Grunt Work: THE Podcast about the TV Show Home Improvement

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Love the 90s sitcom Home Improvement? Dive deep into the nostalgic world of Tim ‘The Tool Man’ Taylor with Grunt Work, the ultimate Home Improvement podcast. We break down every episode, exploring beh... more

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January 28, 2021 Season 6, Episode 6: Who’s Car Is It Anyway? (1996)
Title: Whose Car Is It Anyway?
Season, Episode: Season 6, Episode 6
Broadcast date: Oct 22, 1996
Starring: Tim Allen, Patricia Richardson, Richard Karn, Earl Hindman, Zachery Ty Bryan, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Taran Noah Smith, and Debbe Dunning
Guest Starring: Drew Pillsbury, Warran Tabata
Directed by: Andrew Tsao
Written by: Adam England
This podcast episode was originally released: Jan 28, 2021
Episode Synopsis:
Jill has just inherited a bunch of money from a recently deceased aunt, who has stipulated that she has to spend the money on something frivolous for herself. To Tim’s great delight, she decides to buy a classic sports car - but to Tim’s great disgust, she cuts him out of the purchasing process and buys an Austin Healey roadster without telling him. Tim is disdainful of her choice to buy a British car, and in response she forbids him to drive it. When Tim secretly takes the car out for a spin anyway, he finds himself loving it - until a picture of him driving it winds up in the newspaper and he has to apologize to Jill for breaking his word.
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2h 14min
January 28, 2021 Whose Car Is It Anyway? (with Topé Suicida!)
This Week on Home Improvement…
When Jill’s Aunt Sharon dies, she leaves her a vast sum of money that she stipulates to spend on herself and on something frivolous. She decides that she wants a sports car. This naturally excites Tim, however when he finds out that she opted for a British Austin Healey, he protests. Of course, though, he cannot resist the temptation to drive it, but when Jill refuses to let him do so, he goes behind her back and hot wires it.
On the show this week we’re joined by the dench Beau Rosser and Mike from Television of the Topé Suicida podcast!
This week on Grunt Work: Nights…

This is a sneak peek at our upcoming JTT junction bonus episode. Here, we are finishing chapter 4 where we left off in Season 5.

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2h 14min
December 31, 2020 Season 6, Episode 5: Al’s Video (1996)
Title: Al’s Video
Season, Episode: Season 6, Episode 6
Broadcast date: Oct 15, 1996
Starring: Tim Allen, Patricia Richardson, Richard Karn, Earl Hindman, Zachery Ty Bryan, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Taran Noah Smith, and Debbe Dunning
Guest Starring: Sherry Hursey, Blake Clark, Vasili Bogazianos, Al Fann
Directed by: Andrew Tsao
Written by: Ruth Bennett
This podcast episode was originally released: Dec 30, 2020
Episode Synopsis:
When Al gets the opportunity to produce and star in an instructional video about tools, he asks Tim to direct it in hopes of capturing some of the magic of Tool Time. But Tim turns out to be a perfectionist on set, wasting an entire day of shooting as he tries to emulate the style of his favorite tool video director, Herb Hitchcock. Behind schedule and over budget, Al is forced to fire Tim, leading to copious bad vibes and a sticky confrontation on the set of Tool Time. But after a chat with Wilson, Tim comes to realize that he needs to defer to Al's creative vision for his video, and the two rejoin forces to finish the film on schedule.
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1h 60min
December 31, 2020 Al’s Video
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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1h 60min
December 17, 2020 Season 6, Episode 4: Burnin’ Love (1996)
Title: Burnin’ Love
Season, Episode: Season 6, Episode 4
Broadcast date: Oct 8, 1996
Starring: Tim Allen, Patricia Richardson, Richard Karn, Earl Hindman, Zachery Ty Bryan, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Taran Noah Smith, and Debbe Dunning
Guest Starring: Courtney Peldon, Jarrad Paul, Lucile Treganowan
Directed by: Geoffrey Nelson
Written by: Jon Vandergriff
This podcast episode was originally released: Dec 16, 2020
Episode Synopsis:
Randy has a crush on a girl at school named Lauren. However, Brad’s friend Jason decides to ask her out before Randy can. But time reveals the truth that Lauren prefers the smart, funny Randy to the crass Jason. Meanwhile, Tim meets his match on Tool Time with a guest—a FEMALE GUEST—who knows more about cars than he does, and Jill is invited to a school pot luck but asked not to contribute.
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1h 25min
December 17, 2020 Burnin’ Love
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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1h 25min
December 03, 2020 Season 6, Episode 3: Workshop ‘Til You Drop (1996)
Title: Workshop ’Til You Drop
Season, Episode: Season 6, Episode 3
Broadcast date: Oct 1, 1996
Starring: Tim Allen, Patricia Richardson, Richard Karn, Earl Hindman, Zachery Ty Bryan, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Taran Noah Smith, and Debbe Dunning
Guest Starring: Charles Robinson, Jim Jansen, Sherman Howard, Ada Maris, Susan Krebs, Nancy Linari, Rick Fitts
Directed by: Andrew Tsao
Written by: Charlie Hauck
This podcast episode was originally released: Dec 2, 2020
Episode Synopsis:
Tim reluctantly accompanies Jill to a couples’ therapy seminar where she encourages him to share his innermost feelings about their marriage. When Tim volunteers that he feels like Jill is too critical of him and the rest of the group agrees, Jill gets defensive. But after a conversation with Wilson, Jill inexplicably decides that she really has been too critical of Tim this whole time and goes inside to apologize.
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1h 33min
December 03, 2020 Workshop Til You Drop
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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1h 33min
November 19, 2020 Season 6, Episode 2: Future Shock (1996)
Title: Future Shock
Season, Episode: Season 6, Episode 2
Broadcast date: Sept 24, 1996
Starring: Tim Allen, Patricia Richardson, Richard Karn, Earl Hindman, Zachery Ty Bryan, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Taran Noah Smith, and Debbe Dunning
Guest Starring: Shirley Prestia, Francesca P. Roberts, Bibi Osterwald, Sidney Chaikin, Jack Murdock, Don Perry
Directed by: Peter Bonerz
Written by: Elliot Shoenman, Marley Sims
This podcast episode was originally released: Nov 18, 2020
Episode Synopsis:
Jill needs to use the shower so she can get to school for her psychology class, but Tim insists on showering before her because it’s a part of his morning routine. As a result, Jill misses half of her class, and gripes to her friends about men and their inflexible routines. That night, Jill has a nightmare about spending her twilight years caring for an old, decrepit Tim who refuses to change his ways. Not to be outdone, Tim then has several dreams about what the rest of his friends and family will be like when they’re old.
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1h 26min
November 19, 2020 Future Shock
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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1h 26min

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