Tim gets "the look" from Jill after spending $4,000 on season tickets for the Detroit Pistons.

Jill tells Tim that he is a bad listener when he doesn't remember her mentioning the opera fundraiser. Brad and Randy try to get Mark to eat a worm while working on a birdhouse.

Tim still lets Brad off the hook and go to the planned truck rally after he pulls a prank at school, until he throws rocks at a greenhouse.

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

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.

Tim invites everyone over to the house for Jill's surprise birthday party, but Jill is off looking for her childhood piano.

Tim turns the basement into Randy's new room so that Randy doesn't have to share a room with Mark.

When Tim's mother returns, she begins dating Mr. Leonard, Tim's old shop teacher, and doesn't want to spend time with Tim.

On Christmas Eve, Tim and Al get stuck at the airport on the way to Binford's winter festival. Ilene makes Al choose between her and his mother. Tim and the boys beat Doc Johnson in the Christmas lighting contest.

Brad feels jealous when Randy starts taking advanced classes at his school. Tim designs the man's bedroom.

Dolores, Harry's wife, comes to Harry's Hardware and Tim's marital advice causes them to split up.

After a routine medical checkup, the family discovers that Randy may have cancer.

Al creates a Tool Time board game, hoping to earn enough money to propose to Ilene. But the game has problems and sometimes catches fire.

Randy is selected to go to Costa Rica for a year to study the rain forest, and Jill's worried. So Tim decides to "fix things."

While Brad studies for his SAT's, a friend of Wilson's offers him the chance to play professional international soccer in Europe.

At a Halloween party Tim encourages Wilson to break up with his girlfriend. who claims to be a witch. But, after he dumps her he mysteriously disappears. Tim blames the witch but when the police arrive Tim is accused of Wilson's disappearance.

Tim cheats to beat Tool Time guest Bob Vila at a trivia game. Randy pulls a prank on Curtis, a geek at school.

Mr. Binford ruins Tim and Jill's romantically planned weekend by making them go camping to present Binford's new line of winter camping gear.

Jill's mother, Nana, comes to visit and Tim notices that Jill and Nana don't talk about their problems with eachother.

Jill gets stage fright when she has to deliver a speech in front of women at the Library Association. Tim and Mark dress up as women to help her get over her fear.

Tim and Jill have a bowling match against eachother and try no to make it competitive, until the K&B Construction guys show up. The boys get in trouble at an arcade.

Jill doesn't want Stu Cutler, Tim's old college friend, in the house. So Tim tries to keep him away but when he gives in and Stu comes to the house, he insults Tim and Jill and belches with the boys.

Jill has planned a romantic surprise dinner for Tim, who is at Big Mike's with Al and the guys from K&B Construction. He phones home and she flirts with him, and he doesn't notice and comes home two hours late. Jill is upset and accuses him of not picking up all the signals she sends. Tim thinks that signals should be clear and dresses up as Fred the phone repairman so he can fix the problem. Brad is wondering whether Jennifer pounding him is a sign that she wants to kiss him.

Tim pulls a groin muscle when trying to impress Jill by carrying a big trunk of books. Randy plays Peter Pan in the school play, but the school doesn't have the necessary machine for him to fly.

When Tim throws a party to celebrate putting in the hot rod's engine, Jill decides to hook her friend Karen up with one of the guys coming to the party and ends up ruining Tim's day with a barbeque. Meanwhile, the boys have problems with the McGurn brothers.