Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Tim Allen is one of the few bona fide conservatives who has cracked the liberal monopoly of primetime TV.

If you haven't seen it, "Last Man Standing" is about a family man named Mike Baxter who runs a chain of large outdoor sporting goods stores like Cabela's. He's a staunch conservative who mocks liberals and their laughably obtuse thinking while being a Dad to three daughters - two teens and one in her early 20s who has 5 year old son out of wedlock.

Although quite a bit of the humor is raunchy, Allen skewers the Left on every episode, going so far as to mock Obama by name and laud Ronald Reagan. As you can see from the photo guns figure prominently in this show with hunting rifles displayed in the store and handguns displayed in Mike's home office.

I suggest that FReepers do what we can to keep this show on the air. It's the only overtly conservative prime time show and is also genuinely funny.

1 posted on 02/28/2013 11:41:53 AM PST by Dr. Thorne
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies ]


To: Dr. Thorne

Shows are sent to Friday to die by the networks...a known ‘death slot’...


2 posted on 02/28/2013 11:46:52 AM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Dr. Thorne

We watch it every week, very good show!


3 posted on 02/28/2013 11:48:14 AM PST by bigtoona
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Dr. Thorne

I stopped watching after the second episode of the second season. They changed the actress playing the oldest daughter, and changed the dynamic between daughter and dad. During season one, she was always liberal, but being a single mom taught her the hard way that dad just might be right about a few things.

In season two, daughter automatically assumes dad is wrong on everything and now has her baby daddy around who also is liberal and gangs up on dad.

Most infuriating is how dad acts so establishment republican and ends up modifying his views to “get along”.


4 posted on 02/28/2013 11:48:26 AM PST by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Dr. Thorne

Friday night is date night and it has traditionally been a death sentence for just about any television show unfortunate enough to be aired on Friday night.

If Allen’s show is good enough, he may lose his slot with his current network, but he could be picked up by another network on another night.

If you want to save his show, petition the network by the thousands not to cancel it. Viewers can have a BIG influence on network executives’ mini-minds!!


5 posted on 02/28/2013 11:49:47 AM PST by DustyMoment (Congress - another name for anti-American criminals!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Dr. Thorne; cripplecreek

:: Tim Allen is one of the few bona fide conservatives ::

^Bona Fide^?

Being of the same age range and same home state of Mr. Allen (as well as having followed his career as an interested Michigander), I would disagree with this statement.

I would need more substantive evidence than just “Hollywood props”. You do know that Mr. Allen has a felony cocaine bust (City of Kalamazoo) on his record, right?

Maybe he is a liberal that got mugged but, I’m exercising my grain-of-salt rights on this one.


6 posted on 02/28/2013 11:54:10 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (*Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alteration: The acronym explains the science.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Dr. Thorne

We record every week along with Reba who follows. Interestingly she’s on a list of conservative celebrities but came out saying don’t judge the queers. Probably a necessary move to continue tape in California.


8 posted on 02/28/2013 12:05:21 PM PST by Portcall24
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Dr. Thorne

I saw a promo for Malibu — about a divorcee raising her kids ...

Didn’t Reba already do that for several years in the other sitcom?

It is so difficult for Hollow-wood to come up with new concepts and ideas.


9 posted on 02/28/2013 12:07:29 PM PST by TomGuy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Dr. Thorne
I liked the first season. The second season started off with a political episode around the Presidential election, and they replaced one of the daughters with a new actress who sucked. Turned me off. Haven't watched it since.
12 posted on 02/28/2013 12:13:33 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Somebody has to be courageous enough to stand up to the bullies." --Dr. Ben Carson)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Dr. Thorne

Too bad. I really like Nancy Travis. I like Tim Allen, but she was pretty much the only reason I ever watched it. ;-)


14 posted on 02/28/2013 12:25:38 PM PST by cld51860 (Oderint dum metuant)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Dr. Thorne

Two seasons at least two homo promo shows but I don’t watch on a regular basis.

One show normalizing a lezbo couple.

The other about the youngest daughter calling a kid gay at school.

Maybe Tim is a libertarian but not a Conservative.


19 posted on 02/28/2013 12:40:20 PM PST by Reaganez
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Dr. Thorne

The show was much better when the sperm donor baby-daddy was offscreen, and the original grand-son and daughter.

The new daughter is a HORRIBLE actress. Absolutely can not act.

That said, we DVR it because he’s a conservative, and we try to support like minded folks.


21 posted on 02/28/2013 12:50:40 PM PST by ro_dreaming (G.K. Chesterton, “Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It’s been found hard and lef)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Dr. Thorne
Frankly, I like to see ABC,NBC,& CBS go bankrupt & off the air. I can't think of any of their programming that has any redeeming value.

ABC = Always Broadcasting Cr*p

NBC = Nothing But Cr*P

CBS = Cr*p Broadcasting System

26 posted on 02/28/2013 1:48:41 PM PST by Smittie
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Dr. Thorne

Love this show, just found it on Netflix. First time I have laughed out loud in a long time. And nice to have conservative values winsomely portrayed.


28 posted on 02/12/2016 10:14:47 AM PST by Chickensoup (Leftism is the biggest killer of citizens in the world.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson