The WORST episodes of Home Improvement
Every episode of Home Improvement ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 - Tool Time After Dark (2)
Season 4 - Episode 23 - Aired 4/11/1995
#2 - It Was the Best of Tims, It Was the Worst of Tims
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/30/1994
After Tim charms all the women at a baby shower, Jill wants a romantic evening with him, but Tim takes the boys to a Demolition Derby.
#3 - He Ain't Heavy, He's Just Irresponsible
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/1994
Tim's brother Marty comes by to tell him that he's leaving his wife and kids, but Tim's advice turns Marty against him. Meanwhile, Tim creates a hole in the floor and Jill has trouble working on her psychology report.
#4 - Feud for Thought
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/1/1993
At their high school reunion, Jill tries to avoid Joanie Graham, her high school friend who stole her boyfriend, and Tim and Jack try to fix the amplifier. Meanwhile, Al watches the boys and Brad's girlfriend Ashley.
#5 - Death Begins at Forty
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1994
Tim becomes concerned about his health when his 40th birthday nears and Harry, the owner of Harry's Hardware, has a heart attack.
#6 - For Whom the Belch Tolls
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/14/1992
Jill doesn't want Stu Cutler, Tim's old college friend, in the house. So Tim tries to keep him away, but when he gives in and Stu comes to the house he insults Tim and Jill and belches with the boys.
#7 - Reel Men
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/26/1994
When Jill is having Ilene and Marie over, Tim goes fishing with Al to get out of the house.
#8 - Home Alone
Season 8 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/19/1999
Tim gets preoccupied when he is left alone to write his book.
#9 - The Eve of Construction
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/9/1994
Jill joins Al's team for Habitat for Humanity because Tim thinks married couples shouldn't work together. Meanwhile, Brad finds a locket and gives it to Ashley, but finds out it was Marie's.
#10 - Let's Go to the Videotape
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/8/1994
After taping Jill's speech, Tim accidentally leaves the record button on when he critiques her speech. After Jill sees the video, Tim reads some of her psychology books and tapes a fake conversation with his buddies, complimenting Jill.
#11 - Slip Sleddin' Away
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/5/1994
Randy loses a sled race to Vinnie. But after following Tim's advice of racing Vinnie again with a better sled, Randy sprains his arm. Meanwhile, Brad contemplates stopping his saxophone lessons.
#12 - Super Bowl Fever
Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/31/1995
Tim has a Super Bowl party for his friends while Jill is sick with the flu.
#13 - The Niece
Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/4/1997
Willow, Wilson's niece, comes to stay which makes it so that Wilson has no time to spend with Tim.
#14 - Arrivederci, Binford
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/13/1993
Tim is afraid to cry after Mr. Binford, his boss and close friend, passes away.
#15 - A Frozen Moment
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/24/1993
On Thanksgiving, for a perfect Christmas card, Tim builds a Christmas Village and has the family wear costumes.
#16 - Mr. Wilson's Opus
Season 5 - Episode 23 - Aired 4/30/1996
Wilson becomes the director of Randy's school play, but takes the role a little too seriously. Tim and Wilson clash when Wilson attempts to make him rebuild the play's aluminum set.
#17 - My Dinner with Wilson
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/22/1994
At Thanksgiving dinner with the Taylors, Wilson announces he is moving, but Tim gives him advice in the hopes Wilson will decide to stay.
#18 - Overactive Glance
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1992
Jill and Karen thinks that Tim will look at a woman in a restaurant, after he checks out a woman on Tool Time. Randy has trouble playing football.
#19 - What You See Is What You Get
Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/11/1994
After researching cosmetic surgery on the computer, Jill finds that Tim wants her to have cosmetic surgery. Meanwhile, Tim plays a computer game with the boys and the loser must clean the house.
#20 - Love's Labor Lost (2)
Season 8 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/2/1999
Tim waits for news on Jill's surgery. Jill will be fine, although she had to have her ovaries completely removed, not partially as was first thought. Jill's mother comes to visit to help with her daughter's care and with her mood swings.
#21 - Maybe, Baby
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1993
Jill's sister Carol is having a baby girl. When they talk about the baby's name and Jill is going through the boy's baby toys, she wishes she could have a baby girl. Tim tells Randy and Brad that Jill always wanted a girl so they tell Mark that Jill wished he had been a girl. This upsets Mark and when Jill wants to bake a cake with him, he doesn't want to. When she finds out the truth, she tells Mark that what Randy and Brad told him isn't true. Tim is also upset because he doesn't want another child. But he feels alright again when Jill tells him that they don't have the time for another child.
#22 - Dollars and Sense
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/17/1993
The boys buy a remote controlled car with stock bonds from their grandmother.
#23 - Birds of a Feather Flock to Taylor
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/3/1992
Jill tells Tim that he is a bad listener when he doesn't remember her mentioning the opera fundraiser. Brad and Randy try to get Mark to eat a worm while working on a birdhouse.
#24 - The Colonel
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/9/1994
Jill feels bad when her father, the army colonel, asks her opinion on his boring book. Meanwhile, Tim builds a hockey puck shooter when Randy becomes a goalie.
#25 - Quibbling Siblings
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/1994
Randy feels like the black sheep when Tim spends time with Brad and has him as a special guest on Tool Time.