Home Improvement

Tim receives a chain letter in the mail, and eventually finds out that Al sent it to him. Tim throws the letter away, and bad luck follows him throughout the whole episode. Randy wrecks his new bike after being dared to do a trick.

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.

Jill places her pottery maker in the garage, and Tim doesn't appreciate it. He then accidentally breaks her first creation, which gets Jill very mad. At the same time Al tells Tim how easy it must be to be the host, so Tim lets Al try it, and it isn't as easy as he expected.

Al tries to ask Greta Post out, but when he does he screws up. After Jill finds her old diary, Tim wants to read it. Tim notices that Brad acts different around Jennifer.

Tim (Tim Allen) gets into trouble with his family when he installs new stereo equipment in the house. With Patricia Richardson, Richard Karn.

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.

Tim pulls a groin muscle when trying to impress Jill by carrying a big trunk of books. Randy plays Peter Pan in the school play, but the school doesn't have the necessary machine for him to fly.

Tim still lets Brad off the hook and goes to the planned truck rally after he pulls a prank at school, until he throws bricks at a greenhouse.

Jill and Karen think that Tim will look at a woman in a restaurant, after he checks out a woman on Tool Time. Randy has trouble playing football.

When Tim throws a party to celebrate putting in the hot rod's engine, Jill decides to hook her friend Karen up with one of the guys coming to the party and ends up ruining Tim's day with a barbeque. Meanwhile, the boys have problems with the McGurn brothers.

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.