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Home Improvement - The Complete Fourth Season

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3 star:		(3)
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Season 4 had some big changes in the show.

1.) New Graphics to make the show more homey feeling and was was for 3 seasons.

2.) This season's finale episode launched the show in syndication on Sept. 11, 1995.

Episode Guide.

1.) Back In The Saddle Shoes Again
Jill is laid off and decides to go back to college, causing Tim to become afraid that he will lose Jill to more intelligent men.

2.) Don't Tell Momma
Jill dents the car, so Tim decides to fix it, but he accidentally drops a three-ton beam on it and tries to hide it from Jill. Meanwhile, Brad and Randy are kicked off of the school bus for gluing Vinnie McGurn's, a bully's, butt.

3.) Death Begins At Forty
Tim begins concerned about his health when his 40th birthday nears and Harry, the owner of Harry's Hardware, has a heart attack.

4.) The Eyes Don't Have It
When Tim and Jill find out Mark is having trouble at school, they think it is because they neglect him, but the real reason is that he needs glasses.

5.) He Ain't Heavy, He's Just Irresponsible
Tim's brother Marty comes by to tell him that he's leaving his wife and kids. But Tim's advice turns Marty against him. Meanwhile, Tim creates a hole in the floor and Jill has trouble working on her psychology report.

6.) Borland Ambition
Harry offers to sell Tim 20 percent of his hardware store (that Harry's brother is selling). Jill doesn't let Tim buy it, so Al decides to purchase it. When becomes Al's obsessed with the store, this drives everyone crazy, even Ilene when he skips a date with her, and Tim decides to confront him about it.

7.) Let's Go To The Videotape
After taping Jill's speech, he accidentally leaves the record button on when he critiques her speech. After Jill sees the video, Tim reads some of her psychology books and tapes a fake conversation with his buddies, complimenting Jill.

8.) Quibbling Siblings
Randy feels like the black sheep when Tim spends time with Brad and has him as a special guest on Tool Time.

9.) My Dinner With Wilson
At Thanksgiving dinner with the Taylors, Wilson announces he is moving, but Tim gives him advice in the hopes Wilson will decide to stay.

10.) Ye Olde Shoppe Teacher
Mr. Leonard, Tim's high school shop teacher, comes to visit, but gets angry and leaves after guest starring on an episode of Tool Time.

11.) Some Like It Hot Rod
When Tim has a shot at getting his hot rod in an automotive magazine, Jill becomes busy and accidentally leaves it out in the snow.

12.) 'Twas the Night Before Chaos
Marty and his wife and kids, and Jill's parents come to visit and Tim and Jill try to solve their marital problems. Tim tries to beat Doc Johnson in the Christmas lighting contest.

13.) The Route Of All Evil
After Brad takes a paper route, he has trouble getting up and doing homework but doesn't want to quit because it will disappoint Tim.

14.) Brother, Can You Spare A Hot Rod?
Tim decides to sell his hot rod and buys one to rebuild. Meanwhile, Jill takes Randy shopping for clothes and he is afraid that Jill will embarrass him in front of someone he knows.

15.) Super Bowl Fever
Tim has a Super Bowl party for his friends while Jill is sick with the flu.

16.) Bachelor Of The Year
When Al is published as one of Detroit's "Most Elligible Bachelor" in a magazine, women begin flocking all over him and he starts to ignore Ilene. Mark has to write a report on the most interesting person he knows, and he writes it on Wilson instead of Tim.

17.) It's My Party
At Randy's party, Tim's overpolished dance floor causes Michelle, Randy's girlfriend, to sprain her ankle.

18.) A House Divided
Benny, Tim's friend, moves into his aunt's house while she's away. But a gas leak causes the house to blow up and Benny must stay with the Taylors.

19.) The Naked Truth
When Marty and Nancy are staying with the Taylors, Tim walks in on Nancy in the shower, thinking she is Jill. Meanwhile, Randy goes to a barmitzmah and must come home after he splits his trousers.

