Home Improvement s06e01 Episode Script

At Sea

Does everybody know what time it is? Tool Time! That's right.
Binford Tools is proud to present Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor! Thank you, Heidi.
Thank you very much.
Welcome to Tool Time.
I'm Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor and you all know my assistant, Al Borland.
How are you doin'? Thanks for the ride.
Maybe next time you'll kick in for gas.
All right.
Great to be back.
First show this season.
I've got some big news.
Somebody on the show's pregnant.
Al, when are you expecting? Actually, it's Heidi who's expecting a bundle of joy.
That's right, our little Heidi.
Just married, soon to be Tool Time mom, give her a round of applause.
Good to be back with a big show.
It's a two-parter.
We're doing our Tool Time salute - to engines, big and small.
- That's right.
Today we're gonna show you a couple examples of some smaller engines.
In the next segment, the Navy's invited us aboard the USS Constellation, the aircraft carrier, to see some big motors.
Oh, yeah.
Actually, they invited me and Heidi.
We had to beg them to let Tim come.
Let's get back to small engines.
Look at this.
It's a Conley 427.
Smallest four-stroke production V-8 in the world.
Beautifully detailed, four-bolt mains, and runs in a car like this.
Start her up, Al.
I bet there's people out there going, "That's the smallest engine in the world".
Wrong.
The smallest engine in the world is on the smallest automobile in the world, the Denso Micro-Car.
Marv, you want to come in here a little closer? It took 20 people four years to assemble this bad boy.
It's an actual working car the size of a grain of rice.
Look at her go.
A little more speed it'll be the lead car in the Uncle Ben's 500 this year.
- Let's take a closer look.
- Tim - They're not around.
- They're very delicate.
- Don't pick it up.
- Hey! That is what I call a compact car.
Hey.
We'll be right back after these messages from Binford.
- Hi, guys.
- Hey, Mom.
Well, I got you everything you'll need to start school.
Backpacks, notebooks, paper, pens, highlighters.
- Anything else you need? - Someone to go and pretend to be me.
Randy, you must be looking forward to starting high school.
Yeah, this sleeping in late and having fun all day is getting on my nerves.
You should be like Brad.
He can't wait to start.
Yep, and right out there's the reason why.
They have every class together.
Brad's even thinking about joining the modern dance club.
- Hi, sweetie.
- Hi, Mom.
So, you seem to be seeing an awful lot of Angela.
Yeah.
She's great, isn't she? Yeah.
She's great.
She really She's She's great.
Yeah.
But you know what I was thinking? A guy your age should be playing the field, dating different girls.
Nope.
I found the one, so what's the point? - Oh, hi, Mrs.
Taylor.
- Hi.
- Brad, I think I left my bag.
- Oh.
Oh, here it is.
- Here you go, Ang.
- Thanks, sweetie.
I can't wait to go back to school.
It's been pretty smooth so far.
If the landing's anything like this, we might as well just take a nap.
A little present from Tool Time.
- How was your flight? - What? - How was your flight? - Good, thanks.
- Good.
- Tim, Captain Lloyd Jenkins.
- Welcome aboard.
- Captain.
Well, Captain, think you're ready for Tool Time? Sure, Tim.
I think we're all prepared.
Welcome to Tool Time, coming to you from the USS Constellation aircraft carrier.
Thank you, Heidi, and welcome to a special Tool Time salute to engines We're in the hangar bay of the ship with the ship's captain, Lloyd Jenkins.
- Thank you for having us on board.
- Our pleasure.
Right behind me is the Navy's most advanced fighter, the F-15.
Actually, Tim, it's the F-18.
Eighteen, 15 it's a number, isn't it? This baby sports twin low bypass turbo engine fans with a 1600 gallon internal fuel capacity.
- Isn't that right? - That's exactly right.
You seem to be an expert on the Navy.
Well, sir, as a former Seabee I like to keep my oars in the water.
He was stationed in Nevada.
The closest he ever got to the water was the fountain at Caesars Palace.
Well, Captain, why don't you give us information on the Constellation? She's virtually a floating city, Al, with a crew of 5,500.
She's got her own post office and hospital and serves over 18,000 meals a day.
Now that Al's here, make that 19,000.
We've just entered the Constellation's combat direction center, this carrier's state-of-the-art mission control facility.
These sailors have a tremendous responsibility.
