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When he is fourteen years old he started dating a classmate and fellow writer of the school newspaper Lauren. Lauren was his one major relationship in the series, and it was threatened by a potential separation period when Lauren was picked to go on an environmental study to Costa Rica and Randy wasn't. However, a student pulled out and Randy took his place, their relationship successfully pulling through. As of the end of Season 8, their two year-old relationship is still active.
This gag is extended over the course of the series with other objects obscuring the bottom of his face, or the bottom half showing but the top obscured , or his full face shown but covered by paint. The audience finally sees Earl Hindman's full face unobscured in the series finale's curtain call. Mark's relationship with Brad and Randy was often adversarial, especially in early seasons because he was often the butt of their jokes, pranks and teasing. While Mark never truly bonded with Randy, in the final season Mark and Brad grew very close as the result of the dynamic of their relationship changing when Randy left for Costa Rica. Mark eventually became taller than Randy in the seventh season. He does however mend his relationships with them after learning the error of his ways.
Lauren
In one episode, she and Brad impulsively decided to get married at their young age, but Tim and Jill successfully tricked them to realize their mistake. Somewhat loud, and charismatic, Rock always responds to guest appearances on Tool Time by saying, "It's always great to be here, Timmy!" In K&B's "all-tool band", his instrument is a grinder run over an empty oil drum. Marie talks about her struggles with her weight and about seeing a therapist. Marie is also encouraging when Jill says she's thinking about going back to school to get her master's degree. Tim also often pokes fun at Al's mother, Alma Borland, who is never seen but is apparently severely overweight.
Unlike Brad and Mark, he lacked his father's interest in tools, and also lacked his mother's interest in ballet and opera. He shared with his mother; however, the passion for acting, and shared with his father his knack of joke-telling. But as Randy has gotten older and more mature, he is starting to drift away. Randy has no interest in the things his father obsesses over, like cars and tools. He even tells his father, "You're a sellout. But then to be a sellout, you'd have to have principles to begin with."
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Randy writes for his school newspaper and has developed an interest in environmental and civil rights issues. Being the middle child is not always easy for Randy, and he fights with his brothers constantly. Jason – Eddie Haskell-like friend of Brad, often claims to be a fan of Tool Time even though he's never actually seen the show and gains favor with Tim by pretending to ask for advice about tools. She begins to date Tim's old shop teacher in later seasons, causing Tim some discomfort at thinking of his mother in a romantic relationship. Ilene Louise Markham, D.D.S. – an orthodontist and Al's girlfriend. On their wedding day, she and Al mutually agreed not to get married and ended their romance on a positive note.
In one episode where Tool Time is celebrating their fifth anniversary show, Al is shown in the first ever episode of Tool Time clean shaven, while Tim has a beard. Tim always thinks things need "more power" and is often seen wearing sweaters from Michigan-based colleges. He is also very connected to his tools, even once joking that when he dies he would like to be buried with them. It was said in "The Longest Day" that he was always the one with health problems out of his brothers. Jill said that he had asthma, and various other health problems. Randy's knack for jokes was also growing as a teenager, his jokes getting more ambitious, even sparking anger when the Colonel, his grandpa, died and he cracked death jokes.
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Marty and Jeff made appearances, and Steve was mentioned in multiple seasons. Randy is the jokester of the family, and often portrayed as the perfect combination of both Tim and Jill's personalities. He is the smartest Taylor child and like his mother, a devoted student and conspicuously intellectual. And he is also known as relaxed, adventurous, nice, daring, understanding, trustworthy, athletic, selfless, loving, optimistic and respectful. Martin "Marty" Taylor (William O'Leary) – Marty is Tim's youngest brother by ten years. As their father died when Marty was just one year old, Tim is the closest thing he knows to a father.
Tim often ignores Al's advice and this frequently results in an accident. YP - The Real Yellow PagesSM - helps you find the right local businesses to meet your specific needs. Search results are sorted by a combination of factors to give you a set of choices in response to your search criteria. “Preferred” listings, or those with featured website buttons, indicate YP advertisers who directly provide information about their businesses to help consumers make more informed buying decisions.
