All language subtitles for Home Improvement -Season 7- E2

Still peeling potatoes?

Potato.

Takes longer to peel these things
than it does to grow them.

Wow. I'm surprised you haven't
developed the Power Peeler.

Hey.

Hi.

- Hi.
- Great news.

I got accepted
in a special program at school.

I'm gonna be counseling families.

Well, congratulations, Jill.

I am so excited.

I get to implement some
of these techniques I've been studying.

If you get stuck,
try my counseling technique.

"People, people, get over it!"

Tim, as helpful as that is,

I think kindness
is a more effective approach.

- Mom, there's no food.
- I use compassion and sensitivity

- to nurture people, like a flower.
- Mom, Mom!

- What?
- When are you gonna go to the store?

I'll go when I'm good and ready to go!

If you don't like the food in the house,
go to the store yourself or starve!

Now, that flower
you were talking about...

Did you say "nurture" or "torture"?

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We're having potatoes again tonight?

Yes.

This electric potato peeler will take
all the hassle out of peeling potatoes.

I got it.

Hey, what's up, Ronny?

Hey, Mark, wait. Why don't you
introduce us to your friend?

Fine. Ronny, that's my mom.
That's my dad.

- Hi.
- Hey, Ronny.

'Sup?

Was that a...?

Was that a boy wearing a dog collar
or a dog with a boy's head?

Well, I finally got my next topic
for the school paper.

I'm gonna write about what local
companies are doing for the environment.

- That's a fantastic idea.
- Why don't you write about Binford?

They've got programs.
Recycling, water conservation...

They even tried to get your dad
to carpool with Al.

You can only
love your planet so much, honey.

Writing about Binford
sounds like a good idea.

I'll get you some pamphlets
on their environmental policy.

Probably cleared a rain forest
just to print them.

You know, Randy,
I was a social activist in high school.

I was involved in the feminist movement.

Went to rallies where hundreds of women
burned their bras.

I cheered those women on.

Well, Dad, you always have been known
for your great social conscience.

In high school I spent eight months
trying to save an endangered species.

- Really? Which one?
- The muscle car.

Hello, Mr. and Mrs. Hansen.
I'm Jill Taylor, your counseling intern.

Nice to meet you.

Well.

Before we begin,

I'd like to talk a little bit
about my methodology.

I am an avid proponent of
emotionally-focused couples therapy,

which is founded on the belief that
couples hide their primary emotions

and instead exhibit secondary emotions,

which result in negative interactions,

such as pursue-slash-distance,

or blame-slash-withdraw.

Serving as a defense against
the more vulnerable primary emotions.

Any questions?

Are you the only therapist
or can we get someone else?

- Hi.
- Hi.

Potatoes again.

- You bet.
- What have you done to my peeler?

What was once electric
is now pneumatic.

I can shear 50 pounds of potatoes
in six seconds.

You must be so proud.

I have my days.
How did your first day of counseling go?

Don't ask.

This couple did not get that
secondary reactive emotions

lead to negative interaction.

Wow.

Some people are so thick.

Dad, I was just doing some research
on Binford for my article.

- Did you read the pamphlets I gave you?
- Then I got on the Internet

and got Pollution Watcher's top ten list
for Detroit. Binford's on here.

Binford made the top ten?
All right!

No, Dad, it's a list of the top ten
biggest polluters.

Binford?

I didn't know Binford had a problem
with pollution.

They don't have a problem!

These environmentalists
tend to overreact.

You know, just like the dentist.

Those wussy dentists that scurry out
of the room when the x-ray goes on.

Dad, it's right on the printout.

You know, just because you read it
on the Internet does not make it true.

You want to find the facts? I'll set up
an interview with Bud Harper.

You think the president of Binford's
gonna want to meet with a kid?

Maybe I'll remind him the kid's father
is Binford's biggest TV star.

Who just spent a whole week inventing
the world's stupidest potato peeler.

Get back to me with those
third quarter projections, OK?

Yeah. OK, bye.

- Hey, Bud.
- Hey, Tim, how's it going?

- Pretty good. Yourself?
- Great.

- You know my son, Randy.
- Of course, I do.

How could I forget the little guy?

You still on the soccer team, huh?

Uh, no, that's my older brother, Brad.

Oh, oh, oh, you're the karate kid.

No, that's Mark.

Oh.

Well, what do you do?

I'm a journalist and I have
some tough questions for you.

You better come clean, Bud,
or your name will be mud

- in the Lakeside High Reporter.
- Oooh. We can't have that, huh?

- Can we start now?
- Well, sure.

Sure, I'll be happy to answer any
questions, young man. Have a seat.

Well, Mr. Harper,
according to my sources...

According to his sources!

According to my sources, your company
has a poor pollution record.

How do you respond?

Son, Binford is a responsible
corporate citizen.

