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One of my favorite scenes from this series! I also love the man's bathroom.

This brought back a memory that requires some backstory (brace yourselves).

I had a male roommate once. At about that time, Sam Adams beer had an ad that was nothing but sepia-toned shots of the brewery over guitar music, and an announcer's voice asking a series of questions: "Do you love beer?....Have you ever seen hops growing, hops like Sam Adams has?....have you ever tried to float a bottle cap on a head of Sam Adams?...." and so on.

One night, my roommate was amusing himself by talking back to this ad: "Do you love beer?" "Why, yes I do!" "Have you ever seen hops growing?" "Not that I can say..."

Then they came to a question, "if you could only have one thing in your refrigerator, what would it be?"

And in a voice so loud it made me jump, my roommate hollered, "MEAT! Lots and lots of MEAT!"

For weeks after, the phrase "MEAT! Lots and lots of MEAT!" was a catchphrase in our house, the kind of one where you work it into conversation every five minutes to make each other giggle.

Then this episode of HOME IMPROVEMENT was on one night, and it got to this scene, and it got to the point where Tim Taylor said, "And any guy wants just one thing in his fridge -- what would that be???"

And my roommate and I, sure enough, hollered back, "MEAT! Lots and lots of MEAT!"

Just seconds afterward, Tim Taylor opened the fridge and proudly said, "He wants a butcher!"

I think we laughed a good three minutes after that.