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Frances Fisher was originally cast as Jill. Due to her lack of chemistry with Tim Allen, she was replaced by Patricia Richardson four days before the pilot began shooting. See more...

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Off Sides (season 1, episode 3)

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Continuity: When Randy takes the phone from Mark, as he starts to turn away he lifts the phone to his ear. The angle changes and he is now holding the phone in front of him as he walks over to the magician's box and jumps up on it.

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Room Without A View (season 5, episode 8)

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Deliberate "mistake": When Jill turns off the light to Randy's room, she uses the same switch that Al used to activate the reverse laundry chute.

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Chicago Hope (season 5, episode 9)

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Visible crew/equipment: At the beginning episode 5.9, "Chicago Hope", the camera and several studio lights reflect on the glass door behind Tim as he sits at the dining room table.

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Baby, It's Cold Outside (season 1, episode 18)

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Revealing: When Wilson and Tim start to talk they sit down on some rocks. If you look at Wilson's foot you can see the sheet of fake snow caught under his foot.

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Continuity: In one of the episodes, Tim goes out to talk to Wilson. When he gets to the fence he picks up a football. When the camera cuts to Wilson, then back to Tim, the football is gone. Then the camera goes to Wilson and back to Tim. He has the ball again.

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Doctor In The House (season 5, episode 10)

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Revealing: At the beginning during the Binford commercial, Tim falls off the ladder that they just set up and it's possible to see it's connected to the wall (so it will flip, but not fall over).

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Revealing: Anytime the kids are shown running through the backyard, it sounds very obvious they are running on a wooden set floor instead of real grass-covered ground.

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Ye Olde Shoppe Teacher (season 4, episode 10)

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Revealing: In this episode, every time Wilson places a log on the block before splitting it, you can see a dark line on top of the log, showing where they were pre-cut.

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Let's Go To The Videotape (season 4, episode 7)

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Continuity: The conversation Tim and the others have at the hardware store becomes a lot different when Jill sees the (supposedly) same conversation on videotape. First of all, Tim's remark the "Jill's speech was so boring" has become "Jill's speech was so DULL". Secondly, Eddie's entire tale on how his wife wanted to change the fabric in the sun room is missing from the tape. And third, when Tim is talking about Jill's psychology studies, the expression "these terms" has become "these USELESS terms".

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Bye Bye Birdie (season 2, episode 18)

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Revealing: Towards the end of episode 2.18, "Bye, Bye Birdie", Tim drops to the ground in the back yard while trying to avoid the helicopter. When Tim gets up, you can see the grass (carpet) move and wrinkle up.

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Shopping Around (season 5, episode 24)

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Continuity: When Tim and Jill are out to dinner and Tim spots Mr. Leonard, he gets up and lays his napkin down flat on the table. When he returns to the table the napkin is bunched up in a ball.

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Bye Bye Birdie (season 2, episode 18)

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Continuity: After Tim smashes Al's display cabinet, it cuts to Tim, then back to the workbench and the wrecked cabinet. The pieces of china and the pieces of wood on the bench differ in the two shots. In the first shot, there are two whole teacups, one whole plate and a bit of a shelf on the bench (the shelf is on the right side of the screen), in the second shot we see a broken tea cup, one broken and one whole plate, and the piece of shelf has disappeared.

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Revealing: When Tim is falling, crawling and rolling on the snow-covered ground in the final scene, none of the snow clings to him or his clothing. He does not even get damp, even when he is lying on his back in the same spot for several seconds.

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Arrivederci, Binford (season 3, episode 5)

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Continuity: When Al and Tim are in the bar, watch Tim's and Al's glasses topped with beer foam. In the first shot there is a lot of foam, yet in the very next shot there is no foam.

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Dead Weight (season 8, episode 24)

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Continuity: At the end, Jill puts down her magazine to talk to Tim. The magazine is open, laying on her chest, but in a shot change, it is now closed.

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The Route Of All Evil (season 4, episode 13)

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Visible crew/equipment: At the end of the episode "The Route of All Evil", Brad and Tim are having a conversation at the dinner table and a camera crew member is reflected in the kitchen window.

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Brother, Can You Spare A Hot Rod? (season 4, episode 14)

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Visible crew/equipment: About 7 minutes into the show, you can see the reflection of the boom mike in the top and bottom chrome of the windshield. The boom mike itself can also be seen at certain points.

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Nothing More Than Feelings (season 1, episode 7)

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Plot hole: Jill points out the drooling song to Tim to show that she was embarrassed. But she had turned off the television before that part actually came on, so how did she know about it?

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Tanks For The Memories (season 5, episode 15)

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Factual error: Tim accidentally fires an M2 .50 machine gun while on a tank. Ricochets are shown sparking all over other tanks while people dive for cover. A) Bullets don't spark when they ricochet, and B) the M2 had a blank firing adapter installed; it couldn't have been firing bullets.

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Don't Tell Momma (season 4, episode 2)

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Visible crew/equipment: As Jill is describing how, when she stops at an intersection, the "car guys" revv their engines, a crew member can be seen reflected in the window behind her, moving across the stage from left to right.

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