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Ever the know-it-all, Tim believes he has an incredibly wide knowledge of tools, electronics and general mechanics. He actually does have a significant amount of skill as a general handyman but can be overly confident and prone to spectacular mishaps. He often forgets a crucial step, ignores instructions, makes ill-advised modifications or comes to inaccurate conclusions. The only exception to this ineptitude is when working on cars, at which he excels. He is left-handed but actually does a great deal of his work with his right hand. Randy’s interests as a kid was perhaps different from his brothers.
Before Lillian's first appearance, she was joked at by Tim as being largely overweight, though in her first appearance, Lillian has become thin again, having used Tim's jokes on Tool Time as motivation. Lillian speaks with a very notable Southwestern accent and is caring and supportive to Jill whenever she has troubles. At first it was unclear whether "Wilson" was his first name or last, but his full name is revealed as Wilson Wilson Wilson, Jr.
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His father has a tendency to dislike and mock anything he has no interest in, such as ballet and opera, and Randy inherited this attitude, which ironically puts him at odds with Tim, since Randy has no interest in cars and tools. Out of all the Taylor boys, Randy is the one with the least respect for his father. He once called his father's show "Fool Time", and compared his father to an ape. When Tim brought Brad onto Tool Time, Randy immediately called it a stupid show and acted hateful towards Tim and Brad. Although initially sharing mostly the same interests as Brad and his father, throughout his adolescence Randy became very conscious about the environment and civil rights and became a vegetarian in later seasons. He wrote for the school newspaper, where he concentrated on social and political issues, including criticizing Binford for its pollution record, which led to a fierce disagreement with Tim and Tim's boss.
Marty was often picked on by his older brothers, much as Mark is by Brad and Randy. He is often seen bouncing from job to job, unable to hold a steady career. For the majority of the show's run, Marty was married to Nancy , and they had identical twin girls, Gracie and Claire. He has his share of sarcastic quips and can be just as clueless as Tim.
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Unlike Brad who dated many different girls, Randy, for the most part, only dated one girl, Lauren, whom he remained with for the rest of the series. Randall William "Randy" Taylor – Randy is the middle child, ultimately the smartest of the three boys, and frequently the most mischievous and especially sarcastic troublemaker. Randy's intelligence eventually led to him skipping ahead to advanced math and science classes, and was often the cause of sibling rivalry with Brad. Randy in the later seasons is noticeably a lot shorter than his brothers and his height is often made fun of by Brad. Whenever Tim was in trouble with Jill, Randy was always there with a quick remark that would almost always get him in trouble.
They share interests in journalism and the environment and even travel to Costa Rica together for an environmental study. Carrie Patterson (Tudi Roche– the real-life wife of Richard Karn), Jill's sister, a world-traveling photographer. Angela – Former girlfriend of Brad, known for being a constant motor-mouth. Brad suffered from a bout of depression because of this, but eventually rebounded.
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In one episode, she and Brad impulsively decided to get married at their young age, but Tim and Jill successfully tricked them to realize their mistake. Somewhat loud, and charismatic, Rock always responds to guest appearances on Tool Time by saying, "It's always great to be here, Timmy!" In K&B's "all-tool band", his instrument is a grinder run over an empty oil drum. Marie talks about her struggles with her weight and about seeing a therapist. Marie is also encouraging when Jill says she's thinking about going back to school to get her master's degree. Tim also often pokes fun at Al's mother, Alma Borland, who is never seen but is apparently severely overweight.
Another running gag involves Jill's distaste for his attitude, in that she says "You're pathetic" every time he goes too far. Tim often garbles advice he heard from Wilson or otherwise makes ignorant remarks – although in one episode Tim stuns Jill and Wilson by putting forth sound advice of his own. Another running gag is Tim accidentally causing damage or destruction to anything he touches, such as destroying the world's smallest car or running over golf carts with a Marine Corps tank. He is also injured every year while working on the Christmas decorations.
