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
Despite Jill's advice, Tim stays up all night watching Tool Time tapes because of his upset stomach from eating too much Polish food.
#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 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#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 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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.
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - 'Twas the Blight Before Christmas
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/15/1993
Tim tries to beat Doc Johnson in the neighborhood Christmas light contest, but Randy is leaking information to Doc's granddaughter. Brad wants to go skiing with Tom Wheeler's family on Christmas.
#20 - Dollars and Sense
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/17/1993
The boys buy a remote controlled car with stock bonds from their grandmother.
#21 - A Sew, Sew Evening
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1993
Tim has trouble with Joe Morton, his new neighbor, after Joe dents part of his hot rod. Jill becomes good friends with Marie Morton, Joe's wife. Brad signs up for home ec. as his elective to meet girls, but when the other boys in school find out about his plan, it doesn't work out the way he planned.
#22 - Birth of a Hot Rod
Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/12/1993
While Tim is busy trying to get his hot rod to work, Jill calls a repairman to fix various things around the house.
#23 - Bell Bottom Blues
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/6/1993
Tim complains about Jill having so many clothes in the closet, so he re-organizes it. Brad is embarassed when Tim hugs him at school.
#24 - May the Best Man Win
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/11/1992
Maureen Binford, the new producer of Tool Time, tries to change everything and Tim doesn't know how to stand up to her when Al, Jill, and Wilson are all busy.
#25 - Read My Hips
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1992
Jill has planned a romantic surprise dinner for Tim, who is at Big Mike's with Al and the guys from K&B Construction. He phones home and she flirts with him, and he doesn't notice and comes home two hours late. Jill is upset and accuses him of not picking up all the signals she sends. Tim thinks that signals should be clear and dresses up as Fred the phone repairman so he can fix the problem. Brad is wondering whether Jennifer pounding him is a sign that she wants to kiss him.