When mine does that at home the cursor has to be moved over to the left and in.
Whoa, whoa.
What did I do here? Tim, you just declared war on Finland.
Huh? I'm ready to serve, sir.
Just kidding, Al.
When we found out Tim was coming aboard we deactivated our weapons.
Really.
I think you just said, "The library's between the church and the meatballs".
I thought that meant "city hall".
No, I think "city hall" is Let's ask your mom.
She knows Spanish.
She's not home.
Let's check the dictionary on my computer.
Or in Spanish You just said, "Let's go up and check the dictionary on my gall bladder".
This is the Constellation's navigation bridge.
Al's scouting out the flight deck.
Al, this is great, isn't it? - Roger that, Tim.
- Marv, follow me back here.
Excuse me while I show them the equipment.
A lot of impressive buttons.
Sure they have safeties, so you can't accidentally turn one What have I done, Captain? You've just activated the firefighting wash-down system for the entire flight deck.
Tim! Tim, stop playing with all those buttons! Interesting.
This is our diesel engine room, Tim.
Tim, on a ship, like in a basement, you might want to watch your head.
This is a ten-cylinder, diesel engine.
It's a generator.
It's a back-up generator! You put some blades on this, this baby will mow a lawn! A whole series of steam channels over this Hello, Tim.
You remember Al Borland.
Hi, Al.
Did you start the engine segment without me? Yes, I did.
And I'm certainly sorry to burst your bubble.
I think this will be great.
What I want to do is set a camera up here and shoot back in this direction so we can show the Tool Time audience how you guys test the engine on an F-14 Tomcat.
It's a good idea but it'll have to wait.
I'm busy the next couple of hours.
- What do you have to do? - I'm heading down to the mess deck.
Guys from catapult maintenance are throwing Heidi a baby shower.
A baby shower? Wow.
This is the new Navy.
Hi.
I was just on my way out.
So I can't stay and talk.
I love your hair.
Bye.
Angela, I'll call you later.
So, um, Mom, what are you doing home? My class was cancelled.
What do you have to say for yourself? Well, your hair does look kind of good right now.
Brad, what were you doing with a girl in your bedroom? Um nothing.
When I walked in it didn't look like nothing.
You wouldn't have seen it if you'd knocked.
Don't get smart.
You are not allowed to have a girl in your room when we're not home! Now she'll probably never come back, thanks to you! Excuse me.
You have a girl on your bed, I catch you and I'm the bad guy? - Mom, I didn't do anything wrong.
- Really? What would have happened if I hadn't come home then? None of your business.
You think I'm gonna talk to you about my sex life? Sex life? When you test the F-14 Tomcat motor, you control it from here? - Where's the throttle? - It's right there.
That's an awful lot of power.
Please try not to touch that.
Excuse me a second.
Hello.
Hi, Jill.
Yeah.
Just a second.
Excuse me.
Is everything OK? Not really.
I think Brad might be having sex.
Sex? - Bye, Mom.
- Bye, sweetie.
- Bye, Mom.
- Hey, hey.
Wait a minute.
- Remember this afternoon.
- I know, Mom.
I'm grounded.
I'll be home after school, All right.
- I'm gonna be late today.
- Where are you going? - I'm going to David's house.
- Estimated time of return? - 5:30? - Reason for visit? Gambling and devil worship.
Don't take this Brad thing out on me.
I haven't had a girl in my room yet.
Yet? I gotta go.
- Jill? - Oh! I'm so glad you're home.
- Hi.
- Not quite as glad as the Navy.
I missed you.
All right, what's the deal with Brad? I wish I knew.
It's time to talk to him - and find out how far this has gone.
- Roger that.
It's important to pinpoint the problem and pull no punches.
- Glad you feel that way.
- Tell me how it works out.
Hey! You'll be the one dealing with this.
- Me? - Yes! You're the father.
Why don't we just get him a book or something? Tim, this requires an actual discussion.
It's not like when we were potty training him - and we could just read a book.
- I loved that book, Everybody Poops.
Look, I tried to talk to him.
He would not talk to me.
If he's gonna open up to anybody it's gonna be you.
- What am I supposed to say? - Find out what's going on first of all.
Then talk to him about maturity, responsibility and safety.
Maturity, responsibility, safety.
Are you sure I'm the right person for this? - Hey, Brad.
- Hey, Dad.
Do we still have a Navy? You do.
