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* [[Technology Marches On]]: Tim criticizes Al for purchasing a cell phone, which was seen as an extravagant purchase.
* [[Unintentional Period Piece]]: Averted. While there are elements of the show that make it undoubatbly from [[The Nineties]], ''Home Improvement'', in both visuals and humor, has aged rather well, especially in comparison to a lot of the other sitcoms from its era. The lack of topical humor and the Taylors being a working-class family that largely ignored popular trends contributes largely to this.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: Tim Allen revealed, on a talk show, that he wanted the finale of the show to set up [[The Reveal]] that Wilson was a [[Dead All Along|ghost]]. [[Harsher in Hindsight|And now he is.]]
** Al was originally just a placeholder character for another named Glenn to be played by Stephen Tobolowsky. Tobolowsky was unavailable to shoot the pilot so Richard Karn was brought in as Al to be a fill in character. When Stephen Tobolowsky was still unavailable once the series was picked up Tim Allen urged the producers to keep Karn on as he liked the way they worked together. They agreed and Tobolowsky was let go and Karn was kept on permanently.
** Ashley Judd was originally cast as the Tool Girl, which was supposed to be a much bigger role (a college student majoring in psychology who acted as a stand-in for Jill on the Tool Time set), but she pulled out only days before the pilot was shot.
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