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To your point about not going into someone's house nagging them, that applies to people in general. But, she's his mother. She can speak to him as she sees fit. It's called respect for your elders. It's magnified 1000x when it's YOUR MOTHER.
Tim's mother appeared in several episodes. More than just a couple.
She appeared in That's My Momma (Tim feels he is not connecting with his mother on an emotional level), Shopping Around (Tim thinks his former shop teacher is cheating on his mother), No Place Like Home (the best one...Tim's mother sells his childhood home. Tim and his brothers are upset about it), The Son Also Mooches (Tim's older brother constantly borrows money from his mother. Tim is concerned.), and Home For The Holidays (Randy comes home from Costa Rica).
Me too. That's a good indication that it IS, in fact, GREAT! For me personally, it's the #1 comedy EVER! Got the entire series on DVD, and glad to be able to watch it whenever I want.
To your "not perfect" point, I say it was great for 6 seasons, but acknowledge there seemed to be a drop off in quality in season 7...and JTT left after season 7. So, for the overall quality of the rest of the show, season 8 was definitely pretty weak. Sometimes it seemed like Tim was just going though the motions in season 8 because he was under contract, but wasn't really having fun anymore.
Certainly not saying Martin Milner is not a good actor. He is. I'm strictly talking about Adam-12. Just been watching Adam-12 on MeTV a lot lately, and it just seemed like Milner was a little stiffer than McCord on Adam-12.
I actually enjoyed Tim's mother. (Bonnie Bartlett) There were some endearing episodes. She appeared in That's My Momma (Tim feels he is not connecting with his mother on an emotional level), Shopping Around (Tim thinks his former shop teacher is cheating on his mother), No Place Like Home (the best one...Tim's mother sells his childhood home. Tim and his brothers are upset about it), The Son Also Mooches (Tim's older brother constantly borrows money from his mother. Tim is concerned.), and Home For The Holidays (Randy comes home from Costa Rica).
To me, Jill's mother was sometimes more unbearable, partly because of the heavy accent. Jill was from Texas on the show...and actually Patricia Richardson is in real life. But, back to Jill's mother...She was also ridged and cold because she was married to a military officer. Most people who are old enough recognize Jill's mother, actress Polly Holliday, as Flo from the 70s TV show, Alice.
I did like The Colonel (Jill's dad writes a book), Jill and Her Sisters (they plan their parents anniversary party), Taps (Jill's father dies), and Love's Labor Lost (Jill's hysterectomy episode).
Saw your question here and was about to answer it. Anyway, it is indeed "Blind Rage" from season 3. Glad you found it.
If you mean recurring character hotties, you're probably right, other than Heidi, the tool girl aka Debbe Dunning...and Lisa, the original tool girl for the 1st 2 seasons...aka Pamela Anderson. But, there were hotties that were guest stars throughout the show.
Well, he was a doctor. Maybe he closed his bank accounts and took his money when the experiment went awry and he decided to go into hiding...even though he lived a humble existence for a doctor and always seemed to seek employment wherever he was.
Yes. You are in the minority. Home Improvement is WAY better than Last Man Standing. One of the best sitcoms ever, actually. The problem with Last Man Standing is the politics are overdone. Drags Last Man Standing WAY down. Home Improvement didn't need or use politics to be funny.
You obviously haven't seen the WHOLE show...ie. every episode. Yes, most of the "Tool Time" segments involved Tim making jokes about Al in some way, but that was for the sake of "Tool Time" comedy. It was pretty clear that they were friends at many points throughout the show outside of "Tool Time". Probably the episode which shows their friendship best is "The First Temptation of Tim" from season 5. Besides this one, watch the episodes, "A Battle of Wheels", from season 1, "Heavy Meddle" and "Roomie For Improvement" from season 2, "Reel Men" from season 3, "Bachelor of the Year" from season 4, "Games, Flames, and Automobiles" from season 5, "Something Old, Something Blue" from season 6, "Tim "The Landlord" Taylor" and "The Dating Game" from season 7, "Mr. Likeable" and the last 2 episodes of the entire series, "Dead Weight" and "The Long and Winding Road" from season 8.
Not sure what you are trying to say. If every episode was NOT it's own story, THAT would get repetitive very quickly. The producers PURPOSELY made it different than the comics. The "evil schemes" that David walked into every week are not much different than the typical crime drama, only with the HULK as the hero...aka the one that gets the bad guys in the end.
Uh...The slow motion when they show him running is actually supposed to represent the Hulk running fast. If you notice, he does always catch up to the bad guys he's chasing when they are trying to get away. There was only so much they could do for special effects in the late 70s and early 80s.
They'd just get another bodybuilder like they did when they got Lou Ferrigno. But, they would probably also use CGI like in the 2 big screen movies.
Mark Hollinger, the abused child in "A Child In Need" knew. He was taken away from his home by the hulk when the abusive father got violent. The hulk changed back to David while walking the streets with Mark.
In "The First", Dell Frye knew, as he saw the hulk, brought him to Dr. Clive's lab, and saw him change back to David.
Yeah. I think they made pretty clear throughout the episode that, at the very least, Dell had a screw or 2 loose due to being bullied by Brad and the guys at the bar and probably others in the town. And, at worst, Dell may have been homicidal, as Elizabeth confirms at the end of the episode that Dell killed Walt, the driver of the car that breaks down at the beginning of the episode. So, not really sure Dell cared about the possibility of being shot.
To sum up, Dell had anger issues presumably from being bullied too much. Hence, David tried to urge Dell to cure himself.
No different than no one EVER finding out or putting 2 and 2 together that Clark Kent is Superman. Want to talk about ridiculous disguises? Clark has glasses and that's it...and people can't tell he IS SUPERMAN behind those glasses? Pretty much the same thing.
People either forget, or those not familiar with this show don't seem to know that the target audience for this show was, indeed, kids, but deep enough (ie. some degree of human interest in each episode beyond just a guy turning into a creature) to interest adults/parents to watch. Hence, it was a family show.
The show's premise wouldn't work in the world of the INTERNET...PERIOD. The one key flaw in the show that has kind of always irked me (because it WAS my favorite show growing up), is if Banner is a world-renowned scientist, you'd think he'd be recognized WIDELY around the US, if not the world...and not JUST by Jack McGee, who is the ONLY one David seems to fear running into...not the FBI or any other law enforcement, let alone the military after the episode, "Prometheus".