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At the request of former president Jimmy Carter, Tool Time has agreed to build some houses for Habitat for Humanity, and dispatches Tim and Al on location to head up each of their own construction teams. For Tim’s part, he’s chosen a who’s who of NFL players, as well as Evander Holyfield. Al has chosen a set of women professionals, including Jill, to construct his house. As they go head-to-head, is there any question as to who the winner will be?

Meanwhile, Brad has found a golden locket in the alleyway behind the house, and gives it to his girlfriend Ashley, only to discover that the locket belongs to Marie, who desperately wants it back.

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When Brad (Zachery Ty Bryan) and Randy’s (Jonathan Taylor Thomas) constant fighting gets to be too much, Tim (Tim Allen) wants to give the older boy his own room and move Mark (Taran Noah Smith) in with Randy. Jill (Patricia Richardson) wants to discuss the matter with the boys, but before she can Tim acts unilaterally and tells Mark to move in with Randy. Jill is angry at Tim for going against her wishes, while Tim accuses her – and all women – of being indecisive. Out back, Wilson (Earl Hindman) reminds Tim that the boys’ dispute can only be solved by getting at the root of the problem, while Jill has a heart-to-heart with Randy that convinces him bunking with Mark won’t be all that bad.

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Jill’s father is in town, and he has brought with him his new manuscript. In his retirement, he’s taken to writing a book about his time in the military, and hopes that once Jill reads it, that maybe she will pass it on to the publishers of her magazine. There’s just one little hitch, though, and it’s that Jill does not like the book. At all. However, due to the strained relationship with her father, she feels that she cannot tell him the truth.

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While Jill Taylor (Patricia Richardson) and Eileen (Sherry Hursey) enjoy a girls’ weekend, Tim Taylor (Tim Allen) goes ice fishing with Al (Richard Karn) in a fishing shack he’s thinking of buying. Although Al wants to use their time in the one-room shack on the lake to talk and get to know each other, Tim rebuffs Al’s advances, watching TV, losing Al’s supplies and falling through a hole in the ice, losing their car keys in the process. By the time Wilson (Earl Hindman) arrives with their spare keys, Al is furious at Tim. Wilson explains to Tim that sometimes your friends expect you to engage with their lives in a meaningful way, and Tim makes an effort to talk to Al the whole way home… Even though he accidentally burns the shack down on his way out the door.

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On the set of Tool Time, Al is a little upset with Tim due to some jealousy he harbors over the fact that his girlfriend Ilene had a sensual dream about Tim the night before. Because of this, he turns down Tim’s offer to have them over for dinner. Cooler minds prevail, and Al and Ilene do show up, only to have Tim try to diffuse the tension with some humor, but inadvertently embarrassing Ilene, and making her angry at Al for betraying her trust by telling Tim.

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Randy is challenged to a sled race down Dead Man’s Curve, and loses. Despite Jill’s pleas for him to abandon further challenge, Randy convinces her that his pride and self-worth is at stake. Meanwhile, Brad abandons his saxophone lessons at any cost.

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It’s Christmas, 1993, and it seems like any other Christmas time – Tim is preparing for the neighborhood Christmas light competition against Doc Johnson, Jill is prepping Mark for his big debut as the N in the Hamtrammick Christmas Noel Choir Singers, Randy becomes the helpless victim of Doc Johnson’s daughter Lauren, and Brad is ready to abandon it all to go skiing with his friends. When Tim and particularly Jill tell him ‘No’, he gets all huffy and refuses to go to Christmas mass, much to Jill’s dismay as she proclaims “family is always together at Christmas.”

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When Jill Taylor (Patricia Richardson) gets a last minute invitation to her 20-year high school reunion, she’s eager to go in order to face off against her ex-best friend, Joanie, who stole her high school sweetheart, Jack. When they arrive in Washington, D.C., Jill almost loses her nerve, but Tim (Tim Allen) encourages her to sit down and talk with Joanie – where she learns some surprising news and gains some much-needed closure.

Back home, Al Borland (Richard Karn) is struggling to watch the boys for the weekend. When Randy (Jonathan Taylor Thomas) locks him out, Al gets a little advice from Wilson (Earl Hindman) in their first ever conversation.

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It’s Thanksgiving, that time of year when the family gathers around to dress up in ridiculous costumes and pose for Christmas cards that they’ll never live down. Tim, inspired by a drive past the lumber yard, has been struck with a big idea to construct the perfect winter wonderland setting and expects Jill and the boys to dawn festive costumes, but when his more power solutions send the snow blower through the living room window, Jill puts her foot down on any more of his shenanigans, as she scrambles to finish preparing for Thanksgiving dinner.

Meanwhile, on Tool Time, Tim and Al construct the perfect Man’s Bathroom. Why? Because masculinity needs a monument to itself.