Next, Al went on one date with Tim's ex-girlfriend Stacey Lewis, but had no interest in seeing her again. From seasons three through five, Al went out with Dr. Ilene Markham, an orthodontist and the sister of one of Jill's co-workers. Al then met a woman named Trudy in season seven and married her in the finale episode in 1999. Al has a big brother named Cal who is a physicist, and unlike most male siblings, they had never gotten into a physical fight. Instead, they usually settled their disputes over a cup of tea.
While she is very motherly and domestic in nature, the show features recurring jokes about her poor cooking skills. Taylor's "arch enemy", so to speak, is the real-life home improvement specialist, Bob Vila. One episode sees Tim competing against Bob Vila in a lawnmower contest for charity.
Unlike Brad and Mark, he lacked his father's interest in tools, and also lacked his mother's interest in ballet and opera. He shared with his mother; however, the passion for acting, and shared with his father his knack of joke-telling. But as Randy has gotten older and more mature, he is starting to drift away. Randy has no interest in the things his father obsesses over, like cars and tools. He even tells his father, "You're a sellout. But then to be a sellout, you'd have to have principles to begin with."
Unlike Tim and Brad, Randy is not good with his hands and does not enjoy working on crafts or the Hot Rod. Instead, he often relates more with his mother, with whom he shares his intelligence and enjoyment of acting. Tim appears in the Last Man Standing ninth season episode "Dual Time". It is mentioned that Tim still works with tools like he used to but that he did not want to do his show Tool Time any more and that his neighbor Wilson died. Whenever he is called by name from Rock, Pete usually responds, "That would be me." In K&B's band, he plays empty plastic fuel cans as drums, using screwdrivers as drumsticks. The "straight man" of K&B, he always has to interrupt Pete whenever he is about to say a story that is too revealing by saying, "This is not the time, nor the place!" In K&B's band, he plays hammers on an anvil.
His mother is alive for the entire series; however, his father died when Tim was eleven years old. There has always been some disparity between how many brothers Tim has. On several occasions in the later seasons, it is mentioned that Tim has four brothers, but in earlier seasons he is stated to have five.
When Pamela Anderson chose to leave Home Improvement to pursue a role on the syndicated series Baywatch, she was written out of the series after the second season; it was stated that Lisa was training to be a paramedic. Lisa returns for a guest appearance four years later, having become fully qualified; and applies for a job at Detroit Memorial Hospital. On the set of Tool Time, Al gives the viewing audience his iconic salute at the start of each airing at his introduction. He is also always wearing flannel on the set and is sometimes shown backstage taking off his shirt and changing into another identical flannel shirt. Common recurring jokes throughout the series include Al's beard, his love of bingo, his greater popularity over Tim among Tool Time fans, and his fanatic admiration of fellow home improvement television host Bob Vila. Throughout much of the series, Al often has bad luck with women despite, or possibly because of, his emotional sensitivity, which far exceeds Tim's.
He is extremely frugal and suffers from male-pattern baldness, both of which make him a frequent target of Tim's jokes. It is mentioned that he has made a number of bad business ventures (such as a drive-thru pet store), was divorced twice, and didn't finish college (as mentioned by Jill's sister in one episode). Jillian "Jill" Taylor – Jill is Tim's wife and the mother of Brad, Randy, and Mark.
Jill is intelligent, practical, and has a dry sense of humor that doesn't often fly with her family. At the series beginning, she struggles to reenter the workforce after a long absence but soon lands a job at a local magazine. After being let go from the magazine and reassessing her career choices, Jill goes back to school to earn her master's degree in psychology. Tim is occasionally chauvinistic in attitude, usually putting women down or sometimes seeing them as inferior . A running gag is that every time Tim says something sexist on Tool Time, Al holds up a sign displaying the show's mailing address for the women to send in their complaints. He also tends to mock those who are overweight, such as Al's mother or his mother-in-law and can be juvenile in attitude on many occasions.
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