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Home Improvement Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
25 Episodes 1992 - 1993
Episode 1
Read My Hips
Wed, Sep 16, 199224 mins
In Tool Time: It's "Salute to Safety" week. The Guys from K and B Construction are back for a safety demonstration. Tim reads a letter from a viewer who thinks Tim has taken the show too far with all the macho grunting stuff. Tim burns the letter with a construction-use flame thrower.
Episode 2
Rites and Wrongs of Passage
Wed, Sep 23, 199230 mins
Tim's guest, Angus McLain, has come to tell about The Highland Games in Detroit. Tim and Al will be participating in the games. Tim has bought tickets to the biggest monster truck rally in the history of Detroit, which means that Jill will get the house all for herself on Sunday.
Episode 3
Overactive Glance
Wed, Sep 30, 199230 mins
Tim and Jill are going out for a dinner. Tim glues his hands together. Jill has asked Karen to babysit for the boys. Jill watches a Tool Time on tape and sees Tim checking out a woman's behind. Tim is then accused of having the wandering male eye with no control.
Episode 4
Groin Pains
Wed, Oct 7, 199230 mins
Tim lifts a heavy load of books after Jill tells him not to and pulls a groin muscle. He tries to hide the injury from Jill. Also, Randy has the lead in the Peter Pan show at school, but there is no apparatus to help him fly; Tim builds one.
Episode 5
Heavy Meddle
Wed, Oct 14, 199224 mins
It's weekend. Tim reveals to Al that he is going to put the 350 Chevy engine in his hot rod. Tim has invited "some friends" to help him. Al wants to come too. Tim thought Al would be spending the weekend with Greta. But Greta broke up with him. So Tim invites Al.
Episode 6
Haunting of Taylor House
Wed, Oct 28, 199230 mins
On Tool Time: Tim is demonstrating how to make a brick wall. Since it's Halloween, he also dresses up as a monster in an attempt to scare Al. Together, they carve jack-o-lanterns. Except that Tim has invented a new method for achieving the same result.
Episode 7
Roomie for Improvement
Wed, Nov 4, 199224 mins
Michael and Mario Andretti are scheduled to make an appearance on "Tool Time"s Salute to Lubricants. At home: Mark has chicken pox and Tim has never had it, which means that he needs to move to Al's place temporarily--where he finds out the answers to questions he never expected to ask.
Episode 8
May the Best Man Win
Wed, Nov 11, 199230 mins
In Tool Time: Tim has a huge project: renovating a house from top to bottom. Mr Binford's daughter arrives to announce that she is now the show's producer, which means Tim is no longer in charge. At home: Jill gets a week's job at Inside Detroit magazine. She has to be at work 8 o'clock the next morning and Tim has to be at the project house at the same time. Who's going to get the boys off to school?
Episode 9
Where There's a Will, There's a Way
Wed, Nov 18, 199224 mins
Jill has been trying to get Tim to go to see a lawyer with her in order to update their will. Tim finally agrees to do it. Al has been building a cabin for 4½ months without any power-tools. Tim demonstrates log-cutting with a dangerously powerful Binford chainsaw nicknamed "widowmaker".
Episode 10
Let's Did Lunch
Wed, Nov 25, 199230 mins
Al claims he can distinguish types of wood by their smell, even blindfolded. Tim agrees to set up a test for Al. Brad and Randy decide to build a catapult. Tim has tuned up his weed whacker - with predictable results. Karen and Dave stop by on their way to the opera.
Episode 11
Abandoned Family
Wed, Dec 2, 199230 mins
Jill is going to work and has no time to look after the house and do things like make a gingerbread house for the school PTA meeting, so Tim says he'll do it.
Episode 12
I'm Scheming of a White Christmas
Wed, Dec 16, 199230 mins
Tim decorates his house in typical "more power" fashion; Brad and Randy collect money for charity but decide to keep a portion of the money for themselves, and their parents find out.
