A Residence Enchancment replace! In the course of the Thursday, January 7, episode of Final Man Standing, Mike Baxter (Tim Allen) hires a handyman to return repair the rubbish disposal. Enter Tim “The Toolman” Taylor (additionally Allen), who now not hosts a TV present however now works for Binford Instruments and is in Colorado for enterprise. When he heard that there was a person on the town who resembled him, he had to reply to the decision.
“I had this TV present for eight years known as Software Time. They known as me ‘The Toolman,’” Tim says to Mike in the course of the episode earlier than doing that well-known grunt. “It was sort of my factor.” Mike then responds that the grunt is “somewhat annoying.”
Later within the episode, Mike’s spouse, Vanessa (Nancy Travis), tells her husband about her speak with Tim. “It seems he has three grown youngsters, solely boys. He’s sensible, he’s humorous,” she says. “You guys are loads alike.”
Though Tim requires “extra energy” — one other Residence Enchancment nod — he finally ends up blowing up Mike’s disposal. When he comes over to apologize, Mike is exterior, standing behind a wood door, solely exhibiting the highest half of his face.
“That extra energy stuff labored higher on my present and never so good at my home both,” Tim tells Mike, who peeks over the door. “It’s at all times been simpler to open up once I’m simply speaking to the highest half of one other man’s face. … I did it with Wilson.”
Wilson Wilson was Tim’s neighbor in 202 episodes of Residence Enchancment who solely ever revealed the highest half of his face. Earl Hindman, who portrayed Wilson, died in 2003 of lung most cancers at age 61.
“I shared a variety of stuff with him. He handed away,” Tim says. “I miss Wilson. I miss a variety of stuff.”
The episode ends with Tim visiting Mike at work, and the 2 lastly see eye-to-eye after Mike seems to be up outdated episodes of Software Time.
“I simply need you to know, I believe these are nice. Nicely produced, intelligent, humorous,” Mike says, with Tim noting that he misses the present. With that, Mike tells him that perhaps they need to do a reboot with “extra energy.”
The comic beforehand opened up with Us Weekly solely about reprising the position, which he performed from 1991 to 1999.
“It appeared bizarre and placed on and phony” bringing again Tim and grunting once more, the Don’t Stand Too Near a Bare Man writer stated. “The grunting was a part of his deal and he sort of cops to that. He’s gotten outdated and he’s moved on.”
The Santa Clause star added that it wasn’t so simple as he thought it’d be to revisit Tim.
“I didn’t even take into consideration what it’d be like taking part in a personality that I developed from my stage act 20 years in the past,” Allen instructed Us. “I really like comedy laid on prime of drama or drama laid on prime of comedy.”
Final Man Standing airs on Fox Thursdays at 9:30 p.m. ET.
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