I'm not sure they'd defend me at this point.
- All right.
See ya.
- Wait.
Hold on a second.
Is there anything you'd like to ask me? No.
Are you sure? - Yeah.
- Well, if you got any questions just holler.
- OK.
Thanks, Dad.
- Any time day or night.
- All right.
Thanks.
- Call me at work if you want.
That was easy.
Hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
What are you doing, Wilson? Well, Tim, I'm admiring my yams.
Should I leave you alone? No, no, no, no, no, Tim.
See, I'm a charter member of the tuber-of-the-month club.
Did you realize that in New Guinea a family is judged by the quality of the yams they grow? A father passes down his yam-growing skills to his children.
Well, I just gave Brad the big sex talk.
I don't think he's ready for the big yam talk yet.
I thought you discussed birds and bees years ago.
I did.
But the bee's found a honey and he's gone a bit cuckoo.
Oh.
Hmm.
Hmm.
Hmm.
Hmm.
You seem quite at ease about it.
I must say, I'm very impressed you can speak openly to Brad about, you know - Sex.
- Mm-hmm.
It was a snap.
It was over in a couple seconds.
Seconds? I just said, "If you got any questions, just holler".
And? And I avoided the issue.
I said nothing and I blew the whole thing.
Well, maybe you should just try again.
You're right.
I just want to say the right thing.
If I mess up and turn him off, I'm afraid he'll never come to me again.
You know, that reminds me of my old friend and pinochle partner, Hubert Humphrey.
He said, "All you have to do is be yourself and speak from your heart and your guts".
Unfortunately, I left most of my guts on an aircraft carrier.
Your heart is in the right place.
No.
The second landing it shifted to the left just a scoshe.
Tim, I think you'll do just fine.
- You're a good friend, Wilson.
- I yam what I yam.
Hey, Brad! Yeah, Dad? Uh - You want to work on the hot rod? - Sure.
Great.
All right.
Put your gloves on.
I'm gonna try to tack this firewall up.
So, how long you think it's gonna take to finish the hot rod? I don't know.
I don't want to rush into it.
The important things in life you don't want to rush into.
Especially when it comes to cars and tools you want to take your time and do things right.
Exactly.
But that rule doesn't just apply to cars and tools.
You also want to take your time when you're gonna have food.
- What do you mean? - You know that Polish smorgasbord? You don't go right up to Olga and say, "I want all the kielbasa and all the sauerkraut right now".
You do! All right.
Bad example, bad example.
Football.
You don't go right in and try to score.
- You don't? - In football you do.
You do.
Gardening, gardening, think gardening.
You don't plant your flower unless your bed's made.
No.
No, no, no! Maybe it's me.
I have no clue what you're trying to say.
It isn't just you.
- I wanna talk about you and Angela.
- There's nothing to talk about.
- I want to talk about sex.
- I don't want I want you to listen to me, please.
Listen up.
Sex is, um It's like a car.
The best idea is to keep the car in the garage for a long, long, long time.
And then, somewhere in the future, the distant future, when that garage door opens, you gotta think, "car cover".
Look, Dad, I know about safe sex.
There's nothing to worry about.
If you're having sex there is.
I'm not having sex.
Not with Angela, not with anybody.
I know that.
That's good.
Of course not.
So, Dad, how old were you your first time? What? Uh 37.
I thought you wanted to have a real talk.
Well, I was a few years older than you.
But I was still way too young.
I knew nothing about women.
- You didn't? - I knew the mechanics of it.
But I didn't realize how much responsibility was involved in having an intimate relationship with girls.
Wow.
I never heard you talk like this before.
Well, it's kind of hard for me to talk about stuff like this with you.
It's hard for me to talk about stuff like this with Mom.
But we opened a line of communication and I want to keep it that way.
Some guys I hang out with think that by having sex it makes you a man.
I used to think that, too.
But I think the truth is, you should be a man first and then think about sex.
So, what do you think? How many years away am I? Well there's no set number of years.
- When will I know when I'm a man? - Your mom and I will tell you.
So, how are you feeling? Oh, fat.
Just hope you never get pregnant.
- I think you look great.
- Thank you.
Heidi, here's a tip.
When it comes time for diapers, I recommend cloth.
- Really? - Softer on a baby's bottom.
But disposables are so convenient.
Ladies, trying to do a show here! - Sorry.
- Sorry, Mr.
Taylor.

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