Episode 13
Bell Bottom Blues
Wed, Jan 6, 199324 mins
Tim wants Jill to throw out some of her clothes or he will remodel the closet. Brad has punched a boy in school who called him names after hugging his Dad.
Episode 14
Howard's End
Wed, Jan 13, 199324 mins
Jennifer is going away for a while and leaves her goldfish Howard in Brad's care, Jill complain's about Tim's reckless driving on her car. Tim decides to tune up the car. Tim learns Jill has opened her own bank account and Jill overhears Tim say to Mark.
Episode 15
Love Is a Many Splintered Thing
Wed, Jan 20, 199330 mins
Jill takes a compatibility test that shows that she and Tim are not compatible. Randy gets a chance to do a ventriloquist act, but his lips keep moving while he's practicing.
Episode 16
Dances with Tools
Wed, Feb 3, 199324 mins
The boys pull a prank on a sleeping Tim. Tim and Jill's wedding anniversary is coming up. Tim bribes the boys to reveal Jill's surprise gift for him. When he finds out how cool it is, he realizes he has to give Jill something she really wants - ballroom dancing lessons with him.
Episode 17
You're Driving Me Crazy, You're Driving Me Nuts
Wed, Feb 10, 199324 mins
Tim and Al have built a wooden home entertainment center rack. To which Tim has made "a little adjustment" that was not in the original plan. Tim and Jill are going to Sheila's wedding. Karen is babysitting the boys. Tim has tossed the driving instructions away.
Episode 18
Bye Bye Birdie
Wed, Feb 17, 199324 mins
A woodpecker keeps Tim awake at night. He's trying hard to get rid of it, but Mark has been feeding it and named it Pete. Brad tries to fake being sick in order to be able to stay home because his math homework is not done since Jennifer used to do it.
Episode 19
Karate or Not, Here I Come
Wed, Feb 24, 199330 mins
Tim has invited an expert to demonstrate how to cut wood using karate. Al believes he can do it--and he does. Tim's ego can't take this and he tries it too--with predictable results. Brad and Randy won't let Mark play football with them, calling him a geek and a chicken.
Episode 20
Shooting Three to Make Tutu
Wed, Mar 3, 199330 mins
Tim gets Pistons tickets, but Jill says he must take Mark to the ballet; left to themselves, Brad and Randy test out a cigar.
Episode 21
Much Ado About Nana
Wed, Mar 17, 199330 mins
Tim and Al are building a deck. Surprisingly, there is NO catastrophe. Tim's mother-in-law arrives from Texas. To everyone's surprise, she is no longer super-fat; in fact, she is slim. Since Jill's parents are moving to a new condo, her mother has decided to give some items to her daughters.
Episode 22
Ex Marks the Spot
Wed, Apr 14, 199330 mins
Tim runs into his high school girlfriend, Stacey Lewis. When she meets Jill, Jill is upset when she finds out Tim never told Stacey that they were through.
Episode 23
To Build or Not to Build
Wed, May 5, 199324 mins
Mother's Day is approaching and Tim wants to prove to Jill that he and the boys can actually buy something from the heart. Tim presents Binford products that clear drains and toilet clogs; surprisingly, there is no catastrophe. Tim demonstrates how to pour a concrete foundation.
Episode 24
Birth of a Hot Rod
Wed, May 12, 199324 mins
Tim's project hot rod is finally in the stage where he can see if it starts up. It doesn't. Tim takes a break. Jill wants him to fix a doorknob, the burner on the stove, the gas line and the ice dispenser. Tim keeps postponing them all because of the hot rod.
Episode 25
The Great Race
Wed, May 19, 199324 mins
Tim announces the poll winner of The Most Popular Guest on Tool Time. The winner will be returning for another episode--despite Tim's attempt to rig the vote. Tim ends up in a lawnmower racing contest against the guest in question. Lisa finally gets more than one scene.
