The "Loose Screws" montage is, as with the first season set, not really an extra, as it simply slices up little bits of footage from the actual episodes.
Apart from the almost complete lack of extras, this set is perfect.
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Another great season of Home Improvement is here, here in this season is where it begins to take off with some great episodes such as the halloween episode crazy for you when tim thinks there a fan stalking him and dream on where al's girlfriend has a romantic dream of tim and reel man where al and tim go fishing, and many more . plus heidi is introduced in this season.anyway here are the rest of the episodes from season 3
Maybe Baby: Jill discovers that her sister is having a baby girl and wishes that she could have a baby girl . rating 4.5/5
Aisle see you in my dreams: Jill fixes Al up with a date(Ilene) rating 4.5/5
This joke's for you: Tim installs a intercom in the house then heres Randy making fun of him RATING 4.5/5
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