My problems with home improvement. iin?

Before we start, I realize it's a TV show, and I realize ALL TV shows have at least some elements of inaccuracy. Home Improvement, however, has more than I can bear in one show.

1. Tool Time is a cable access show, this is Tim's job and the family's sole source of income. How can Tim afford a nice home and to keep his family so well in nice clothes, cars, food, entertainment, AND he's building a '33 Ford Roadster from the ground up. Not to mention, he breaks things every day, how can he afford to replace this stuff?

2. They frequently used computers on the show, and did things that, in that time and even a decade later, were FAR from possible for the average person.

3. Tim is always installing new features in his home in a matter of a day or so. Besides the time factor, how can he afford it?

4. How can he keep his job as Binford's spokesman when he has such a dreadful track record of incompetence and destruction? No reputable business would keep him around.

5. He's an insurance nightmare! There's no way anyone would insure him or his home after even 1/8 of the incidents he has caused.

6. They always had spectacular Halloween episodes. Where the hell did average people get access to materials and the funds to have costumes that were so great that even today they can't be replicated without a professional make-up/costume artist and a TON of cash?

7. Their home and furnishings are very "90's cool". Everything in that home would've had to have been newly done and purchased. How can he afford that?

8. How has Tim not DIED in a work related accident?

9. Why does Tim wear nice jeans or Dockers and sometimes a button-down shirt when working?

10. How can Tim's eyebrows get burnt off so often yet it's never depicted accurately?

11. Why hasn't Al ever surpassed Tim in rank? Or, why hasn't Al murdered Tim yet?

12. How can Tim blow the speakers but later on the same speakers are still there?

Then, there's one MOST depressing element of all. Wilson, the neighbor, whose face viewers never got to fully see. This is depressing because in these days, this can never happen ever again. All we'd have to do is google the actor's name and get a thousand images of him, or if his information was restricted there'd still be many people who knew him that would spill the beans. Back then this was possible and I LIKE that fact, and knowing it's not possible now is very sad.

is it normal to be sad over Home Improvement?

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Comments ( 15 )
  • Shrunk

    have you ever heard of the website tvtropes? That's what this post reminds me of... there is an entry for every show, movie, video game etc. each with a section called ''headscratchers'' for observations just like this... people can answer your questions, but most of these things fall under the ''rule of funny'' :p

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    • Oh wow, this is the most amazing thing I have ever learned from IIN! I can't thank you enough!!!!!!!!!!!

      Life:Complete

      to avoid any confusion, I assure you there is NO sarcasm in this post!!

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      • Shrunk

        haha I thought you might like it. It's really a fun site =)

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  • so funny

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    • My mental anguish is funny to you, man? You're a sick individual!

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  • musiciswithinmysoul

    It is a fucking tv show get over it

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  • You'd get things built in a day to if you were that high on coke all the time.

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  • Justsomejerk

    You shouldn't watch Get Smart.

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  • nursebetty

    My heart bleeds for you, it really does. Um... Maybe just don't watch the show?

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    • I can't help it, there's nothing else good on from 7:30 to 8:30 AM. I watch My Name Is Earl from 6:30-7:30 and I have complaints for that show too. That's another post though. From 5:00 to 6:30 is the most divine show ever: Married With Children. That show is GOD.

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      • 5 till 6.30? is it the movie version (it was ok too)

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        • No, it's 3 back to back episodes, sorry for the confusion!

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          • its ok but dont do it again

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  • Mando

    Just tears your heart out.

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    • I'm glad you agree!

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