The BEST episodes of Home Improvement
Every episode of Home Improvement ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Home Improvement!
Home Improvement is a family sitcom about Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor, the host of a local cable home improvement show called "Tool Time." Home Improvement looks at Tim at work, and at home, as the husband of Jill and the father to three teenage boys. Having been married for almost 20 years, Tim and Jill have had their share of fights, but with the help of their wise, mysterious neighbor Wilson W. Wilson, Jr., things often turn out all right.
#1 - The Long and Winding Road (2)
Season 8 - Episode 26 - Aired 5/25/1999
As Tim and the Boys drive to school, they reminisce about some of the memories they have over the past eight years.
#2 - Home for the Holidays
Season 8 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/8/1998
Randy returns from Costa Rica for Christmas only to discover the changes that have taken place in his absence and that life has gone on without him.
#3 - Knee Deep
Season 8 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/2/1999
Brad blames Tim for possibly ruining his soccer career when he injures his knee on a piece of hardware during a Tool Time shoot at the house. The magicians Penn & Teller appear on Tool Time.
#4 - Bye Bye Birdie
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/17/1993
A woodpecker is a pecking pain in the neck for Tim. Brad blames a poor grade on Jennifer who refuses to let him copy her paperwork anymore.
#5 - Trouble-A-Bruin
Season 8 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/11/1999
Troubles brew on Tool Time when Bud mandates that no non-Binford products are to be used on the show. Brad has to decide whether or not to play soccer earlier than he is scheduled to when he has an opportunity to play in front of a UCLA scout.
#6 - Young at Heart
Season 8 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/16/1999
Jill is angry when Tim spends too much time with his new female mechanic near their anniversary.
#7 - The Kiss and the Kiss-Off
Season 6 - Episode 25 - Aired 5/20/1997
Lisa, the old Tool Time girl, returns and Tim gives her her old job back without consulting Heidi, the current Tool Time girl.
#8 - Dead Weight
Season 8 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/18/1999
Tool Time continues to be a "jewel" despite the continued excess presence of the Binford name. Things rapidly turn sad when Al decides to take his mother out to dinner to tell her he's going to get married... and she has a heart attack and dies.
#9 - The Great Race II
Season 3 - Episode 25 - Aired 5/25/1994
After Bob Vila raises more money than Tim for Jill's library fundraiser, Tim challenges him to a race... in his unfinished hot rod.
#10 - Loose Lips and Freudian Slips
Season 8 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/4/1999
Jill's thesis is before the committee. During Mark's student film viewing, Jill's psychology professor sees Jill criticize him and Jill is worried that this will affect the thesis committee's decision.
#11 - Mark's Big Break
Season 8 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/9/1999
Tim commissions Mark to make a video to celebrate the completion of his hot rod. When Tim is disappointed with the result, Mark films a new version - with a dance number set to "Greased Lightning".
#12 - The Long and Winding Road (1)
Season 8 - Episode 25 - Aired 5/18/1999
Tool Time's new producer, Morgan, stages a Jerry Springer style fight on the show. When he refuses to stop degrading the show, Tim quits. Jill's psychology professor offers her a great job - in Indiana.
#13 - Don't Tell Momma
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1994
Jill dents the car so Tim decides to fix it, but he accidentally drops a three ton beam on it and tries to hide it from Jill. Meanwhile, Brad and Randy are kicked off of the school bus for gluing Vinnie McGurn's, a bully's, butt.
#14 - A House Divided
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/21/1995
Benny, Tim's friend, moves into his aunt's house while she's away, but a gas leak causes the house to blow up and Benny must stay with the Taylors.
#15 - Pilot
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1991
After Jill explicitly tells Tim not to touch the dishwasher, he breaks it in an attempt to make it more powerful; more of a "man's" dishwasher. Jill has a job interview, but she doesn't get it and when Tim tries to comfort her, he only makes matters worse. After talking to Wilson, Tim tries again and succeeds.
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#16 - A Marked Man
Season 4 - Episode 25 - Aired 5/9/1995
Al tells Tim and Jill that one of their boys may have stolen a pocket knife. They don't believe their boys would steal, but they find the knife in Mark's pocket in the laundry.
#17 - A Hardware Habit to Break
Season 8 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/30/1999
Harry announces that he is retiring and selling the hardware store. Tim organizes a fundraising party for the store, but ends up buying it himself. But when the customers dry up, Tim begins to wonder what he is doing wrong.
#18 - Crazy for You
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/27/1993
It's Halloween and as usual Tim is up to his old tricks, however Jill plans a prank of her own. Tim gets flowers from a fan named Rose, but soon strange things start happening. She keeps calling him, Wilson thinks she is obsessed with him. Tim tries to hide, but it's no use.
#19 - Workshop 'Til You Drop
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/1996
When Bud gets divorced, Tim and Jill go to a couples therapy workshop.
#20 - Games, Flames and Automobiles
Season 5 - Episode 26 - Aired 5/21/1996
Al creates a Tool Time board game, hoping to earn enough money to propose to Ilene, but the game has problems and sometimes catches fire.
#21 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/19/1991
Tim decides to put in another sink in the bathroom so his shaving junk won't be in Jill's way, but the project takes longer than he expects.
#22 - No, No, Godot
Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/21/1995
Tim and Al scalp tickets to a hockey game when Tim can't go, but they get arrested and Jill and Ilene come to bail them out. Meanwhile, Mark paper maches Wilson's face when he watches the boys while Tim and Jill are gone.
#23 - The Longest Day
Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/2/1996
After a routine medical checkup, the family discovers that Randy may have cancer.
#24 - High School Confidential
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/16/1996
Brad feels jealous when Randy starts taking advanced classes at his school. Tim designs the man's bedroom.
#25 - Taps
Season 6 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/13/1997
To keep her father away because of the pressure she's under, Jill fakes an illness only to find out that he died shortly after she lied to him.
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