We are committed
to protecting our environment.

Then why does Pollution Watch
call Binford, and I quote,

"an egregious environmental offender"?

Why aren't you doing anything to reduce
emissions from your plants?

He's quite the little Dickens, isn't he?

Yes, he is.

But what the little Dickens
doesn't know is,

we're in the planning stages
of a new emission reduction system.

But even at our present rate,

all Binford plants fully comply
with government regulations.

There you have it,
from the horse's mouth. No offense.

None taken.
Tim, how's your golf game?

Pretty good. Broke 90.

- Yeah?
- I got two golf can'ts.

Well, isn't it true that Binford buys
pollution credits from other companies?

- Yes, it is.
- What are pollution credits?

Each company in an industrial zone is
allotted a certain amount of emissions.

If one company doesn't use
their entire share,

they can sell pollution credits
to another company.

- A good example of corporate teamwork.
- It's corporate bull.

Binford's found a loophole
to pollute more than it should.

- Don't you think that's sleazy?
- Wait.

What we're doing is legal.
We won't need the credits

once our emission control system
is in place.

- How long's that gonna take?
- Roughly ten years.

- Ten years? That's a joke.
- Hey, let's not be rude here.

Wait, Tim. He doesn't understand
how business works.

You see, rushing a plan like this
could affect jobs,

and Binford's financial well-being.

What about the well-being
of the environment?

Without clean air to breathe,
you don't have customers to buy tools.

Besides, do people really need
14 types of hacksaws?

People do!

Mr. Harper,
I was always taught to believe

that Binford was a company that cared.

It seems all you care about
is making money no matter who you hurt.

I think this interview's over.

Thank you very much for your time, Bud.

- Come on, come on!
- Dad!

You were completely out of line!

Binford's out of line, sweeping
their pollution problem under the rug,

- so they can maximize profits.
- Quiet down, all right?

When you get older you'll understand
not everything is so cut and dry.

I understand right now, Dad.

You're taking the company line.
You're a sell-out.

- You called me a sell-out?
- I called you a sell-out.

Then again, to be a sell-out, you'd have
to have principles to begin with.

Hey! I not only have principles,
I'm your ride home.

I'll take public transportation.

Hey, don't use your fancy words with me.

It's called a bus!

I'm going out.

OK, have fun.

I'll get it.

Ronny left his dog collar upstairs.

Oh.

Wouldrt want to go anywhere
without that dog collar.

They could throw you in the pound.

So, Ronny, what's been going on?

Stuff.

You know, Ronny,

I know it's difficult for adolescents
to be forthcoming

with unfamiliar authority figures.

It's understandable. Teenage years
are a particularly alienating time,

you know, developmentally speaking.

I am the kind of person
who's interested in young people

and willing to listen,

in a non-judgmental,
unthreatening manner.

Later.

What did I say?

Stuff.

Later.

- What's wrong?
- Stuff.

Randy completely embarrassed me
in Bud's office.

He called me a sell-out.

That doesn't sound like Randy.
He's always so sweet and polite.

That's over.
We'd be better off with Dog-boy.

Hey, how was your bus ride?

Mom, I'm going to write my article.

Not until you get the facts straight!

So, now you're telling me
what I can and can't write?

You're acting like
some tyrannical fascist.

Did he just call me a dinosaur?

Where does he get off,
writing about Binford?

- It was your idea.
- Oh, throw that in my face.

Randy is young and idealistic.

He's gonna get carried away
with things that are important to him.

What if this is just the beginning?

What if he tells us
we can't wear leather or eat meat?

Or he starts
falling in love with dolphins

and he says
we've got to throw out all our tuna?

I'll only say this once. I love my kids.

But I will never, ever give up my tuna.

Later.

Welcome back to Tool Time

and our entertaining look
at fiberglass and its resin.

While we're waiting
for our resin to dry,

why don't we go
to our question and answer section?

All right, who has a question?

- Yes, sir?
- Has your swimsuit calendar come out?

It just went on sale
in the Tool Time gift shop.

Can we wait till after the show, fellas?

- Aw!
- Yes?

I just put up a fence. What's the best
way to keep the wood from rotting?

Well, you want to use a sealant that
contains copper-8-quinolinolate.

Easy to use, fun to say.

- Next question.
- I do.

- Yes?
- I'm re-doing my kitchen countertops.

Can I lay the new laminate
right over the old?

You can, as long as you prepare
the surface and the countertop is flat.

Or if it has a square backsplash,
just like Al.

- Anyone else?
- I have another question.

What do you say about Binford being
one of the worst polluters in Detroit?

- Where did you hear that?
- My kid brought home an article

- from the school paper.
- I can assure you that Binford Tools

is an environmentally
responsible corporation.

- Next question.
- Come clean, you bearded phony.