They share interests in journalism and the environment and even travel to Costa Rica together for an environmental study. Carrie Patterson (Tudi Roche– the real-life wife of Richard Karn), Jill's sister, a world-traveling photographer. Angela – Former girlfriend of Brad, known for being a constant motor-mouth. Brad suffered from a bout of depression because of this, but eventually rebounded.
Another gag is that Tool Time fans believe his many accidents are staged to show people what not to do. However, many of Tim's modified inventions work but are often too powerful, like his new ice cube dispenser, his leaf sucker machine, his gas-powered wheelchair and his gas-powered garbage disposal. As an older brother, Randy frequently picked on Mark with Brad, though things quieted down somewhat as Brad and Randy went their seperate ways and Randy started sharing a room with Mark for a short time. Like many teenagers, Randy feels misunderstood and worries he’ll never relate to his parents.
In the first episode of Tool Time, he was described as a "master plumber" by Tim Taylor. He also is very serious about his job, unlike Tim, who often jokes and messes up the project. Although Tim is the one who messes up most of the projects on Tool Time, Al is often the one who is blamed for the mishap, or is injured by the mishap. On rare occasions Al would cause a mishap of his own, but these were more due to overcalculating than Tim's attitude of "more power". Despite this, Tim and Al are good friends offstage, and Al often helps out, either by helping with home projects, or by watching his children. Tim often boasts of his popularity for hosting the show, although many people state that they like Al better.
His mother is alive for the entire series; however, his father died when Tim was eleven years old. There has always been some disparity between how many brothers Tim has. On several occasions in the later seasons, it is mentioned that Tim has four brothers, but in earlier seasons he is stated to have five.
Only Tim understood that that was how Randy chose to deal with it. Randy had a knack for cracking jokes, most of which were aimed at either Brad or Tim, the latter getting angry at him once for going too far when making fun of Tool Time to his friend Jeremy. As a child, Randy played the innkeeper in the Christmas story, though he tried for Joseph. However, he created and enhanced his lines up and was reduced to a sheep.
His father has a tendency to dislike and mock anything he has no interest in, such as ballet and opera, and Randy inherited this attitude, which ironically puts him at odds with Tim, since Randy has no interest in cars and tools. Out of all the Taylor boys, Randy is the one with the least respect for his father. He once called his father's show "Fool Time", and compared his father to an ape. When Tim brought Brad onto Tool Time, Randy immediately called it a stupid show and acted hateful towards Tim and Brad. Although initially sharing mostly the same interests as Brad and his father, throughout his adolescence Randy became very conscious about the environment and civil rights and became a vegetarian in later seasons. He wrote for the school newspaper, where he concentrated on social and political issues, including criticizing Binford for its pollution record, which led to a fierce disagreement with Tim and Tim's boss.
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Jill is intelligent, practical, and has a dry sense of humor that doesn't often fly with her family. At the series beginning, she struggles to reenter the workforce after a long absence but soon lands a job at a local magazine. After being let go from the magazine and reassessing her career choices, Jill goes back to school to earn her master's degree in psychology. Tim is occasionally chauvinistic in attitude, usually putting women down or sometimes seeing them as inferior . A running gag is that every time Tim says something sexist on Tool Time, Al holds up a sign displaying the show's mailing address for the women to send in their complaints. He also tends to mock those who are overweight, such as Al's mother or his mother-in-law and can be juvenile in attitude on many occasions.
His personality is an exact opposite of Tim's – he is reserved, quiet, does not show much enthusiasm and has a wide array of professional knowledge concerning tools. Al made frequent suggestions that he should be the host of Tool Time instead of Tim. Al does not make as much money as Tim; in fact it is implied that his salary is not very big at all. In the episode, "Brothers and Sisters", Al says that he gets a very small paycheck.
