A striped racer, also known as the California whipsnake, is a species of non-venomous snake native to the coast and foothills of California. It is a long, slender, and fast-moving snake, identified by its distinctive stripes running down the length of its body. They primarily feed on lizards and small rodents. The scientific name for this species is Masticophis lateralis.
Home improvement
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An ABC sitcom airing from 1991-1999 and one of the most cleverly written sitcoms of the decade. Comedian [Tim Allen] starred as [Tim Taylor], a [chauvinist], [handyman] husband and father of three mischeivous sons who hosted a Detroit cable tool show called [Tool Time], and just could help himself to giving more power to machinery. Much of the show also focused on the of the rest of [the Taylor] family: [Tim’s] wife Jill is a feminist and aspiring psychologist, the loner and very astute neighbor Wilson Wilson always provides advice for Tim, and Tim’s sons are mischeivious but good kids. Tim is very masculine and chauvinist (he even gets disgusted at just the thought of going to the opera), a handyman, clumsy, loved to make jokes about Al’s flannel shirts and overweight mother, always rewiring gadgets, was always competing with his next door neighbor [Doc Johnson] for the neighborhood’s best Christmas lights, seeking advice from his other neighbor Wilson Wilson (Wilson Wilson is not a typo)
Spoofs from the show:Tim’s frequent jokes about Al’s flannel shirst and overweight mom.
always seeking advice from his next door neighbor Wilson Wilson, only to screw it up
Wilson’s face is always hidden
always rewiring things to give it “more power”…only to have it explode
his wife Jill can’t cook
Tim has an obsession with Sears
always competes with Doc Johnson, a 80-year old retired proctologist, for the neighborhood’s best Christmas lights
Tim is so clumsy that he dropped a [steel beam] on his wife’s car, fell though a [portapotty], glued his head to a table, had a hammer frozen to his tongue, fell through the roof on a project house, blew up a friend’s house and blew up the dishwasher
always building a hot rod in the garage
frequently grunts when exited or perplexed
Bob Villa is his biggest competition
Tim often hits his head on a basement pipe above the stairs
frequently made jokes about his mother-in-law “[Nanna]’s” weight but stopped when he saw how thin she had become
Always wants Tool Time to take a [commercial break] when he gets injured
Tim frequently gets sick eating Polish food from Stan’s Polish restaurant in Hamtramk
Tim is well-known at the emergency room, even to the point of having his own cup labeled “Tim”
Tim often wears sweatshirts from a Michigan college.
Tims three sons are always bullied by Vinny McGern
Home improvement meaning & definition 1 of Home improvement.
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the activity of improving houses or apartments by doing work on them, or the changes that you make:
Home improvement meaning & definition 2 of Home improvement.