Bearded phony?

Wexlo Industries, which is located
just downriver from Binford,

didn't have to buy pollution credits.

They reduced their emissions
and didn't cut one single job.

- I just don't have the facts.
- Then, read the article.

The facts are all right here,
in the Lakeside High Reporter.

This is where you're getting your
information, a high school newspaper?

It's time to get back to our project.

- How about answering the man?
- Yeah! Yeah!

How come every time I drive by the plant

all that smoke
is coming out of the stacks?

They're smokestacks!

What do you expect coming out of there?
Whipped cream?

What do you want, huh?

- I think they're both in on it.
- Absolutely! Yeah!

- This is a witch hunt.
- We want the truth!

- And we want it now!
- Yeah!

You are out of order.

And you are out of order!
This whole audience is out of order!

You're nothir but a big flannel fraud!

Yeah!

We'll be right back after these messages
from Binford Tools.

All right, that's it! Show's over!
Everybody get out!

Wilson.

Wilson...

Wilson! What are you doing?

Well, I was in a state
of transcendental bliss.

I'd like you to return
to the state of Michigan, if you could.

I want to talk about this article
in the Lakeside High Reporter.

I haven't read it yet.

I'm still working on
the New York Times and Calcutta Courier.

I don't get to the high school papers
until midnight.

Randy wrote an article in there exposing
Binford's poor environmental record.

I'm real angry about it.

Are you angry
because Randy wrote the article

or because of Binford's poor record?

Both.

Not to mention the fact
that he called me a sell-out.

The information
caused a riot on Tool Time.

- I don't know what to believe.
- Mm-hmm.

I'm reminded of something the Polish
linguist Alfred Korzybski once said.

"Why can't my name be Johnson?"

Korzybski said, "There are two ways to
slide easily through life:

To believe everything
or to doubt everything".

Both ways save you from thinking.

Randy was thinking, I'll give him that.

He sure was passionate.

But the way he presented it was...

...obnoxious.

Tim, when you were Randy's age
didn't you have some burning cause

that you were passionate about?

Auto shop.

They tried to eliminate it from
my school and I fought to keep it there.

Everybody thought I was crazy.

I just fought harder.

Did it cause you to act
in an obnoxious way?

Uh-uh.

Not unless you consider hot gluing
the principal's door shut obnoxious.

Especially if the principal
was inside the office.

And he was.

See, now, Randy would love
to hear that story.

No, I don't talk to him about shop.
He doesn't get into that sort of thing.

But he does get into passionate things.

Oh, yeah, he does.

Gets that from his old man.

Maybe he would like that story.

Maybe he would.

Thanks, Wilson.

You can go back
to your "transcen-dental floss" thing.

Hi, Randy.

Hi, Dad.

Wait a minute.
I want to tell you a story.

- About what?
- A young boy and his goat.

That's more than I want to know.

No, wait.

The goat I'm talking about
is a Pontiac GTO

that I rebuilt in high school.

I couldn't have rebuilt it
without a shop class.

I wouldn't have had a shop class
unless I was willing to fight for it.

That was the endangered species
you saved?

Well, it was almost extinct.

But I felt passionately that kids should
have a place to work with their hands.

The school didn't want that?

It was a budget thing. But they werert
gonna touch the music department.

I didn't relate
to bass bassoons and oboes.

I went to the principal and said,
"This will be handy. Get a flat tire,

can't use a jack, maybe you can
pump the car with a glockenspiel".

- Bit over the top, Dad.
- Exactly, it was over the top.

The way I put it,

a lot of people thought I just wanted
to destroy the music department.

All I really wanted to do
was save the shop class.

My passion got in the way
of my vision.

Dad, I never wanted to destroy Binford.

I know, but it came off like that.

I just got a little too intense.

You were like Jimmy Olsers evil twin.

And I definitely crossed a line
calling you a sell-out.

Thanks.

Maybe next time you meet
with Binford, it'll go better.

Next time?

Look, if Binford's acted irresponsibly,
Bud is the one to talk to.

And no matter, you're a reporter.
You've got to tell the truth.

Right. So, you're totally cool
with me writing a new article?

Yes. I'm not getting in the way
of your Fourth Amendment rights.

That's good, 'cause nothing sticks in
my craw like illegal search and seizure.

Hello. I'm Jill Taylor.

I'm your counseling intern.

Would you like to sit down?

I've been looking over your case file

and I see that you're having trouble
communicating with your son?

Where is he?

You know, I think I'll be referring
your case to another counselor.

'Sup?

Later.

I am an avid proponent

of emotionally focused

You've got to say,"Binford has
an environmental problem?"

I thought you said that after.
Oh, OK.

Get Pat some cheese!

OK!

That'll help. This helps.

Hold on a minute.

The goat I'm talking to
is a Pontiac GT...

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