英语电视：School Play -------Romeo and Juliet（情景喜剧）

英语电视：School Play -------Romeo and Juliet from Home Improvement（情景喜剧）

Romeo and Juliet
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Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young "star-cross'd lovers" whose untimely deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and, along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays. Today, the title characters are regarded as archetypal young lovers.

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Home Improvement
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Home Improvement is an American sitcom starring Tim Allen, which aired 1991 to 1999. The show was created by Matt Williams, Carmen Finestra and David MacFadzean. In the 1990s, it was one of the most watched sitcoms, winning many awards. The series launched Tim Allen's acting career and also was the start of the television career of Pamela Anderson, who was part of the cast for the first two seasons, even if only in an inconspicuous role.

The show's title is a pun: it refers to physical improvement of houses, as well as to improving life with family, friends, work, and school.

Plot details and storylines

The series centered on the Taylor family, which consists of father Tim (Tim Allen), his wife Jill (Patricia Richardson) and their three sons: Brad (Zachery Ty Bryan), Randy (Jonathan Taylor Thomas) and Mark (Taran Noah Smith). The Taylors live in suburban Detroit, Michigan and have a neighbor named Wilson (Earl Hindman) who is the main source for solving Tim and Jill's problems.

Tim hosts a television show "Tool Time" (similar to This Old House) with assistant Al (Richard Karn) and tool girl Heidi (Debbe Dunning, from the third season onwards). Pamela Anderson played Tool Girl Lisa in the first 2 seasons, but left due to lack of screen time, and to join the cast of Baywatch.

Tim is a stereotypical American male, loving power tools, cars and sports. He is a former salesman, and very much an overconfident know-it-all. Witty but flippant, Tim jokes around a lot, even at inopportune times. Family life was boisterous, with the two oldest sons, Brad and Randy, tormenting the much younger, Mark, while continually testing and pestering each other. This rough by-play happened especially throughout the first four seasons.

Brad, popular and athletic, was often the moving factor, who engaged before thinking, a tendency which regularly landed him in trouble. Randy, a year younger, was the comedian of the pack -- the quick-thinking, sarcastic son who had more common sense than Brad but wasn't immune to trouble. Later on, in the seventh season, Mark grew into a teenage outcast who dressed in black clothing (a goth), while Brad became interested in cars like his father and took up soccer. Randy joined the school newspaper; in the eighth season, he left for Costa Rica.

Each episode included Tim's own home improvement show, called Tool Time, a "meta-program," or show-within-a-show. Originally slated to be called Hammer Time, the show's name was changed to Tool Time because Tim and the producers felt that name would be confused with MC Hammer.

In hosting this show, Tim was joined by his friend and mild-mannered assistant Al Borland (Richard Karn), and a "Tool Time girl" — first Lisa (Pamela Anderson) and later Heidi (Debbe Dunning) — whose main duty was to introduce the pair at the beginning of the show with the line "Does everybody know what time it is?" They would also assist Tim and Al during the show by bringing them tools.

Although revealed to be an excellent salesman and TV personality, Tim Taylor was spectacularly accident-prone as a handyman, often causing disasters on and off the set to the consternation of his co-workers and family. Many Tool Time viewers assume that the accidents on the show are on purpose, to demonstrate how not to use tools. Many of Tim's accidents were caused by his devices designed in application of his mantra, "More power!"