Editing Home Improvement (TV series) (section)

=== ''Tool Time'' ===
Each episode includes Tim's own Binford-sponsored home improvement show, called ''Tool Time'', a [[story within a story|show-within-a-show]]. In hosting this show, Tim is joined by his friend and mild-mannered co-host Al Borland ([[Richard Karn]]), and a "Tool Time girl"—first Lisa ([[Pamela Anderson]]) and later Heidi ([[Debbe Dunning]])—whose main duty is to introduce the pair at the beginning of the show with the line "Does everybody know what time it is?" In reply, the audience yells, "TOOL TIME!" The Tool Time girl also assists Tim and Al during the show by bringing them tools.

''Tool Time'' was conceived as a parody of the PBS home-improvement show ''[[This Old House]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Home Improvement|url=http://www.timallen.com/actor/tv_home_improvement.php?xpt=1|website=TimAllen.com|quote=Tim originally envisioned the show as This Old House combined with a Myrna Loy-type wife to a William Powell-type husband from "The Thin Man" movies from the forties.|access-date=November 19, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151119193316/http://www.timallen.com/actor/tv_home_improvement.php?xpt=1|archive-date=November 19, 2015|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>  Tim and Al are caricatures of the two principal cast members of ''This Old House'', host [[Bob Vila]] and master carpenter [[Norm Abram]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Storrs|first1=Francis|title=This Old House: An Oral History|url=http://www.bostonmagazine.com/2009/01/this-old-house/|work=Boston Magazine|date=February 2009|quote=Vila: The Disney people contacted me before Home Improvement premiered. I think there was some concern in the legal department about whether I was being ripped off. The fact is, it’s a sitcom based on me and Norm, you know?}}</ref> Al has a beard and always wears plaid flannel shirts when taping an episode, reflecting Norm Abram's appearance on ''This Old House''.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Storrs|first1=Francis|title=This Old House: An Oral History |url=http://www.bostonmagazine.com/2009/01/this-old-house/|agency=Boston Magazine|date=February 2009|quote=In the mid-1990s the ABC sitcom Home Improvement featured Tim Allen as a bumbling version of Bob Vila and Richard Karn as his able, flannel-clad assistant, a thinly veiled Norm Abram.}}</ref> Bob Vila appeared as a guest star on several episodes of ''Home Improvement'', while Tim Allen and Pamela Anderson both appeared on Bob Vila's show ''Home Again''.<ref>{{cite AV media|title=Visiting Tim Allen at Home |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erv6Rr2Nmkw| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211030/Erv6Rr2Nmkw| archive-date=2021-10-30}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite AV media|title=Pamela Anderson Lee on Home Improvement|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR6YJ4yr_bI| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211030/SR6YJ4yr_bI| archive-date=2021-10-30}}{{cbignore}}</ref>