The saying goes that behind every great man, is a great woman — and that has rung especially true on many of the most-beloved family sitcoms in television history. Al had Peg, Ray had Deb, George had Weezy, and on Home Improvement, Tim Allen’s Tim “The Toolman” Taylor had his wife, Jill, played with a pitch-perfect exasperated-but-loving eye roll by Patricia Richardson.
“[The network said] we need to have someone that challenges him and is as much a feminist as he is a masculinist,” Richardson recently recalled of her character, who was often the sane and balanced counterpart to
