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boomer conservative views on things.

just in the first scene alone, before the opening credits, he goes on a rant about how handbaskets aren't made in the US anymore, but we do make excuses, quitters, and diabetes, and celebrities who use diabetes medication to lose weight, and he takes a pot shot at how someone's dirty hat looked like it had been ruined by being in Portland for too long.

there's a reference to how he keeps a spare housekey under a "Reagan Gnome", a rant about how he hates the news because it's one person who tells you what the news is and three people to tell you what you're supposed to think about it, but he still watches it cuz you have to stay informed (and because the one lady anchor is easy on the eyes).

and then there's a weird back and forth with his granddaughter who is a small child, making fun of how last time he saw her she had seen the Barbie movie and wanted to "tear down the patriarchy", to which his granddaughter says she's over that and now she wants to be a billionaire like Lori from Shark Tank, cuz she travels by helicopter, to which he wishes her luck in finding a man who is comfortable with her making more money than him. it goes on and gets even weirder from there.

he goes on in the episode to complain about how the whole block his auto shop is on is "gentrified" now because "the bars have mocktails", and how kids these days are "vitamin D deprived" "screen addicted freaks", and he implies that parents these days are raising their children to be weak and to not be self sufficient, and that they're not supposed to just go through life being a passenger because "Jesus didn't Uber, he takes the wheel".

what a gigantic heap of fucking trash. i only watched it because my folks wanted to check it out, and i figured i'd check it out with them. we watched Home Improvement together as a family back in the day, and my dad liked Last Man Standing. but luckily my didn't want to continue watching it, after the father and daughter character's strained relationship reminded him too much of his relationship with my sister. so we won't be tuning in again. which is great because before that started getting laid on too thick for him, he was actually enjoying it and liking Tim Allen's "jokes".