thinky-felix had the theory that Tim Allen is only on TV when the President is a Dem.

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    2 months ago

    Let me guess:

    Tim Allen plays the head of a family and is the main character

    He has a wife that nags constantly and a quiet young son and bratty teenage daughter

    Tim plays a level headed common sense alpha male that plays the only sane man in a world full of 'kooky wokes'

    He is presented as an average Joe despite living in a huge house and having some kind of petit bourgeoisie job like business owner or news caster.

    • astronot@midwest.social
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      2 months ago

      I just looked it up, and you’re suuuper close. Allen plays a “stubborn” widower who owns a classic car restoration shop, with a young son and an estranged daughter (Dennings) who has to move back in with him. She’ll undoubtedly be a failure because she has a college degree in woke feminism or whatever, and he has to set her straight with his common sense Republican values.

      • SSJMarx@lemm.ee
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        2 months ago

        Imagine if the show subverted that, and the reason is that she has a degree in CS and can't get a job because Google just fired 10,000 people.

    • SteamedHamberder [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      Dennings is playing the daughter and it would be a stretch for her to play teenaged.

    • SteamedHamberder [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      I found about it from Kat Dennings’ insta. All the comments were like “why are you costarring with him??”

      • HiImThomasPynchon [des/pair, it/its]
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        2 months ago

        It's not like she's got much of a career anymore. Yeah she was in WandaVision but let's be real, people only watched it because there was nothing else to do.

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    It's a shame he's in Galaxy Quest because I love that movie and the rest of the cast does a great job so I just kinda ignore him despite him being the "main character."

  • chickentendrils [any, comrade/them]
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    2 months ago

    Archive link https://archive.is/8xSU3

    Such an impressive career. He's been a TV show hosting father, sporting goods store owning father, and now a classic car refurb shop owning father.

    • Speaker [e/em/eir]
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      2 months ago

      There was also a subplot where he was restoring a car in Home Improvement, so it's possible that it's all just the one character.

  • DickFuckarelli [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    I can yet can't imagine anyone who would look forward to another Tim "Really I'm Just an Anarchist" Allen vehicle.

  • SSJMarx@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Well, Last Man Standing went for ten years, and I don't exactly think that the audience for explicitly conservative sitcoms has gotten smaller since it ended...

    • Speaker [e/em/eir]
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      2 months ago

      I refuse to believe that show had 10 seasons of material.

      • nothx [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        It didn’t have 10 seasons of material, but still ran for 10 seasons.