Like Full House, Roseanne, and Family Matters, Home Improvement was a staple of '90s family television. Unlike those sit-coms about the tribulations of nuclear families, it hasn't received a resurgence of popularity. It followed Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor, a hyper-masculine host of a home improvement show called "Tool Time", his perpetually vexed wife Jill, and their three rowdy sons. Tim continuously did riskier projects in the name of "More Power" both on the show "within a show" and at home, and hilarity ensued.
While it proved a popular series at the time, it butted up against series like Seinfeld and Friends, both about childless, introspective twenty and thirty-somethings living in New York and navigating interpersonal relationships far removed from the well-meaning hi-jinks of Home Improvement. Audience interests changing may also have had to do with Home Improvement's over-reliance on tired tropes, such as the battle of the sexes,...
While it proved a popular series at the time, it butted up against series like Seinfeld and Friends, both about childless, introspective twenty and thirty-somethings living in New York and navigating interpersonal relationships far removed from the well-meaning hi-jinks of Home Improvement. Audience interests changing may also have had to do with Home Improvement's over-reliance on tired tropes, such as the battle of the sexes,...
- 7/2/2019
- ScreenRant.com
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