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.
Shows are sent to Friday to die by the networks...a known ‘death slot’...
We watch it every week, very good show!
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.
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!!
:: 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.
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.
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.
Too bad. I really like Nancy Travis. I like Tim Allen, but she was pretty much the only reason I ever watched it. ;-)
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.
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.
ABC = Always Broadcasting Cr*p
NBC = Nothing But Cr*P
CBS = Cr*p Broadcasting System
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.