20.) Talk To Me
Tim insults Jill on Tool Time, ruins dinner, and drops her ring down the furnace.

21.) No, No, Godot
Tim and Al scalp tickets to a hockey game when Tim can't go, but they get arrested and Jill and Ilene come to bail them out. Meanwhile, Mark paper maches Wilson's face for a school project when he watches the boys while Tim and Jill are gone.

22/23.) Tool Time After Dark (Part 1 and part 2 of 2)
Despite Jill's advice, Tim stays up all night watching Tool Time tapes because of his upset stomach from eating too much Polish food.

24.) Sisters And Brothers
Carrie, Jill's sister, comes to observe Jill's life to see if she would like to get married. Marty, Tim's brother, moves to Detroit.

25.) A Marked Man
Al tells Tim and Jill that one of their boys may have stolen a pocket knife. They don't believe their boys would steal, but they find the knife in Mark's pocket in the laundry.

26.) Wilson's Girlfriend
Jill hooks Wilson up for his first date in twenty years and Tim gives him advice.

Here's to 4 more seasons of this great show!

An avid fan of Home Improvement, I had been impatiently anticipating the moment when the fourth season of my favorite sitcom, Home Improvement, would be released.

Call me a weirdo, but I found myself waiting at the Home Entertainment section at Wal-Mart before midnight to get this DVD, and they were stocking it a half hour before, and I grabbed it and attempted to pay for it, but the lady at the register took it and put it up and said I had to wait a half hour. So I waited, impatiently.

I finally got home with it and before I watched it, I looked at the packaging. This time, Tim, Jill, and the kids are featured on the cover, and it looks as though Tim had a mishap and accidentally sawed off part of the DVD cover, because the lower right corner is missing! The inner art is basically the same as the other seasons, with one panel listing the episodes. Disc 1 overlaps 2 again (I hate that!), and Disc 3 gets its own little slot. Jill and the kids are on disc one; Tim, Al, and Heidi are on disc 2; Tim is all by his lonely self on disc three.

The menus are basically the same as season 3, which isn't a bad thing. The theme music plays on the main menu with the options of play all, episode select, special features (disc one), and set up. The submenus, unlike last season's release, also plays on the submenus.

The episodes are all presented correctly in the order of appearance. The two-parter of the season, "Tool Time After Dark," is shown as one 43 minute episode (if you select part one)... if you select part two, you start twenty minutes into the two parter and it lasts about twenty five minutes... and no theme song... this is weird. So your best bet on that episode is to just select part one.

The video quality and audio is stunningly clear, and it does not seem as though the video is over a decade old!

Unfortunately, HI still lacks in the special features. We get a 7 minute blooper reel (which luckily is NOT the same ones you get to see in the closing credits anyway).

Some minor changes and big changes are evident in season four. The boys are older, but still not too old. Jill gets laid off in the premiere and starts back to college to pursue a degree in psychology, and we meet Tim's brother Marty and wife Nancy (who Tim sees naked in an episode). We also meet the Hardware store gang at Harry's Hardware. Tim and Al go to prison for scalping tickets to a football game, Tim neglects Jill during her illness on Superbowl day, and Wilson goes on his first date in twenty years.

Another thing you will notice is that Season Four also has a new graphics scheme (the opening theme song credits, as well as the closing credits), but we still have the same theme song. This will remain until Season 7 when the music and the graphics change.

This is a very memorable season and I would give this 5 stars, despite the lack of special features!!

Don't hesitate buying this.

Funny show and its great to be able to watch it anytime you want! Who couldn't use a good laugh once in a while?

Home Improvement was a show that has set the standard for ethical and humorus family style entertainment. This is what Disney should still be doing today! It would be hard to believe that most everyone hasn't seen at least a couple of episodes of this classic commedy. The quality shines through as the bumbling antic's of the show's star, Tim Allen are as funny today as they were 10 years ago. Its good clean FUN! without the boring sexual innuendos and outright disgusting dialog that plague today's "family" TV shows.

Being a die hard fan of "Home Improvement" and seeing classic,old shows ("Seinfeld","Everybody Loves Raymond","Friends",etc.)that have been released on DVD,it is great to see "Home Improvement" being added to that list of shows coming to DVD. Despite the problems that "Home Improvement" faced before it came to the end,if it was not for HI,the standard for comedy television of today would not be as well as it is--one fact that is documented within this entire DVD set.

If you are a hardcore fan of "Home Improvement" and noticed through purchasing the first three season DVDS for HI how the show changed every season,you will be satisfied with this set. It is pretty much the first season recaptured,with new,original life to it. This collection of every season four episode of "Home Improvemnt" does a good job at not only picking up on the regular customs that every single HI episode had (what the marriage of Tim (Tim Allen)and Jill (Patricia Richardson)was like,the trouble that their sons Brad (Zachary Ty Bryan),Randy (Jonathan Taylor Thomas),and Mark (Taran Noah Smith),and what went on on Tim's "Tool Time" cable television show and all of the issues that surrounded it),season four of HI added more to the show. While the opening episode of season four of HI,"Back In The Saddle Shoes Again",is a little bit dull while the two "Tool Time After Dark" episodes were not really needed except for the nostalagia of earlier HI seasons,this season does a good job at letting itself "explore". Here,not only is the mother of Jill,Lillian (Polly Holiday)re-introduced while Jill's father,Colonel Fred Patterson (M. Emmet Walsh),is introduced for the first time (with hillarious results following),showing all of the problems that Lillian and Fred faced as they got older and how the both of them annoyed each other. This helps "Home Improvement" be a show that is not only funny,but also has serious elements to it at the same time,which is usually what makes a comedy television show good. The episodes that are on this set also do a good job at telling more about Tim's family (his brothers Marti and Boy,and his sister-in law,Nancy,who are both documented in a hillarious and entertaining episode on disc three,"The Naked Truth"--wait until you see what happens there!!!!),which makes the show more interesting,honest,and entertaining. Seeing how Brad,Randy,and Mark progress in life as they keep getting older is documented within this set,something that every season of HI showed once step up for every season,with hillarious results each time.

My only complaint is that while this set was put together and does a wonderful job at representing the season for episodes of "Home Improvement",it still lacks what the DVD sets for the first,second,and third seasons of "Home Improvement" lacked--SPECIAL FEAUTURES!!!! While the bloopers (highlights from previously released "Home Improvement" episodes from the first three seasons of HI,and unreleased parts of certain previously released/unreleased HI episodes)are hillarious and the sneak peeks that were included here are worth a look,where are the interviews with the cast members,and a production look into the fourth season of "Home Improvement"? I can't understand why the producers of the "Home Improvement" DVDS keep leaving what could be excellent bonus feautures out of this set-- but hopefully,once the last HI season is available on DVD,the bonus feautures that I mentioned will be there,and the forthcoming HI season DVDS will be good.

Overall,a great set that is worth the money that is required to pay for it--a job well done.

This is another great season of Tim, Jill, the kids, and of course Al and Wilson. Always fun!

Love it! It is wonderful to be able to purchase the older TV shows like Home Improvement...back when TV was worth watching and you could watch TV shows with your children without having to quickly turn off the TV because of inapropriate and imbarassing content...which sums up all of todays sitcoms. We have reached a low as a society when all that there is on TV is sexual, in every direction and grossly violent. Thank you Amazon for making shows like this available and for the great service!

the dvd set arrived early! I love home improvment. i was able to track the package easily thanks to amazon!

This is one of my favorite shows to watch when it is on TV, so I figured why not watch it whenever I want to. Love all the extra features on the discs and is so much fun to watch. Great for anyone who loves Home Improvement. Would highly recommend. Not disappointed at all.

We need more lighthearted laughter in this world and the Home Improvement DVDs give it to me. I love them.