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Al’s Video

December 31, 2020 by Grunt Work Leave a Comment

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This Week on Home Improvement…

Al is asked to host his own How-To videos and he asks Tim to be his director. Tim quickly agrees, but as soon as they begin filming Al suspects he may have a problem on his hands: with only two days to complete the video, Tim’s grandiose style has caused them to go over budget and over schedule. With no other solution available to him, Al must fire Tim.

Meanwhille, Jill gets a new computer.

**This week on Grunt Work: Nights…**

Truman and Landen have a fireside chat about winter memories as the snow started to fall across the Wisconsin skies. Grab a cup of hot coco (or carrot stew like Landen had) and curl up with this conversational episode.

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Burnin’ Love

December 17, 2020 by Grunt Work Leave a Comment

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This Week on Home Improvement…

Randy has been assigned a new article for the school newspaper and this time he has a writing partner: Lauren, and boy does he have a crush. Tim is smitten as well as Lauren is a car lover, and the whole family is crushed when they find out that she has decided to go on a date with Brad’s scheming friend Jason.

Meanwhile, did you know Jill is a bad cook?

**This week on Grunt Work: Nights…**

Everyone’s favorite game is back—we’re playing Either/Or where two things are pitted against each other and Truman and Landen have to pick one over the other. This time we’re choosing between movie franchises:

Superman v Batman
Fast & Furious vs. Die Hard
Back to the Future vs. Indiana Jones
Star Trek vs. Star Wars

Who will come out the other side? Listen to find out!

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Workshop Til You Drop

December 3, 2020 by Grunt Work Leave a Comment

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This Week on Home Improvement…

Jill asks Tim to join her for a couples therapy workshop at her school, but Tim is resistant to go. His worst nightmares are realized when the session reveals to be a lot of crying and vulnerability, yet it’s Jill who must reckon with the fact that she may criticize Tim too much.

**This week on Grunt Work: Nights…**

After reading a confounding headline that used the obscure phrase “lost in the sauce”, Landen and Truman hit the history books to find more phrases and colloquialisms that have been lost to time.

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Future Shock

November 19, 2020 by Grunt Work Leave a Comment

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This Week on Home Improvement…

Jill finds herself frantic at trying to juggle school and her home life when one petty dispute after another delays her from her school work. The boys can’t seem to mediate their own arguments, and Tim’s rigid routines force her to be flexible—but no more. After speaking with Delores and Marge, Jill has a nightmare of her hellish dystopian future where Tim has derailed all of her hopes and dreams, and this forces Jill to say something. However, Tim doth protesteth too much, and has dreams of his own about how his routines will shape him into a superhuman in his twilight years.

**This week on Grunt Work: Nights…**

Hear ye, hear ye!

Step right up and play the game the likes the world has never seen!

In a game custom made for the intersections of Truman and Landen’s interests, we’re playing IMDb Parents Guide! Landen has chosen five films for Truman to try to guess simply by the description of the user-inputted warnings to parents.

We invite you to play along! Can you guess the film based on these categories: Sex & Nudity; Violence & Gore; Profanity; Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking; and Frightening & Intense Scenes.

See how Truman does on this episode of IMDb Parents Guide!

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At Sea

November 5, 2020 by Grunt Work Leave a Comment

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This Week on Home Improvement…

Tim Taylor (Tim Allen) and Al Borland (Richard Karn) kick off a new season of Tool Time with a visit to the USS Constellation aircraft carrier to pay tribute to its powerful engines. But back at the Taylor house, there’s a force at work that’s even more poweful than an aircraft carrier’s engine: Teenaged hormones. When Jill (Patricia Richardson) catches Brad (Zachery Ty Bryan) and his girlfriend Angela doing some steamy studying in his bedroom, she grows concerned that her son needs to get “the talk” about sex – and he needs to hear it from his father. While Tim struggles at first to find the right metaphors, he’s eventually able to teach Brad a heartfelt lesson about why it’s important to cool his jets.

**This week on Grunt Work: Nights…**

Hear ye, hear ye! Official Gruntheads: we have announcements and distractions.

First, we have some big Patreon news. We are shifting to a pay-what-you-want system where everyone will receive the same benefits. But this now comes with an added bonus—access to our private Discord recording channel!

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Season 5 Super Spectacular!

August 6, 2020 by Grunt Work Leave a Comment

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This Week on Grunt Work…

It’s that time of year again! It’s time for the Season 5 Super Spectacular! That’s right, as we bring this long, long season to a close, we look back on what feels like the last 27 years that we’ve been living in Season 5 of Home Improvement.

This episode is filled with all of the things you’ve grown to love about our Super Spectaculars: our favorite episodes, moments, guest stars… we’ve even added a new category! We debate over this seasons MVP and reveal the results of the People’s Choice MVP (that’s you!) And of course we live up to our namesake by unveiling some VERY surprising Grunt Count results.

Yes, it’s been a season of trials and tribulations. We’ve had a lot of starts and stops. And we finally provide you with some explanations. To completely butcher a T.S. Elliot quote, “This is the way the season ends / Not with a bang but a whimper.” But we will return for Season 6 in due time. Thank you all for sticking with us and we hope to continue to bring you our special brand of entertainment for a long time to come.

**This week on Grunt Work: Nights…**

You’ve got your popcorn. You’ve got your seats. The theater darkens, the screen shines bright. And on that screen? Another theater. Another movie goer. And the theater darkens. And the screen within a screen shines bright. No, we’re not talking about Inception – we’re talking movies within movies!

What are your favorite fake films that reside inside the realm of real films? Unless our reality is also just a film in which the films we watch are the films within a film good god this is already messy.

This week we discuss our favorite examples of movies within movies from Boogie Nights to Matinee. I believe this is a relatively spoiler free episode, but fear not! We mention the film before we discuss it so if you’re worried about that sort of thing… just skip ahead – or go watch the dang darn film and come back! We’ll wait! (Update: Avengers: Endgame spoiler RIGHT AT THE END.)

What are your favorite examples of films within films?

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