12/28/2022 0 Comments Tim allen man of the house![]() We talked about a couple of scenarios, but I don’t know. Now that Tim Taylor exists in the Last Man Universe, does that rule out a final scene that mirrors Newhart, where Tim wakes up next to Patricia Richardson’s Jill Taylor again after a long slumber? TVLINE | Soon enough, you’ll be writing Last Man‘s series finale. We found it to be rich territory that we’re going to continue to explore this season. He’s at that stage and wondering: What should he do next? Where will his life go next? Is his life on the track that he wants it to be on? And the fear when you’ve done well in life of trying something new, or taking it in a different direction and maybe not succeeding. Does that conversation propel Mike to start thinking about his retirement? TVLINE | A lot of what Allen said to you about the episode comes through in that last exchange between Mike and Tim. He said to me, “You captured some of the things that we’re all going through, which is looking at our run here, moving on, and recognizing how good things have been…” I think he brought a lot of personal emotion, and it was really quite powerful. It was interesting, because the whole episode moved Tim. He wanted to make certain that his affection for the Wilson character and Earl was in there and that it was honest. TVLINE | The episode featured a scene that paid tribute to Tim Taylor’s longtime neighbor, Wilson, and his portrayer, the late Earl Hindman. We changed the storyline a couple times in order to try to arrive at a place that we all felt very good about. And Tim and I had several long discussions about where Tim Taylor would have wound up at this point in time. Maybe they do something with in the future, a reboot or something, I don’t know, so I didn’t want to trap them in anything either. I actually loved Home Improvement, so I didn’t want to do anything that would in any way disparage that character and that franchise, I didn’t want to mock it in any way, shape or form. I made him the promise going in that we would respect it. TVLINE | How protective was Allen of the Home Improvement legacy? ![]() But Matt Williams, David McFadzean and Carmen Finestra were quite kind and very generous, and they allowed us to use the character and some of the bits, and we had a great time. ![]() I thought, well, this will be easy because I know Tim, but we had to jump through some hoops. There were some legal issues to jump through, believe it or not. TVLINE | Once the idea was pitched, was it as simple as writing the episode? Or did you have to get permission to use the Tim Taylor character? You are going to start getting paid, sir.” It was Jon Haller who said, “We’ve had a lot of the Home Improvement people on, and the only major character we haven’t had is Tim Taylor,” and I went, “That’s brilliant. I tend to think of our show as a small show, you know? We tell small stories - so, by definition, something big and stunty really doesn’t happen on our show. We had already broken the first seven episodes when Fox, as they always do, asked, “Hey, is there some big event, or something grabby you can have as your premiere?” And I just hate those. When did the idea first come about to have Allen reprise his Home Improvement role?
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