“Home Improvement” follows a family of Michigan natives led by Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor. He, his wife Jill and their three boys seemed to learn a lifetime’s worth of life lessons during the show’s initial eight-season run.

Tim is a car enthusiast, which comes in handy for his job as cable television’s resident handyman on “Tool Time.” With his flannel-adorned co-host Al Borland, Tim gets into a number of wild predicaments involving power tools and do-it-yourself fix-it jobs in front of the camera.

The show is more than watching a man and his many trips to the emergency room, though. Deep down, “Home Improvement” is about a blue-collared Detroit man who wants the best for his family and friends – although the means he goes through to do it aren’t always the wisest.

This is where his pal and neighbor Wilson comes into play. Whenever Tim needs advice, he asks Wilson. As a metaphorical genius, the advice Wilson dishes out is usually too complex or thought-provoking for Tim to comprehend.

All in all, “Home Improvement” wasn’t the best program of its time. But it had heart, and the ability to never take itself too seriously.