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A Podcast About the TV Show Home Improvement

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Eye on Tim

April 16, 2020 by Grunt Work Leave a Comment

Eye on Tim (1996) | Home Improvement

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This Week on Home Improvement…

Tool Time is visited by the reporter from Detroit Today, Mz. Kelly Barnes, to do a profile on Tim. However, from the moment she appears, she plays into Tim’s ego with a hope of getting into Tim’s pants. Despite warnings from Al and Jill, Tim plays right into the situation, and finds himself not only in hot water, but also a hot toddy.

Meanwhile, Jill is sick.

This week on Grunt Work: Nights…

This is a weird one, folks. What starts out as a conversation about eating out devolves into a gripe session over annoying regulars at coffee shops. I think we’re starting to feel the effects.

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Filed Under: Podcast Episode, Season Five

When Harry Kept Dolores

April 9, 2020 by Grunt Work Leave a Comment

When Harry Kept Dolores (1996) | Home Improvement

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This Week on Home Improvement…

When Harry’s (Blake Clark) wife Dolores (Shirley Prestia) takes a more active role in running the hardware store, Tim (Tim Allen) and the guys are so incensed at her female antics that they persuade Harry to fire her – which results in the two of them splitting up. Although Harry seems outwardly happy, a newly insightful Tim suspects that Harry is actually very broken up about it, so after some advice from Wilson (Earl Hindman) he goes to Dolores’ diner to convince her to take him back. Also, country star Alan Jackson sings a song about how much he loves Mercury cars.

This week on Grunt Work: Nights…

Last week we covered Hidden Talents. Like the scales of justice, we must be even handed, so this week we discuss Hidden Weaknesses – the things that we are generally really, really bad at that we try to hide from the world. Truman and Landen talk laundry, smelling, anger, and make a really wild realization!

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Filed Under: Podcast Episode, Season Five

Fear of Flying

April 2, 2020 by Grunt Work Leave a Comment

Fear of Flying (1996) | Home Improvement

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This Week on Home Improvement…

Tim and Jill are so happy that Mark has finally found a hobby in making model airplanes, but when Tim takes him to an aeronautic museum, Mark gets the need, the need for speed… and wants to take flying lessons. Jill is adamantly against this because she believes small planes are death traps – a fear she inherited from her mother while her father was out flying for the military. However, when Wilson agrees to take Mark, Tim and Jill flying to show her just how safe it is, she begins to acquiesce.

Meanwhile, Jill attempt a hobby of her own: learning the piano. 

This week on Grunt Work: Nights…

David Letterman had Stupid Human Tricks. James Cordon has Bar Tricks. We have no tricks, only these silly, useless hidden talents. Truman reveals some unexpected noises. Landen belongs in a circus. Can you guess their hidden talents ?

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Filed Under: Podcast Episode, Season Five

The Vasectomy One

March 26, 2020 by Grunt Work Leave a Comment

The Vasectomy One (1996) | Home Improvement

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This Week on Home Improvement…

When Jill Taylor (Patricia Richardson) discovers one of her 40something friends got pregnant – even though she was using the same form of birth control Tim (Tim Allen) and Jill use – she suggests that Tim get a vasectomy. Tim, predictably, doesn’t love this idea, and after some heavy razzing from the guys at Harry’s hardware and a standoffish meeting with a urologist, Tim tells Jill that he won’t do it – because women just don’t understand severe crotch pain. But after a talk with Wilson (Earl Hindman) and a revealing conversation with Harry, Tim decides to go ahead with the procedure, as it will make it even easier for him and Jill to have sex all over the house at a moment’s notice.

This week on Grunt Work: Nights…

We know them. We love them. They make up our personal tastes. This week we’re talking about genres, and which we love. It’s no secret that Landen loves horror, but did you know he also loves westerns? Truman would love to make Hudsucker Proxy its own genre, but since he can’t, did you know about his love of science fiction? (Actually, Landen challenges him on that…)

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Filed Under: Podcast Episode, Season Five Tagged With: Al Borland, Home Improvement TV Show, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Patricia Richardson, Richard Karn, Tim Allen, Tim Taylor, Tool Time

Tanks for the Memories

March 19, 2020 by Grunt Work Leave a Comment

Tanks for the Memories (1996) | Home Improvement

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This Week on Home Improvement…

On Tool Time during the Salute to the Armed Forces, Tim is officially invited to a California military base to drive a tank. When he tells Jill, she’s incredibly excited – for Tim to drive a tank? No. For her to drive a tank. As an army brat it’s something she’s always wanted to do, but because the military rulebook states a woman cannot drive one, she’s never been able to.

On the base, the colonel in charge of escorting them around says they could set up an opportunity for Jill and Tim to both drive an obstacle course to Jill’s amazement, and Tim’s chagrin. He doesn’t want Jill driving one – not only because she’s a girl, but because she’d be honing in on his moment of glory. And hone she does as she proves to be a much safer and deft tank driver than Tim could ever hope to be.

Meanwhile, Al watches the boys, and introduces them to his prototype board game of Tool Time.

This week on Grunt Work: Nights…

Are you a pompatus of love? Do you ba wit da ba da bang a dang diggy diggy? Have you ever zipped your lips like a padlock? Then this episode is for you!

This week Truman and Landen discuss those confounding, annoying, and downright infuriating song lyrics that make no sense (which is usually a good thing, all hail David Byrne) and have shown for every musician who suffered for their work, there’s a lazy asshole who got paid for half-hearted filler. We cover songs from many times, but spend a special summer in 1999…

What are some lyrics that have made your brain break trying to figure out?

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Filed Under: Podcast Episode, Season Five Tagged With: Al Borland, Home Improvement TV Show, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Patricia Richardson, Richard Karn, Tim Allen, Tim Taylor, Tool Time

High School Confidential

March 12, 2020 by Grunt Work Leave a Comment

High School Confidential (1996) | Home Improvement

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This Week on Home Improvement…

After Randy receives detention, his teacher informs Tim and Jill that he believes Randy is not being engaged enough with the current curriculum, and wants to enroll him in advanced placement courses. This, of course, means that he will be in high school with Brad.

This week on Grunt Work: Nights…

Everyone loves to laugh. Well, most people love to laugh. We all have our Giggle Triggers™, as irrational as they may be. This week Truman and Landen discuss the things that make them laugh. Slapstick. Wordplay. Characterization. Just a well constructed joke. They cover the gamut from Chaplin to Norm Macdonald.

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Filed Under: Podcast Episode, Season Five Tagged With: Al Borland, Home Improvement TV Show, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Patricia Richardson, Richard Karn, Tim Allen, Tim Taylor, Tool Time

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About Grunt Work
Grunt Work is a comedy podcast where each week we cover an episode of the TV show ‘Home Improvement’.

But it’s so much more than that; it’s an examination of masculinity, a time capsule, and “metaphor for how we live[d] in the 90s”. Often, it’s a descent into madness.

Is Grunt Work for You?
We recommend our show for listeners who enjoy comedic takes on pop culture, often veering into the obscure and highfalutin; the perfect blend of stupidity and wit.

You may enjoy Grunt Work if you enjoy:

  • Mystery Science Theater 3000
  • The Flop House
  • Judge John Hodgeman
  • The Golden Guys
  • The Greatest Generation
  • Frasier and/or Cheers
  • Making Flippy Floppy
  • Birdemic: Shock and Terror
  • Perfect Dark (N64)
  • The Ultimate Warrior

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