The world of dating can often amount of a slog of predictable frustrations marked by pit stops of happiness and arousal. In less dismal cases, though, it can make for the sweet and sour symphony of pure chaos that one TikToker has brilliantly wrought upon society. Or more specifically, on the dating app Hinge. You know who knows a thing or two about hinges? Home Improvement vet Tim Allen. [Trio of immaculately voiced grunts.]
Anyone even remotely familiar with Allen’s work in the all-time classic TV sitcom or his stand-up act — or younger generations more attuned to the universal Internet soundboard — can pick out the comedian’s higher-register grunt from a mile away during a thunderstorm a night. Which makes it a bizarrely perfect litmus test for TikToker Kathenn25 to give potential suitors seeking a potential connection on Hinge, and also highly watchable video fodder. Here’s how this Experiment of the Gods started earlier in the year:
meaningful dating show like Love on the Spectrum or something on that level, but if there was ever a left-field way to revive Love Connection…
It’s been 26 years since Home Improvement ended (with Patricia Richardson sharing some strong claims about why it ended), though Allen technically reprised Tim Taylor, grunts and all, on Last Man Standing opposite himself. If Kathenn25 starts asking guys to recreate those sitcom scenes, I think it would create a universal ouroboros that would destroy all matter. So none of that, please. Maybe.
If Allen’s Matt enters the dating scene again for Shifting Gears Season 2 when it hits the 2025 TV schedule, maybe he’ll try out a dating app where he asks female suitors to make specific engine start-up noises if they want to date him. On second thought, that sounds way more perverse with a guy doing it in a sitcom. So keep on keeping on, Kathenn25, doing your duty to humankind.