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Home Improvement is SO AMAZING AND INCREDIBLE that it's almost IMPOSSIBLE to determine the best season of the show! But if I had to choose one of the seasons and call it the best it would be Season 6. There were several of the show's best episodes that season and one of them was the superb season premier! Tim and Al are on the USS Constellation and Tim has some classic mess-ups as usual and barely gets out without blowing the ship up!! At home, Jill gets suspicious that Brad is having sex with his girlfriend leading to her asking Tim to give Brad "The Talk" which is one of the most memorable moments in Home Improvement history!! Overall, a great, GREAT episode with one of the show's classic moments to end the episode starts off the best season of the show with an enormous BANG!!! 10/10!!!

It's a new season of Home Improvement, which means our favorite characters have undergone some changes. For one, Heidi is pregnant. The boys are about as tall as their mother...except for Randy, and Brad is about to take his first trip to second base. But we'll get to that later, right now it's time for Fool Time! Tim and Al drive out in a small yellow car, owing to their salute to engines big and small. Moderate sized engines today, tomorrow: the Tool Time crew is going aboard an actual aircraft carrier. Al and Heidi had been formally invited, but they had to beg to let Tim come along. Well, getting back to engines, they next look at the smallest engine in the world located inside of a tiny, micro car, no bigger than a grain of rice. Naturally, Tim has to lift the glass and hold the thing in his hands, and of course the idiot not only drops it, he squashes it with his knee. At home, Jill is getting the boys ready for another school year. Randy's going to be in high school, and as for Brad, he's got his mind set on the usual: girls. For example, he and Angela are studying out back in the gazebo swing. Leave it to Jill to find a problem with this. I'm sure it's just an innocent teenage romance, it probably won't go any further. So, on to Tool Time on the high seas: Tim, Al and Heidi arrive aboard the U.S.S. Constellation and Captain Jenkins shows them around. Quite an aircraft carrier. It's long, hard and full of seamen. First, to the hangar bay where Tim shows his lack of aircraft knowledge, then into the combat deck where Tim accidentally declares war on Finland. Thank goodness they disarmed the weapons system when they heard the Fool Man was going to be on board.

While Tim continues to make an ass of himself on the Constellation, at home, Brad and Angela are studying...and I don't mean Spanish. First they start kissing, then they lay down on the bed and make out. Suddenly, Jill comes home and immediately starts in on the laundry. And boy was she in for a surprise when she opened the door to Brad's room! Angela books it while Brad calls his mother out for being nosy. Instead of talking to him like a parent over what happened, she plays the same nagging, condescending bitch she always is. So while Tim is given a tour of the engine room, Jill abruptly calls, requesting he come home immediately. All she had to say was she thinks Brad might be having sex. The dumbkopf accidentally throws the switch and the carrier takes off at high speeds. He gets home at lightning speed, but when he hears of the situation, he feels reluctant to give "the talk" to his son. So when he sees Brad, all he tells him is that he's willing to listen ANY time he wants to talk. However, a talk with Wilson gives Tim the confidence he needs to be himself and have a REAL talk with Brad, and so he invites his eldest boy out to the garage to work on the hot rod, and then he commences "the talk". It starts off shaky as he first tries to compare sex to a Polish buffet, then to football, then gardening. Finally, he compares it to something he actually understands: a car. How to keep it in the garage for a long, long time, and then, when the garage door opens, think about a car cover. All kidding aside, he and Brad have a serious talk about being careful and talking openly about their feelings. Brad finally gets it and assures his dad he's not doing the horizontal mambo with Angela, or anybody. That was a load off Tim's shoulders, and he tells Brad he'll know he's a man when he and his mom tell him so.

Season 6...is not off to a good start. This episode tries SO HARD to be funny, but fails miserably, except in the third act. Tim's "sex talk" makes it all worth while. This season is where the show starts to go downhill, as they sacrifice sentiment and heartfelt moments for jokes. Forced, sitcom-level jokes that are not funny. The whole thing on the aircraft carrier was just an excuse to pad the running time with jokes. It was not funny at any point. Also, had Jill acted like an adult and talked to Brad about her concerns with him and Angela, she might have saved a lot of trouble. Tim's reluctance to have the talk with Brad shows why our society has become so immoral. I'm not blaming the show for this, but parents in general who are too cowardly to talk to their children about sex, so they learn about it on the streets and end up in dire straights. It's only gotten worse. Anyway, "At Sea" sucked. The only good part was Tim's sex talk. If you watch this episode, just fast forward to that part and ignore the rest.