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Tim Allen Gets the Greenlight to Make ‘Home Improvement’ for a Third Time

Over three decades later, it’s still Tool Time.

Love him or hate him, there’s no doubt that, in the history of convicted cocaine traffickers who made millions by pretending to be “blue collar” dads on ABC sitcoms, Tim Allen is the absolute kingpin. Allen’s rebrand from felon to family comedian back in 1991 was one of the most inexplicable and profitable pivots in the history of entertainment, and today, two smash-hit sitcoms and four Toy Story films later, the only white powder the general public associates with the man whom Michigan police caught smuggling almost a pound and a half of cocaine through Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport in 1978 is the snow speckled on his fake white beard in that Santa Clause streaming show.

Trey Parker Seriously Believed That One of the Best ‘South Park’ Episodes Ever Would Destroy the Series

In 2006, South Park asked the question, “How do you kill that which has no life?” while series co-creator Trey Parker pulled out his hair thinking that he had just learned how he would kill his show.

Simply by its premise, it’s easy to see why Parker thought that the iconic South Park Season 10 episode “Make Love, Not Warcraft” wouldn’t work. In addition to its profanity and its ruthlessly iconoclastic takes on pop culture, South Park is best known for its simple art style, inspired by the construction paper models that populated the show’s pilot episode. Animating most of a South Park episode within the massively popular MMORPG World of Warcraft and writing the entire episode based on the assumption that South Park’s audience was as enthralled by both the video game and the nerd culture surrounding it as its writers was a huge risk, but it paid off in spades as it earned South Park the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program.

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