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Home Improvement started in the 90's and still continues as reruns on several stations including "Nick At Night". I loved the show from it's first premiere and even though I have seen each show at least 30 times, I still find myself laughing. It's that kind of show.

Home Improvement was the first show to ever contain a show inside a show. Home Improvement revolved around Tim's life at home with his wife Jill and their three sons, Brad, Randy and Mark. However, it also showed him at work on his own cable television tool show properly titled, "Tool Time". Along with his assistant Al Borland they showed their viewers how to make anything as simple as a wooden fence to "the man's kitchen" complete with a meat cutter in the freezer and a bartender at the bar in the closet of the bedroom. Tim always had a joke about Al (or Al's mother)and Al always got a kick out of watching Tim screw things up. Still, they were friends and it came across on the screen.

At home, where most of the action occurred, they were an ordinary family. Well, except for how many times Tim had had accidents, not to mention how many times he screwed up things he was trying to "fix". Toasters, dishwashers and even computers were not safe around this man. No one wanted to tell Tim that something in the house wasn't working because they knew by the time he got through fixing it, it would be demolished. But even though Tim was a bumbling idiot at times, he had a heart of gold. He loved his wife and his kids and they loved him.

Jill was a homemaker/college student. She was not only a loving mother and wife, she was also very intellectual. She wanted to school her three boys on arts and theater as much as Tim wanted to teach them about cars. Jill was the one who thought everything through and she was the antithesis of her husband, yet they seemed to make a perfect match. When Tim started acting crazy, it was Jill that gently pulled the reins in on her husband. When Jill started obsessing over things, it was Tim that made her relax and smile. They complimented each other and that's what made it so fun to watch them together.

The three boys were also individuals yet regular brothers. Naturally, Brad and Randy being the two oldest picked on the littlest Mark. From pulling tricks on Mark to telling him stories that the gullible boy fell for and got scared, it's typical sibling stuff. Brad was the popular, athletic type that loved to work on cars with his dad. Of the three, Brad was more like his father, Tim.

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