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

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.

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

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

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

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.

At Jill's cousin's wedding, Tim tries to squeeze in sports for him in the boys. After Jill gets tired of writing her speech for the wedding, she decides to go water skiing with the boys and gets injured.

Bud Harper, Tim's new boss, wants to replace Al because younger viewers don't like him. Meanwhile, Brad gets detention on the first day of school and additional detention for misbehaving during detention.

When Wilson is buglarized, Jill orders Tim to put in a high security system. But instead of them having peace and quite in their house, things get worse when the alarms begin going off by themselves.

Brad throws a Halloween party for his new friends at school while Tim, Jill, Al, and Ilene attend a cable awards show. The Tool Time cast hopes to win an award, but it appears that Cooking with Irma will sweep the event as it has every other year.

Jill, Wilson, and Al are angry when Tim gets an honorary Ph.D.

Jill wants Tim to get a vasectomy when they agree their family is complete. Meanwhile, Randy is voted "best butt" by the girls at school.

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

Jill plans on having a romantic evening with Tim when they go to Chicago, but Tim's business meeting takes all day.

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

Tim and Brad get into a fight over Brad's new haircut and the hot rod engine. Meanwhile, Randy doesn't want Jill to help him rehearse for an audition to play Romeo in a school play of Romeo & Juliet.

After Tim becomes threatened by one of Jill's classmates, he joins her book club.

Tim and Jill play each other in a tank driving competition, and Jill wins. However, Tim doesn't congratulate her because he thinks she humiliated him.

When a TV report is done on Tool Time, Jill gets angry when the reporter makes advances on Tim.

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

Mark wants to take flying lessons, but Jill doesn't let him. Jill takes piano lessons. Meanwhile, Tim and Al ruin Bud's car.

Wilson becomes the director of Randy's school play but takes the role a little too seriously. Tim and Wilson clash when Wilson attempts to make him rebuild the play's aluminum set.

Tim and Jill see Art, Tim's old shop teacher who's dating his mother, at a restaurant with another woman.

Jill gets an A on her psychology paper and starts dispensing psychiatric advice. Unfortunately, this leads to marital problems for Randy's girlfriend's parents.

When Tim hires Marty to rebuild the Tool Time set, it puts their friendship on the line.