Home Improvement: Season 08  (1998)

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Home Improvement: Season 08

Home Improvement begins its eighth and final season with one fewer regular than in previous seasons. Jonathan Taylor-Thomas, who since the series' debut had been seen as Randy Taylor, the middle child of cable-TV star Tim Taylor (Tim Allen) and his wife, Jill (Patricia Richardson), had decided to briefly quit acting to devote himself to his college studies. Thus, it was explained on the series that Randy had left home in the company of his socially conscious girlfriend, Lauren, to go to Costa Rica in hopes of rescuing the rain forest. However, Brad's brothers, Randy (Jonathan Taylor Thomas) and Mark (Taran Noah Smith), remained in the family fold. The series' final episode is truly one for the ages. After yet another fight with his sponsor, Binford Tools, Tim quits his TV show "Tool Time" cold, and prepares to move to faraway Bloomington with wife Jill, who has landed a job at a medical clinic. Since they cannot bear to leave their old house behind, the only solution is to take it with them -- which they do! Elsewhere, Tim's assistant, Al (Richard Karn), heartbroken since the breakup of his engagement to Ilene Markham, finds a happily-ever-after in the arms of his new bride, the pleasantly plump Trudy (Megan Cavanagh). And, in a moment the world has been waiting for, we finally get to see the complete face of Tim's philosophical neighbor, Wilson Wilson (Earl Hindman)! Finally, the terminal season of Home Improvement won an Emmy award for the series' lighting director Donald A. Morgan -- his seventh such Emmy in eight years! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide